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Information architecture is simply what is says;
designing and planning the structure to house information. When this is
referring to a website, it is the process of designing the
optimum way to define the navigational structure and the
hierarchy of
information that will be displayed on your website on each unique
page, as well as determining and documenting all required functionality. Once you have a
documented plan on paper, this becomes the structured plan for the
design and development of your website.
Just as you would never build a house without
architectural plans, websites too, need a plan. This is
essential in helping to apply the best practice of usability
to the interface design, and to document all requirements of
your project before we start the design process. That
way, you know exactly what you are getting up front. After
the information architecture phase is complete, we can then
give you a fixed quote for the remaining development of the
web site. No hidden costs.
Having an unusable site is like having to find your way
to a new destination without a map. No matter how exciting
the destination is, if no-one can find it, then its riches
go unnoticed. If your potential customers can't find what
they are looking for quickly and easily, they will leave and
go to another destination. It's that simple. From this
perspective, usability is everything. We ensure that our
customers never lose site of this very important factor.
We include a basic sitemap for our basic
web site package. This is
because the site only consists of a limited number of
navigation and content items that are easily displayed as
top level global navigation items. |
