Re: suggestions about categorizing and website content

Posted by BigKev On 2008/7/2 20:32:45

Sometimes content has to be sorted into broad catagories as it may cover multiple things. For example a single service counselor have cover a running Engine, Transmission, and Interior service change.

When I added the by-year catagories, I had to go through every Article in the database and manual assign it to one or more year catagories. That was not a fun task and some of my choice were subjective.

Now that being all said, Brian (BH) at one time had developed a V8 index (for the Packard V8 Club) of all the Service Counselors and STB's that provided a pretty good cheat sheet cross-index of where to look for everything. So for example if you wanted to find something about brakes, his index would show you in what STB's and SC's that was discussed and I belive the Topic of that particular item. I will let Brian speak more to that as he developed it.

Now I think that would be great if we can develop those kind of cross-references list here for all the content. But I would need some volunteers to take on building that kind of content. I can turn it into a webpage and drive in with a database back end, but I dont have the bandwidth labor-wise to actually compile all the cross-reference information.

The best case would be to take Brian's current fixed index and turn it into a web-driven list. So basically extended Brian's list with a link to the STB or SC in question if that exists here on the website. That would be the shortcut as far as the V8 index goes. But I would like to do the same thing for the other years if we can also. I know I would find it usefull. So if there is anyone out there with idle hands that would like to take on the task of building a "Brian" style index for various logical series brakes (51-54 (Rheinholds), 48-50 (Bathtubs), 47 and prior...etc) then please let me know!