You may not realise this, but OUTDOORSmagic is now
something like seven years old and that means there's an awful
lot of content on the site. Up till now our search engine has been
rather random, but the good news is that we're trialling a new
search engine on the site right now.
Initially it's applicable only to articles on the site, but if it
works as it's supposed to, it will be extended to cover the forum,
the gallery and so on. You can see the new search in action by using
the search boxes on the homepage, or on the Gear, Travel, OTH and
Routes pages.
Not only will you get a listing of articles containing the word
you search for, but you can also break the results down by
categories, author or by date range. There's also a related searches
box.
To give you an idea, we searched for the handy word 'Todger' - above
- and uncovered no fewer than 25 articles by or about the great
Alfred Todger, author of the legendary Outdoors Diary.
But anyway, don't take our word for it, go and have a play and use
the forum thread at the bottom of this article to tell us what you
think.
Jon Doran
It's now much easier to make clickable links in your forum postings, plus if you're feeling really expressive, you can even format your text. Cool or what????
