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Top Ten Intranet Design Mistakes


By Vincent Flanders

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Mistake #3. Using the same design for the corporate Web site and the corporate Intranets.

The corporate Web site may have many different clients and purposes. It may be selling products, providing software downloads, giving investor information, and even dispensing content. Your Intranet has only one purpose - disseminating information to employees and certain external customers.

Intranets should never have the same appearance as the corporate Web site. Employees should always be able to tell if they're on the public Web site or the private Intranet. As we'll see under the topic of Navigation, an employee should always be able to tell where they are by simply looking at the page.

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Mistake #4 Forgetting the Japanese!

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The creator of the award-winning site Web Pages That Suck and co-author of the book of the same name, lists the top 10 mistakes he's found while consulting for Fortune 1000 corporations. Hint: the image is one of them. do not use this type of image

To contact Vincent with topics you'd like to see covered in the Intranet Design Guru Column or for any other reason: vincent@flandersenterprises.com

Mistake #1
Splash Pages
Mistake #2
Keeping Unnecessary Design Items
Mistake #3
Using the same design for the corporate Web site and the corporate Intranets
Mistake #4
Forgetting the Japanese!
Mistake #5
Forgetting that the "Top's Gotta Pop"
Mistake #6
Poor navigation
Mistake #7
Flash
Mistake #8
Forgettng that "Text is text and links are links"
Mistake #9
Not testing your site with different browsers and different systems
Mistake #10
Too much content

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