[Sigia-l] RE: Sigia-l digest, Vol 1 #720 - 4 msgs

[Marcia Morante]

It's actually a good idea if it's not carried beyond a reasonable number of
user types and there's a legitimate reason for segregating them.  Examples
of legitimate reasons include varying vocabulary needs among users, and
another has to do with the tasks that need to be supported or information
that needs to be accessed.  In the NC example that you provided, it looks
like the latter is true.

An example in the corporate world is Merrill Lynch.
http://www.merrilllynch.com.  Note the three groups on their home page -
individual investors, small/midsize businesses and corporations /
institutional investors.

An example where the vocabulary varies is http://www.cancer.gov.  At many
places on the site, they branch to serve the needs of two different
audiences - medical professionals and patients.  Here's an example of one of
those pages:  http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/cancer_type/leukemia/

Hope this helps.

Marcia

Marcia Morante
KCurve, Inc.
(718)881-5915 - office
(917)821-2087 - mobile
http://kcurve.com
Effective Content Management for the Web

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> Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 13:55:36 -0800 (PST)
> From: "stephanie hornung" <dehfne at monkey.org>
> To: sigia-l at asis.org
> Subject: [Sigia-l] top level navigation by user type
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> hello,
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> i'm doing a consulting project for a government agency, and am dealing
> with several specific sets of user groups -- people who receive services
> from the agency, community members, other gov't officials, etc.  i've
> found that a lot of government websites are organized by these user
> groups, and the person i'm working under at the agency wants to design it
> this way, but i'm not sure its the best idea.  does anyone have any
> information/opinions regarding how well this type of navigation works?
>
> here's some examples:
> http://www.myflorida.com/
> http://www.ncgov.com/
> http://portal.sfusd.edu/template/index.cfm?page=about
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> thanks for your help!
> stephanie hornung
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