[Sigia-l] Open-source IA tool in the making

[Donna Maurer]

Cool, I think I get it, in concept at least. 

Not sure how I would actually design an IA structure that can flip between being a 
hierarchy one minute and a faceted browse the next. But that's just detail ;)

Donna

On 13 Mar 2006 at 22:22, Alexander Johannesen wrote:

 
> The big thing is that the tool is content centric instead of
> management centric as a lot of the CMS'es usually are. I work with
> what I get; I don't delve into authorship, content creation,
> workflows, user management, processes, publishing rules and all that
> jazz. Some off the top thoughts ;
> 
> - Less work ; simple XML that is the minimum you feel you need
> (usually means you can mock up a brand new site in 5 minutes)
> 
> - Multiple views ; wireframes, prototypes, overviews, sitemaps,
> reports, graphs, all from the same data source, flip through them with
> tabs (or whatever other control we might think of)
> 
> - Semantically rich XML input files ; you can test faceted, tagged,
> bold, brass, fiddle, simple or complex nagivation schemes with a click
> (basically, you can test each page/site/project with different
> navigation schemes; "test this site using facets. Now try normal 1/2
> and 3 level. Now try without breadcrumbs. Now try with only level 2's"
> and so forth)
> 
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