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The words category, taxonomy and terms might sound a little confusing. Let me try to explain what they can be used for.

First off; you don't have to use categories, taxonomies or terms if you don't think you need it. You only use them when you have content that you would like to categorize. Let me give a few examples of website that do not require the use of categories:

• Small business websites with only "about", "contact" and a few other pages.
• Static websites that do not offer navigation.

Here are a few examples of website usage that could use categories:

• Blogs where each blog is tagged, like a blog that deals with terms/tags like "politics", "technology" and "fun stuff".
• Photo galleries where photos are organized in "folders"/"terms", like one folder/term for each event.
• Databases where each node has characteristics, like a website where you could download software, some are usable on "Windows", some on "Linux" and some on "Mac OS X".

The usage of taxonomy can be very wide, heavily depending on what you would like to use a website for.

Lets explain a setup of the website of Me in IT Consultancy. As you can see, there are some pages like "About" and "Hosting". You will also see a page called "Articles". The articles is the only place where categories are used. The two taxonomies available are:

• Content - only contains "Articles"
• Authors - contains the name of each author of this website. This "tag" helps users find more articles from the selected author.