[IPython-dev] Website

Jason Grout jason-sage at creativetrax.com
Wed Jun 15 11:53:10 EDT 2011


On 6/15/11 2:25 AM, Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> On 15 June 2011 08:18, Fernando Perez <fperez.net

>     - Search box? Since it's made in sphinx, we can leave the default
>     sphinx search and it will work inside the site automatically.
>
>
> I not so convinced on this. There's relatively little content on this
> site that we want to search, and people might expect that it would
> search inside the docs as well. If we want a search box, I would use
> something like Google's custom search engine, so that it covered the
> docs and the wiki. But perhaps we should just let people go to a search
> engine themselves. Thoughts, anyone?

You might look at the sagemath.org search box and the resulting page.  I 
believe it was Harald Schilly who implemented a very nice search 
interface.  I've CCd him on this email.

Harald: this is an ongoing discussion about revamping the ipython.org 
website.

Jason




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