HOWTO: Searching for information on Appal.org.

  
Introduction  
Browser Basics  
Using Find to Search Headlines  
Using Find to Search Postings  
Using Google to search Appal.org  

• Introduction

  Searches on Appal.org tend to be a two step process, where the first search happens at the website, and the second happens in your browser. The web site will send you selected postings, groups of postings, or all headlines. Use your browsers text search tool (usually "Find in This Page" in the browser's EDIT menu) to find keywords in the served pages.

• Browser Basics

  Your browser will search within a page of HTML for a given keyword. Usually this is the CTRL-F key pair, but it may be a different key command in your case. You may need to poke around the Edit Menu for the Find command. It is usually referred to as "Find in this page".

  Use the Find command to search for a key word in the current page. Two particular uses demonstrate the general use: Finding a key word in the headline list, and finding a key word in the search results returned by the Search All Postings button. Together , these two search techniques let you quickly ferret out key words in the Appal.org postings.

• Using Find to Search Headlines

  Most pages on Appal.org have a "BROWSE HEADLINES AND POSTINGS" button at the bottom of the page. You can also get this page from the Search option in the Main Menu. Hit the Browse button and ALL the headlines for all postings on Appal.org will be listed chronologically. You can browse the headlines to find postings that interest you. Use the Find command (CTRL-F) to search the headlines. When you find one of interest, clicking on it's headline will display the posted article.

• Using Find to Search Postings

  Most pages on Appal.org have a "SEARCH ALL POSTINGS" button at the bottom of the page. You can also get this page from the Search option in the Main Menu. Enter your keywords and hit the Search key. ALL postings that contain that word will be displayed in one page. Use care when you compose your keywords, or you will get a lot of document back. After you have used the Search button to return all the postings that contain your keyword, use the Find command (CTRL-F) to search the page for your keywords.

• Using Google to search Appal.org

  The Search option in the Main Menu offers you a link to Google, a pre-eminant web search engine. Eventually, popular links tend to get listed on Google, and some Appal.org pages may be listed there. Google allows for very sophisticated searching. The breadth and depth of a Google search is impressive, and if you are not already familiar wih the search engine, you might take a moment to look at Google now.