History: How to organize your content

            {syntax type="markdown"  editor="wysiwyg"} # 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.


{BOX()}**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)){BOX}