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Paul Silver

Making websites for companies and helping advertise them

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There is an issue in building web pages, fundamentally, which is one of speed. You have a large, somewhat complicated set of information that you want to display in an easy to understand and easy to navigate way to potential customers who need to find something specific within this vast array of data. So to the humble select box, or 'drop down' as it would more commonly be called by the layman. Can you cram all the useful information you need in to a simple set of lists? Then a line of select boxes may be the answer to your data mangling needs.

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Although this does bring in some issues - should you load all of the information in to the page in one go? This would, perhaps, be the easiest way to make the page for your computer programmers. However, perhaps it would overload the page with options? Make it slow by having to load in all of the information for these lists, which many people may not ever look at.

And so, we find ourselves here, on a page where I attempt to find out if search engines read all of the information within the lists of options inside the select boxes, or whether they care not for such frippery, concerning themselves only with what is visible as soon as the page loads. Hopefully, I will soon be able to find the answers to my questions, with only two example pages solving a problem, and some time waiting for them to be read.

Now, I wish you a fond crackflooblenibbles, and goodbye.

An alternative to this method.

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