Hi All, Please let me know is why taxonomy is important for website development? What are the important considerations for taxonomy development? Many thanks,
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You can use a taxonomy tree to categorize your content. Having your content organized makes it easier to find for visitors.
Depending on your site (size, content, subject) you may opt for a flat taxonomy: "News, Downloads, Support", or a tree, where each item has multiple sub-items for a finer granularity.
Tagging is also a great way to categorize content. It allows you to create a taxonomy tree on the fly, and add a piece content to multiple "tags" at the same time.
Ariejan
2010-10-27 11:58:44
Thanks Ariejan, Is there some sort of tool to develop flat/tree structures? Who would normally do taxonomy? And when it is done how it is actually put into place in the website? many thanks,
amj
2010-10-27 12:07:17
How you implement a taxonomy depends entirely on what tools you are using. Simply put: TaxonomyWord n-n Content. E.g. Content has many TaxonomyWords and a TaxonomyWord can have many pieces of Content. Then you can structure your TaxonomyWords separately in a list (e.g. give them a number to order them) or in a tree (tell which TaxonomyWord is their parent).
Ariejan
2010-10-27 12:10:07