Hello all, I thought I would introduce myself. I am James, I have a degree in Computing and Mathematics and was a professional senior IT technician for over 20...
I really appreciate all the work the James Lamb has done recently to get the Web Indexing SIG web site member directory and searchable indexer database up and...
Heather, These all look good, but I wonder whether the 'keyword creation for search engine optimization' section could be better distinguished from the ...
Glenda, Thanks for your comments. I have added a bit more to the SEO description. The new page is up at: http://www.web-indexing.org/types-of-web-indexing.htm ...
Hi all, I work for a college which has a web site containing over 4000 pages of course materials on organic horticulture. It's basically one huge text book on...
... I'm gonna go out on a limb here and bet that the idea of having a "robot" index the site will be pretty repugnant to professional indexers who take pride...
The fact that they use "PHP sessions" would imply that the horticulture information is contained in a database, rather than html pages, and delivered to...
Someone seems to have appropriated the term "site-grabber" for producing bitmaps of webpages, so a better search now would be for "offline browser", Regards ...
James, Given that the info is in a database, once you had used the offline browser to get a copy of the materials, how would you index the site? Are you ...
Hi Glenda, I was thinking that they essentially have two options: A. Index the material within the database itself and write software to provide either...
HI James, Thanks for the explanation. David, HTML Indexer doesn't automatically include .php files, but would these be a file type an indexer could add to the...
... Good questions, Glenda! The default configuration of HTML Indexer is to recognize .htm, .html, and .asp files as having valid HTML format and being...
ht://dig will spider most sites and uses fuzzy logic for keywords. It is open source and runs on UNIX/Linux/FreeBSD. You will need sysop skills or need to get...
Hi everyone, I'll start by introducing myself: My name is Wendy Catalano, and I am a professional indexer and member of the Web Indexing SIG, but only recently...
... Wendy, I'll be at the conference and I'm affiliated with this SIG so I can help man the table part of the time. My dilemma, as yours, is that I also want...
HI David, Thanks for this info. Do you know of people who have been indexing .asp files? In what sort of circumstance would this be most likely to be done? ...
... Well, I have. :) As a matter fact, it was a project involving .asp files (several years ago) that gave me the idea of adding .asp to the default list of...
The Web Indexing SIG is designing a brochure to help market the services of its members to potential clients. I've drafted some content and Galen Schroeder is...
Hi Wendy, Here are some topics for discussion: Web index marketing for freelancers - to whom and how? Web index usability studies - how can we encourage...
Hi Everyone, I recently returned from the ASI conference in Pasadena and just wanted to update everyone. The breakfast on Saturday morning was an informal...
... This is very puzzling to me. I sat with the Science/Medical SIG of which I am also a member, but when I looked, I could not find a table with the Web...
Larry, No, you're not going blind. I think by the time you were looking for us, someone had laid the table sign down in an attempt to see the person they were...
Most work now seems to be building content management systems using Open Source software. The customer usually wants to manage their own content but they don't...
I had read in the program of the ASI conference in Pasadena last week that there was a presentation on "Usability Study of Web Indexes at an Academic...
... Summary? Well, here's what I took away. Web designers don't put Site index links on main pages often, or not prominently; web users don't click the Site...
Hi Everyone, I was also at Ilanan Kingsley's plenary session on Web Index Usability, and found it quite interesting. In addition to the comments posted by...
... My reaction to Ilana's presentation was: If (1)people don't know what a web site index is, and (2)we know they want to find information fast, and (3) the...
Hi everyone, The findings of the Web index usability testing are somewhat discouraging, to say the least. Not one person chose, unprompted, to use the site...
