INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
A persons overall experience of a building is shaped by architecture, furnishing, construction, design and inhabitants. Not unlike buildings, websites and intranets also have architectures that define user experience and cause reaction (Morville & Rosendfeld, 2008, p. 3).
Information Architecture is best described as the structure and organisation of information, and to be functional need tools to maintain the quality, usability and stability of a website or intranet to engage the user just as building architecture does.
CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
One critical tool for the architectures of websites and intranets are Content Management Systems. Content Management Systems are supportive of the creation, distribution, management,publishing and discovery of corporate information (Robertson, 2003, para. 10). When broken down into what Content Management Systems are used for, there is a greater understanding of how this tool to a website or Intranet which can be broken down into what Robertson(2003, para.11) defines as:
- Creates dynamic content
- Publishing
- Structure
- Navigation
- Archiving
This website will briefly discuss three different Content Management System types with software that help maintain the best possible outcome for Information Architecture and the Architect - a user friendly, easy to navigate website, blog or other online source.