{"id":891,"date":"2013-02-11T08:56:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T08:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/?p=891"},"modified":"2020-11-20T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2020-11-20T20:59:40","slug":"preview-of-kitely-market-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kitely.com\/virtual-world-news\/2013\/02\/11\/preview-of-kitely-market-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview of Kitely Market Categories"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are continuing to work on the upcoming Kitely Market<\/a>, and we would like to get your feedback on our categories tree and attributes. We’ve discussed them with the Kitely Mentors Group over the past few weeks and now we feel that they’re ready for broader review. If you have any comments then please discuss them in the forum<\/a>. (The forum works better for extended discussions than commenting in the blog).<\/p>\n

Items in the Kitely Market are organized into categories<\/strong>. Categories are groups of similar items, e.g. Shoes or Bridges. At the same time, items can also have attributes<\/strong> that describe them: for example, their Color or Material. Typically users first choose the category they want, and then refine their search by selecting some attributes. As an example of how this works, take a look at the Best Buy TV shopping page<\/a>. In this example the user already chose the category (TVs), and the left side of the screen contains attributes: Screen Size, TV Type, etc.<\/p>\n

The use of attributes allows us to make the categories tree relatively simple. For example, we have only one category for Clothing, instead of having categories for Regular Clothes, Wedding Clothes, Goth Clothes, Christmas Clothes, etc. Users who want a specific type of clothing can click on the Clothing category, and then use attributes to specify the type of clothes they want.<\/p>\n

When we chose our categories and attributes, an important consideration was what to leave out. For example, consider the Color<\/strong> attribute. It contains only the main colors: Black, Blue, Bronze, Brown, Gold, Grey, Green, Orange, Pink, Purple, Red, Silver, White, Yellow. Having a limited number of options makes searching easier, because users can see similar items together. As another example, consider the Theme<\/strong> attribute: Arabian, Asian, Fantasy, Historical, Modern, Sci-Fi, Steampunk, Western, Other. Although other themes could be added, our goal is to provide values that match about 80% of the themes that people use. We don’t want to provide 100% of the possible themes because then there would be too many options to choose from. Note that users can still use the regular search field<\/strong> to search for any word that appears in the product’s description, even if it doesn’t have an explicit attribute. Having said all that: if you think that another category or attribute is needed then please let us know, but keep in mind that there is value in limiting the possible options.<\/p>\n

Some categories and attributes are Adult-only, and will only be shown to users with an Adult maturity level. These categories and attributes have a star (“*”) after their name and are marked in brown<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Attributes
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This is the list of attributes we intend to use. Most attributes can be used only with specific categories, and the categories tree below shows which attributes apply to which categories.<\/p>\n

All of the attributes are optional: merchants don’t have to specify values for the attributes. However, we recommend specifying attribute values when appropriate to make it easier to find items in the market.<\/p>\n