I have now completely removed MasterFormat from my website (www.locaproductreps.com) The process was not as difficult as I had originally anticipated. I am glad I removed MasterFormat since now I have the flexibility to create more intuitive categories. For example “Doors & Windows” is easier to understand than “Division 03 - Openings”.
Please take a look and let me know what you think. Thanks!
So are you relocating louvers back to Division 10 and skylights back to Division 7 as in previous editions?
Peter,
There are no Divisions on my site.
How I am structuring the site is with keywords. For example if you are looking for “louvers” or “skylights” those are the keywords that you would either type into the search engine and/or would be on the left hand side under “Product Types”.
I am trying to make my website as easy and intuitive as possible. No numbers to memorize or complicated hierarchy to figure out.
Not to revive a decade-old discussion, but I have recently published an article on this very topic:
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Note: my situation is slightly different as I am in Canada. I am also not a lawyer, but I have had several discussions with lawyers and have done some research on this topic.
[Colin - this link did not work and I found the posting on LinkedIn and saved it as a pdf linked just below.
I guess this decision settles this debate. No copyright in Masterformat. Done and dusted.