Michele Lacey - Portfolio

Great Site Map Development Tool

Michele Lacey — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 01:26:05 +0000

When redesigning my university’s 1,200+ page website Cacoo really came in handy for developing our site map. For a site of that size it was difficult to find a diagramming tool which would easily adapt to an evolving information architecture. We’re an all-Mac shop so that ruled out some options early on.

the site map for one of our six main menus

I found Cacoo’s drawing tools easy to use. It also has some pretty nice collaboration features so members of our team can contribute. Each map has a url that we were able to use to share with our vice presidents and various vendors involved in our redesign project.

The pricing structure is very generous. I was surprised by how much I could do with the free account. The Cacoo team upgraded our account for a year-long .edu free trial. I can definitely find more uses for this.

Learn SLR camera settings

Michele Lacey — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:51:58 +0000

Fun way to learn how to use your camera! camerasim.com/camera-simulat…

— Michele A. Lacey (@michelealacey) June 12, 2012

What does your LinkedIn network look like?

Michele Lacey — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:52:05 +0000

LinkedIn Maps, from LinkedIn Labs, offers:

Your professional world. Visualized.

An interesting thing about the map is that they leave the task of labeling the legend to you without assuming how your connections are related. Get yours at inmaps.linkedinlabs.com/.