Blog Changing Domains – update your RSS feeds!

Dear taxonomists, content managers and other subscribers…
We recently launched a new website on Drupal (www.earley.com) and we also integrated our blog in the new site.
Please update your RSS feed readers with the new address: www.earley.com/blog
(or http://www.earley.com/rss.xml if you want the whole site).
We will stop double-posting as of now, so if you want to continue [...]

Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 2: Grouping

Best Practice #2: Use chunking and grouping to increase scanability and learnability
So you’ve taken the mega-menu plunge and you now have more labels to fit into your drop-down. How do you make sure it doesn’t look like a mess of text?

There are a couple of options:
Grouping:
Create clear and logical groupings within the menu [...]

SharePoint Content Structure – Let a thousand content types bloom?

“How many content types should you have?”
This is the question that came up in a conference call last week on SharePoint architecture. This organization had implemented their corporate portal on SharePoint 2007 and was interested in going forward with more portal sites but had some concerns about the approach to information architecture they had undertaken.
I answered [...]

Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 1 of many

No matter where I run, I cannot seem to hide from them.
They fly out of website navigation menus with no warning. They assault my senses with link overload.
…they are…mega menus.
Are they a new navigation paradigm or just a bad fad – like acid washed jeans?
And whose idea were they anyways?
It’s difficult to trace the starting point of [...]

Integrating Taxonomy with CMS – Book Chapter in Publication

The final draft has been submitted… Mark your calendars…
The Information Management Best Practices 2009 book is going to publication this week, in hopes of being ready for launch at the J.Boye Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, Nov 2-4. I’ll be there, giving a talk on SharePoint IA, but also to lend a hand with the book [...]