Infoseek for Web Authors.
Computing & Information Services Department.
instructor: jim.cerny@unh.edu
http://www.unh.edu/NIS/Courses/InfoAuthors/
Description.
"Infoseek is installed as the campus-wide search engine. This class shows Web authors how to use META, TITLE, and other tags improve the position of their pages in the search index. It shows how to build a customized search page based on Infoseek and other cool tips. Assumes some experience with HTML."
The "text" for this seminar is the FAQ for Search Engine Use at UNH. This seminar is a discussion of the parts of that FAQ that are important for Web authors to know about and the links below are primarily to files in that FAQ.
- Review of search engine basic behavior.
- Indexing the UNH Intranet.
- Things excluded from the indexing process.
- Using Infoseek to do a special search or field search on document elements.
- Making effective use of HTML tags.
- The idea of meta data as "data about data."
- Publicity and discovery of your Web pages.
- Relevance scoring in Infoseek.
- Use of TITLE tags.
- META tags. Use of attributes for keywords, descriptions, and Dublin Core.
- Use of IMG tags.
- Use of A (anchor) tags.
- Customize the design and layout of search forms.
- We have a series of examples of customized forms that demonstrate some of the possibilities.
- HTML Frames.
- Use of Frames -- advised or not?
- Summary of Do's and Don'ts.
- Recommend practices as a series of Do's (identity, keywords, title, publicity, turning) and Don'ts (Frames, file names, bridge pages, security).
- Adding and deleting your pages.
- Issuing requests to add or delete pages for the Infoseek index.
Stop me before I click again!