Vaporware and Navigation
by Jonathan Quince
Thursday, August 10, 2006 23:20:13
I am currently in the process of building my own content management system. Actually, that process started in July, 2005; thus far, the product has been vaporware.
However, I have realized one feature that may be of greatest importance to my users: Categories and “tagging”. Since I have now diversified my writings into divers unrelated topics, readers may have trouble navigating to the topics of their current interest. Additionally, my archives have long grown too large to skim through quickly. I am concerned about the concomitant hit to ever-important usability.
As an interim measure, I plan to at least start adding category tags to my posts. The server-side navigation will still be nonexistent; but tags should assist in scanning for material of interest, and perhaps certain external services may allow site-specific tag searching. Of course, I eventually plan to build a simple, easy-to-use navigational system; but “it’s done when it’s done”, and it isn’t done just yet.
So, dear readers: Hang in there. My output of posts is low, so it should not
be too much trouble for regular readers to merely skim through. Tags will
be forthcoming shortly. And in the distant^H^H^H^H^H^H^Heventual future,
navigation will be as easy as eating a peach off the belly of a lithe yet curvy, nubile girl.