Spreading Out the Data
June 20, 2005 @ 03:06 am
Before content can be streamlined, it is important to define what the content itself is. In doing so, it's also possible to find where the content's weight resides. Four our purposes, we will define weight in two contexts. First, the content's weight is where the bulk of the content (in physical space is). Often times, this weight coincides with where the content areas are located. The second definition of weight is in terms of access. Content that is either written heavily or is accessed frequently carries a lot of weight. For Gaia Online, this weight was the posts inside of the forums. With more than 191,000,000 forum posts, and "viewtopic.php" being the most frequently accessed page, the Gaia Forums were the heaviest both in size and in access.…