Site Search Engines
My site is beginning to grow in content, and i think a site search engine would be good to add. Are there any free site search engines that i could use or that you know about? Thanks in advance
My site is beginning to grow in content, and i think a site search engine would be good to add. Are there any free site search engines that i could use or that you know about? Thanks in advance
Busy posted this at 22:46 — 20th February 2003.
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atomz (atomz.com) is a free one (I use it) but if you use any site search it's best to have a right navigation or the search will pick up your navigation before anything else giving bad results.
But if you must have left navigation the best way (and this makes it accessiable for people with disabilitys too if you use tables) is add a small td cell above the left nav so the blank cell is called first, then the content, then the navigation. if your not using tables (using divs) order your div's so the content is before the navigation but display the other way round.
deciever posted this at 01:52 — 21st February 2003.
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thank you
mjames posted this at 19:39 — 22nd February 2003.
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Yep, I also use Atomz. Great service and great company.
deciever posted this at 21:55 — 22nd February 2003.
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yeah it is pretty nice. but my navigation screws it up so bad
Busy posted this at 22:24 — 22nd February 2003.
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want to share a link to your site, might be able to help you with it
Denmark 3 posted this at 22:18 — 23rd February 2003.
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How to you use Atomz? I'm trying to figure out what to do!!
deciever posted this at 22:49 — 23rd February 2003.
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my site URL is http://www.fortifiediron.com Search form isnt on there now... incase you were wondering
Busy posted this at 03:42 — 24th February 2003.
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Parker Trasborg, just sign up, add the search form to your page, and if you want add your sites layout in the options as search results
Deciever, your using a top navigation so that will always be called first but you can change the left nav and content area so it searchs the right cell before the left nav.
main content
left navigation
you can nest tables within these td cells but your better off not to, your layout is pretty simple and doesnt need a lot of tables.
The above works as the table is read across, the blank cell is read first, then the content ... (this is best method for accessibilty validation as well)
or another way is to put the left nav on the right side of the page.
deciever posted this at 03:56 — 24th February 2003.
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thanks for the help. im not going to play with anything just yet. I guess right now the search engine isnt important enough for me to do a major renovation to my site.
Thanks though
motiv8x posted this at 23:51 — 9th March 2003.
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HTDig is another one...
try googling for "htdig"
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