Content inventory is complete
I started a content inventory late last week and I'm finally done—what an absolutely mind numbing experience. Our national website tally: 1,163 pages. Every page was touched at least once…possibly even twice.
My URL hand-crawl experience (and I feel it too) revealed the following:
- Over 800 html pages;
- Nearly 250 PDFs;
- 50-60 broken links;
- 25-40 word document downloads;
- Roughly a couple dozen photo album; and
- Less than a handful of video downloads.
However, regarding our content and existing information architecture, I am more confused than I ever been. I would guess that over 90% of our pages have some sort of a past due date on them…which will require greater personal care and maintenance as we move forward with the discovery period.
2 comments:
I can only imagine what a pain in the ass this was. A couple of years ago, I had an intern do this just with our dam removal pages and think she might have wanted to quit because of it.
I know the feeling, 150 pages are dam related (pun intended).
But it's an obvious (dam removal) hook for our site and I think a really easy good way to tell our story.
I mean, who doesn't want to see an obsolete dam blown up?
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