**Update**
The Search Box works! The Search Box works! Long live the Search Box! 🙂
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A few of you have noticed that the Search Box* that normally rests inconspiculously along the right sidebar is now absent.**
Good eyes.
Last week a screenwriter emailed asking the standard length on a screenplay. Since I had posted on that topic in the past (see linked words in prior sentence), I went to look for the article here on the site. I typed “length of screenplay” into the Search Box and got…
No results found.
No results? Maybe I didn’t use the word “screenplay” in that post. Maybe I called them “scripts,” or “written movies,” or “screen…written documents?” Probably, not but I searched. And each search produced the same result.
No results found.
Nope. I typed in “Scriptcast.” I KNOW I mentioned Scriptcast a few times on the site.
No results found.
The Search Box was broken. Which led me to a question my Search Box could not answer: How does one break a Search Box?
I posed that question to Steve from Bozz Media since he and I have been doing some work on the website to get the new Scriptcast page working. His response came fast, as if it were automatically generated:
Thank you for contacting me. I am out of the office from July 24 through July 30. I will do my best to respond to your request on Monday, August 1.
Oh no!
I then got a personal message from Steve saying he’ll take a look at the problem when he returned.
Somewhat relieved, I decided the best thing to do would be to post about it. So…here’s that post! 🙂
Until August (Monday) you can access past screenwriting articles on the site a number of ways:
1. Click “Older Posts” at the end of the last post on the page.
2. Go to the bottom of the page – the VERY bottom – and choose a Category or Tag you’d like to read about. So for example, if you want all the General Screenwriting posts, you’d click on that category.
3. Choose from the drop-down menu at the top of the website. There are a number of articles up there, including my most popular screenwriting posts
4. Just starting out? Check out the post Help for New Screenwriters In that post I link many other articles you may want to check out.
5. Still not sure? Email me: [email protected]
Hope that helps.
Keep writing, and…
Onward!
-Eric
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*”Search Box” is capitalized in this post out of respect and a lack of understanding of aspects of technology. For example, if a Search Box found its name on your site without caps, would THAT be reason enough for it to stop working? Who knows. I for one, won’t be taking that chance.
**If you are reading this post-August 2011, the Search Box will likely be back. Sorry for the confusion.
