Zoekt en Gij zult vinden
If you're reading this, chances are you've already noticed it, but I'm going to state it here anyway: There's a little (quick) search form in the header�right after the list of chapters�of every page.
Ok, I lied�it's on every page but the Search Results page, since the search form is actually a part of the page its content there (though I might add it for … I dunno … consistancy).
The search system is powered by the content management system Movable Type and modified by moi to fit my needs and the overall design of this site. This page is for showing search results: it can be used to submit new search qeueries (it'd be a usability disaster if it didn't, I'd say), but is not designed to be the go-to place for searching this site. Because of this, I am not too concerned with the weird URI, and the fact that this might one day change (when, say; I switch CMS). Additionally, search engines and the like are asked not to index this page, and I suggest you refrain from bookmarking the page quite yet also.
For that (indexing by searchengines and bookmarking by visitors), I have another (permanent) search page, which is called ACJ's Search (surprising, isn't it?), which can also be found at http://search.acjs.net/. This page doesn't offer only one, but two ways of searching. One being the MT one I described earlier; the other being powered by Google. The MT one has more accurate knowledge on the content of my site, and does not discriminate among pages; the Google one is not restricted to the pages that are powered by MT—hell, you can use it to search the entire World Wide Web (amazing)—but has less accurate knowledge of this site's contents, and does discriminate among pages. The choice is yours.
For user agents that have kick-ass support for the link element, it can be accessed from there, too, from every individual page; because of the following line of code:
<linkhref="/search/"rel="Search"title="ACJ's Search"/>
If you're using the créme de la créme
of user agents with kick-ass link support you will notice a few more additions in this set of navigational items, being:
Following the accessibility link will lead you to my accessibility page. Following the W3C MarkUp Validation Results link will allow you to check whether a particular page is still valid XHTML 1.1 + MathML 2.0 + SVG 1.1. (Oh wait, I forgot to mention it ever was, didn't I? Not sure it will stay this way, though.) Last, but not least; the W3C CSS Validator Results link allows you (and me) to check if my style sheets are still broken (since I use CSS that is not supported by the validator yet … among other things).
Happy search.
