[Post-nuke-users] conceptualizing themes/sections

[Christopher K. <ck...@im...>]

Hello everyone.   I'm having a difficult time conceptualizing the 
differences between topics and subjects.  we are in the planning stages of 
setting up a portal site for twelve state 
organizations.  (http://elearning.illinois.net)  the current web site 
simply provides links to each of the organizations.   we want to use a 
postnuke site so that visitors can see what is going on around the state, 
before jumping to their final destination.  I am hoping that someone has 
set up a site like this before.   Say that we want some way of designating 
information about new laws.  would be best to have a section on laws, or a 
topic called laws that would be applied to articles that go into a 
particular section.  I'm not sure in practice how much navigation is done 
by clicking on sections or topics in the main menus of the site, so if 
anyone has ever put a multi organization portal into production I would 
appreciate knowing how people actually use it.  It is our hope that each of 
the participating organizations would be putting up an item or two each 
week.  I suspect that visitors may want to both articles about a particular 
program, or articles about a particular topic.

Any advice or observations from the real world would be 
appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Chris



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Christopher G. Kolar
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    Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
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