Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Best Practices

Information Architecture Building Blocks

This section provides a brief overview of the basic building blocks available for use when designing and building an information architecture. This is not an exhaustive review of each, but rather a simplified review of how each type of object fits into the overall architecture. This prerequisite knowledge is necessary in order to understand how these types of objects can be used to build an information architecture that is usable and sustainable over time. After you have reviewed these basic building blocks, you will review a few permutations of how a simple information architecture might be assembled at both the micro and macro levels. With these examples as a backdrop, you will examine how you might add ...