Archives for August 2008

There have been quite a few instances in the past months where I’ve had to explain the difference between a category and a tag to several people. I thought I’d share my definition and explanation of categories and tags to see if anyone else has a better definition.

Here are my definitions:
1) Tags are metadata (keywords?) for content. They describe the content itself and useful when searching a site.

2) Categories are used for navigation and represent different sections of a site where similar content is grouped. In most cases, categories are the sites navigation. Categories also had a hierarchy to a site. Even the word category can be used to describe categories. They categorize.

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I haven’t done a list in awhile but I’m trying to pick it up again.

7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design

Linkification

Control-Tab: A New Feature for Firefox

Coping With Internet Explorer’s Mishandling of Buttons

Wanted: IE8 Beta Testers

Mining the SitePoint CSS Reference

Content Migrations: Options, Strategies and Faux Pas

Closed question response categories

12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 1

12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 2

Essential WordPress plugins

Using Social Media (Ning) to Manage a Social Project - KETC and the Mortgage Crisis

Passionates

PixelPerfect

A Brave New alt in {HTML5}

<select> Something New, Part 1

Build a Simple RSS reader for the iPhone

ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts

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