IDCC 380: Web Design II Spring 2010

Information Architecture and the WWW, 01/20/09

Check this out:

Today's introductory presentation on Information Architecture and the World Wide Web is now available for you to view on your own computer. Just click on the icon to your right, and you will be taken to the tutorial.

Here are some of the key terms we covered, terms that will keep cropping up in the course:

• primary, secondary, and tertiary navigation
• Top-tier and second-tier navigation
• drop-down/fly-out menu
• Banner, footer, contents area of a page template
• findability
• browse
• search
• content, context, user
• xhtml, css, dhtml, JavaScript, Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), Spry components, and programmable widgets
• RSS feeds and subscriptions

If you have questions, just e-mail me at wbuchholz@bentley.edu. Feel free to comment on this announcement, or if you want to e-mail it, click on the little mail icon directly below.

Labels: ajax, browse, drop-down/fly-out menu, findability, JavaScript, primary navigation, search, second-tier navigation, secondary navigation, tertiary navigation, top-tier navigation, Web 2.0

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