I did a Google search recently on "A-Z index" and "A-Z site index" and found that the majority of sites that have these are those of colleges and universities....
Hi all, The Web Indexing SIG is creating a brochure to distribute to potential clients: web design firms, information architects, web designers and developers,...
I agree with Heather that the text on the outside-right (front) panel should be moved up. On the idea that we add a line there for web masters, may I suggest...
Hi everyone, First of all, I'd also like to thank Heather and Galen for their work in creating this brochure. As I noted in a previous e-mail to Heather, a...
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the web-indexing group: What kind of Web indexing do you do? o back-of-book A-Z site indexes manually...
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Please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/web-indexing/polls and complete my simple poll. You can click on more than one category of Web indexing. There are...
Hi How are you going in America promoting and building Web indexes? I was over there in 1998 but have lost contact with most of your committee at ASI. We were...
I added an FAQ area on the Yahoo! web-indexing group under Database. Put up any curly questions and may be people could see if they can answer them. :) Dwight...
Hi Dwight, Check out the Web Indexing SIG web site http://www.web-indexing.org Its focus is still the same as before. If there are indexer-members with ...
Is anyone aware of an inexpensive software tool to help in keyword metadata indexing of web sites or intranets? There must be a simpler way than going into...
... In addition to creating index files in up to three output formats, any file-level index entries that you create in HTML Indexer are added to a special...
Arachnophilia will allow you to do global replaces across a number web-pages and so would be faster than accessing each individually. James ... From: Heather...
Hi Heather, Do you mean typing keywords from your CV/subject list into the <meta> in the document <head>? I wrote a recent column on using this meta in...
Several messages have addressed the issue of what we should call website indexes. However, It may not matter what we call a website index; people will use...
Hi Ted, I would call what you have described as an "A-Z directory" not an "A-Z index." If you feel inclined to contact them (representing the Web Indexing SIG...
I agree that whatever term we use, the term will be used by others incorrectly. The problem, however, is not trying to convey a mental image of what the user...
Hi Everyone, We had some discussion about this on the list back in May, after the conference in Pasadena, because it came up during Ilana Kingsley's...
... The "Search and Find" (or similary named) button might display the index with a text field and "Go" button that simply searches the index itself. That...
Another alternative, is, rather than having a single button, having Index > A | B | C | ... | Z < Index as a horizontal line across the page, built in to the...
A FAQ on web site indexing would be a welcome addition to the Web Indexing SIG web site www.web-indexing.org. This discussion group now has over 100 members,...
Thanks Heather for the suggestion to join this site, as well as get involved. Although not an 'indexer' or 'IA' by trade, I'm a website manager focused on...
As a web manager, I'm held accountable to measure the success and efforts of features, content, and projects. What are some ways that we can justify Indexing...
Heather, I think an FAQ for the Web Indexing SIG is a great idea and would be very useful. I think some very basic topics would be good to start out with, such...
... More specifically, perhaps, what *kinds* of website is/is not a human-created index more effective for ? Playing devil's advocate, I'll suggest that, for...
Great points Linda, I may be able to add onto this: Linda's Question: "More specifically, perhaps, what *kinds* of website is/is not a human-created index more...
I agree that when there is variation in nomenclature an AtoZ index can help, but if the relationship between terms is simple (ie they are straight synonyms)...
The following web-indexing poll is now closed. Here are the final results: POLL QUESTION: What kind of Web indexing do you do? CHOICES AND RESULTS -...
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I filled out answers to the 8 current FAQs. Take a look. Edit them if you like. There were quite a rich array of questions. :) Also the poll didn't attract...
... that ... I know DotNetNuke.com portal software has a count on links. All the index entries are countable as links. Also statistics packages list hits on...
Hi everyone, Here's another list of suggestions for the FAQ list to continue the discussion further. I have deliberately not answered them, but have provided...