Hello,
I've been given the task of restructuring the database of a Gossamer Links setup for the website, policy.ca [http://www.policy.ca]. We're going from a pretty straightforward layout, to one that incorporates a more detailed breakdown of the links. Below you'll find the layout the new architecture of the site. The idea is to provide the visitor with as many ways as possible to drill down and find the information they are looking for. In the publications section of the site (which is what you see below), we're going to be inserting thousands of policy publications covering 20 different categories (and then further broken down into 10-20 sub-categories for each category). We would like to give the user the ability to look for a publication through three main avenues - By Topic, By Year and By Organization.
Is there a better way to insert each of the publication links (which also include a number of different statistical information, when it was published, authors, etc - you can see an example here: http://www.policy.ca/...ry/Detailed/164.html) into the database. As of now, the submitter would have to drill through hundreds (if not thousands) of sub categories, to make sure that the link is placed in all three main areas.
Perhaps a submission form that would pull the information out and place the link in the appropriate section of the database?
Also, does anyone see any problems associated with this approach to a directory?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Greg
Policy Publications
I've been given the task of restructuring the database of a Gossamer Links setup for the website, policy.ca [http://www.policy.ca]. We're going from a pretty straightforward layout, to one that incorporates a more detailed breakdown of the links. Below you'll find the layout the new architecture of the site. The idea is to provide the visitor with as many ways as possible to drill down and find the information they are looking for. In the publications section of the site (which is what you see below), we're going to be inserting thousands of policy publications covering 20 different categories (and then further broken down into 10-20 sub-categories for each category). We would like to give the user the ability to look for a publication through three main avenues - By Topic, By Year and By Organization.
Is there a better way to insert each of the publication links (which also include a number of different statistical information, when it was published, authors, etc - you can see an example here: http://www.policy.ca/...ry/Detailed/164.html) into the database. As of now, the submitter would have to drill through hundreds (if not thousands) of sub categories, to make sure that the link is placed in all three main areas.
Perhaps a submission form that would pull the information out and place the link in the appropriate section of the database?
Also, does anyone see any problems associated with this approach to a directory?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
Cheers,
Greg
Policy Publications
- By Topic
- List all Topic Categories
- {category}
- List all Topic Sub-Categories
- {sub category}
- List all Available Years
- (years)
- By Year
- List all Available Years
- {years}
- List all Topic Categories
- {category}
- List all Topic Sub-Categories
- {sub category}
- By Organization
- List all Organizations
- {Organizations}
- List all Major Topics Categories
- {category}
- List all Topic Sub-Categories
- {sub category}