I'd like to use the combo Drupal/CCK/Views to create a products catalog and I'm confused as to if I need to use taxonomies or not.
My products could have a taxonomy, but each term in the taxonomy has information by itself. For example a product category might include pictures, text and links.
As far as I can see, if I try to implement my categories as a taxonomy I can't add this data to each term. Therefore I think I have to create a content item for every category, that has the extra data as attributes and has its products (or subcategories) as node references.
Category_1 <-----------------(there is text and images that describe it)
|-- Category_1.1 -//-
| |-- Category_1.1.1 -//-
| | |-- Product_A
| | |-- Product_B
| | |-- Product_C
Category_2
.....
Is this the best approach?