By fouadbajwas on

I have continuously read about the taxonomy features but have never understood it, dummy me, but is there anyone who can help explain all this in simple english, for example:

I want to create the following menu with a taxonomy, how do i do it:

Main Introduction
-----------------------
-About
-News
--Events
-Investors
-Team Members
--Team Member A
--Team Member B
--Team Member C
--Team Member D
--Team Member E
--Team Member F

Main Products
------------------
-Hardware
--Servers
---DELL
---HP
-----HP N-CLASS Series
-----HP J-CLASS Series
--Modems
---Conexant
---US Robotics
----External
----Internal

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Comments

boemitsu’s picture

boemitsu commented

Hi,

I had the same problem. I solved it using the categories module. It may take some time to understand, but its definitevely worth.

regards,
Michael

ñull’s picture

ñull commented

I have good experiences using taxonomy_menu with or without nice_menus. It is good to keep in mind that menus and taxonomy are not the same thing. Taxonomy is a classification system, while menu is a navigation system. Both can overlap in modules like taxonomy_menu, which in fact work very very confusing. A menu can point to one node, or it can point to a taxonomy listing of node teasers. Recently I discovered that:

  • a menu pointing to a node when there is only one page or unit of information
  • a menu pointing to a taxonomy listing when there are more units of information per category.
  • always good to associate a node to a taxonomy, even though you don't use taxonomy to navigate to that node. This becomes very clear when you use modules like taxonomy_themes or taxonomy_image.

You can add nice_menu, when you want to give the user a faster way to navigate through your site. Advantage of nice_menu is that search engines' robots have no problems indexing your navigation tree.

I hope this helps you.