It is a very nice idea, http://weblogs.macromedia.com/ does it, and I do it for all of our Intranet searches, exports, history, etc. It's not new, it does come in handy and is very usefull to most people.
-----Original Message----- From: Will Tomlinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2005 4:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Just a nice little feature for your clients Hey all, I recently added a simple but very effective feature on my client's site. I just never thought of doing this but once it hit me, I was like yeah! That'd be great. And don't expect any rocket science, it's ol' Will here. :) She asked about tracking what her users were searching for on the volleyball clothing site. I immediately thought, tblsearches (let's not go there :)) - searchID, searchterm, searchdate, etc..etc.. Well it's turned out to be a VERY good addition. I win for obvious reasons, my client wins because we now know that we have quite a few shoppers searching for socks. Ok, so they're also searching for their friends' names, but that's beside the point. lol! The customer wins because we now know what products they're looking for and now we'll work on offering them. Just thought I'd share that little tidbit with you all because I've never seen this in the books I've read, nor heard anyone talking about it here in the forums. I also know some guys that build major e-commerce apps and even THEY don't do anything like this right now, yet it's so simple! Is it not standard practice to log all searches to your db? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:202662 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
