Here are some useful articles to help you build better intranets and web sites.
Cooking up an Intranet (279K ppt file)
This conference paper was presented at Ark Groups Intranet Content Management Nov 20-21 2002 Sydney. The paper explains how to go about developing a corporate intranet. It looks at some of the key ingredients needed to develop an intranet and how to combine them to ensure your corporate intranet will be a success.
A practical template for developing and managing a corporate portal (1.2M ppt file)
This ½ day workshop was conducted at Ark Groups Evolving your Intranet into a Corporate Portal Aug 8-11 2003. The workshop expands on the 'Cooking up an intranet' paper to include web based applications. A real life example of Goode Designs portal development work is used as a case study for this workshop.
Developing practical and usable intranet standards and guidelines (188.9K ppt file)
This ½ day workshop was conducted at Ark Groups Redesigning Your Intranet II Mar 16-19 2004. The workshop provides some practical ways to help you develop workable Intranet standards within your organisation. The method used is based on an approach developed by Dr Eric Schaffer, a well know human factors professional and CEO of Human Factors International.
Web design activities
Good design focuses on the user, as well as the structure of information, including the information type and how it is formatted. This page outlines some of the major design activities you should complete if you want to ensure your intranet or web site is simple, easy and enjoyable. >more...