Taxonomy and Permalinks

[Nick]

That makes it sound futuristic But I see what your doing.
I know its all about the google rankings. No one browses sites, they find them on ta google.

[Brad]

Actually I think they do site maps in XML now and submit them to Google so their robot can better crawl your website.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184

[zourtney]

Which brings us back to a design suggestion -- adding a search bar to the site. The default one seemed to perform poorly. It's also ugly. Most importantly, though: it's missing.

[zourtney]

I'm not sureif I mentioned this before or not, but I have started making my personal blog posts with date-conscious URL aliases.
eg: randomland.net/zourtney/2009/10/whatever
I have done this to reduce name collisions. Plus anything dumb I write in there is likely to be more date/event related. I see no reason to do this elsewhere on the site. For example motors/francine is pretty freakin' timeless and spans several years.

Now you know. You are not obliged to care or comply.

[zourtney]

As Nick mentioned on another topic, we should flesh out our taxonomy a bit more. It is my opinion that the breadcrumbs, URLs, and taxonomy should all match. They are one in the same, in my mind.

So, I have been setting up URLs as such, nut have been slacking on makin the taxonomy match:
Motors
    Francine
    Tempo
    Blazer
Rec
    Camping
Tech
    Creating a Drupal Module book (needs sub-category?)
Opinion (flat currently, I do believe)
Reviews
    (one for each section: motors, rec, tech, opinion)

There's probably more I'm missing. Like the blog sections.

[Nick]

Maybe

• Tech
  
  
  • Programming/Scripting
    
    
    • RL drupal writeup

[Brad]

Where would an article on Boba Fett costume construction go?

[Nick]

Under

• Rec
  
  
  • Projects

And then either go one level farther and add a costumes or sometihng below projects. Or just put that into the free-tagging box when the article is posted. Though there will probably be more costume write ups so a costumes sub-term would be ok. Its better to have to many terms then to have everything lost into the free-tagging box (not that they are really lost, just less useful for site organization)

[zourtney]

I might recommend against a "projects" term. It's kind of vague. What would you gain from having it Home > Rec > Projects > Costumes rather than a simpler Home > Rec > Customes. Anything can become a "project"...!

The same thing goes for the forum boards. I just couldn't think of anything better.

[Brad]

I also vote for the lack of a 'Projects' category.

[zourtney]

A suggestion for the image taxonomy:
Create a term for whether or not the image should be displayed in the "random images" box. Some things are a little too boring to see as a random image, in my opinion. Things like my Drupal admin page screenshots. Boooring.

[Nick]

I had that same thought and was thinking bout how to do that. Simplest way would be to just add a check box.

[zourtney]

I was going to set up some URL aliases for user image galleries.

What do you think:
/gallery/[user]
or...
/[user]/gallery
?

[Nick]

I don't know. I like the idea but I cant decide what makes more sense. I guess /galleries/user.

[zourtney]

Yeah...we're not really a user-oriented site, so gallery/[user] makes a little more sense. That's how I started doing them, when I wasn't thinking.

Technically, you could do anything you want and they don't need to match. But I like consistency. As of now, mine is randomland.net/gallery/zourtney.