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In Chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design. In a bitingly humorous segment, they analyze a Web site's search-page results: "Let's say you're interested in knowing what the New Jersey sales tax is.... So you go to the State of New Jersey web site and search on sales tax. The 20 results are scored at either 84% or 82% relevant. Why does each document receive only one of two scores?... And what the heck makes a document 2% more relevant than another?"

With a swift and convincing stroke, the authors of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web tear down many entrenched ideas about Web design. Flashy animations are cool, they agree, as long as they don't aggravate the viewer. Nifty clickable icons are nice, but are their meanings universal? Is the search engine providing results that are useful and relevant? This book acts as a mirror and with careful questioning causes the reader to think through all the elements and decisions required for well-crafted Web design. --Jennifer Buckendorff --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Saul Wurman first used the term Information Architecture in his book of the same name. His book was mostly lots of really pretty pictures of media and webs compiled from a graphic design perspective; they were beautiful but never really dealt with the information end of things. Rosenfeld and Morville get it right. They show how to design manageable sites right the first time, sites built for growth. They discuss ideas of organization, navigation, labeling, searching, research, and conceptual design. This is almost common sense, which is often overlooked in the rush for cascading style sheets and XML. Essential reading for librarians and information managers who deal with the World Wide Web in any parts of their jobs.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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  • Paperback: 528 pages
  • Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 3 edition (November 27, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0596527349
  • ISBN-13: 978-0596527341
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.9 x 1 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars At last! A concise, practical guide to web site design!, March 3, 2000
This review is from: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-scale Web Sites (Paperback)
I had been looking around for a book like this for some time now: one that guides me through the crucial conceptual design phase of web site development. Most books on web site design are really about user interface design. This book offers a top-down planning approach to getting from the recognition of a need for a web site through to the final working design. It plugs up a lot of the gaping holes that topic-specific design texts leave open.

The over-riding concern and emphasis in the first section of the book is on how to organize the information on the web site in such a way that the target audience can readily get at it. To this end, the authors focus on three 'systems' that need to be developed, implemented and coordinated on a web site: a navigation system, a labeling system and a searching system. Once these systems are thought through and designed then the rest of the work becomes a matter of filling in the information content, functionalities and the bells and whistles.

Clear, concise and even a bit humorous, this book will definitely give you a peace of mind if you find yourself a bit overwhelmed at times when deciding on just how you will approach building a web site.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book about Web design strategy on the market!, October 16, 2002
This review is from: Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
With the second edition, Morville and Rosenfeld have met a pretty significant challenge: surpassing their first book. The new edition is chock full of great new chapters on topics both technical and creative.

By covering subjects like thesauri, CVs, and metadata, while at the same time tackling headfirst "big picture" ideas of information architecture, the two authors are to be commended for writing a book that is at once instructive to advanced practioners yet still recommendable to strategists, designers, programmers, and others who might have only a vague notion of information architecture. And the chapter on business strategy is as good an introduction as I've read in any business book.

This book is the closest anyone has come to a single book addressing all of the complexity and challenges of organizing, structuring, and managing large scale Web sites, and does so with clear, easy-to-read prose eshewing jargon and consultant-speak. Quite an accomplishment, indeed!

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44 of 49 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great 2nd Edition Update, June 22, 2003
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This is a great book to introduce business people to information architecture, for architects to reinforce their skills, and for web designers to principles to apply to site design. The second edition has more information and is more in depth than the first, and is well worth purchasing.

The first three chapters of the book explore what information architecture is and what it is needed. Chapters 4 - 9, the "Basic Principles of Information Architecture" have the most substance. Several chapters bear reading several times, including:

Chapter 5: Organization Systems, Chapter 7: Navigation Systems, Chapter 8: Search Systems and Chapter 9: Thesauri, Controlled Vocabularies, and Metadata

The sections on Process and Methodologyactice, and Organizational fit are all good for people learning about IA, but may be too basic for anyone that does a lot of work or reading in the field. The Education Chapter is already out of date, which is to be expected.

IA for the World Wide Web is a great book, worth reading and worth hanging onto for reference or to use to explain the IA to others.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good reference material, but not really a page-turner
Lots of good information in this book - it covers a huge amount of information related to Information Architecture (as you might expect). Very in-depth, and a great resource. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mark DeHate

5.0 out of 5 stars IA for the WEB
IA for the Web is a clear concise application of topology, Taxonomy vand UI design without being too stuck on academic terms. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good for explaining concepts
Provides in depth coverage of how to organize and provide access to information for the Web. I like it because it gives you a comprehensive tour of all the major concepts,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Elliot Kleiman

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Resource
This is one of the most complete and thorough resources on the topic of Information Architecture. As relevant today as when it was written. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Eric Marden

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless for techies
I'm a developer building a company-internal website and I'm struggling to organize all the information it will contain. I bought this book hoping to ease that struggle. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Scott L. Johnson

3.0 out of 5 stars A Poorly Organized Book About Organizing Information
Morville and Rosenfeld managed to sum up a very complex and difficult topic into about 500 pages of text. Read more
Published 10 months ago by J. Robinson

5.0 out of 5 stars a required text for my graduate seminar in IA at UCLA
This book is the "Aha!" for many librarians ready to bring their game to the 21st century. Lou and Peter have created a solid introduction to the practice and profession of... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Trixie Revenge

1.0 out of 5 stars Too Little Useful Information
Lot of text, nicely written, easy read, finished the book in one hour.

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Gained almost nothing from the book. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Elar Alexander

5.0 out of 5 stars A book that defines a new field in the digital world.
I did not know the astounding amount of intersection between Library Science and Web Site Design until I read this book. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Leonard S. Woody III

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy to understand
One thing I found great about this book is the way it backs up its arguments with proper evidence with real-time examples. Read more
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