Saturday, March 08, 2008

Searching Blogs

Renee's comment on the previous post made me realise that if someone is searching for a specific thing, it's quite hard to find if you don't know how. It also made me realise that I've been lax in making it easier for you. SO - quick lesson for those who don't know how to search a blog:

If the author has been doing his/ her job properly, then at the bottom of the post there should be some key words, or tags. These tags link any and every page the author has written which have the same tags. By clicking on the tag, the blog will then filter all the posts so that it only shows you the posts which have that tag.


e.g. if you are searching for all the posts that relate to Zoe, for example, you browse through to find a post that has the zoe tag at the bottom.... and click on it.
It will then filter to show you all the posts that have been tagged with zoe.


Easy peasy when you know how (and your author is being helpful!)

The only thing I should point out is that, for some unknown reason, the pointer on my blog isn't actually pointing where you think it is! If you want to click on a tag, check in the status bar at the bottom of the screen to see which tag it's pointing at. You usually need to point about 1cm further to the right than you think you do. Sorry!!

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