[wp-design] Categories / Tags in 1.6

[Joen Asmussen]

Tag clouds pop a warning bell in my mind.

To be quite honest, to me Tag Clouds are total misunderstandings. 
Zeldman said it much better than I could:
"We who make websites must strike a fine balance between guiding our 
users and allowing them to lead us. We listen but we also synthesize and 
invent. We conduct user research but we interpret the results. We ask 
what users want but we decide what they are /really/ telling us — and 
we, not they, determine how best to fulfill the needs they didn’t 
necessarily realize they were articulating."
http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0505a.shtml

So to be short: I think the current way of doing categories is fine. If 
one needs 100+ categories, it we should be REAL tags, not categories. 
Categories share the same metaphor as folders on a computer. They are 
easy to understand, and the myriad of less savvy wordpress users love to 
"categorize" their stuff.

I am not against adding tags. I am against treating categories as tags.



Bryan Veloso wrote:

> Problem I have with tag clouds is that they're usually based on size, 
> which really ruins any logical design solutions. Maybe we can base it 
> off color?
>
>
> On Sep 24, 2005, at 2:39 PM, Michael Heilemann wrote:
>
>> Scrolling 100+ categories isn't too userfriendly. I'd just like for 
>> use to take a quick jab at offering up some alternate solutions. 
>> Personally I think del.icio.us <http://del.icio.us> has some 
>> interesting functionality going on when tagging links for posting. 
>> Also a tag clouds could be interesting if snazzied up a bit.
>>
>>
>> On 9/24/05, *Matthew Mullenweg* <m at mullenweg.com 
>> <mailto:m at mullenweg.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Michael Heilemann wrote:
>>     > Seeing as how you can add categories on the fly in 1.6, I think
>>     we might
>>     > need to have a closer look at solutions for 100+ categories on
>>     the write
>>     > page. Some people are bound to use categories as tags, and
>>     that's going
>>     > to cause problems with the current solution, which is geared
>>     towards
>>     > old-school categories.
>>
>>     How so? It scrolls. It's ordered by most commonly used. You can
>>     select
>>     categories just by typing them in and it'll bump them to the top.
>>     The
>>     box needs to be more intuitive, and it needs to support multiple
>>     cats by
>>     separating by commas. What else would you like it to do?
>>
>>     --
>>     Matt Mullenweg
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