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Back in the early days of the web, Webmonkey was THE best place to go to learn how to do everything web-design related. The site basically died several years ago, with old content still available, but with no new content going in. But its back, in a hot web 2.0 wiki format. Old favorites are still there — the information architecture tutorial is still one of the best site planning templates I’ve seen — and according to the history tab, recently updated. And new topics are there too, such as a tutorial on microformats. Go get your wallet-sized html cheat sheet and show your geek cred!

Webmonkey | Information_Architecture_Tutorial

Squishy first looks at how to define your site’s goals, shedding light on the all-important art of collecting clients’ or co-workers’ opinions and assembling them in a coherent, weighted order of importance. He also shares his scheme for documenting everything so that all parties can keep up.