3.18.2010

Website Content Planning

To add on to Jim's post, I came across this article on Smashing Magazine:

Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way

While you may have the best of intentions to create a website destined for a Webby design award, you'll soon realize that you're never the one driving the boat...the content...and the client are really in charge. To avoid redesigning a site over and over to accommodate numerous changes, it's best to nail down the content/navigation early on, well before design is involved. This article lays out many good tips for the beginning steps of content planning. But as we all know, clients will flip-flop on what they want, which is why it is important to take the process step-by-step. It may be slow and painstaking but it will pay off in the end.

But even with all the preparation there's bound to be numerous changes throughout the life of the website, which is why you should always design your website to be expandable both with content and navigation....because, well....you never know what's coming around the bend!

1 comment:

  1. What a great quality of writing. I think anyone following all of your instructions should be able to very high quality contents like yours. And if anyone can get that high quality contents then its very easy to get recommended by others and ranked in top of the search engines. content planning

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