Step By Step Wizard to find right Information on the site

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kdar
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Step By Step Wizard to find right Information on the site

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I am using Joomla site engine for my site. The goal of this site will be to help people with finding more information about starting a new business. This site will cover several area, several cities. Also it will cover all sort of businesses to start.
Site will include things like different forms to fill out for each type of business, different legal issues and possibly contact information of different layers. Also will function like portal or community.

I want to create to help direct new user to the needed information or forms on the site.

The site will have a traditional menu with all categories and subsections. (Horizontal menu on top with drop-down menus).

But we also want it to have some kind of step by step or question by question wizard to make finding information easier for not very savvy or new users on the site. (Kind of like in TurboTax, where it ask you questions step by step).

Does anyone know how this can be done? (if I have many many different forms, or articles?)

What I was, is to use different tags for all articles and posts on the site (maybe tags for different type of business or different cities... like Jacksonville and Fishery, just as random example).

So when the person will finish answering different questions, and if he select Jacksonville as his desired business location and Fishery as his desired business plan, site will retrieve for him/her all the article that are tagged with this (which are tagged together by Jacksonville AND Fishery, basically it will link him to articles about starting a Fishery in Jacksonville).
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Have anyone done something like this? This site will eventually have a lot of data in it. And people for who I am building this site want to have an easy-to-use wizard to find needed information, to quickly direct users to needed forms, information.. etc

Does anyone have some other ideas of how I could do something like this?
I really would appreciate your help.

PS. I am not sure if this is right section for this question. I am new on here.
mikosiko
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Re: Step By Step Wizard to find right Information on the sit

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since you are using joomla you best bet could be ask in joomla forums and check if some of the existent extension (or combination of them) for joomla could give you something like you are looking for
kdar
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Re: Step By Step Wizard to find right Information on the sit

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One of the people for who I do the site also wanted to do this in flash, make it kind of interactive.

Instead of flash, do you think I could use Javascript to do this? I heard before Javascript can be used effectively like a flash.
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