[theforum] revisiting categories
Erika
ekm at seastorm.com
Mon Dec 22 10:44:13 CST 2008
Another thing to revisit is our categories. As a few people have
pointed out here and on the survey, they could use some refining.
I do agree that tagging should be integrated into our system (whether or
not tag clouds are displayed, articles could always be tagged for future
use, right?)
But we need more than that, we still need systematic category-based
navigation. Last night I was thinking about how to make the categories
more logical, without deviating too far from our long-held structure..
I'm sketching below a proposed skeleton, would like feedback. The idea
is to create subcategories for the larger groups (such as backend) and
consolidate smaller groups (news/reviews) (news is less significant now
that everyone's dog has a blog, but it's still kind of cool to have some
targeted stuff for our audience.)
"FAQ" doesn't currently show on our category list; I don't know if there
are others that exist but are not displayed in the list.
I think we should dump the "suggestions" category... but not before
reading the suggestions we have in there currently. :)
We should be able to go back to our legacy content and add subcategories
to existing articles; I think this, along with a good interface, will
improve the site's navigability, and hopefully inspire new article
submissions.
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CATEGORIES
1. Backend
Oracle
MySQL
Zope
IIS
Apache
Linux
2. Code
ASP
Cold Fusion
PHP
Javascript/AJAX
Javascript libraries
Java
Perl
Ruby/Rails
HMTL
CSS
XML
3. Commentary and society
4. IA/Usability
5. News, Reviews, Commentary
a. community news
b. other news
c. reviews
i. book reviews
ii. site reviews
6. Site Development
7. Software
8. Visual Design
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(dump "suggestions")
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