Week 10A

MONDAY

* I was absent

Homework

Content Audit

For the time being I choose to work on The Arc of Lancaster website because my professor gave me the go on this website but it is not definite and I'm not 100% set on using this website for my project. The content audit is an organized list of the content that is found on your currently organizations website. The benefits of using this audit tactic is being able to reference the content when developing new content and gives a clear understanding of the website.

What Methods will you be using.

These are not final but possible methods I will be using.

• Content Patterns
• UX Questionnaire
• Project plan - organizing the length of time.
• Project Brief
• Strategy Workshop - Trying and testing it out.

Readings

Method 12: Content Patterns - pages 144-147

In a content inventory, you interact with the service or product and attempt to create a representative sampling of all the information, assets, and functionality of the product. You will be able to get a greater understanding of the structure and layout of information. By creating content patterns you are less comprehensive than a traditional content inventory. You will show recurring patterns of content and functionality that exist and how they are structures. On average it takes 2-4 hours to review the patterns, 1-2 hours to create a content map and 1-2 hours to summarize key findings. This is mostly used when you want to get a deeper understanding of the structure, information and is often conducted at the beginning of the project. By finding the patterns you must list all the elements that come together to make up a unit of content. Once all the findings are complete you can use this to analysis the observations and improve the product.

Content Strategy Reading

Depending on how you capture your audit is based on the business objectives that reflect your product or service. There are different types of audits that can be captures to create your content. A quantitative audit is an index of the content on your site, it's the easiest think to do when you're trying to find and understand the content. This will benefit those who have a limited timeframe. For those who are working with larger websites make conduct a "rolling content inventory. This is an ongoing process and shouldn't be something you allocate in the first two weeks of the redesign. Partial content inventories tend to be more cost-effective than trying to achieve a perfect on right away. The audit will ask questions such as what content do you have, how is it organized, who creates its, and where does it live? The content is based off the major sections of your site. This can be broken up into sections based on the objectives on the website. You should record everything that is listed on the site such as PDFs, videos, forms, functional pages and so on. Numbering your sections will better organize the information in order to review and react on the findings. It's important to record who creates the audits as well as hosting the content for everyone to view.