Site IA considering a "Resources" section

[Brando16]

I'm working on a resources section for our website and I'm wondering the best way to handle my sites information architecture. The resources section houses things like webinars (both upcoming and recorded), case studies, ebooks, etc. Should things like webinars and case studies be considered supporting content to our main topics?

For example we have a product that manages Rebates. So we have a page on our site dedicated to "Rebates". Would a webinar or case study about our Rebates software be grouped with "Rebates" or would it be grouped by content/resource type?

So for example a breadcrumb could look like this:

Home > Rebates > Rebates Webinar

or

Home > Webinars > Rebates Webinar

Thanks in advance!

[DmitriiK]

Hi there.

I say it should be both. A page/topic can fall under several categories, and in your case it does. Breadcrumbs should be displayed accordingly to the path user takes. So, if they found rebates webinar on a webinar page, the breadcrumbs would be Home > Webinars > Rebates Webinar. And so on. As for where to link it from - again, i say from both categories/pages. However, under webinars it would be a "main topic" as you said, and on rebates page it would be a supporting topic. Something like "Oh, by the way check out webinars we have about rebates here". And small link or button. While under webinars it should have it's own section and stuff.

Hope this makes sense

[Brando16]

Hi Dimitri,

Thanks for responding, I follow what you are saying regarding the breadcrumbs. But I'm confused about where the content should actually live. Are you suggesting that the content be in two places? Then use a canonical to point to the one that should be indexed?

[DmitriiK]

Yes, I'm suggesting to have it in two places, but in different formats/content forms. Kinda like preview vs full content.

[Brando16]

So on the rebates page you would have a short summary but would you then link to the page under webinars? Because that changes your breadcrumb.

So originally you are here:

Home > Rebates (Short summary with link or button to webinar rebate description)

click the link then go here:

Home > Webinars > Rebates Webinar

[DmitriiK]

Yes, I would link. Yes, it would change breadcrumbs.