Taxonomy suggestions

You can create whatever Terms you can think of a use for, grouped into whatever Vocabularies you like. There are infinite possibilities – which always makes it hard to get started.

General strategy

It's difficult to immediately envision all the ways to set up your taxonomy, and all the possibilities for using it. Here's a general suggestion for starting out:

Words about words

Tags are power

Drupal offers a very flexible system for "tagging" your content – that is, attaching keywords to it for use in organization or searching. Why do that? As software developers and webmasters everywhere have discovered, tagging content makes it so much easier for software to know what content is about. With tags on content, a program can instantly pick out, for example, all news articles that are about politics, or all product catalog listings that are cooking-related and are books (i.e., not just any cooking tools or any books, but only cookbooks). The same goes for tagged content on your site.