D7: What are 'Categories'

Somebody explain this to me.  I don't get it.

'Categories' is something that is very complicated, the whole structure is very messy with all those categories, also the menu is so complicated and not constructed very well.

I'm just trying to understand what purpose is served.

Boonex felt that you were starting to slack in your questions lately, it has been noticed that your daily question ratio has greatly reduced over the past 2 months and thus they added this item in hopes it would prompt you to increase your questions again.

So, did you find a shade tree yet Houston?

Category

A group, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria.



Or perhaps you would prefer this definitation.

Categories

Is a word game in which players think of words that begin with specified letters and belong to specified semantic categories.

I am sure your refering to something stupid in D7. But hey. I was bored.

There's a menu tab called 'Categories' in D7 Beta1.  I'd post a link to my test site, but the last time I did that, It brought all the spammers and hacker wannabes to the site.   I have no idea what this is supposed to do, or how it does it.

Whenever you post content on a Dolphin site it can be put into a category, either created by webmaster or a user (normally webmaster). The main Categories tab shows all categories for all types of content, and once you hit a category you can see all the content in it. This is not a major feature, just yet another browsing option, which is mostly useful for search engines.

Look, you want your site to rank in search engines for a phrase like "French fries"... create a category namd that way and users will put their content into it, accordingly. Voila - via Categories you have a "hub" page with tops of different relelvant content. The page is also properly interlinked from many pages of your site with a nice 'anchor text' - your got your perfect SE-optimized landing page.

Makes sense, but I'll probably remove it from the navigation menu until there's enough content to make it look like something.  I think I'll call it something besides categories... maybe 'Montage'

Try to have some cultural sensitivity unoboonex - they call them "Freedom Fries" in Texas.    I do like the category concept though.