[Sigia-l] mixing apples and oranges and tomatoes

[PeterV]

> > It would also seem to me that good navigation is based on learnable
> > categories. If users encounter redundancy wouldn't that confuse them

Maybe these two things are not related. The "good navigation is based on 
learnable categories" statement: I don't think I agree with that.

If a user encounters something that they already encountered "somewhere 
else", then they will be confused because:
- Is it the same information? Or slightly different?
- Which one is correct, this one or the "other" one?
But, if they encounter the same "page" through different paths, yet feel 
that the information is NOT different, ie. doesn't "live somewhere else", 
or "it's not a different page", then that wouldn't be much of a problem I'd 
think.

I think it's important to keep the conceptual model of things being on a 
certain "page" when building these faceted metadata driven, dynamic 
websites, else you risk confusing people. You get a similar problem when 
using anchor links: things aren't on clearly a "page" anymore, which gets 
confusing (when bookmarking, when moving around through links, ...). Still, 
I'm not sure how much of a problem it really is.
PeterV

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