I’m interested in making this blog easier to use and am wondering if you have had any problems with finding posts on this blog. Was there a time when you were trying to find something that you were sure was here but then you couldn’t find it? If you have any stories like that or if you have have suggestions, just add a comment to this post.
At the moment, there are three main ways to find content on this blog.
Search
Link to the Search page can be found on the navigation bar:
When you run a search, results are sorted by relevancy, not by date. Also, if your search term is also a tag on the blog, the first item on the results page is probably a page indexing all the posts tagged with that word.
This search is powered by a Google Custom Search Engine that searches the posts from 2009-present that are on the current Blogs@Baruch site and from 2004-2009 on the older Blogspot site. Results of searches will include posts from both sites.
Tags
As you compose a blog post, you can add tags to enhance findability:
Feel free to add them as you write new posts.
Once a post is published, tags for it can be found at the bottom of posts:
In the Databases Overview page on the wiki, you may see that in many rows, there is a link in the last column for “Blog.” If you click that link, you’ll be taken to the index page on the blog for that database tag.
Archive
Today, there is a new “Archive” page on the blog with an index of all the blog posts since 2009. That’s all of the posts since we started using Blogs@Baruch. A link to the archive is on the black navigation bar of the blog.