Navigating the thorny issue of navigation in a mapblog [30.10.2007]
On 29/10/2007, at 10:44 AM, Deb Verhoeven wrote:
Hi Virginia, I would love to know when mapsearching can be done? For me this is a minimum requirement for the site - in my thinking BQC needs to able to be navigated in any of several ways - by time (Recent Posts and Archive); by theme (Topics/TagCloud); by keyword (Search) and most importantly for a mapblog by space (Mapsearch). Let me know what you think... cheers Deb
Deb, Mapsearch IS complicated, and I also think it's unnecessary in the short-term (since you'll only have a handful of posts, and so a search is only about .000001% likely to reveal anything pertinent). Implementing a basic search isn't too difficult, but making a sensible interface for it is harder, since you have to give the user some kind of useful output - ie, if they search, but get no results, what do they see? I really do see it as a potentially frustrating feature for users at the moment. Virginia