Redesigning Wisdump: The Categories
There are 29 categories on Wisdump today. 7 of them have 5 posts or less associated, 13 have got less than 20 posts. Several are completely redundant, probably great ideas when Scrivs ran the show, but the Wisdump I took over last year neither was nor is his playground. Categories like 9rules had its place back then, but today it’s a mere archive of Scrivs writing about his project.
Which brings me to which categories next Wisdump should have?
In my mind, you should always keep the number of categories to a minimum. It makes things easier for you, and it opens up opportunities for special styling, branding, things like that. Tags have effectively replaced the categories when it comes to show exactly what something is about, now categories are meant for sorting, and tags does the pinpointing.
So while I won’t delete any categories, which would be silly, I just won’t use them all. I’m thinking something like this:
- Advertising
- Blogging
- Design
- Design Critique
- Web++ or similar, don’t like the ++ thing
- Wisdump
Perhaps a few more, which ones? Here’s your chance telling me what you want more of here at Wisdump. I’m all ears.
whatever dude. Scrives (or whatever his name was) had good stuff to say, too bad he’s not here anymore. I decided to give the ‘new management’ a try, but you’re not up to it. Who cares about your categories? Seriously. Blablabla. Unsubscribed!
By Jean on March 3, 2008 9:12 pm
You’re a jerk Jean. Why comment? Why are you here? This is one of those comment I would just delete.
By Fantan on March 3, 2008 11:16 pm
Thord, I would probably delete the unnecessary categories. Or create a new category and dump all the Scrivs era content in there. Better to have your active categories visible than lost in a sea of old content.
By Gerard on March 4, 2008 5:32 am
I think the comments you’ve laid out will work pretty well. There are a lot of Business articles though, so where were you thinking of putting them… maybe add on a Business category?
By Mike Rundle on March 4, 2008 7:07 am
And by comments I mean categories lol.
By Mike Rundle on March 4, 2008 7:07 am
Gerard, I’m no fan of deleting categories, since they were usually put there for a reason. I might merge a few, and will definitely not show all categories in listings and such - just hide the “inactive” ones.
Thanks for you input, Mike! You’re right, Business (or similar) should go in there.
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