Group, The ASI webmasters periodically receive requests from software vendors to list their product on our site. The latest request is from Easy Index...
... For the record, I haven't used this product. By their own description, though, it's a TOC generator, not an index generator at all. Here's a significant...
From a quick inspection it appears that it: Goes through a collection of .HTML and other files collecting the titles and filenames. Makes an alphabetical list...
Hello All, Three questions for you: 1. What's the best software tool to help me create an a-z index for a web site? (HTML Indexer is my current favourite--any...
... I'd put the anchor precisely where I needed the index entry to point: the single paragraph, in your example. That's one advantage of hypertext over ...
If you would like the most definitive book on the field of information architecture to pay more attention to web site A-Z indexes, you all have the opportunity...
Hi all---Regarding Meg's post---Couldn't you just put the word index into a pdf format using Word? I would like to hear exactly how you do the database article...
1. If you are starting an index from scratch then HTML Indexer is ideal. It is easy and effective and has a number of useful features. If you already have an...
Thanks, Ilana. I had heard of Google Book Search, but had not gotten around to using it yet, and had forgotten about it. One of the pages referring to site...
I want to add to my post---three ways--I use to convert a Word file to a pdf file if you don't have a Word version that will accommodate pdf conversion: 1....
Here are 2 additional ways to convert files to PDF: CutePDFWriter--free. Creats PDFs that are not efectively searchable. MyMorph--free. From the national...
A response to my question about the discussion of site indexes in the 2nd edition of the book "Information Architecture", a reply was posted on Index-L, so I...
Hi all, The conference program for the joint conference of the American Society of Indexers and Indexing and Abstracting Society of Canada is not up on both...
There are several presentations, not just the two mentioned earlier on this discussion list, having to do with web indexes at the upcoming join conference of...
You may be interested in this if you are into the semantic Web. NICTA is a new think-tank paid for the Australian Government to research into emerging...
Over the past several weeks we have had new members join this group at a faster rate than new messages have been posted, so it's a good time to have people...
Hi, My name is David Brown, and I've been a tech writer since 1988. I got started in indexing by creating indexes for the user's guides and reference manuals I...
Hi everyone, I'm a freelance indexer in Toronto, and became interested in both book and Web indexing while working as a senior editor at an Internet consulting...
Hello All, I'm a freelance tech writer in the software industry. Generally, I create indexes for the documentation that I write. To make sure that I do the job...
Hi, Jon (Jermey) and I started website indexing when we were asked to teach a one-day course at University of NSW. We trialled a few manual HTML methods, ...
Hello, all: I joined the ASI earlier this year, and I recently joined this SIG. Until today, I haven't had much time to explore this message thread or the SIG...
Hi, my name is Susan Woita. I've worked for Sun Microsystems for over 2 years. I revamped our A-Z Index last May and have been responsible for it since -- it's...
The Web Indexing SIG of the American Society of Indexers has established a partnership with the Information Architecture Institute (formerly known as the...
Heather, This is a great development. I always think the most important thing for indexers is our connections with the people we work with/for including ...
I was just trying to find a Java tool on the Sun Software area and it is a maze! May be hypertext has gone mad in the Sun Software site. It definitely needs an...
Hi Dwight: Ahh, yes... I'm responsible for the intranet (index and search) -- the extranet is a different crop of people, different engine, etc. Oddly, I don't...
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