[theforum] revisiting categories

[Erika]

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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