Beth Jacobson <bethj@bajac.com> writes:
Most of your objections seem to be with the new page's usefulness in searching, and I agree that the arrangement I'm suggesting is less than ideal for that. Maybe the answer is to have separate pages: one for browsing and one for searching. If I understand correctly, David's objection is that that two category pages (or one 'by category' and one 'by type') will be confusing because people have no good way of choosing between them. David, could we avoid this just by changing the name of the new page from 'By Type' to 'Browse the Libraries' or something like that? If we try to make one page work for both browsing and searching, I'm afraid we'll end up compromising on both.
I'm afraid I don't understand the distinctions you're trying to draw. When I think of "searching" in conjunction with the web I'm thinking about using a search engine. Everything else is browsing to me. So, no, I don't think that would reduce confusion. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com