Resumé:
A comfortable WYSIWYG program to create listings in standardised format with
icons and text is part of the program package.
What format a listing should have depends on the nature of the database and
the kind of documents to be represented. This the licensee will decide.
There are very few rules to observe:
Listings are HTML tables. They should be as wide as the fixed window width
permits and not higher than necessary to make viewing a group of listings easy.
Listings are stored individually in text files. To reduce the size of the
array searched by Findfast 1-byte folder names are used, named 0 to 9 and A to
Z. If the database contains up to 676 documents the text files should have
two-byte names using the bytes 0 to 9, A to Z where the first byte is the name
of the folder. If the database is expected to contain 677- 14,576 documents the
text files should have 3-byte names where the first byte is the name of the
folder where it is stored.
Listings should use as many icons as reasonable, some of them being search
criteria, to avoid text not absolutely necessary.
As all listings are loaded into a dynamic HTML page it is not required to
apply the usual format (<img
src="../images/e1012.gif"
alt="Bed & Breakfast"
border="0"
width="45"
height="45">).
Inserting <img
name="f">
will do as Findfast inserts the image data on load.
Font faces and sizes should not be specified. <h1>some
text</h1> to <h6>some
other text</h6>
will do. <h1> ... <h6>
are defined as the page style of the dynamic HTML page.
The WYSYWIG program to create listings
If the licensee would create all the listings required for a large content
site the cost would be high. The first problem to arise would be finding
qualified staff to hire for this job.
Creating thousands of listings is labour intensive, even with this user
friendly program.
A recommended strategy reduces the labour cost to almost zero.
There are always people who have a vested interest in the success of the
licensee's website:
The authors if it is a compendium of literature, the manufacturers if it is a
wholesale catalogue, the hotels if it is an accommodation directory (this
example).
They have the know-how. Every contributor would have to create only one or a few
listings to promote their businesses. They are offered free listings that
promote their businesses.
The user can interrupt listing creation any time. All input is stored in a
cookie. When work is resumed the form is filled with the most recent input.
A click on the View button displays the listing the way it looks based on the
latest input.
The user can experiment as much and as often as required.
When leaving the page the user can click the Next button to save the current
input. This starts a form mailer to display a thank-you message and to e-mail
the listing as an HTML table to the web site publisher, ready for uploading.
If the Next button is not clicked when leaving the page the user is prompted to
decide whether or not the current input is to be saved.
Experimenting
Publish
is the default
is ticked when the user is satisfied with the listing displayed.
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A click on the Help button opens a window with help text.
The publisher's task is to integrate new listings. This process an be automated.
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Text and icons are are part of the HTML code geared to the requirements of
an accommodation directory. The JavaScript code is not. With some other text and
other icons some other listing format listings for a trade fair catalogue could
be created.
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Obviously Findfast displays results faster than full-text search engines.
Performance can be exactly calculated. Both methods are compared in
terms of speed and bandwidth requirement.
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