tedster - 11:21 pm on Feb 27, 2002 (gmt 0)

Thanks for the tip on the Rosenfeld book. I will check into that.

> For typo's, synonyms and those extra words that you may not have thought of, I would steer clear of proprietary tags if you're also interested in search engines.

ciml, could you expand a bit on that? Do you mean that there could be a problem with search engines if we use proprietary meta tags?

One of many reasons that I am considering this is that there will be scholarly papers and such, where we really can't change the content - but searchers may easily use alternate spellings. Much of the terminology is Sanskrit and Hindi, and there are a lot of alternate English transliterations involved. I will be creating content pages with those alternate spellings, but I also want the main scholarhip documents to be returned on our site search, even if they say "Sakti" when the author wrote "Shakti".

> ...Nielsen's 'Homepage Usability' and he insists that you have a search box on the home page. <

Right, Josh. This is one place where I don't see eye to eye with Jakob. I want search available as a tool, but that empty box is just too enticing a toy, IMO. I've seen it limit stickiness several times. Placing a link in the same position on every page appeals to me very much.

(edited by: tedster at 5:31 pm (utc) on Feb. 28, 2002)