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May 15, 2005
Finding things
Martin Hardee mentions the "Gordian knot of web site complexity" he deals with at work. IMHO, he and the folks he work with do an amazingly good job given how many people in almost every corner of our company have something to add somewhere to our external site.
Although I'm guilty of adding regularly to the mass of information, most of what I create for the external web now again comes to the docs.sun.com formatting engines as SolBook SGML (actually equivalent XML). At least the folks in Martin's extended team can make it look like it should.
But how can they help you find things?
Occasionally I do navigate through websites I know, like ours. But when I don't know the three clicks to get to something, I go through a search engine. Don't you?
For example, if I want to find something in the Directory Server 5.2 doc set, isn't it faster to Google for:
"Directory Server 5.2" what I'm looking for site:docs.sun.com
than to remember where I put it? And that's even for content I wrote. You can bet I don't try to navigate often to content someone else put there.
Posted by Mark at May 15, 2005 07:16 PM