What Lana said. It's good that you're organizing this ahead of time. It will help keep everything in order as the blog develops.
A good way of thinking about it is that tags might give a small SEO bump to a post by repeating keywords, whereas categories make a blog easier for users to navigate through content in order to find what they want. Tags are less likely to be noticed by someone browsing the blog. And they really don't need to be predetermined for the blog authors since the keywords can be pretty specific to the article. I will say, though, Lana's idea to showcase a tag cloud is definitely a good one. You never know what will catch someone's eye. If you do add a tag cloud, I advise against an animated cloud. That's a personal preference. The flash graphics annoy me. :) ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:47 PM, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 [email protected] > 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 > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
