1: CREATING TAXONOMIC GROUPS The Taxonomic Group is a flexible grouping and classification tool. You can group things by anything you like for example type: lizards, snakes, skinks, waterfowl, birds of prey, etc – Most BDRS sites have a field guide or species guide which shows this first level of grouping. Clicking on the taxonomic opens the next level down which is usually a list of species – then Clicking on an individual species opens the selected species profile page. Instructions for creating or editing a new Taxon Group: Log in to your web site as usual. Click on Admin from the navigation menu and Select Manage Portal, then Manage Taxonomy on the sub-menu Select Add a New Taxonomic Group from the list Tip You can also the Add Taxon Group button on the Edit an Existing Taxonomic Group Page Type a Name Naming is important as it is how people distinguish between groups of objects for – example it is usually better to use common rather than scientific names to improve the usability of the site. In this example we have used mammals” “Threatened Note that you can also add an and/or Thumbnail image for a species representative of your group which will be displayed on the field guide page. We recommend you do this to add visual appeal to your web site and help people understand and differentiate between the species contained within your taxon groups. Continuing with the Threatened Mammals example
1: CREATING TAXONOMIC GROUPS The Taxonomic Group is a flexible grouping and classification tool. You can group things by anything you like – for example type: lizards, snakes, skinks, waterfowl, birds of prey, etc Most BDRS sites have a field guide or species guide which shows this first level of grouping. Clicking on the taxonomic opens the next level down which is usually a list of species – then Clicking on an individual species opens the selected species profile page. Instructions for creating or editing a new Taxon Group: Log in to your web site as usual. Click on Admin from the navigation menu and Select Manage Portal, then Manage Taxonomy on the sub-menu Select Add a New Taxonomic Group from the list Tip You can also the Add Taxon Group button on the Edit an Existing Taxonomic Group Page Type a Name Naming is important as it is how people distinguish between groups of objects – for example it is usually better to use common rather than scientific names to improve the usability of the site. In this example we have used “Threatened mammals” Note that you can also add an and/or Thumbnail image for a species representative of your group which will be displayed on the field guide page. We recommend you do this to add visual appeal to your web site and help people understand and differentiate between the species contained within your taxon groups. Continuing with the Threatened Mammals example
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