Browsing Tips
Introduction
This is a set of tips for making the most of the new TRLD finer-grained searching mechanism. Whilst it's perfectly possible to find what you want without using them, you'll find they help you to understand and ultimately make better use of the category/keyword engine.
Tip 1: Use two or more keywords
When you add that first keyword in, TRLD will immediately start bringing back results. However, depending on the keyword you started with, a large number of these will be irrelevant to what you are looking for. It's best therefore to add in a second keyword to narrow things down a bit. Take for example the "Tips and Tricks" keyword. You might be looking for information about jumping through walls in TR1, but until you put that "TR1" keyword in, you're going to be getting things like tips on using the level editor as well. The exception to this tip is with Language keywords - see Tip 4.
Tip 2: If you find a useless link, come back and report it
Also see Tip 5 for this one - makes the whole thing a lot easier.
While we try and weed out the rubbish, TR sites are closing down on a fairly regular basis and it's important to get them out of the directory when they do. If you click a link and it doesn't work, use your browser's back button and then Modify/Remove (on the left) to tell us about it.
Tip 3: Use the box on the main page to find information, not Search
Searching simply looks through the words in the title and description, which can be practically whatever the site owner wants. Keywords are assigned by real people looking at the site and what it has to offer. Use them.
Tip 4: Don't expect many results with more than one keyword when at least one of them is a Language
Most pages aren't written in more than one foreign language and the search logic is AND so specifying two languages will eliminate quite a lot of results. Also, when you specify a language, chances are that we haven't read through and translated all the content in order to keyword it, so you may have to do that yourself. The upshot of this is that you will lose a lot of results if you add other keywords into your search.
Tip 5: Use "Go with Reporting"
When viewing pages of results, you will see that under the URL column you have the options Go and Go with Reporting . Go takes you straight to the website as you'd expect. Go with Reporting, however, is a useful tool to help keep the directory in order. When you click it, the site requested is shown, but it is wrapped inside a TRLD frame. This frame has buttons on it for reporting whether or not the link actually works (i.e. doesn't give errors and isn't totally irrelevant) - you can then either break out of the frame and browse the site or return to the TRLD listings if it didn't work.
Naturally we encourage you to use Go with Reporting - it only adds a single extra click if you want to get rid of the frame, otherwise you can browse inside the frame as normal, and it helps weed out those annoying broken sites.
Occasionally a site may "break out" of the frame and fill the whole browser. This is because some site owners don't like their site appearing alongside other people's content. On the whole this isn't too much of a problem because error pages don't tend to do that - if it breaks out of the frame it's working, so you don't need the frame anyway and everyone's happy.
Finally, you need to have support for JavaScript and inline frames to use Go with Reporting successfully. Modern browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera support this so you should be fine. Now go and try it out!