Part 6: Adding to your Site Taxonomy

Now that you've created some of the key functional pieces for your site, it's time to set up the structure/architecture of your site. Taxonomies are the feature of eCrowds that allow you to visually add new areas and sections to your site, or edit or add on to the ones you already have.

Based on the site that was created when you signed up for an account, by default, the current categories exist in your taxonomy:

Site Name
About
News
Blog
Wikis

Let's say that within your "About" section, you'd like to add sections for "Management," "Careers," and "Press." To do so:

Click on Quick Links in the upper-right corner of the interface and click "Taxonomies"
Click on the existing taxonomy for your site and then click "Edit."
Click the "About" category, since this is the section of your site you'd like to expand on.
In the field provided, enter the name for your first sub-category of the "About" section, for example "Management;" click "Add Category."
Do the same for the other two categories to be included in this section.
Click "Save Taxonomy" when complete.

You're now able to create new pages of Content Type "Category Overview" which will serve as the "Management" index page, "Press" index page, etc.

For example, going back to the "Press Release" Content Type we created, create a new page with this Content Type and fill in the fields with some placeholding data. When selecting the taxonomy category to add this press release to, choose "Press" and click "Submit." If you go to the "Press" Category Overview page, you'll see your first press release has been indexed on this page.