On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 11:29 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: > On 05/13/2011 11:17 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 10:57 +1000, Lana Brindley wrote: > > > >> Tags and categories can complement each other. No need to use one over > >> the other. > > > > > > Is one or the other preferred for particular purposes? Or is it more > > that individual readers might prefer, or be more accustomed to using, > > one or the other? Which would be better for us to use on the blog? Or > > should we use both, to appeal to both user groups? > > > > My ignorance on this subject is so great that I have difficulty even > > asking an intelligent question! If anyone has a pointer to an > > explanation somewhere, that might help. > > > > --Jean > > > > Sorry, that was a very abrupt answer, wasn't it! > > I'm sure everyone uses these things differently, but on my own website, > I use categories as a broad organisational structure, and tags as a more > fine-tuned one. > > For example, an article about using fixed rows/columns in Calc might use > the categories "Calc" and "Help", and the tags "Calc", "Help", > "Formatting", "Spreadsheet", and "Rows/Columns". > > I present categories on my site as a list, and tags as a tag cloud. This > gives two different methods of interaction for users. People can > interact with whichever they feel most comfortable with, and it also > provides two different ways of presenting the info to catch a reader's > eye as they're reading the main text on the site. > > Hope that helps!
It does help, very much! Thanks, Lana. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
