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title: "Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation [Organizing Content 5]"
date: 2010-05-19
description: "Findability / organizing content   1.0 New Series: Organizing Content [Organizing Content 1]   1.2 Introducing Project..."
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# Topic-Based, Hierarchical Navigation [Organizing Content 5]
I read an intriguing article today called [5 High Paying, Low Stress Jobs](http://finance.yahoo.com/career-work/article/109521/5-high-paying-low-stress-jobs?mod=career-worklife_balance) on Yahoo Finance. It lists technical writing as the fifth least stressful, high-paying job. I wanted to share the article, so I added it to the Technical Communication Library ([TC.Eserver.org](http://tc.eserver.org/)).

*Without using search*, go to [Eserver TC Library](http://tc.eserver.org/) and browse to the article using the topic-based navigation system. Can you find it? 

Now move on to a more difficult challenge. Go to the [Yahoo Directory](http://dir.yahoo.com/) and browse to the Yahoo Finance section (where the article was published). Can you find the site and article?

Let's try more examples. Suppose you're learning WordPress, and you want to know what a "widget" is. Using the topic-based navigation (not the search) on the [WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org), can you find the topic that explains widgets?

Now go to the [online help in Flare 6](http://webhelp.madcapsoftware.com/flare6/) and, using the topic-based navigation, find where it explains how to create image maps.

Let's say you want to add a caption to a youtube video. Browse the topic-based navigation in [Youtube's help](https://help.youtube.com/support/youtube/) and try to navigate to the topic that explains captions. Bonus points if you find how to create captions in other languages. (Again, don't use search -- we're evaluating the usefulness of topic-based navigation systems.)

Now go to [Chrome's help](https://www.google.com/support/chrome/?hl=en) and navigate to the topic that explains how to maximize or minimize text and images within the browser.

If you have [Snagit](http://snagit.com), open their help and try to navigate to the topic that explains how to hide your mouse before taking a screen capture.