Comments on: Rethinking category pages http://andrewspittle.net/2009/04/13/rethinking-category-pages/ WordPress, education, and technology FTW Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: At last, category pages to reflect the content » News Evolved http://andrewspittle.net/2009/04/13/rethinking-category-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Sun, 03 May 2009 02:27:59 +0000 http://andrewspittle.net/?p=750#comment-373 [...] organization or a magazine you tend to find one thing in common: homogenous category landing pages. I wanted to move as far away from this model of a WordPress theme as I [...]

]]> By: MaxCutler http://andrewspittle.net/2009/04/13/rethinking-category-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-372 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:39:58 +0000 http://andrewspittle.net/?p=750#comment-372 Andrew, I think you make an excellent point. By varying up the layouts and pieces of content on different category pages, you give the reader a reason to peruse the category more thoroughly than if they just saw the same type of listing over and over.

This is something that we’ve done at http://www.yaledailynews.com to pretty good effect (in my opinion). Each of our top-level section pages (News, Sports, Opinion, Scene, etc.) have different layouts to emphasize different things. The Opinion section features a comic front and center; our Scene section (arts/entertainment/living) features our reviews prominently; our Sports section shows all the sports for the current season and syndication of outside sites.

I look forward to seeing what you come up with for News Evolved. I think there is a ton of room for experimentation in this space.

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