Patrick Shaw’s Weblog

When you get ready to consider a new website, you’ll want to make sure that you display all of the right information in the right spot - it’s like they say in some of those management books - it isn’t good enough to just have the right people on the bus - you also need to have them sitting in the right seats! Sometimes, your site will be so complicated that you’ll be well-served by having an information architect help you figure out where everything should go. And sometimes - you can do it yourself. In either case - if you want to reduce some of the costs associated with building a website - you might want to deliver the site map to your website builder. A competent website builder will be using a Content Management System (CMS) of one sort or the other. Here at NPower Seattle, we’re using Plone. This is important, because the costs associated with implementing your website will depend on how many templates need to be built. Some sites have one or two, while others have as many as five or six - and it is also common that websites will have a “special case” page or two - a page that is different from all of the rest. The best way to provide the site map to your website builder is to deliver it in an outline form. Here’s a quick example of what the NPower Seattle website looks like, in outline form - a snippet here, and you can review How to Deliver a Site Map to see the whole thing!