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There are tons of elements that make up what appear to be a simple web page, post, place listing, event, and those are just a few of the content types used on the Rock Rapids Website.
Pages
Pages are designed to hold the most permanent of content. They are the pages that search engines like Google and Bing put the most weight on, as they typically are long-lasting, hve content that was meant to be always displayed.
This does not mean that this content does not change. In fact, a page’s content cn change all the time, but the core structure and element types typically stay consistent.
Organization: Pages are categorized, much like other information types. This allows them to be grouped, sorted, and filtered to display in content pertinent areas, while filtered out of other areas. Pages can also be tagged, to aid in searching for specific information.
Dependencies: Pages are probably one of the most flexible of content types, but being more permanent in nature need to have the basics covered.
Page Name: A page name is the first requirement, with an emphasis of clear, concise and organized as paramount, because this information is used by almost every part of the site for organization, management and maintenance.
Category/Location/Organization: Where does this page reside in respect to all of the others on the website. Having a clear, consistent and meaningful organization system is absolutely necessary, especially when multiple people are working within a site.
Posts
Posts are for content that may only be used for a short period of time, or is more timely to the scope of the website’s content. Examples typically include news about what is going on in town like Central Lyon winning a championship. While it is important, it will most likely not remain in the forefront beyond a given period of time. Note: This does not mean it is not available in an archive to view, say for historical or relevance needs.
Organization (Categories and Tags): Posts are categorized, much like other information types. This allows them to be grouped, sorted, and filtered to display in content pertinent areas, while filtered out of other areas. Posts should also be tagged, to aid in searching for specific information. This is especially important as sites can grow to include thousands or tens of thousands of posts.
Dependencies: Pages are probably one of the most flexible of content types, but being among hundreds/thousands/more posts on a site, the basics need to be covered.
Post Name: A post name is the first requirement, with an emphasis of clear, concise and organized as paramount, because this information is used by almost every part of the site for organization, management and maintenance.
Category/Location/Organization: Where does this page reside in respect to all of the others on the website. Having a clear, consistent and meaningful organization system is absolutely necessary, especially when multiple people are working within a site.
Events
The Basics: Events are just as their name applies – information that is generally associated with a date or dates in time.
Organization: Dates are categorized, much like other information types. This allows them to be grouped, sorted, and filtered to display in content pertinent areas, while filtered out of other areas.
Dependencies: Events require much of what would make sense for any event. Other areas that are needed to make the best use of this content type are what category or categories the event falls into; who is organizing this event; whether it is part of a series of events or a standalone event; the venue (location), which includes the address and location contact information; a link to the event, if applicable; and any cost information.
Menus
The Basics: Menus are critically important on any website. They organize content, make navigation simple and if intuitive, can make the largest impact on the viewer’s experience and ability to do what they needed at that time.
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Dependencies: Menus are one of the few content types that have very strict requirements. In order to build a menu item, one needs to have the page, post, event, location or other content type in the system, as the way menu items are created makes you choose that content type directly.
