NDLI: Organizing Web site information:principles and practical experience

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Volume 32, Issue 2, April 2000

Volume 32, Issue 1, Jan. 2000

Natural language in computer human-interaction

The UI design process

Organizing Web site information

Report from basic research symposium at CHI 99

Internet-based groupware for user participation in product development

An overview of the international symposium on wearable computers 1998

A trip report on creativity & cognition 1999

A discussion of cybersickness in virtual environments

A preliminary comparison of body-wearable computers to modern audio equipment in a microgravity environment

Teaching CSCW in developing countries through collaboration

Reading patterns and formats of academic articles on the Web

Displaying search results in textual databases

HCI and the 3C convergence

The friendly intelligent tutoring environment

Organizing Web site information:principles and practical experience

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Smith, Sharon McInerney, Paul Dobroth, Kate
Abstract	As web sites continue to grow in their complexity, one of the most important usability design decisions is how to structure the web site topic hierarchy. This decision lays the groundwork for designing other aspects of the site, e.g., the home page table of contents, and for categorizing new documents in the topic structure over the life of the site. Organizing web sites is a timely topic as evidenced by the recent spate of publications on this topic [1] [2] [3] and by NIST's recent release of a tool, WebCAT, to help users participate in organizing their web site. More significantly, the organization is probably the limiting factor on success for web sites that provide useful information.If anything is clear about the organization of web sites, it is that there is no single best way to go about it. Different types of web sites seem to demand different approaches to organization. For example, a site geared toward product support might use a task-oriented scheme that steps users through a process of problem-solving. Other sites, such as an online shopping site, might be organized according to categories of products, in order to allow efficient browsing. Other sites might be organized based on an analysis of user roles.Designers who must choose among these schemes must also choose appropriate analyses to inform the design of the web site structure. These include item clustering techniques, user performance at finding documents using various prototype web site organizations, studies of user roles and tasks, and analyses of the material to be included in the site.
Starting Page	23
Ending Page	26
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISSN	07366906
DOI	10.1145/333329.333333
Journal	ACM SIGCHI Bulletin (SGCH)
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	1
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	1992-07-01
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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