From: Marcella Dawson <dawsonm@tenet.edu>
Subject: Re: website organization of journals
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 21:51:00 -0600 (CST)
Wouldn't it be nice if there were an LFM search program! You could type in the word and, voila, Laura's article would pop right up. Marc---could we please have a "search" program on the sight? Marcella Marcella Dawson, Science Department St. Anne School 2120 Westheimer Houston, TX 77098 (713)526-3279 On Thu, 7 Nov 1996 bweimann@exit109.com wrote: > Hello Marc, (if you are listening,)and anyone else who wants to comment that > they agree or disagree, or have any other suggestions to help me solve my > printing problem. > > Today, with limited time, I tried to quickly print out a journal from the > LFM site. > It was quite time consuming. The way the journals are now organized, the > link says, > "journals" but when you reach the page, it is a list of the "updates." When > you click on the journal/subject link, it does not take you to another > page, but merely lower down on the same page, so that when you try and print > it out, you wind up printing out the whole > 8 or 9 pages of the update (if it is a long one.) > I tried this for a couple journals and then gave up trying to figure out how > to get my HP deskjet to select only the pages I wanted, and this was quite a > chore. > > I just visited the LFA website, in particular, this page: > > the http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/antarctica/team > > I love the way this is organized. The page is entitled: "The Antarctic Team" > and below are the names of all the scientists and other significant people. > When you click on the "name" link, it takes you to a page with a list of the > subjects/titles of all of that person's journals. If you click on any one > of these subject/title links, you get ONLY that journal, and printing it out > is easy. > > Could this be done with the LFM journals? Do you already have plans to do > this perhaps, Marc? I don't know about the other teachers, but in high > school, we do not have our own rooms, and so our time is extremely limited > at our classroom computers. In my school, periods are only 45 mins long. > Anything which can expedite procedures such as locating and printing out > d/ls would be greatly appreciated. > > Laura's suggestion that we have a page with a sort of index to help us > quickly locate info from amongst all the great sites would also be welcome. > Barb > >