We have set up a special SearchPro search of the ATADA web site and also a special Google Search Engine for the ATADA Web Site (see above).
Google and the other global search engines provide a selection of links to the web pages (.html files) containing the information. It is up to you to find the information within the links provided.
To find information within the link provided, you must either scroll down the page or use your browser's function "Find on this Page". First go to the page of interest, then pull down the "Find on this Page" menu (Located under your browser's "Edit" pull down menu).
All browsers locate this function in the "Edit" pull down menu. Some browsers call this function "Find". (Firefox (Mozilla) pops up a search box at the bottom of the web page that is hard to see the first time.) Microsoft Internet Explorer has a second place where this function is located. On the right side of the Address Bar is a small search box. To the right of this search box is a magnifying glass symbol. To the right of the magnifying glass there is a downward pointing triangle. Click on the triangle to expose the "Find on This Page" function.
The keyboard shortcut, CNTRL+F also opens the "Find on this Page" function on all browsers.
An example is a search for "dealer name". At the present time, if you search for a particular member's name, Google will likely point you to the ATADA index.html (Members Gallery and Directory) file containing 160 members. To go directly to the particular dealer on this page, you must use "Find on this Page".
This works so well that, to find contact information for a particular dealer, we recommend that you go to the ATADA Gallery and Directory page and then use "Find on this Page". This is especially convenient for use as an address book of ATADA members.
You may type any term that you want into the search box. However, only words that are actually on the page that you are searching can be found. If you search for "Umatilla Art" or "Guro Pulley", you will not find these available. You must think about the limitations of search technology before you type anything in the search box. Otherwise you are likely to come up empty-handed.
In order to minimize the information that you must search through, we have created 160 new pages, one page for each full member. This may allow Google to provide you with a choice of a shorter page to look through.
Please contact Alice Kaufman or me if you need further instructions on searching the ATADA web site.
Arch Thiessen, Webmaster@ATADA.org.
