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SIGIA-L: Summary: Model Sites for Large-Scale Dynamic Content
From: Shelley Goodwin (shelleygood_at_mail.earthlink.net)
Date: Mon Aug 13 2001 - 15:13:23 EDT
A while back I requested some example sites that presented a lot of
information dynamically:
"I'm working on a large-scale information based site (think library)
redesign. We are restructuring the information into topic categories such
"Environment", "Geography", "Zoology" (not the actual topics ;-) ...As you
can see, this can be quite complicated and I'm looking to see how others
have managed this type of complex content. Does anyone have some good
examples?"
Sorry it's taken me so long to post a summary! I appreciate all of the
great suggestions, I investigated each one and have learned a little from
all of them. Thank you so much for the great examples!
Quotes from responses-
"I realize that you're asking for experience, and I'm answering with tools,
but that's what I happen to know about. I just saw a rather impressive demo
from Quiver on their category-workflow stuff, it recognizes multiple
categories and combines automated and manual control. I do recommend
looking at it in case it fits your needs."
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"www.iht.com use an architecture in which articles do not have a single
parent category, but can have multiple parents at the discretion of the
editor. "
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"the way I would approach this is:
1. define a category hierarchy (like yahoo)
2. define a list of content types (should be easy)
3. work out navigation.
The message being, don't let your navigation depend entirely on your
hierarchy. You'll probably end up with a browsable hierarchy, where people
can choose which content types they see, and lots of "more like this"
links, and a decent search....
Depending on the usage patterns of your site (how do you predict people
will use it? Do they look for something very specific they know exists? Or
do they only have a vague idea? Or ...) the navigation will focus more on
browsing, or searching, or presenting related items...."
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"One site I've been looking at is www.civilrights.org. The visual design
of the site isn't all that great, but you might want to take a look at the
"Civil Rights Issues" section. Beneath each section -- for example,
Affirmative Action -- they have
"Overview," "History," "Update," "Resources," "Stories," and
"Toolkit." These subsections repeat for each Issue. Also, each Issue has
its own news clippings, press releases, and alerts (that look like they're
fed from a database using ColdFusion)."
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Thanks again!!
Shelley
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Shelley Goodwin
shelleygood_at_earthlink.net
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