Website architecture
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Website architecture
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Website architecture is an approach to the design and planning
of websites which, like
architecture itself involves technical, aesthetic and functional
criteria. As in traditional architecture, the focus is properly on the
user and on user requirements. This requires particular attention to web
content, a business plan, usability, interaction design, information
architecture and web design. For effective Search Engine Optimisation it
is necessary to have an appreciation of how a single website relates to
the World Wide Web.
Since web content planning, design and management come within the scope of
design methods, the traditional Vitruvian aims of Commodity, Firmness and
Delight can guide the architecture of websites, as they do physical architecture
and other design disciplines. Website architecture is coming within the scope of
Aesthetics and Critical Theory and this trend may accelerate with the advent of
the Semantic Web and Web 2.0. Both ideas emphasise the structural aspects of
information. Structuralism is an approach to knowledge which has influenced a
number of academic disciplines including aesthetics, critical theory and
postmodernism. Web 2.0, because it involves user-generated content, direct
the website architect's attention to the structural aspects of information.
"Website architecture" has the potential to be a term used for the
intellectual discipline of organizing website content. "Web design", by way of
contrast, describes the practical tasks, part-graphic and part-technical, of
designing and publishing a website. The distinction compares to that between the
task of editing a newspaper or magazine and its graphic design and printing. But the link between editorial and production activities is much closer for web
publications than for print publications.
See also
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