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Scsi's "Perfect 10" Mobile Web Site Standard - Best Practice #5: Every Mobile Web page incorporates an integral and effective dual-domain search window.
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Why Search Windows are Essential Tools
Let's face it. Much of what using the Internet is all about is searching for useful information and wanting to have the tools readily at hand to accomplish this activity quickly, easily, and effectively. After all, why not save time and maximize your search-related productivity whenever you can, right? So, it really does make perfect sense to have a convenient search capability provided somewhere within each Web page.
How and Why Scsi extended Search Window Functionality
To your benefit, Scsi even goes beyond just this basic provisioning. According to the radio button you select before initiating the search process, you can either choose to search anywhere within the Scsi P&KT Web site for something - or you can choose to perform a search that encompasses the entire Internet domain.
Here's a representative sequence for how you might wish to proceed with your search activity:
- Specify whichever domain (Scsi P&KT Web site or WWW) that you wish to employ - doing so by selecting the appropriate radio button selection or its label located just below the search window proper.
- Enter the desired search string in place of the default of "Enter a search string (up to 255 characters) here."
- Select the Google engine-based Search button to initiate the search process and wait for the search to complete.
- View the displayed set of search results for your specific search query - displayed in a Google engine-based search results window.
- Decide whether to make a selection from the displayed list of associated hyperlinks or to select the Back button to return to the Scsi P&KT Web site page from which you initiated the search operation.
Pretty simple, huh? That's what Scsi strives to provide you: Quick, effective, and useful ways to obtain meaningful information in a straightforward and seamlessly integrated manner.
Besides Best Practice #5, which of Scsi's "Perfect 10" Best Practices would you like to read about next?
- Best Practice #1: Every Mobile Web page is fast loading.
- Best Practice #2: Every Mobile Web page is viewable with any type of browser.
- Best Practice #3: Every Mobile Web page incorporates meaningful, descriptive 'balloon help' text for every hyperlink (both text- and graphics-based).
- Best Practice #4: Every Mobile Web page's navigation always remains under user control, thereby allowing use of any combination of keyboard, mouse, or other pointing devices as hyperlink selection tools.
- Best Practice #5: Every Mobile Web page incorporates an integral and effective dual-domain search window.
- Best Practice #6: Every Mobile Web page's text viewing size selections remain under user control at all times - according to the particular browser tool's available selections.
- Best Practice #7: Every Mobile Web page's contents will always automatically resize widthwise to fill the entire browser window - no matter what screen resolution settings or window sizes are in effect at any time.
- Best Practice #8: Every 'Print this page' operation automatically results in an intelligently word wrapped, truncation-free, black-on-white printout of that Mobile Web page's main body contents - regardless of the page orientation and user-specified text size selection in effect at that time.
- Best Practice #9: Every Mobile Web page incorporates readily accessible contact information.
- Best Practice #10: Every Mobile Web page validates against the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) specifications for Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Content Guidelines (WCAG).
Mobile Web Page Validation and Contact Information
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Contact Information: Raymond Sonoff, President of Sonoff Consulting Services, Inc., 271 Saxony Drive, Crestview Hills, KY 41017-2294 USA: Telephone: (859) 261-5908.