Wondering if someone could throw their opinion at this. I currently have multiple weblogs for housing different types of content. I originally had everything in one weblog with a massive category tree, but this proved unwieldy in terms of management, navigation, etc.
My main issue though is that all my entries share about 70% of their custom fields, while around 30% of their content is different. As a result I keep hovering back and forth between separate weblogs and one massive one. The solution for the 30% I’ve been debating is to create weblogs with their own custom weblog field groups, then relating those back to the main weblog. The though here is that I can then keep a ‘core’ set of common data elements across all weblogs by using the same field group for them, and plopping the differentiating content in via relationships.
This would also theoretically help me with another issue of allowing one member group to edit certain fields, but have those fields pass through a review phase first before updating the entire entry.
Oh, and would then make searching weblogs a hell of a lot easier!
Phew. I hope this makes sense. Looking forward to any feedback and/or concerns with this approach.