[thelist] Opinions regarding search categories

Steve Cook sck at biljettpoolen.se
Mon Oct 23 02:21:30 CDT 2000


Hi folks,

I wonder if anyone could lend me an opinion. Over the weekend, I finally
finished programming an administration tool for my site http://wapwarp.com
which allows me to go in and alter search categories, move around links from
category to category and generally improve the state of my directory. (About
blooming time too!)

I know that Yahoo! employ more trained librarians than anything else, who
have advanced degrees in organising content under structured headings. Well,
unfortunately I don't have the budget for that (I don't have 1 cent in
budget actually!) so I was wondering two things - firstly if anyone knows
any sources of articles that discuss category layouts and secondly whether
anyone has any opinions regarding changes to my existing list of categories
(which I have included below to avoid having to browse through the whole
site). 

Any opinions valued (this is the nearest I'm gonna get (probably!) to asking
for a site critique :-)


Applications
    Browsers
    Email
    Messaging
    Package Tracking
    Planners & diaries
    Search tools
        Submission services
Business & economy
    Business Services
    Business Travel
    Companies
    Consultants
        Domains
        eCommerce
        WAP & Web
    Financial
        Banking
        Stocks
    Industry
    Jobs & recruitment
    News
    Training
    Transport & Logistics
Communities
    Chat
    ICQ
    Portals
Developer
    Developers
        Hardware
        Services
        Software
    Links
        Dev-Portals
        Groups
        Mailing Lists
    Reference
        Docs
        Tutorials
    Tools
Entertainment
    Adult
    Art
    Food & Drink
    Games
        Casino
        Computer Games
    Humour
    Movies
    Music
        Bands
        Clubs
    Personal sites
    Quiz & Competition
    Television
News
    General
    Wap-related
Recreation & Sports
    Cars & vehicles
    Football
    Travel
Reference
    Dictionaries
    Quotations
Regional
    Africa
    Asia Pacific
    Europe
    USA
Shopping & ecommerce

(Programming the recursive functions to produce the above output was a lot
of fun. In return for your opinions, I'll try and cobble together an article
on how the code works to save anyone programming something similar the
several days of contemplation it took me to remember how the recursion
works!) 


.steve

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