AIHA terms

[admin]

I am in total awe! I think Sheena and Patrice did those terms and I can not believe all the information in there. Sorry but I just realized today that it is all there! The way it is linked to stories is phenomenal. I can’t even begin to imagine all the work that has gone into that. Now I know what you two do when I am running around with my dogs having fun:) I wish I would have had that glossary when Kahlu was diagnosed. I was starving for more information and here it is, for anybody that needs it.

Thank you so much Patrice & Sheena!!!

Brigitte

[Patrice]

Ha ha Brigitte, you crack me up that you just found it! I actually had this in mind almost as soon as I put up the website. In fact, when I was in grammar school I remember I had a deep fascination with glossaries and would study them in detail.

I found this great company that provides the Tool Tip glossary. Dave gives us great customer service and has helped me solve a few problems already. I am also very proud to say that CM Plugins Tool Tip has a link to our website, this was our first link:
http://tooltip.cminds.com/sample/

If you look to your right when you are in the main forum page you will see 5 selected Tool Tip glossary items that rotate every time you refresh the page (not when you are in the topic page.) The Tool Tip doesn’t work “inside” the forum posts, unfortunately, and that has nothing to do with Tool Tip but rather bbPress would have to write some code to make it work. Another thing on my list. But you can refer people posting in the forum to glossary items.

There are other goodies in the Tool Tip I haven’t explored yet, such as Google Translate API and Merriam-Webster Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Thesaurus. Stuff to play with in the future.

This really takes the load off of us when we are writing to dog owners, we don’t need to write out long explanations of terms, we can just post a link. When you hover over a highlighted word you get a shortened version of the term (about 350 characters.) Clicking on the “term details” will take you to the full explanation.

This week Dave is working on setting up the glossary page so we can have those shorted versions of each term on the glossary page. I think it will make it easier to browse the whole glossary.
my best, patrice

[Vally]

It is fabulous and a fabulous idea.  It will help people enormously.

Vally

[admin]

Glad you like it. I personally enjoyed doing it & learned a lot writing about some of the terms – I wish there had been something similar available when Worzel was ill too. I will never get ahead of our  Patrice in the knowledge stakes though! Thanks Patrice for thinking of a really useful idea to get information across – I hope everyone else will find it useful too.

Sheena & the boys