useful tips: building a solid intranet in 8 steps

I've never built a built a full-corporate intranet site, though I've been in a few efforts to build group sites. Even those efforts could have used the information in the article Theo Mandel has written: A solid intranet in eight steps"

He outlines eight steps to getting it right:

• Forget about your Internet site.
• Eliminate frames from your design
• Create intranet guidelines and stand by them
• Put usability before consistency
• Start small and grow iteratively
• Use standard link characteristics
• Evaluate against measurable objectives and criteria
• Make your intranet accessible

From [Column Two] and [Intranet Focus Blog]