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Elements of User Experience
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/
0735712026/ref%3Dnosim/rebeccaspocke-20/

You can read the sample chapter Meet the Elements http://www.newriders.com/content/images/

0735712026/samplechapter/0735712026C.pdf 200 kb PDF.

Jared Spool's presentation "Scent of a Web Page NYC-CHI members) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nycchi/files/

Curt Cloninger's Case for Story Telling http://www.alistapart.com/stories/storytelling makes the case for considering the narrative possibilities when designing for the web as a communications medium.

http://grokdotcom.com discusses Persuasive Architecture http://www.grokdotcom.com/index10-01-2002.htm

Persuasive Architecture ... [is] the aesthetically appealing and functional structure you create to marry the organization of the buying and selling processes with the organization of information. It’s the only way your Web site is actively going to influence, the only way you will pull (never push!) your visitors along the paths they need to walk to accomplish their goals - and yours.

Enterprise Information Integration

InfoWorld article about Information Aggregation http://www.infoworld.com/articles/ap/xml/02/09/02/020902apeii.xml as the middleware that can cull data from multiple systems and repackage as XML.

Standards for distributed information architecture

Digital Web Magazine on creating standards for distributed information architecture http://www.digital-web.com/columns/
ianythinggoes/ianythinggoes_2002-09.shtml to allow for easier and more effective combination of content, resources, and metadata across sites.

Gerry McGovern on Learning how to classify

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_02_classify.htm

"Design classification like it will be 'written in stone.' You don't want to be changing your classification every six months. This will mean a lot of work and will create confusion."

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2002/nt_2002_09_02_classify.htm

Controlled vocabularies
Interview http://www.digital-web.com/interviews/interview_2002-08.shtml with Jeffrey Veen and Jesse James Garrett

Creating a Website Index

Fred Liese's article in B&A http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/002848.php on using indexes (the alphanumeric kind) on websites.

The Experts Opinion - articles on content development and design.

Writing for the Web - how to write your articles specifically for the web from Gerry McGovern