[webarch-websites] information architecture

[Mark Nielsen]

If there's a lot of duplication of content, I think I'd recommend putting
most effort into a central hub site (webarch.net?) and having the other
services/brands being pretty much one-page wonders - possible all following
a "house style" in terms of layout, branding and "atmosphere". That way
you'd have your cake and eat it - appealing to different target markets,
and letting each market know their service is run by a solid, ethical core
co-op with broad interests and experiences.

I don't know if that conflicts with your ideas?  I do think that running
multiple brands can be a massive drain, so trying to simplify them as much
as possible would probably be a good principle to try to follow...



On 18 November 2014 11:04, Chris Croome <chris at webarchitects.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi
>
> On Mon 17-Nov-2014 at 12:45:52PM +0000, Nick Hardiman wrote:
> >
> > How does this sound to you?
> >
> > https://ecohost.coop/
> > single page site offering various types of hosting.
> >
> > requires page migration. Move pages from
> > * http://www.webarch.co.uk/hosting
> > * http://www.ecodissident.net/virtual-servers
> > * http://www.ecodissident.net/hosting
> > to
> > * ecohost.coop/hosting-plans
>
> It sounds good, but I'm not sure where other pages from the existing
> site, under hosting, https://www.webarch.net/hosting would live,
> specifically:
>
> - https://webarch.net/domain-names
> - https://webarch.net/email
> - https://webarch.net/certs
> - https://webarch.net/backups
> - https://webarch.net/colocation
>
> There are also the docs, we also need to add lots more documentation here:
>
> - https://webarch.net/docs/
>
> I almost wonder if we should duplicate all the information from the
> single pages sites:
>
> - https://ecohost.coop/
> - https://sysadmin.coop/ (BTW we haven't registered this yet)
> - https://ecodissident.net/
>
> On the https://webarch.net/ site?
>
> I know duplication is bad but if we don't then we will have to keep
> directing people off the webarch.net site to the other sites and this
> might be more confusing?
>
> > https://ecodissident.net/
> > single page site for...what?
>
> Shared hosting and virtual servers in Iceland and some text about the
> IMMI, https://immi.is/ and renewable electricity? I suggest we also drop
> all the special offer donations apart from the IMMI one:
>
> - http://ecodis.net/offer
>
> All the best
>
> Chris
>
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