May 12, 2008

Little known feature on this site

While I work on the aforementioned forthcoming design that has a much more robust search/navigation system, I felt it important to note that this site does have a search bar.

I love to think that people use the tags on the left of each post to get to related content, but I know deep down it isn’t very efficient, and is a very uni-directional funnel into one type of content. After either striking gold or striking out, the visitor has to start back at the top, which can be very discouraging.

Before I release this theme to the public, I’ll add a readily available search bar. In the meantime, here’s the trick: Throw a 404 error.

Like this: http://elihorne.com/404/. Bam. Search bar.

Apologies for the after-thought nature of its location, but for the time being, it gets the job done!