[Theforum] quick thought on our search boxes

[.jeff]

marlene,

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> From: Marlene Bruce
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> Michele, et. al.,
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i'm not michele, but i built it so i can probably attest to feasability.

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> Could we consolidate the three search boxes into one?
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> So it would look more like:
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> Search evolt.org
> (*) Articles
> ( ) Comments
> ( ) Users
> {SEARCH BOX}  {GO}
> [Advanced Search]
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> Where the (*) and ( ) are radio buttons, with Articles
> defaulted...
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the difficult part with that is that right now each of the search forms
points to a different spot on the website.  bringing them all together would
be a serious pain in the butt.  ultimately, however, we shouldn't need to
specify whether we want to search users, articles, comments, tips, whatever.
the search should automatically just search them all and return results.
within the results we'd indicate whether it's a user, an article, a comment,
or a tip for each result.

thanks,

.jeff

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