Chapter 7. Performing Searches
The web provides a limited number of ways that enable users to select what they’re interested in seeing. A lot of Web sites start out as a collection of pages containing static information with embedded hyperlinks that guide visitors to various places within the site. This is standard hypertext navigation and it probably accounts for the majority of user activity on the Web. It’s a useful way to direct people, but it only goes so far. As you add more content to your site, sooner or later you’ll need to provide some other way for visitors to find what they want. Links have a limited usefulness in this respect, ...
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