Hi Luis (CC'ing TEI-Council), I've just noticed that while on the TEI Website if I search for something. Let's say 'persName'. The URL is http://www.tei-c.org/?s=persName but this searches website-only content rather than including the Guidelines. Is this by design? Inherent limitation since the Guidelines are stored separately? There is a google site search on the generated Guidelines pages, e.g. http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html which searches the Guidelines. I'm assuming the first search is a wordpress one which can't know about the Guidelines content (stored outside wordpress). The problem, obvious I hope, is that people don't know that the first search doesn't search the guidelines as well. Options that occur to me: a) Change the label of the first search ('website only' or similar) and the text on the results page (if possible) to point to the Guidelines search to say 'Or search in the Guidelines' and have a guidelines search box there. b) or replace with google site search throughout so that all search boxes search all the same content or something. Just thought I'd mention it. What do others think? Many thanks, James -- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University
Yes, I agree that the current behaviour is not what people probably expect. Both design and URL (domain part) suggest that it’s one thing and so should be the search boxes – consistent in function and design, I’d say. Best Peter
Am 31.10.2018 um 17:16 schrieb James Cummings
: Hi Luis (CC'ing TEI-Council),
I've just noticed that while on the TEI Website if I search for something. Let's say 'persName'. The URL is http://www.tei-c.org/?s=persName but this searches website-only content rather than including the Guidelines. Is this by design? Inherent limitation since the Guidelines are stored separately? There is a google site search on the generated Guidelines pages, e.g. http://www.tei-c.org/release/doc/tei-p5-doc/en/html/index.html which searches the Guidelines.
I'm assuming the first search is a wordpress one which can't know about the Guidelines content (stored outside wordpress). The problem, obvious I hope, is that people don't know that the first search doesn't search the guidelines as well.
Options that occur to me:
a) Change the label of the first search ('website only' or similar) and the text on the results page (if possible) to point to the Guidelines search to say 'Or search in the Guidelines' and have a guidelines search box there.
b) or replace with google site search throughout so that all search boxes search all the same content or something.
Just thought I'd mention it. What do others think?
Many thanks, James
-- Dr James Cummings, James.Cummings@newcastle.ac.uk School of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, Newcastle University _______________________________________________ Tei-council mailing list Tei-council@lists.tei-c.org http://lists.lists.tei-c.org/mailman/listinfo/tei-council
Hi James,
This is something that we are working on right now.
I am in the process of switching over to using Google Search on the site.
I am waiting until we get verified by Google as a non-profit organization.
Once that happens we can use their search engine for free and without ads.
Best,
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-Luis
On Oct 31, 2018, at 9:16 AM, James Cummings
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James Cummings
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Luis Meneses
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