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Online Article - Planning a Web site

Defining your Goals

Online article - Defining your Objectives
Online article - Determining Overall Goals and Objectives

Defining your Audience

Kansas.gov article - If You Build it, WHO Will Come?
Online article - Personas: Setting the Stage for Building Usable Information Sites
Online article - Identifying Important Operating Systems
Online article - Identifying Important Operating Browsers
Online article - Getting to Know Your Audience

Research the Market

Online article - Conducting Focus Groups
Online article - Basics of Conducting Focus Groups
Online article - Keep Online Surveys Short
Online article - Tips for Creating Good Surveys

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Listing of software, plug-ins, templates, etc. to help plan your Web site.

Articles

Kansas.gov article - If You Build it, WHO Will Come?
Online Article - 13 common objections against user requirements analysis, & why you should not believe them
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Exercises

Task Analysis
Card Sorting
Online Resource - Information Architecture Tutorial
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Resource Links

Kansas.gov article - If You Build it, WHO Will Come?
Book - Web Redesign: Workflow that Works - Kelly Goto & Emily Cotler
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