Comments on: Category Page Design

By: Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:08:28 +0000

This is exactly the discussion I’ve been have in my studio at the moment and this article is on it’s way to a colleague – I completely agree but my colleague is not so convinced yet, but hopefully after reading this might change their minds – thanks for the post

By: Platoon

Platoon — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:43:03 +0000

I think it is an interesting information that I have been read,This is an extremely helpful list. As I found several good resources on a variety of topics, It’s best resource site.Good graphics / Images are providing the quick visual aids to the viewers and grow their interests.Thanks for this post.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:00:38 +0000

Couldn’t agree more with Claire about the images, its always the one thing a user will notice on a web page.

By: Claire

Claire — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:58:04 +0000

Thumbnails can really make or break your design. You would need punchy images to represent each post, which will catch the attention and make the user want to read on. A catchy title and punchy intro are also just as important. It’s the first impression that counts, so give them a taste of the best.

Last of all the content needs to be good. There is no point in having a fantastic category structure for the user to then spend 5 seconds reading a post. It all needs to be designed so that it all looks beautiful and as user-friendly as possible.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:12:39 +0000

Nice article, thought I would say a very difficult topic to write on.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 01:18:15 +0000

okay guys, I really am on board with the concept of making a neat, clean category page for my blog. It should be a page that shows the categories and sub categories, and thumbnails next to each would be great. But I don’t want to display each individual post as that would be information overload. Rather, I want all of the relevant posts to be displayed only when a category or sub category is clicked. For example, if someone clicked on a sub category called “hiking” they would then see all of the posts I have under the hiking category. So anyways, how do I create such a page? I should mention that I don’t know much about coding.

By: webdesignz

webdesignz — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:06:59 +0000

Thanks for info.

By: John Doe

John Doe — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 10:13:26 +0000

All pages of your site are important as all are representing your business or services. These are the 24×7 online marketing persons who are contacting your prospect clients. eye soothing graphics makes the work easier as most of the customers dont have much time to read all the texts. Good graphics / Images are providing the quick visual aids to the viewers and grow their interests.

By: Katie

Katie — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:06:22 +0000

I think category pages are an important part of the site, they can represent the quality of your site and what you are selling or promoting. Have good images to represent a category has proven to work, as categories without images don’t catch the eye of the user. A good enticing image will pay dividends. Great post.

By: ITMDesign

ITMDesign — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:25:36 +0000

As long as the page remains fast loading, I think having a representational image for each category can be very important for user navigation.

A user just wants to see the content they are after and will not mind viewing a category page if they know it will take them where they want.

An image that strongly represents the category often cuts out the need for reading any text and as such the category page just becomes a quick visual aid leading to the good stuff!