h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm having trouble sharing and enjoying like a good citizen should.
I posted a short article called 'Rainbow' (not the most munificent piece of writing ever) and tried to search for it but I didn't get any matches - Does anyone have any idea how to like, er, find things in h2g2.

StingleFoot

When you click on search the guide click the power search link and you should be bale to find it because I did.

pages are only indexed once and hour, so wait a while and your page will appear.

From what I've seen, entering a string into the white box next to the 'search the guide' button (yes, it is a button, but it's not obvious)will only search the OFFICIAL guide entries. If this fails an option is offered to search the humble researcher pages (or if you're sharp and spot that clicking on the'search the guide' text at the top of each page with nothing in the text box brings up a more powerful search engine, you can do a 'power search'). I think this is silly and the search engine should automatically return both official and user-created pages.

Other than that, the H2G2 is great.

We're looking into the best way to search h2g2 - this will likely evolve over the next few weeks/months.

Yes, we agree that you should be in control of what types of things you want to search for - the search will likely always categorise the results into official entries, user pages, journal entries, people, etc - but you will be able to search for anything

Tim

Problem is that the interesting options (user pages, journal entries u.s.w.) only seem to appear if there are no official entries.
If there is an official entry then there do not even seem to be options to look further from that initial page of results, which is a bit daft (and so easily rectified).
ALSO... Apropos HTML etc.
Just about every TEXTAREA field in the guide should have its WRAP attribute set to VIRTUAL or PHYSICAL (or whatever
suits your programming guys). It's damned annoying in 1999 to have to manage one's own Carriage Returns )

A N D....
Why do some types of entry escape HTML tags while others leave them to function normally. How are we to know
(WEARILY PRESSES RETURN)
which and where and what and who and how and when?

When I want to show some HTML on a h2g2 page I write it as & lt ; HTML & gt ; (without those spaces). When I come back to edit it, it's reverted to < HTML > and is rendered as html.

Another gripe about TEXTAREA's: as well as adding wrap="virtual" or wrap="physical" (needed for pre-v4 browsers), can someone _please_ take the space out between < TEXTAREA > and < /TEXTAREA >.

Lastly, where can we see a list of the /images directory. I have managed to work out 'smileys', 'saddies' and dots but I imagine there are more useful ones hidden away there as well.

Fantastic site - I love it already