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  Kendra Watson

  10 months ago

  Melanie was up at 3:17am with a bad dream too...funny how I always remember the exact time my eyes creep open after hearing a child crying! I did the "cabbage soup" thing in college. the soup was good...for the first couple days atleast!!
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  Lorelle

  10 months ago

  After all that and you STILL don't get tags and categories? Must have been the late night talking. :D
  
  Think of how you use the bible. You have the books of the bible which can be seen as categories, grouping related stories/content together. But you want to find out how many times "floods" are mentioned in the bible. Do you go to the categorical books of the bible? No. You hit the index for the word "flood" which is a "tag" in this pitiful but appropriate example.
  
  Tags are "per post" which means they are added to each post when writing it. They can be any words that describe the content within and words people will search for when they search for that post from a search engine, for example.
  
  Categories are used mostly by those visiting your site looking for groups of related content. If I want to find out more on what you've written on the topic of the bible, I would select that category to see all those related posts.
  
  Does that help?
  
  And hopefully, you will get some sleep soon. :D
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  James McLean

  10 months ago

  ewww to that link to the "Why Would You Want to go to Church". Its like anything else, we don't always want to. I don't always want to pray but i do, i don't always want to exercise but i do. its a discipline not an obligation. we do it because it puts us in a place where God can grow us and move us where he wants to. the bigger question is are Churches equipping people to accomplish the mission of Jesus?
  
  I hope Miles doesn't round house kick me in the face when i come home in December, ha ha!
  
  James McLeans last blog post..A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
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  James McLean

  10 months ago

  ok i am retarded.
  passion won out over thinking in that last post. i didn't read the whole thing! ahhhhh, its good and true. :)
  
  James McLeans last blog post..A Long Obedience in the Same Direction
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  alex

  10 months ago

  Kendra, ugh 3:17 ouch!
  Thanks Lorelle! That now makes total sense.
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  tam

  10 months ago

  dang. even after that explanation above...i STILL dont get the tags/categories thing.
  
  hope you sleep better tonight!
  
  tams last blog post..so an american guy walks into a french bar…
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  Lorelle

  10 months ago

  Here's one more specific example that might help Tam.
  
  Your blog categories, the collected bodies of work you write about, are Fruit, Vegetables, and Meat.
  
  You write a blog post about lettuce. You tag it with search terms and keywords such as lettuce, salad, greens, bib, romaine, and such. These are specific to the post about lettuce. If someone is searching the net for information on types of lettuce, you want those tag words to help them find it.
  
  The post is then "filed" under "Vegetables" because those visiting your blog might have arrived because you wrote a fascinating article about bib lettuce, and they want to see more of what you have in your blog file folder related to Vegetables. So they click the category for vegetables and find out that you've written a ton about corn, carrots, spinach, beans, and such.
  
  But let's say that they really wanted to know more about romaine lettuce and not bib lettuce. The tag link for "romaine" should take them to all the other posts you have with the tag or word "romaine" in them, giving them a micro-category view of everything you've written about romaine.
  
  That might only be three posts, not enough for a category called "Romaine" but enough that helps the visitor and makes them dig even deeper because now you have helped them learn more about Romaine and established yourself as a vegetable expert. :D
  
  Think of categories as Pendaflex file folders that hang on hooks in a file cabinet and tags as the multiple folders that sit inside of those larger file folder holders. Does that help?
  
  I still like the analogy that categories are your blog's table of contents and tags are your blog's index words list. That makes the most sense to me.
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  alex

  10 months ago

  Lorelle you have a way with words - that's for sure. I get it now, although I'm fully awake too!
  
  Tam, I hope that helped and am so stoked that my little blog could be a place where we can all learn together :)
  
  I'm surprised that the tags/categories thread is more popular than FF trying to replace Taekwando with "Wonderbra"!
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