Chapters 2 and 20: Setting Up a Local Site; Site Management

Links: Planning Your Site

• Developing a Web Site Plan
  How to research your audience, decide how your pages will flow, and so on.
• How to Plan Your New Web Site
  A short essay on sketching out your ideas, even if you're outsourcing.
• Planning Your Site
  Another good checklist, from a site called "Sucky to Savvy."
• Twelve Elements in Planning Your Business Web Site
  Another good article, particularly for small-business owners.
• Dzine: An Online Guide to Good Web Design
  Strategies and overviews of planning and executing a good site. From Georgia Tech.
• Top 15 Mistakes of First Time Web Designers
  Nothing elitist about this: commonsense advice, most of which I agree with. Read this before you finalize your site design.
• Principia Hypertextia
  One expert's opinion: What's important is speed, accessibility, validity, and navigability.

Links: Web Site Architecture

• evolt.org: Web Site Architecture 101
  Three steps: Top level pages, second level pages, and balancing content between those levels.
• Integrated Internet Information Architecture
  A long, very well-thought out article. I'm pointing you to the commentary first; you can also jump to the article directly.
• Webmonkey: Organizing Your Site
  From using intuitive file names to remembering where to put them.
• Webmonkey: Information Architecture Tutorial
  Figure out what you want your site to do before you start building it.
• Webmonkey: Redesigning Your Site
  How to go about changing the design of an entire site, once it's already live.