Tag, the best search options!
April 9th, 2008
Search options are something that can change from time. In real life, business grow. If today you use a State name (eg, Selangor) to find a housing development project from a Developer’s website, tomorrow you might be sorting your way by country as the developer grows and has more project internationally.
It is an never ending games. Your customers decide what is best to find their way to the information they want from your website. The site owner listens and make changes to their website - But, all this can not be done if your website is build dynamically with a database-driven backend! Why? Because all fields and columns are hardly changed.
Tag or Category present an alternative and better solution to this. Managing Tag is easier, without the need to touch the database. It is parallel, in terms of every item can belong to more than one Tag, yet flexibly enough to be presented in any way you like!
This makes content sorting more logical and practical! Check how 1.com.my sort their content!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:18 am
I have to disagree. Sorting methods shouldn’t be determined by the technology but how a user utilizes the system designed for them.
For example; if the user isn’t familiar with tags they’re most likely to use it unless you teach them and they teach the others.
Well, that’s my 2 cents.
April 10th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Presentation of Tag on the website can be in a format that works best to a customer. This can be done to make it easier for visitors :)
Thanks for sharing, you have nice point!