4. The Content
inventory sheet
1. Unique ID number
2. Page title
3. Page template or type
4. URL
5. General type of content
6. Person responsible for content
7. Keep/revise/discard decisions
8. Create content?
9. Review status
From the Web Style Guide 3rd Ed. (2009)
5. Hierarchical
outline
• Ranking the importance of each piece of
information
• From broad overviews to specific
submenus
• Taxonomy: use of descriptive terms
• Controlled vocabulary
6. Five hat tricks
to organize information
1. Category
2. Time
3. Location
4. Alphabetic
5. Continuum
From Information Anxiety (1989): Wurman, R.
