You can create web site indexes on a Mac now. The freeware XRefHT32 is now also available in a Java 2 version. The XRefHT Java version can run on any platform,...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Nov 21, 2006 4:03 pm
The Web Indexing SIG web site has a new link to a recently published article on web site indexing: "Web Indexing: Extending the Fuctionality of HTML Indexer"...
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pam272001
Nov 23, 2006 11:27 am
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to my American colleagues. Although we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Jamaica, I'm thankful for you all. Jessica Jessica McCurdy Crooks ...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Dec 8, 2006 2:38 pm
Hi James, Thanks for your quick answers. I have downloaded the latest (September) version, and I noticed the Sort keys option. It's not obvious, though, how to...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Dec 9, 2006 6:41 am
Sharepoint is portal software which means all the pages are generated not hand-written. You will need to read the manual or explore the admin console help...
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Macrex Support Office
macrexna
Dec 9, 2006 7:19 am
This announcement is being posted to several lists; please forgive duplication. The next Macrex workshop will be held March 24-25, 2007 at the Best Western...
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James Lamb
james_a_lamb
Dec 9, 2006 3:37 pm
... With a normal CMS (Content Management System) the address to a particular page might be /index.php?id=247 which would call a php program and tell it to...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Dec 15, 2006 4:47 pm
The American Society of Indexers/Information Today Inc. will be publishing another book in its series of indexing specialties, entitled /Indexing Specialties:...
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Linda Kenny Sloan
lksloan
Dec 16, 2006 12:05 am
Heather, I would love to index the book. In fact I just reviewed Lamb's book on the same subject for STC's journal. I do use Cindex so that won't be a problem....
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Dec 17, 2006 4:34 am
Thank you to those who responded to index this book to be published by the American Society of Indexers. The ASI Publications Chair has selected Linda Kenny...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Dec 18, 2006 4:03 am
The guts of it is if the site is modified you will have to reindex the pages again. This is the same as if a book was republished with chapters removed or...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Dec 18, 2006 4:10 am
ECMA has made a standard Microsoft's Open XML Format in competition to Open Document Format. This means all documents in Microsoft Office 2007 will be in XML...
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James Lamb
james_a_lamb
Dec 18, 2006 7:07 pm
... The insertion of keywords into pages is part of HTML, not part of the portal functionality. Storage of index terms as keywords in the HTML header is...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Dec 19, 2006 4:40 am
No, the pages in a portal do not change every day. They are stable to a point. However because the pages are not generated by hand or static they are prone to...
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James Lamb
james_a_lamb
Dec 19, 2006 12:37 pm
Hello Dwight, Thank you for taking the time to respond to these questions. I am not trying to build any case, or show that manual indexes are better than...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Dec 19, 2006 3:11 pm
I invented the idea of having human created Web indexes way back. If others have saved their Web indexes in the headers so be it. If there are tools that do...
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Dwight Walker
roorythmics
Jan 2, 2007 3:50 am
When James said the external kind of indexes were all there were and that meta tags were not good as they stuffed up the retrieval, I found these: Wiki -...
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James Lamb
james_a_lamb
Jan 2, 2007 11:28 am
... I don't know what Dwight is referring to here, but I certainly said nothing, remotely like either of these statements and I am offended by the suggestion...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Jan 2, 2007 7:15 pm
Happy New Year! The Web Indexing SIG affiliated with this discussion group (www.web-indexing.org) starts off the new year with a new manager. Jessica McCurdy...
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pam272001
Jan 2, 2007 9:00 pm
Happy New Year! May 2007 bring lots of successes. Thank you, Heather for your introduction; I no good at such things.. I would love to see this discussion...
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Lori Curley
mapsontnaw
Jan 3, 2007 1:50 am
Hello, my name is Lori Ann Curley, and I'm an indexer. [Hi, Lori!] I started taking the USDA in 2003, and I finished it in 2005. I index primarily roleplaying...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Jan 3, 2007 2:30 am
Hi Lori, That's good that you were able to get the ASI book "Beyond Book Indexing" from a library. The ASI indexing books are not extremely well distributed in...
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Glenda Browne
index4fun
Jan 3, 2007 2:35 am
Hi Lori, Do you mean you index the books about RPGs? Which ones? My son is a keen D&D player, and created, for his own interest, indexes to some Dragon ...
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Lori Curley
mapsontnaw
Jan 3, 2007 2:12 pm
Yeah, I'm lucky that the University of Wisconsin-Madison has an excellent School of Library and Information Sciences, which is where I checked out the book....
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Sherrey Quinn
sa2quinn
Jan 3, 2007 11:11 pm
Lori, The list that Heather has referred you to on the SIG web site is very useful. I particularly recommend to you the book by Glenda Browne and Jon Jermey...
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BRoosIndexing
yah5bjr
Jan 4, 2007 2:34 am
I also recommend Heather's online web indexing courses: http://www.hedden-information.com/courses-website-indexing.htm ... On ... thing. ... -- Barbara ...
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pam272001
Jan 4, 2007 9:49 am
Hi Lori, Welcome to our home on the web. I wish you success in building your indexing business. Yes, heather's course is a great start for web indexing; I...
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Heather Hedden
hbhedden
Jan 4, 2007 2:57 pm
Happy New Year, all. Here's what's planned for web site indexing workshops for 2007: First of all, the web indexing freeware XRefHT is now available in a Java...
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Jeannine McAllister
jmcallister1@...
Jan 7, 2007 2:00 am
If a company askes you to do a regular book index and embedding of the manuscript what do you charge? Jeannine [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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pam272001
Jan 16, 2007 12:15 am
Hi everyone, We have had a couple of new members joined us in the last few days. Please let us welcome them and ask that they introduce themselves. Tell us a...
