As you develop your website and the amount of content grows, finding specific bits and pieces rapidly become more of an issue. This can be a problem not only for your users, but also for your content managers. But, why do you need an on site search engine when you gone to all of the trouble of categorizing everything into a nice neat menu system?
Why does my website need search capability?
Very simply, Search is the user’s lifeline when the navigation system fails to direct them to what they need quickly.
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Before we begin, perhaps a brief description of what a Content Management System (CMS) is or does would be appropriate. A Content Management System is a system used to organize and facilitate digital content. Originally as simple as a rolodex or encyclopedia, today’s content management systems are elaborate software/database applications designed to store and process large amounts of complex information.
A CMS is usually comprised of a database, the data or images that make up that database, and a web based front end or application for managing the content. The result …

Did you know that most blogging tools and services DO NOT help your site rank higher for your keywords?
In the past, I have always taken the approach that a link to my site, in any form, was a good thing as long as the link text was appropriate and the site had some relevance to my web site. But what I didn’t know, was that some linking strategies do nothing for you when it comes to building links to my site.
I am referring to comments in blogs and the links …

I am still amazed when I read stories that state thousands of users have credit card information leaked onto the Internet. Especially when it is clear that the reason they were leaked was because there was little concern for the security of the data collected.
In today’s Internet, many of us web site owners store data about our users and those who subscribe to our content. While there are many applications and solutions developed and pre-packaged to make life easier, the truly good applications put a large amount of effort into …

A software developer has run 10,000 items through the more popular posting portals such as Digg, del.icio.us, etc. and collected some interesting results regarding the popularity of a post and the time of day, and day of the week, it was posted. The blog post and findings are here.
While the post and findings are targeted with a overly high US focus, this article is useful for those that see a high US readership. It would very valuable to see what other regions around the globe have an impact on the …

Like many people that use the Internet, we have all typed in those three well known letters that proceed every URL. But most probably, we never give a second thought to what they really stand for or their true meaning.
Unfortunately, many web site owners do not give much thought to these three letters and this is reflected in their message.
Just for the record, WWW translates to “World Wide Web”.
When crawling the web, I am constantly amazed at how many people still present a message on their web site to target …

Google has reportedly reached out to Yahoo to thwart Microsoft’s unsolicited $44.6 billion bid. And in case that doesn’t work Google has already started working policymakers. Simply put, the games have begun (Techmeme). Get ready for the FUD fest folks.
This is how the article on ZDNet started out with the latest news on this hot topic.
This got me to thinking back a long time ago when the Internet was just starting to become a popular topic for the normal folks. And dear old Microsoft thought it would be a good …