In a follow-up to his piece on Information Architecture for the People, Joshua Kaufman has produced Getting IA done Part II. A very practical and useful article, go read it if you are interested in IA.
I was particularly keen on tip #6: From concept to XHMTL.
Learn to do wireframes in XHTML and CSS. You will save time for those that follow you in the workflow. You will also get regularly brought into later stages of the development that you, as an IA, were left out of in the past.
As someone who has become distanced from the coding process as I have worked more as an IA, I can see the benefits of this. It is important that those designing have some idea about how their designs will be implemented. One of my aims for the next six months is to brush up on my code. (I'm gonna need a lot of help...)
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