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#1 2005-11-30 16:31:39
- andersms
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Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
Premise: I am building a website for an athletics department. They play several sports, men’s and women’s.
I am considering using sections to separate the different sports (Men’s Basketball, Softball, etc.) and using catagories to separate the different types of stories (game recap, feature, announcement, etc.). Rosters and schedules will be handled through a separate system that I’ll have to integrate into TxP.
Does this organizational system make sense?
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Re: Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
I would actually do the reverse. The way Textpattern is set up, sections should be used to differentiate between types of content; categories separate topics. That would lead to:
http://www.example.com/announcements
http://www.example.com/features
http://www.example.com/recaps
http://www.example.com/category/basketball
http://www.example.com/category/softball
That way, if you enable browsing archives by category, basketball fans can see all entries (announcements, features, and recaps) related to basketball—regardless of type. All softball fans can do the same. You’ll also be able to control what types of content don’t get displayed on the front page of your site.
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#3 2005-11-30 17:29:11
- andersms
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Re: Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
That seems to make sense, especially since I can use two catagories to organize an article. This is important because some of our sports (Tennis, Track, Cross Country) are written up with both men’s and women’s results in the same article, and it would be helpful to be able to link to them from both sports individually. That is, whether you choose Men’s Tennis or Women’s Tennis, a visitor can get to (some of) the same articles.
Am I understanding that correctly?
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Re: Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
Yep. That sounds right to me.
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#5 2005-11-30 18:24:18
- andersms
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Re: Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
Secondarily, each category needs its own navigation menu. As I understand, this is trivial to handle with sections. How can I specify that the “Men’s Basketball” pages have a navigation menu specifically for Men’s Basketball (links to roster, schedule, archives, coaching staff, etc.)?
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Re: Organizational advice: sections vs. catagories
I’d use the <a href=“http://textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Txp:if_category”>if_category</a> tag (code examples within).
Last edited by Elenita (2005-11-30 19:05:03)
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