For those of you who had some difficulty with the introduction to content inventories in our last class and didn't find Jeff Veen's article enough of a clarification, I'm posting this article by Jason Withrow from 2004. Despite the focus on site diagrams (also useful for class), the article offers a good explanation of numbering a content inventory in the section titled "Specifying levels and numbering pages." Just keep in mind the client-friendly option of numbering the home page "0" as an alternative to using "1" (delineating sub-sections more clearly—e.g., "1" and "2" versus "1.1" and "1.2").
Site Diagrams: Mapping an Information Space
By Jason Withrow
Also take note of the site where this article is found. This semester I've yet to introduce them, but Boxes and Arrows (
http://boxesandarrows.com/) and A List Apart (
http://www.alistapart.com/) are two very useful sites for keeping up with practices in IA and UX.
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