From the course: User Experience for Web Design
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Showing people what you've got
From the course: User Experience for Web Design
Showing people what you've got
- Category pages are the top-level pages for each section of your site, so they normally split the content up into the same chunks as your main navigation. They're summary pages providing key points about the information within that section, and showing links to deeper or more complete content on underlying topics in detail pages. You can also think of them as mini homepages for each category of information, displaying recent editions and the most popular content, as well as an overview. I've already mentioned the importance of providing summaries at the top of each detail page on your site. I talked about how these could be reused as metadata and in other places around the site. Category pages are one of these locations where you can reuse the summary content, choose some of the most popular or most recent items in each section of the site, and put their summary text on the category page, along with a thumbnail image. This is the same recommendation I gave when we covered homepages…
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