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	from Jennifer Kyrnin Maybe it's just that I worked for 10 years as a senior Web developer for Web sites with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of pages, and if we didn't have an IA strategy, we were toast. But even more important was that everyone involved in the Web understood the IA strategy, so that random pages weren't going up that completely undermined the purpose and goals of the site.

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Book Review: Information Architecture by Louis Rosenfeld and
If you're responsible for a large Web site, then you should get this book - that includes managers, designers, developers, and content authors. Understanding Information Architecture is crucial for everyone involved on a Web site.

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