And consequently one item can not exist in different category, so user has to follow the predefined hierarchical tree to locate a post. Say, a post about "Camry6" only exist in /root/toyota/camry6, but you can't easily find it if you don't know Camry is built by Toyota. If using tags, user can just hit an entry with tags "camry" no matter which category it is in.
However, one psycho drawback of tag system (to me) is that, there is no obvious tree-structure for all the data. So in case you want to read all data one by one, you don't know where to start and you will encounter many duplicate posts. This is unlike the tree system, which you can always use depth-first-search or breadth-first-search. Just my 0.02$ On Dec 1, 2:26 pm, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > I think the difference is that tags are flat, categories are supposed > to have a hierarchical structure. Usually categories are set by the > administrator, not by users, as in the case of tags. > > On Nov 30, 9:52 pm, Victor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Really, I'm no expert, maybe categories are for SEO. However I > > believe that tags are more searchable, and you can have as many as you > > want. For example, look at engadget, each post has loads of tags. but > > fewer categories. I'ld say Categories to allow people look at your > > information and tags to add to the keywords meta tag on each post page > > for SEO. Once again I'm no expert, just a physics student who loves to > > code python and web2py. > > But then again Its one of tose questions that make you think. > > > Victor > > > On Nov 30, 3:30 pm, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I was just curious why most blogs have archive then? Is it for S.E.O. ? > > > > If you have a tagging system, would you really need categories?, since > > > tags > > > are basically a "category cloud".... DO you really need both, how do > > > categories interact with tags? > > > > -Thadeus > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Victor <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > IMHO, It's better to use categories because people would generally > > > > visit your blog looking for posts on a topic (JQuery, Web2py, > > > > Photoshop etc), if you had an "Older/Newer posts" link, then thats > > > > fine. > > > > > On Nov 29, 10:43 am, Thadeus Burgess <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > What is the benefit or reason for having date-sorted archive links on > > > > > a > > > > > blog? > > > > > > -Thadeus > > > > > -- > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > > > Groups > > > > "web2py-users" group. > > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > > > [email protected]<web2py%[email protected]> > > > > . > > > > For more options, visit this group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en.
