Here is a simplified IT systems model.

I talked about Oracle Podcasting in a previous post. They now have a more Applications oriented podcast available called Oracle Appcasts.

Many times, a site gets very large and its ability to rank well in competitive markets decreases in part because of the size of the site.

The week chugs on at the SES: Chicago and WebProNews’ own Chris Richardson picked up on some excellent comments from all the speakers in one of the final sessions from Tuesday, focusing on “Successful Site Architecture” and how to utilize architecture to get the best advantage for search engines.

Web site designers and developers should know how to create search-engine friendly design templates. However, most Web developers seem to think that if they create a text-link site navigation scheme, then a Web site is automatically search-engine friendly.

Reader Question: Our Web developer uses page templates for our Web site. I am worried that “code bloat” and other template issues might interfere with our search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. Are Web page templates good or bad for search engine optimization?

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Information architecture is a field of web design that has been getting a lot of attention recently. And with good reason: it is key to making money on the Web. Nobody seems to really know what it is, but I say it’s creating blue prints for web sites. Doesn’t this happen automatically? No, it doesn’t, and this is the main reason why sites fail on customers.