What’s the Difference Between Content Types and Taxonomy?
Content types and taxonomy are all part of a site's content model. A content model defines all the content types, metadata, and relationships between different content on a site.
What Are Metadata and Content Types?
Metadata are the workhorses of a content management system. Simply put, metadata tell your CMS platform what your content is about and let you do things with your content.
Site Maps vs. Navigation vs. Taxonomy: What’s the Difference?
On projects, we're often asked, "What's the difference between a site map and taxonomy?" This article explains their differences.
How to Do a Website Content Audit to Inform Your Site Map
A website content audit gives you a both a great overview and in-depth knowledge of the current state of your website content.
What Is Information Architecture and Why Is It Helpful?
Information architecture may seem overwhelming. It may seem not significant enough to reassess. But a lot of common usability problems are associated with a poor IA. Improving this essential aspect of your information structure is helpful for both your users, your business, and for ensuring that your information structures support your key business goals.
Website Navigation by Audience: 3 Reasons Not to Use It
On the surface, audience based navigation seems to make sense. After a few attempts at audience based navigation, here are our lessons learned. and quickly learned a few things (after an immense amount of frustration).
Using Card Sorting to Increase Content Findability
When improving a website or intranet (or any content product), you can focus on findability with an IA review and assessment and with card sorting and task testing. This article focuses on how to improve findability through card sorting.
Information Architecture Deliverable Examples
In information architecture, there are a few deliverables meant to communicate the information design to all the stakeholders. Here's a brief overview of what can be delivered on an IA project and why these things are important.