Better Living Through Taxonomies

posted by John Lampard on Sunday, 10 February, 2008 to the technology subset

Better Living Through Taxonomies

Heather Hedden writes about the value of taxonomies, or hierarchical categorisation systems, for both planning web projects, and also as a way of navigating, and finding information on, websites.

Large websites and intranets can benefit from improved methods of search and navigation. These include site maps, A-Z indexes, sophisticated search engines, and generally improved navigational design – and playing a potential role in all of these methods is well-planned taxonomy.

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