Comments on: Seek and ye shall not find http://www.sensorydrive.co.uk/2006/04/18/seek-and-ye-shall-not-find/ IA, UX, ID, W3C, WAI and a whole pile of other incomprehensible acronyms Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:18:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Paul Smith http://www.sensorydrive.co.uk/2006/04/18/seek-and-ye-shall-not-find/comment-page-1/#comment-54 Paul Smith Wed, 03 May 2006 09:27:25 +0000 http://www.sensorydrive.co.uk/2006/04/18/seek-and-ye-shall-not-find/#comment-54 Glad you've taken this site to task - I tried to use it to buy Christmas presents this year, and gave up and went to the store instead where a visual search was for more useful! Another anomaly is that the 'help' link in the bottom navigation bar goes to a different page, depending on where you are in the site. On this home page, it links to a 'How to use this site' page, which has an FAQ section, which in turn suggests "At the top right hand side of every screen, type in a keyword relevant to the product or service you require, select a department and click on Search. You will automatically be shown the search results with text links that take you to the relevant products." which isn't actually true on two counts (the order of select department and search is wrong, and the search is not on every page), as you've shown in your post. I also enjoy the fact that it's the first site I've seen which recommends you using a "PC Pentium 200Mhz or faster with 32Mb RAM" to view it - see the site help link, bottom right of (almost) every page! Glad you’ve taken this site to task – I tried to use it to buy Christmas presents this year, and gave up and went to the store instead where a visual search was for more useful! Another anomaly is that the ‘help’ link in the bottom navigation bar goes to a different page, depending on where you are in the site. On this home page, it links to a ‘How to use this site’ page, which has an FAQ section, which in turn suggests “At the top right hand side of every screen, type in a keyword relevant to the product or service you require, select a department and click on Search. You will automatically be shown the search results with text links that take you to the relevant products.” which isn’t actually true on two counts (the order of select department and search is wrong, and the search is not on every page), as you’ve shown in your post.

I also enjoy the fact that it’s the first site I’ve seen which recommends you using a “PC Pentium 200Mhz or faster with 32Mb RAM” to view it – see the site help link, bottom right of (almost) every page!

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