[LINK] web information architecture - what are the issues you see?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

andrew clarke wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:49:29PM +1000, Eric Scheid wrote:
> 
>> Sure, there are lots of issues with web design practice in general. Lots of
>> people don't like all the flashy graphics and stuff. What I'm really hoping
>> for, by asking the Link Institute constituency, are insights that go deeper
>> than just the surface presentation issues, that ask difficult questions
>> about the very structure of how we organise all the many pages of a website.
> 
> If done properly, web sites that support RSS (or Atom) aggregation are
> extremely beneficial in allowing frequent users of a site to access new
> information quickly within their aggregator software (or a web
> aggregator like Google Reader or Bloglines), without necessarily having
> to actually visit that site.
> 
> It can also eliminate some of the presentation and organisational issues
> of web sites, giving the user more control in how they navigate those
> sites.

It certainly allows for another dimension on and across websites eg
<http://www.ramin.com.au/eco-sydney/rssfeed.xml>

I spent hours fiddling around trying to do a style sheet for the XML only to
discover that browsers (or at least iceweazel 2.0.1) and email clients (or at
least icedove version 1.5.0.9) now recognise the format.

Marghanita
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