About This Site

In my day-to-day work as a technical writer at a large insurance company, I design Web pages for our company intranet. Throughout the course of my career and through graduate classes I've taken, I have learned that designing for intranet pages is very different from designing Internet pages.

This site summarizes the best information about intranet web design that I've gathered from research and experience.

Please email me and let me know how this information has helped you, or if you have insight that isn't offered on this site already.

What is an Intranet?

An Intranet is a private system of communication between computers within a corporation. Usually, only employees have access to their company's intranet. The essence of such a system is that it uses Internet technology to effect communications between internal clients via an internal server. The server also often acts as a common central source of information and software resources.

To employees using an Intranet, it is a source of information and a communication tool.

Many Intranets are located within a local area network and cut off completely from the Internet. Others have portals to other networks and even to the Internet. These more extensive Intranet systems are described as having a wide area network.

Some companies, particularly those where the client computers are separated by large distances, do not have a local network at all. Instead, they rely on the infrastructure of the Internet to facilitate client to client communication and supply connections to a private server.

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