Practical Information Architecture: A Hands-On Approach to Structuring Successful Websites

By Eric L. Reiss

A step-by-step guide to explain the process of creating an underlying structure for a web site. Topics covered include: Setting and achieving website goals; translating the site's goals into meaningful content; organizing the content so that visitors can find what they're looking for. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201725908
• ISBN13: 9780201725902
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.2" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Buy it, hate it, then LOVE it!

I started off feeling kind of so-what about this book. There's lots of useful stuff in it, but most seemed pretty obvious. Not so! I found myself making lots of notes and underlining whole pages. By the time I was finished reading, I had figured out how to fix a usability problem I've been wrestling with for a long time and had lots of other great ideas! The usability solution wasn't in the book, but the inspiration WAS! This...

Clear, concise, and USEFUL! Deserves 6 stars!

It seems you either love this book or your hate it. I LOVED it! I've heard many of these things before (and I have actually thought of some of them all on my own!) but Reiss lays it all out, step by step (OK, not in five easy steps, but in 19), and I was surprised at the number of practical goodies I could put to immediate use in my work as a web designer.This is one of the few books for web designers written by a communications...

I want my boss to read this book, too!

As a professional information architect, I was weened on the classic Rosenfeld and Morville book and on first glance, there would seem to be a lot of repitition. However, Eric Reiss has recognized the broader business concerns and helped place information architecture in its proper perspective within the overall project framework. This makes it a VERY valuable book (it certainly got me thinking about a lot of issues I had...

Very informative book!

I found this book to be a great first read and an excellent resource to go back to. I'm a producer at a web firm and information design is a part of my job. This book helped me move to the next level of knowledge and helped confirm, what the author calls "common sense", issues for me. More than worth the investment.

A "must have" for beginners and pros alike

I've worked with web development for some time now, and having read the previous review, I hesitated to buy this book. Now I'm glad I did! Reiss writes like a dream and makes this important subject accessable to everyone - not just a few seasoned pros. Yes, we've heard most of this before, but never so clearly, and Reiss' shares his experience on several subjects (such as personalization and audience segmentation) that most...