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kevinlomas
Posts: 8,414
Registered: 02-11-2010

I can't find anything now

It used to be hard on here to trawl around all the help and advice links/pages, but now it seems impossible! Search can still only read one word (and there seems to be more that one search engine depending on where you are on the site) and all Help mostly seems to be now are Lulu staffs' 'blogs!' Where have the comprehensive guides gone? All my old links take me to Connect which you can then click Advice, which as I say, seem to be just blogs! The Homepage simply wants you to instantly start publishing, when really those links should be replaced with How-To and What-Options? buttons. The Site-map is also very very basic and in no way lists all the pages there surely must be on Lulu.

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Cary_Penrose
Posts: 244
Registered: 02-17-2010

Re: I can't find anything now

kevinlomas,
Try clicking on the Connect tab then clicking on Learn. Search through the help articles there and you should find what you're looking for.
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Cary Penrose
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kevinlomas
Posts: 8,414
Registered: 02-11-2010

Re: I can't find anything now

Hello Cary, and welcome. No sorry, that does not work. As I say it was not easy to find the vast data there used to be on Lulu, but once you did, you could link to it. None of my existing old links now go anywhere. It appears to have gone, unless you go through a Wizard, perhaps, and click the various What Is This sort of links. Everything should be listed in the site map, at least. Everything from A - Z. Everything. And surely it is time Lulu got a search engine that could read more than 1 word?
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Cary_Penrose
Posts: 244
Registered: 02-17-2010

Re: I can't find anything now

kevinlomas,
Thanks for the welcome! You are correct your old links will no longer work. You will need to find the articles again and save the new URLs. Also, if you are using the search field at the very top of the page it will auto-fill help articles as you type. Click on Connect/Learn then type a term (or phrase) and it will bring up all related help articles. Hope this helps!
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Cary Penrose
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kevinlomas
Posts: 8,414
Registered: 02-11-2010

Re: I can't find anything now

The Search reminds of old computer text games where you had to spend ages tying to work out what words it knew. Some time ago the help files on Lulu, although a bit disjointed, used to be the 'Need to Know More?' type links one leading to another from Help Text. As I say, these pages are not even mentioned in the Site Map. It is now hard for people to find out all about Lulu and its tools and what you need to do, unless they start from the Home page trying to create a book that they may not even have yet. Why not change the site to cascading Help sections and subsections?
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