SeaWaves Blog

Well, when we acquired The Dog Guide it wasn’t clear what was in store. But several years later we are about to move the site out of development and into BETA status.

What does that mean? Well, you can expect that as soon as we roll into 2009, the site will have the following in place:

• A popular blog with funny dog pictures and news that is uploaded daily.
• A section on dog health with a nice collection of articles.
• A section on dog training with a fleshed out series called Canine Manners 101
• A collection of photo galleries of many popular dog breeds with many still to come.
• Information and pictures for over 200 dog breeds

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One of the most overlooked aspects of creating an online project is the information architecture. By this, we just mean the way information is categorized and organized on a website.

The larger a website is meant to be, the more critical it is to get information architecture right. Otherwise, changes that don’t lend themselves to the original structure will take days, weeks, maybe even months to re-organize. The use of tags or other semantic indicators can be very helpful in matching together related information.

One site that we’re working to develop right now is called College Crunch. This site is meant to be a comprehensive guide to college planning and college life. Because there are so many possibilities with the broad topic of “college” our biggest challenge has been choosing a limited set of top level categories to organize all the content under.

What we’ve chosen to do is break the site into 9 categories that we feel encompass almost all possible college topics:

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