[irishtune.info] revision to Tune Search and Finder

Alan Ng agng@facstaff.wisc.edu
Thu, 23 Jan 2003 00:25:39 -0600


Dear list@irishtune.info,

I've made some minor cosmetic changes to the Tune Search and Finder and I'd 
like to ask for your feedback, if any of you have a minute.

http://www.irishtune.info/finder.htm

There are two changes:

1) I moved the "Search how?" box to the left of where you type your search 
term. It used to be on the right. I did this because I notice from the 
search logs that very few people are using the Fragment search. Too often 
they find no tunes because they are using the whole-word search but can't 
spell their words right, so instead they should be looking for a short word 
fragment which they do know how to spell correctly.

2) I changed the labels of the "Search how?" options from "Complete words" 
to "Words" and from "One fragment" to "Fragment."

I hope that the new layout is less misleading and more readable than the 
old one. But I'd be happy to hear your feedback. If you want to share your 
thoughts with everyone, reply to list@irishtune.info. Otherwise just reply 
to me directly at alan@alan-ng.net.

Thank you for your support,
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Alan Ng                              Madison, Wisconsin, USA
alan@alan-ng.net                          http://alan-ng.net