[WEB4LIB] RE: Best terminology for OPAC searches?

[Drew, Bill]

The intent is to "hide" the less used choices that we as librarians are
using in trouble shooting the catalog.  That is why the list is 4 lines
high. It seems to work quite well from my observations of our users.  I am
also proud to say that our catalog design complies with W3C CSS, HTML 4.01,
and WAI-AA standards.  I will have to do a lot of work to get that up to
WAI-AAA.

Bill Drew

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Sauers [mailto:msauers at bcr.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 4:50 PM
To: Drew, Bill; 'Multiple recipients of list'
Subject: RE: [WEB4LIB] RE: Best terminology for OPAC searches?

> We use the phrasing below in our basic and advanced searches:

Bill;

A design question: Why the scrollable <option> list. Why not a regular
drop-down list that shows all the choices when opened by the user?