Introduction to Creating a Taxonomy

When working with content, you can place a listing of those categories (a taxonomy) on a Web page. When that page displays, the taxonomy’s categories appear, followed by all published items in the taxonomy.

To help site visitors find your Web site’s content via a taxonomy, your developer places a Directory server control on a Web page. It looks something like this.

See Screen Sample

See Also: Directory Server Control

There is no limit to the number of category levels you can assign to a taxonomy.

Also, a taxonomy can provide a link to all content in a folder, so the display is based on folder structure. Alternatively, you can assign content items from various folders to a taxonomy.

To illustrate the benefits of a content-based taxonomy, assume your Web site is for a college. Several items relating to the graduate school are organized under major departments: Admissions, Academics, Faculty, Library, etc. You can create a Graduate School taxonomy, use it to categorize all content relevant to graduate students (regardless of their department), and display them on a graduate students page.