A while ago I talked about Categorization Blues – our concerns about making UI more complex than it absolutely has to be to meet the objectives of WWHOW! Well, after many complaints from end-users we caved in and added categorization. The list of categories (or you can call them “predefined tags”) now includes:
Antiques and Hobbies
Clothing and Fashion
Arts and Crafts
Automotive
Baby Gear
Purses, Bags and Luggage
Bridal
Computers and PDAs
Electronics
Eyewear
Food
Freebies
Toys and Games
Flowers and Gifts
Health and Beauty
Home and Garden
Jewelry and watches
Maternity
Movies, Books and Music
Musical Instruments
Office
Cell phones
Photography
Shoes
Sport and Fitness
Wines and Spirits
You still can tag items using terms outside of the list, to do so just click on pencil icon by the WHAT portion of your posting and add tags of your liking to the list. Do not forget to click save after you done.
How can you use Categories? The main point of tags and categories is to assist you in search. You can put category in WHAT portion of the search filed and click “Search” button, you can click on it if you see the Category in a popular Tags list, or you can use URL. To do specify Category in the address box of your browser using the following template:
http://wwhow.com/what/<category>
For example, http://wwhow.com/what/Maternity, read more about using URL in the Fun with URLs.
