Thursday, April 17, 2014

Online Architecture


The authors of “No Plastic Sleeves” warn, “Determining how to name sections of your website and subsequent navigation will tell your target audience a lot about you right upfront” (171). I used an information architecture to plan out the navigation of my site. I knew I did not want a “portfolio” tab in my nav bar. In my opinion, my whole site is my portfolio. I also knew I wanted to categorize my work into digital design, game design and fine art. Then, I wanted to use a secondary nav bar to categorize further. I chose to allow the viewer to choose one of the three main categories from the home page and then include a hover drop down menu on all of the interior pages for the secondary nav. Choosing to organize my site like this shows viewers the diversity of my work. 

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