On Jun 20, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Guillermo Ermel wrote:
I'm assisting the design team to create an e-commerce website. The
website has a few hundred items, with the typical product-category
left navigation bar in the home page and listings page, with 10 to
20 categories and probably subcategories. Also typical, when
browsing categories with that left navbar, you get the usual "you
are here" visual feedback in it.
The website also has a product search input box on every page.
Guillermo,
If you only have a few hundred items, then you should be avoiding
sending people to search. The odds of them entering a term that your
engine can match to something they want gets slimmer with the fewer
items you have to search for.
Instead, it sounds like a multi-level category listing that displays
all (or most) of the items will serve you best.
I'd recommend you try that approach and not invest too much in the
search results.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
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