Search engine

[Derek Atkins]

Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:

> On Thursday 06 May 2004 10:37, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Neil Williams <linux at codehelp.co.uk> writes:
>> > There's a demo page (plain HTML, not search function) here:
>> > http://www.codehelp.co.uk/code/test.html
>>
>> A couple of comments (some on the CSS, some on the interface):
>
> I spotted a few and I've just uploaded a new file.

Ok..  Much better.  You're still missing the language links in the
upper-right corner.

>> 4) once you have many many years of archives it could lead to a LOT
>>    of checkboxes.  Perhaps it would just be better to provide a
>>    start-date and end-date to limit the searches?
>
> OK. Say defaulting to the last 3 or 4 years.

Well, I was mostly thinking about a set of option menus that let you
choose the start-date and end-date for your search.  So, instead of
using a lot of buttons, it's just two sets of month/year option menus,
or something.

But so far: good work!  :)

-derek
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