Michael Stone wrote:
> >I just had a request to recommend a book for someone with all the power -
> >to do or not to do resides with him -- yet is clueless.
> >
> >Ummm..
Peter Schoenster wrote:
> >I would say Database backed Websites by Greenspun.
> >
> >Umm....
> >
> seriously, for him:
>
> _Information Architecture for the WWW_ (O'R&A)
>
> the powerful clueless tend to retreat to the 'big picture',
> because that
> offers fewer opportunities for them to say something provably stupid.
> implementation is precisely where they don't want to go, because it throws
> everything they don't know into sharp relief.
double <g>. Anyone compiling these Stone comments? Get enough and you can
put together a "Sharp Quips from Stone" bathroom humour/wisdom book
(complete with stoned punctuation).
> _Information Architecture_ is a good book for managers, because
> it presents
> a high-level view of building a website without going into the details of
> implementation. it discusses the problems and delays that face
> any online
> project.. deciding how the content should be organized, making sure
> everything is presented in a consistent manner, *getting* the content in
> the first place.. in a way that ties into the big picture. it
> won't solve
> your upcoming problems, or even prevent many of them, but at
> least it gives
> you a common basis for communication when problems arise.
I can concur on Mike's comments about this book. I'm chunking my way through
it prior to beddy-by time. It definitely is a "big picture" view of how to
architect a site, but doesn't give you squat about how to build it, from the
technical side, short of things like "use a database to drive your site
architecture". No help on what database or how to do it.
I think the book would be a good read for _anyone_ building sites. Of
course, to get someone who you are working with to read it is another story.
Nonetheless, even if the other party doesn't read it, it can give you some
vocabulary to use when communicating with party X and it can give you a very
good idea of different options you have when organizing a site/info
architecture.
> i'd also suggest that both of you read:
>
> _Death March_ by Edward Yourdon
Thanks for pointing this one out.
Jack
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