Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 2: Grouping

Best Practice #2: Use chunking and grouping to increase scanability and learnability
So you’ve taken the mega-menu plunge and you now have more labels to fit into your drop-down. How do you make sure it doesn’t look like a mess of text?

There are a couple of options:
Grouping:
Create clear and logical groupings within the menu [...]

Taxonomy & Mega Menus… Part 1 of many

No matter where I run, I cannot seem to hide from them.
They fly out of website navigation menus with no warning. They assault my senses with link overload.
…they are…mega menus.
Are they a new navigation paradigm or just a bad fad – like acid washed jeans?
And whose idea were they anyways?
It’s difficult to trace the starting point of [...]

Integrating Taxonomy with CMS – Book Chapter in Publication

The final draft has been submitted… Mark your calendars…
The Information Management Best Practices 2009 book is going to publication this week, in hopes of being ready for launch at the J.Boye Conference in Aarhus, Denmark, Nov 2-4. I’ll be there, giving a talk on SharePoint IA, but also to lend a hand with the book [...]

Taxonomy Bootcamp 2009… A regular smorgasboard

Looking for a good way to spend a week in the California sun and learn more about taxonomy, search and knowledge management? Look no further than the triple-slam event of the fall conference season:
Taxonomy Bootcamp / KM World / Enterprise Search Summit West
Register today with our discount code to save 200$!
Mark your calendars, cause we [...]

SEO vs. TNBP or “Where was I going again?”

Much has been written on this blog about the value of SEO when it comes to taxonomies.  As Stephanie mentions its’ a huge weapon in the battle against outdated legacy terminology and spur of the second marketing speak. Jeff’s posts on keyword research, taxonomy and SEO are indispensable primers on the topic. So what haven’t [...]