| Biblio Tech, Ltd. has announced the launch of a new directory service
for the information industry. This portal is aimed at Web sites that both
service the information industry and wish to add a customized directory
service that categorizes company data in a target area of interest. The
portal is designed to be a transparent add-on to an existing site, with
a site style that can be integrated into the directory search and display.
Webmasters can tailor the selection capability so that subsections of
the full directory can be offered on a product or geographical basis. “This
makes the service particularly valuable where a site wants to limit the
companies shown to its users—for instance, to show just the suppliers of
CD-ROM networks in the U.K.,” said Peter Evans, managing director of Biblio
Tech.
According to the announcement, a site’s user will normally just see
a simple drop-down list of products and a “select” button. This then takes
him or her to a special page on the Biblio Tech server where the companies
are displayed in list form. Next, another link takes the user to the full
display where onward links, address details, and company/product details
are shown. All the pages can be “dressed” to appear in the style of the
parent site so that the user doesn’t realize the service is hosted by Biblio
Tech.
According to the company, the portal service will make the entries in
the Biblio Tech directory more valuable for companies as more sites are
linked to them. These basic entries are free, but companies may pay a fee
to highlight their entries and add additional details. A key feature of
the directory service is “Direct Update,” through which the suppliers themselves
can update their entry and maintain its currency online.
Source: Biblio Tech, Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 011-44-117-904-7203; pwevans@bibliotech.com. |
