[Sigia-l] Information Architecture: Things to learn.

[Thomas Vander Wal]

Samir --

One of the best resources is the IAWiki 
(http://www.iawiki.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?IAwiki), which is open for all to 
add and modify.  This is free and is filled with practitioners 
experiences.  As your develop questions this forum (Sigia list) is an 
excellent forum to get responces to these questions.  Most everybody 
here is open and willing to help you learn what you need.

Books are a good resource, but you do not necissarily need to buy them. 
Ask you library to pick it up or find a friend to borrow it from.  Find 
a local group, if that is possible of IAs that gather to discuss IA 
related topics.  Many of the local events are notified here on this 
list.  If there is not a group that you see, put a teaser out to see if 
there are others on this list near you and start your own group.

Let us know how we can help.

All the best,
Thomas

www.vanderwal.net


Samir M. Nassar wrote:
> I am new at this so bear with me.
> 
> I tend to be anal about the structure of the sites I build. A good UI
> only really works if it has a good site structure to support it.
> 
> To my ears that interest sounded like Information Architecture, that is,
> how to best build the bones of your site. The skeleton so to speak, so
> as to further the site and make it more effective.
> 
> This list came recommended as a good list to learn about IA. However, so
> far I have not learned much except that some people don't like other
> people. On the other hand, I could just chalk this to being a flame war
> that got out of hand. (I fondly the remember the Great <table> versus
> CSS-P flame war of 2001).
> 
> In any case, could we please get to learning, teaching and discussing
> IA?