Information Architecture
What is information Architecture?
Information Architecture is a newer concept, but steadily growing.
Information architecture (IA) is the structural design of shared information environments; the art and science of organizing and labelling websites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design and architecture to the digital landscape.[1] Typically, it involves a model or conceptof information which is used and applied to activities that require explicit details of complex information systems. These activities include library systems and database development.
Information architecture is considered to have been founded by Richard Saul Wurman. Today there is a growing network of active IA specialists who constitute the Information Architecture Institute.
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When deciding to migrate your website from one platform to another it is important to consider a number of factors that will impact the website. It is important to get this right in order to ensure a successful migration. For example migrating a website from squarespce to WordPress involves a number of considerations. It is also neccessary to consider how to best maintain your rankings in the search engines for established websites in order to not lose your existing website traffic. Will you need to transfer over your domain and anaylze the old site to best maintain traffic. This includes analysis of inbound links, site structure, 301 redirects and much more.
Proper information architecture is essential for established websites in order to avoid a migration disaster.
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