[documentation] Tag clouds and documentation

[Steven Peck]

Other than saying 'tags will help' do you have a better hierarchy suggestion?

My experience with tags in general on many other sites has been that
they also pollute search results into rabbit warrens of unrelated
pages.  I am not against tags, just not seeing them as a magic bullet
currently.  I am loathe to just 'tack things on' while we have a
redesign project starting up.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Lee Hunter <lee.hunter at hum.com> wrote:
> That's an excellent example, Tony.
>
> I would imagine that the topic of connecting with databases would be
> one of the most popular subjects on a PHP framework site and, sure
> enough, "database" is the largest item in the CakePHP cloud. When I
> click on "database" I get all the relevant tagged articles.
>
> Contrast that with the user experience on Drupal.org.  Searching for
> even the most common topics means that I have to either do a search
> (which is messy and unreliable) or I make a series of attempts to
> crawl down some obliquely-labeled rabbit holes (FAQ, How-to, etc.)
> that lead me into a maze of unhelpful subheadings until I finally
> stumble across enough information to satisfy my need (although I'll
> never know whether or not I've found everything on the subject) or I
> just collapse in exhaustion.
>
>  :)
>
> Lee Hunter
> Technical Editor
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Tony Narlock <skiquel at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> See an example here: http://bakery.cakephp.org/
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