Comments on: Categorising your blog

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:29:22 +0000

That’s the problem I had Tara. I think in the past some of my articles go outside of what miLienzo.com is supposed to be about, and without having a defined list of categories I’ve not been able to monitor this. If in future articles don’t fit within the existing categories I’ll think twice about whether I need to post it.

There’s also a case for merging similar categories. I can see scope for that in your list of categories.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:35:19 +0000

I like the idea of categories it makes stuff much easier to find, although I have the problem that my number of categories keeps growing. Some things just don’t seem to quite fit an existing category do they?

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 21:19:43 +0000

Paul – That’s my thinking too, and I see you’ve kept the tags too. I think that’s best – rather than having one or the other, give people both.

Lorelle – Thanks for popping by. I like your analogies – that’s a good way to describe the two.

David – It took me ages to come up with my 14 categories. My first stab at it resulted in over 30 categories which kind of defeated the purpose, so I’ve amalgamated and grouped similar categories.

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:33:54 +0000

Nice addition, Aaron.

I think it’ll really help first-time visitors (and us more regular readers) to come to expect what your articles are about.

You remind me that I should perhaps rephrase some of my category titles. I don’t think ‘blogging’ is a term that best suits the articles underneath. Besides, I’ve never really liked the word.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:38:06 +0000

To help clarify things for your readers, I like to think of categories as the blog’s table of contents and the tags as the index, micro-categories.

And I’m glad I could help. It’s so important to clarify your content categories and groups to help not only direct people to the information they need but also to help them represent themselves through the visual keywords categories provide.

By: Paul Enderson

Paul Enderson — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:42:24 +0000

My last layout focused more heavily on tags that categories, but that was something I vowed to change when I redesigned – which is exactly what I did.

For me, I think the categories list is almost like a ‘main menu’ from a non-blogging site.