You just reminded me of the extra difficulty we had at my last
company. We allowed open gadget development, and had a whole suite of
"content server" gadgets that people could customized however they saw
fit. All told, we had over 9000 widgets in the portal, about 1/3rd of
which were "standard". No two pages were alike, and we even had 12
different "home pages" for different business units and countries.
Every attempt we made to catalog the entire portal wound up with a
taxonomy 20 pages long.
Good luck =]
Bryan Minihan
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On Jun 11, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Karri Ojanen wrote:
Hey guys,
I've been faced with this same situation too with enterprise portals
that use widgets/pages/features for different groups. Like Bryan, I
created a concept map that divided the site into different groups of
features according to roles. The wireframes then showed how the
features fit into each seperate area (by user group). The portal we
built had a relatively small amount of widgets and features, so it
was easy enough to wire everything, but obviously the bigger the
portal/site and the more flexible/modifiable the features are, the
more demanding it gets to wire them properly.
Karri Ojanen
karri dot ojanen at publicis.ca
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