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sitemap deployed

I’ve deployed my web site map. This is the result of the work discussed in my post on Using Wt (C++ Web Toolkit) for a web site map. The original application mentioned in that post can now run as a WidgetSet application, and is now embedded in my php page wrappers.

I’m starting to think that it’d be nice to play with replacing my search page with a Wt application. Not because there’s anything wrong with the existing search, but because I’d like to free myself from maintaining the javascript. The javascript for my search page isn’t large nor terrible since I’m using jQuery, but replacing it with Wt would permit graceful degradation. And while javascript is handy, I’m still a non-expert in it.

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Indexing my web site for search: part 4

Why do I get the feeling this will be a never-ending blog series? Perhaps because my javascript skills are still at the novice level?

I’ve finished my tweaking of the search interface for now. When a search is started from a non-search page, I give the user the search page with results. Once on the search page, up to 5 previous searches will be saved (in browser memory via jQuery calls and some other javascript), and may be flipped through by clicking the search results title (“N matches found for …”). I may change this number in the future. At the moment it has little effect on browser memory consumption, and is very handy for flipping through search results for different search terms.

You can check out the search page here.

My javascript foo is getting better, as is my CSS foo. It won’t be long before I move from procedural javascript to OO javascript (as unintuitive as its syntax is for OO, it works).

I like jQuery and the yui library.