Resource Location
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Location is about locating or discovering information on
the web, and includes
robots,
surfing,
indexing,
searching,
navigation,
classification,
reference catalogs,
resource discovery,
information systems,
addressing, e.g. URLs (Uniform Resource Locator),
maximising your own 'findability' (e.g. site promotion),
..etc..
and other concepts associated with resource discovery.
How to find, and be found.. Articles on promotion and optimising
for the search engines, and a single-page interface to search engines
specifically for web development topics such as HTML, Java, etc.
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Navigation at The WDVL
We illustrate several navigation techniques, specifically those that
are implemented here at The WDVL.
Search The WDVL
Implemented with the
ICE Search engine.
Use keywords connected with "and" and "or".
Metasearchers
These are interfaces to several search engines that send your query
to several simultaneously, and, typically, collate the results.
Some people misuse the term to indicate a collection of individual
search engine interfaces - they don't actually submit to several
at once.
Site Maps
Find your way around this site in 2- or 3-dimensions.
The Meta-Meta Page
META tags are an important aid to resource classification and discovery.
This page points to several resources concerning META tagging, and other
aspects that are 'meta' to META.
How in the World (Wide Web) will
They Find Me?
By some estimates there may be as many as 50 million web pages on the
Internet.. How can you maximise the chances of being found?
In case you haven't realised it yet - there is NO secret method
for guaranteeing that your page comes top in the search results.
Find out why, and what you can do to at least not come bottom..
The Web Librarian
I wrote this at the beginning of the year and haven't done much with it
since then. Well it would be nice if the W3C or some other
organisation would fund the proposal,
but while we're waiting take a look at
Web Librarian Puts Tools In Designers' Hands
by Neil deMause,
an article on the Web Week
site, about The WDVL.
The Library of Web Development
Over 2,000 annotated pointers to web development resources.
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