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CLICK HERE for working examples of search tools in a three page series. Each page is in a different website of The Network. One example is the Google/.network search engine ready for querying inside each of the three websites or the Web itself ... your choice. A second example in the series is the original search tool introduced with The Network in 1997. It remains useful for searching for titles and names ... words that begin with capital letters. There is a guide for using the second example in this help file (page down) or you will see it ready to use on the Find Me Here.com page of the looped series as you enter. See, select and use tools listed on page 4 of the introduction to The Network. searching the Web: searching a single webpage: The typical scenario would be to place a keyword
combination in a search
field in order to produces the search
results you want. The best search
engines show you a bit of the information found with an
indication of just where your keywords or phrase fits in and they
may also show you URL
address strings (example) ... ... an application that performs the specific function of searching text contained in a file actively displayed on your computer screen. You probably have one available on your browser's tool bar. Also, it is not unusual to find pages published on the Web these day that have search capability build in. Search the Web you want more information by copying and pasting the following italicized text line: definition of "page search tool" (CLICK HERE for a search engine). view webpage source code: The most common computer language used to write instructions for publishing a webpage is known as hypertext (see the definition of HTML in the online glossary published for Tim Berners-Lee's Weaving the Web). There are other scripted languages—to define scripted in this regard is to point out that a sequence of instructions (script) has to be in place in order for graphics and text to be displayed in a browser as intended. This means, for example, that what you are now viewing has a script that contains its source code. To view a webpage source code, one typically has use a tool that will display it as a text file. Go to the menu bar and select Source under View if, for example, you are using Internet Explorer. The following links are provided in order to help you learn more. To view the HTML source code for a Web page using Internet Explorer 3.x and later, click Source on the View menu. To view the HTML source code for a Web page using Internet Explorer 2.x, right-click the Web page, and then click View Source. Many Web pages use frames to display several Web pages on the same
screen. To view the HTML source code for a Web page that contains frames,
right- click the Web page in a frame, and then click View Source. Search engine results are reported on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Among search engines on the list suggested above is the one Google allows The Network to make available at its websites. See the Google/.network Search Engine Results Page Guide. Also, see an example of search results by using the original .network search tool—to access the search tool in this help file, CLICK HERE. We (who we are) suggest that you copy and paste the following italicized phrase in its search field: definition of search field search results: ... defined in the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary. Access the list of search engines suggested by .network users to obtain your own example of search results. Pick a search engine and query the Web for a keyword combination such as "definition of search results" enterprise and economic development—keep the quotation marks intact as you copy and paste the italicized text to the search field. Search engine results are reported on a SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Among search engines on the list suggested above is the one Google allows The Network to make available at its websites. See the Google/.network Search Engine Results Page Guide. Also, see an example of search results by using the original .network search tool—to access the search tool in this help file, CLICK HERE. We (who we are) suggest that you copy and paste the following italicized phrase in its search field: definition of search field searching The Network : The buttons shown are useful for navigating back and forth through pages in a series. The examples here are not linked; however, you will see those that are at the top of .network pages. The button on the left is typically linked to take you to the previous page, the one on the right to the next. Sometimes the buttons are linked to take you to the beginning of a page. Sometimes links are arranged so that pages in series are looped—example. drop-down menu / pull-down menu—a working example: about radio buttons and check boxes—how
to use them: .network navigation: ... means moving along with a sense of where you are and where you are headed.
Graphics provided as as
navigation aids for webpages published in a series are not
the same as the back/forward buttons on your browser. Page
up to
information about their use in The Network. Also, back/forward
button graphics used with .network pages in series
are defined in the glossary, Appendix
H. For an example of .network pages in series, CLICK
HERE. TechWeb Solutions: ... its owner, Bobby Glover, organized the technical side of The Network in 1996 and was its original webmaster. He designed and published the first .network webpages. He built its computers and, as a member of the headquarters relocation team for Economic Development Services, was the architect of its intranet and Web connections. Later he formed TechWeb Solutions but keeps his ties to The Network as its technical advisor. CONTACT Bobby Glover by accepting and using his GetReal Media business card Internet Marketing and Search Engine Optimization at the TechWeb Solutions website key word searches: Keyword is
defined in the Enterprise
and Economic Development Glossary. ... a keyword
combination typed or copied
and pasted into a search
field, instructing the query program to keep
the text intact as if set inside quotation marks. In fact, many
search
engines will recognize text placement in their search
boxes
set within quotation marks as phrases and, thus, function in an advanced
search mode (see searching the Web).
In addition to its Google
search engine adapted for querying its websites
as well as the Web, recognizing quotation marks as setting off phrases,
The Network has its internal search tool which uses pull-down
menus to set search parameters. The left-hand pull-down
on the search tool as shown below gives you the choices
of searching (1) as a phrase, (2) all terms or (3) any terms. Don't
use quotation marks to test the as-a-phrase setting.
browser use: A typical browser has a search box for entering a URL address string. The most popular browsers store address strings of Web locations accessed during work sessions so that users can later return to them. Copy and paste the italicized keywords, firefox guide using browser, in the search engine below and Google for information about the Firefox browser. text size:Your browser most likely provides a means for changing text size. This may be useful for finding a comfortable setting for viewing what you see on your computer screen but often text size is controlled from a webpage. If that's the case and some text is controlled and some not, a page may lose the integrity of its original layout. It may look strange; nevertheless, if the intent is to gather information from text and, say enlarging it for comfortable viewing achieves that end, so be it. For your information, loose text on .network pages was originally laid out to be viewed with an IE browser setting of medium. Three hubs (websites) combine to make up The Network, each represented by a unique file-folder-button as shown below with the initials: SLA / FMH / EDN Select a file folder to enter a .network hub. search: identity of a location CLICK HERE for a guide to searching Area Development in Economic Development.net CLICK HERE to arrange for a free listing of a location of interest to you in The Network. A search term is either the keyword or keyword combination that you put in a search field as a pattern match expression, for example a text string. Here are suggestions for text string search terms to use with the tool below to query the Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary : As you can see pull-down menus are set for as a phrase and case sensitive. Change the latter to insensitive. To search for glossary terms begin your text string with the word define or the combination ... definition of (example: definition of location) Also, using the Google/.network search engine, you can also choose to search the Web or the three websites of The Network for definitions related to enterprise and economic development, including site selection as well as commercial and industrial real estate,. In that case, the suggestion is to begin your search term with the word define or the combination of definition set inside quotation marks ("definition of") or, better yet, put the entire text string in quotes, for example, "definition of economic development"—why not go ahead and try a search of the Web using this example. Simply copy and past the text string in italics, keeping the quotation marks intact. To Google the Web for definitions of some of the other words and expressions used in this paragraph copy and paste the following: define "enterprise and economic development" "definition of" commercial and industrial real estate "definition of site selection" original .network search tool CLICK HERE to access this same search tool for Site Location Assistance.com.
For more information about searching see pages 4 through 9 of The Network introduction.
three bullets: ... in typography the bullet is a dot as a symbol used to introduce listed items. There is also the ellipsis which may be referred to as bullets. Ellipses are used to indicate that something is missing. Two or three interpuncts that appear an an ellipsis may also be seen as bullets. Take a look at one of the alpha-pages of the .network glossary to see that between the boldface item listed for definition and explanation of its meaning the ellipsis is used. It generally indicates that the repeat of the item listing is left out. When a quote is an item listed in a paragraph, for example of a definition, three bullets should appear for missing words. Google/.network Search Engine: Introduction to The Network
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access to the search tool for the GRC online. CLICK HERE for answers to questions often asked about the Global Registry
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