As the content revolution has taken hold of web development, the information architecture of a website has become increasingly important. Although a site might start with twenty to fifty pages, it will need to scale to several hundred throughout its lifecycle. It’s no longer enough to create a design that elegantly accommodates the information that will be available at launch – websites must be built to scale.
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During undergrad at Urbana-Champaign, one of the hot topics for search engine scientists was the “Deep Web”. While most of the web was easily accessible through HTML, a large portion of the dynamically generated content, such as PHP and ASP pages, could not be indexed by search engines.
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With its extreme flexibility and proven prowess as a publishing platform, WordPress has become an invaluable tool in the arsenal of most web developers. However, advanced customization is often cumbersome and can be difficult to achieve.
Having spent several hours the past two days fighting against WordPress’ limited support for splitting blogs by category, I’m sharing a few of the insights gained during the arduous process.
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