A site's usability is often tied directly to the user's ability to find exactly what they're looking for quickly. Drupal's powerful built-in content categorization ("taxonomy") system can often provide this with relatively little effort. This course will focus on understanding how the taxonomy system works and how you can customize it for your particular site. We'll also discuss several very powerful companion modules that work with the taxonomy system to provide your users with alternate ways to find the content they're looking for.
Topics covered will include:
- What is taxonomy?
- An overview of the taxonomy system
- Taxonomy vs. descriptive CCK fields
- Hierarchical taxonomy
- Taxonomy and Views
- Pathauto
- Hierarchical Select
- Tagadelic
- Auto-tagging modules (Calias, Yahoo Terms)
- Recommendation modules (More Like This, Similar By Terms)
