"If you decide to skip building category pages, incorporate categories in breadcrumbs. For instance: Home Sports: Windsurfing "
What would your links be here? "Home" and "Sports: Windsurfing" or "Home Sports:" and "Windsurfing"? I could potentially see a case for what you are saying if you use the former, but not if you use the latter. I think you are skipping out on the potential value of those category pages. Your argument about having the "what else is here" content on the target page is not a good one, because it really clutters the page. Yes, I know that Amazon does it all over the place, but in that instance, it's one of the times where Amazon does things very poorly from a user perspective. Amazon product pages are one of the worst designs out there in my opinion. All I want is to see the product I chose, not 50 other products. As for the value of the category pages, I really do think it's there. Check out this page: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/ And then check out this child page: http://www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Holiday---Celebration-Recipes Yes, the former is probably the blandest of the bland when it comes to category pages, but the holiday page actually has some additional content. Not only is this useful to the users, but it will also help your search engine optimization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=46723 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
