[thelist] Opinions regarding search categories
Bob Forgey
rforgey at alumni.caltech.edu
Mon Oct 23 15:18:42 CDT 2000
>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Cook <sck at biljettpoolen.se> writes:
Steve> Hi folks,
Steve> I wonder if anyone could lend me an opinion. Over the weekend, I finally
Steve> finished programming an administration tool for my site http://wapwarp.com
Steve> which allows me to go in and alter search categories, move around links from
Steve> category to category and generally improve the state of my directory. (About
Steve> blooming time too!)
Steve> I know that Yahoo! employ more trained librarians than anything else, who
Steve> have advanced degrees in organising content under structured headings. Well,
Steve> unfortunately I don't have the budget for that (I don't have 1 cent in
Steve> budget actually!) so I was wondering two things - firstly if anyone knows
Steve> any sources of articles that discuss category layouts and secondly whether
Steve> anyone has any opinions regarding changes to my existing list of categories
Steve> (which I have included below to avoid having to browse through the whole
Steve> site).
There's a fellow who decided to go with the Dewey Decimal system. That
way, you'll never have to change your system, and there are lots of
people already hard at work helping you classify things:
http://ivory.lm.com/~mundie/DDHC/DDH.html
Check out http://ivory.lm.com/~mundie/DDHC/organizing_computers.html
for his article.
Bob
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