Q: What is a Category Pool?
A: A group of Categories, seperate from other groups of Categories.
Example:
- Pool 1: "Website Genre"
- Pool 2: "Website Language"
- Pool 3: "Free, Paid, or Trial Website?"
Q: Why?
A: So VisioList Admins can allow members more than one "category".
Example:
Bob runs a Coca-Cola fan site. It's a social networking page and you have to pay $4 to join.
Tim runs a Coca-Cola fan site. It's a forum, and it's free.
Ed runs a Pepsi fan site. It's just a single page that says: "I LOVE PEPSI!"
Bob joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Coke, Social Networking, Pay
Tim joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Coke, Forum, Free
Ed joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Pepsi, Page, Free
Q: Again, WHY?
A: Now visitors to your site can choose from more than one set of general categories. In the above example, clicking the "Coca-Cola" category would've brought up both Bob and Tim's sites when you were only looking for forums.
Q: Is this actually useful?
A: Of course.
Imagine you run a Webcomic Top Sites List. You make categories for the Genres... Horror, Humor, Action, Super-Hero, etc. But how do you let people say their comic is "Black & White" or "Animated" or "Photo-Realistic"?
They shouldn't have to choose between "Horror" OR "Paid Subscription".
Q: Lay out how it'd work. This isn't actually a question, but please forgive me.
A: No problem, I forgive you.
Step 1: Admin creates a "Category Pool" titled: "Genre" and adds some Categories to it.
Now the Category area of the main website looks like this:
Genre
Horror
Humor
Sci-Fi
(etc.)
Step 2: Admin creates a second "Category Pool" titled: "Style" and adds Categories to it.
Now the Category area of the main website looks like this:
Genre
Horror
Humor
Sci-Fi
(etc.)
Style
Black & White
Color
Grayscale
Photography
Sprites
Step 3: Repeat the above as necessary until you have all the Category Pools and Categories you want!
Step 4: Optional! Go back and let users pick multiple Categories per pool. For example, maybe people can pick up to three Genre categories, but only one Style.
Example: David has a really funny webcomic about a serial killer who can never kill anyone. Is that Humor or Horror? It's both! He chooses two Categories from the "Genre" Category Pool.
So that's about the long and the short of it. If this seems more like a Plugin, I sorry!
I think it'd make a better addition to the overall product, personally.
A: A group of Categories, seperate from other groups of Categories.
Example:
- Pool 1: "Website Genre"
- Pool 2: "Website Language"
- Pool 3: "Free, Paid, or Trial Website?"
Q: Why?
A: So VisioList Admins can allow members more than one "category".
Example:
Bob runs a Coca-Cola fan site. It's a social networking page and you have to pay $4 to join.
Tim runs a Coca-Cola fan site. It's a forum, and it's free.
Ed runs a Pepsi fan site. It's just a single page that says: "I LOVE PEPSI!"
Bob joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Coke, Social Networking, Pay
Tim joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Coke, Forum, Free
Ed joins your "Soda Top Sites" and selects the categories: Pepsi, Page, Free
Q: Again, WHY?
A: Now visitors to your site can choose from more than one set of general categories. In the above example, clicking the "Coca-Cola" category would've brought up both Bob and Tim's sites when you were only looking for forums.
Q: Is this actually useful?
A: Of course.
Imagine you run a Webcomic Top Sites List. You make categories for the Genres... Horror, Humor, Action, Super-Hero, etc. But how do you let people say their comic is "Black & White" or "Animated" or "Photo-Realistic"?They shouldn't have to choose between "Horror" OR "Paid Subscription".
Q: Lay out how it'd work. This isn't actually a question, but please forgive me.
A: No problem, I forgive you.
Step 1: Admin creates a "Category Pool" titled: "Genre" and adds some Categories to it.
Now the Category area of the main website looks like this:
Genre
Horror
Humor
Sci-Fi
(etc.)
Step 2: Admin creates a second "Category Pool" titled: "Style" and adds Categories to it.
Now the Category area of the main website looks like this:
Genre
Horror
Humor
Sci-Fi
(etc.)
Style
Black & White
Color
Grayscale
Photography
Sprites
Step 3: Repeat the above as necessary until you have all the Category Pools and Categories you want!
Step 4: Optional! Go back and let users pick multiple Categories per pool. For example, maybe people can pick up to three Genre categories, but only one Style.
Example: David has a really funny webcomic about a serial killer who can never kill anyone. Is that Humor or Horror? It's both! He chooses two Categories from the "Genre" Category Pool.
So that's about the long and the short of it. If this seems more like a Plugin, I sorry!
I think it'd make a better addition to the overall product, personally.