Informit produced a nice article about "Principles of Good Commerce design'" and reviewed the categorization of your information.
Especially they posted:
There are several useful schemes for categorization:
* Alphabetical: The most logical organization scheme for a dictionary or phone book. It is typically used to provide order within other schemes. For example, Blockbuster organizes by movie genre then alphabetically by title.
* Chronological: Organizing by date is useful for subjects like automobiles, antiques, and wines.
* Geographical: Organizing information based on place is useful for gardening, real estate, and travel. It's also valuable when location is relevant to buying, i.e., shipping costs or physical store locations.
* Task oriented: Requires that content be organized as an outline of a process. For example: Select a home, find an agent, choose a mortgage. The organization reinforces the steps a customer needs to take.
* Topical: More challenging than the first four options, designing topical schemes requires defining limits to the breadth of content. Do you want to cover every topic like the Encyclopedia Britannica or a focused few like the Discovery Channel?
* Visitor specific: You might wish to design your information to fit into neat categories for different types of visitors, based on psychographic or demographic traits. For example, an apparel site might have site content arranged differently for women than men....
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