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4.1.
Organization of Content
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Before you know it, folders and subfolders have been created on a Plone web site and content added. Content may be organized naturally by the hierarchy of folders.
Consider the butterflies web site, which would have an organization something like this, with the main areas of the web site each a few layers deep, and the butterfly pages arrayed in a hierarchy:
About History Keeping a Journal as a Kid Natural History Mentors The Present Treatment Family John Bio Other Interests Tennis Conservation Local Politics Sally Bio Other Interests Karate Cooking Edward Bio Other Interests Football Painting Elizabeth Bio Other Interests Clarinet Snowboarding Photography Equipment Techniques Favorite Photographers Butterflies Overview Biology Life Cycle Egg Caterpillar Pupa Adult Distribution Migration Field Work Projects Organizations North American Butterfly Association Lepidopterists’ Society Xerces Society Nature Conservancy Bibliography Species Treatments Swallowtails 13 species pages Pierids (Whites and Yellows) 30 species pages Hairstreaks 5 species pages Satyrium Hairstreaks 18 species pages Scrub Hairstreaks 9 species pages Blues 9 species pages Azures 9 species pages Metalmarks 3 species pages Brushfoots 4 species pages Greater Fritillaries 7 species pages Lesser Fritillaries 16 species pages Angelwings and Tortoiseshells 18 species pages Red-Spotted Admiral 10 species pages Satyrs (Browns) 13 species pages Alpines and Arctics 10 species pages Monarchs (Milkweed Butterflies) 3 species pages Skippers Spread-Wing Skippers 8 species pages Cloudy Wings 8 species pages Duskywings 15 species pages Intermediate Skippers 1 species page Grass Skippers 12 species pages Hesperia Skippers 41 species pages Roadside Skippers 16 species pages Giant Skippers 2 species pages
Each of the butterfly treatment pages has sections on identification tips, a description, and keywords. Photographs are scattered through the butterfly section for butterflies John as seen personally. He writes an observation account for each new species he photographs, providing location, habitat, and any specific behavioral observations made.
This web site has a range of content, from personal biographies and interests of John and his family, to expanded pages on photography and other topics, to the many butterfly pages and photographs. Click-navigation is effective for finding most information, and for the butterfly content the organization by taxonomy is useful and fitting for the most common needs, but this is not the only way it could be organized. For instance, the butterfly pages could have been organized by habitat, by behavior, by size, by color, by whether or not John has observed the species, etc. John was torn between these ways of organizing the butterfly pages, but chose the taxonomic structure, because grouping and relating species by evolutionary relationship is the most useful way to do it. But John discovered how Plone lets him have his cake and eat it too:
Smart folders offer a way to create separate organizational treatments for content.
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