History: How to organize your content

            !How to Organize Your Content

Tikiwiki is feature rich, and many features overlap, especially when it comes to how many ways you can organize content.  In designing a tikiwiki site you have to decide early what kind of ((Navigation Overview)) is most appropriate and then use ((menus)), hyperlinks, ((topics)), ((structures)) and ((themes)) accordingly.  


^__How to Organize your content? A self test:__
Are you building a knowledge base with a more or less permanent table of contents? - use ((categories)). 

Are you collaboratively writing documents that need to be viewed in order, or published as a hard copy (PDF) - use ((structures)).

Are you hosting discussions, blogs or forums where topics tend to come and go a lot? - use regular hypertext and wiki links, rather than getting bogged down in creating hierarchies that nobody will care about tomorrow.    

Are you creating objects/pages that a time sensitive status - use ((trackers)).

Are you using tikiwiki with multiple groups who need access to separate or private areas? - use ((structures)) or ((groups))^