Map. 21st_century_business. Nonprofit. Starting Out Organized: Website Content Planning The Right Way - So many articles explain how to design interfaces, design graphics and deal with clients. But one step in the Web development process is often skipped over or forgotten altogether: content planning . Sometimes called information architecture, or IA planning, this step doesn’t find a home easily in many people’s workflow. But rushing on to programming and pushing pixels makes for content that looks shoehorned rather than fully integrated and will only require late-game revisions. Your New Project: How It Goes All Too Often On day one things are great. On day two you get the following: And on day three you get an email that makes half of the junk you got yesterday obsolete. You’re only three days in, and the project is already no fun. We know that a great website relies on all parts working in harmony. Allows you to organize deliverables from various media; Lets you rapidly make changes when needed (it’s called planning for a reason: things change!)
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