Seeing the Sites
Interesting Maps
Valence
This project seeks interesting ways to create maps, or visualizations, of very large data sets and/or of dynamically shifting data sets: http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/valence/.
YELL
Kahn and Lenk identify this site map as "witty" but point out that it has "proved difficult to maintain." Indeed, it is possible that when we visit the site, we will see something completely different than the illustration in the book leads us to anticipate: http://www.yell.co.uk.
CNN, BBC, and other news portals
These kinds of sites have very complex problems to solve because their content is constantly in flux yet the site architecture has to remain reasonably stable over time.
- CNN: http://http://www.cnn.com
- BBC News: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
- MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.com/news/default.asp?cp1=1
Internet Maps
There are lots of interesting mapping projects going on around the world and around the cyberworld.
- Internet Mapping Project:
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/who/ches/map/ - An Atlas of Cyberspaces: http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/atlas.html
Dynamic Diagrams
The company Paul Kahn founded, Dynamic Diagrams, developed the strategy for content maps you see illustrated frequently in chapter 4 of Kahn and Lenk's book. Visit them online: http://www.dynamicdiagrams.com/Home2.htm
Site Maps
Site maps as aids to navigating web sites seem to have vanished from a large number of sites that used to have them (for example, BMW of North America and Macromedia). But a few sites still have something they are calling a site map. Here's one for Goucher College: http://www.goucher.edu/sitemap/sitemap_index.html. Lehigh University is also still using one but its information design strategy is quite different than Goucher's: http://www2.lehigh.edu/page.asp?page=sitemap.
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