Thanks for all your input. I'm new to all of this so sorry for my ignorance. I did look into using Google but I seem to be having a problem with using my address (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lemirefh/Home.htm). When I use this address as one of the site to search, it doesn't seem to find it. Does it need to have www preceding it? Would someone have code using Google that I could borrow? :) Again, Thanks, Blair LeMire On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 12:00 AM, <freepages-help-request@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > When replying to a digest message, quote only the specific message to which you are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the message subject to which you are replying. > ***FREEPAGES HELP & FAQ*** > <http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/fpindex.html> > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Adding a search function using css (Pat Geary) > 2. Re: Adding a search function using css (J.A. Florian) > 3. Re: Adding a search function using css (J.A. Florian) > 4. Re: Adding a search function using css (Pat Geary) > 5. Need someone to change the text on navigational images > (J.A. Florian) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 07:24:05 -0400 > From: Pat Geary <pat@the-gearys.com> > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Adding a search function using css > To: Blair LeMire <lemirefh@gmail.com>, FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <201103261124.p2QBO7jL016492@mail.rootsweb.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 01:57 AM 3/26/2011, Blair LeMire wrote: >>I downloaded one of Pat's templates (the site3 template) and I'm >>trying to figure out how I can point it to my site and search it for >>surnames. There's a line >> >><form action="http://search.atomz.com/search/" method="get"> >> >>within the search box code of the template, site3. I was wondering if >>I just put my website in place of the site listed above if it will >>then search my site? > =========== > > NO, you need to insert the code for your own search box unless you > have an account with atomz. Then you should be able to just the part > of the code that identifies your site. > > Pat > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:15:37 -0400 > From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Adding a search function using css > To: Blair LeMire <lemirefh@gmail.com> > Cc: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikW0zm-J_Pb+=GzZo++Emso+f59gPcdhoG19kbT@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Why not use Google custom search? > > http://www.google.com/cse/ > > It indexes everything it sees. Use a "index,follow" Meta and/o block > certain pages with noindex,nofollow Meta. > > Judy > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:31:06 -0400 > From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Adding a search function using css > To: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: > <AANLkTi=Q=P5_X76Xa2ygAtfK5HSUmfERz5AvvprJj-Mw@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > GCS started May 2010 enabling auto-complete searches for onn site searches. > > what are pros and cons for users? (otherwise known as "Should I, or > Shouldn't I? lol) > > http://googlecustomsearch.blogspot.com/2010/05/autocompletion-of-queries-in-custom.html > > On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:15 PM, J.A. Florian <cageycat@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why not use Google custom search? >> >> http://www.google.com/cse/ >> >> It indexes everything it sees. Use a "index,follow" Meta and/o block >> certain pages with noindex,nofollow Meta. >> >> Judy >> > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:40:13 -0400 > From: Pat Geary <pat@the-gearys.com> > Subject: Re: [FreeHelp] Adding a search function using css > To: FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <201103261940.p2QJeHpT000456@mail.rootsweb.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 03:15 PM 3/26/2011, J.A. Florian wrote: >>Why not use Google custom search? >> >>http://www.google.com/cse/ >> >>It indexes everything it sees. Use a "index,follow" Meta and/o block >>certain pages with noindex,nofollow Meta. > ================ > From Google Webmaster > http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-robots-meta-tag.html > > Unnecessary content values > By default, Googlebot will index a page and follow links to it. So > there's no need to tag pages with content values of INDEX or FOLLOW. > > Since index and follow are default behavior, it really is not > necessary to use this tag. > > If you do NOT want the page indexed or the links followed, then by > all means use > > <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW"> > > pat > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:08:19 -0400 > From: "J.A. Florian" <cageycat@gmail.com> > Subject: [FreeHelp] Need someone to change the text on navigational > images > To: "LIST_freepages-help@rootsweb.com" <freepages-help@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: > <AANLkTikMcaOXQHmbSXHLQEa7dvRD+D6gdQ9Q22KmDUa=@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I have some navigational images with one worrd on each. Each are jpg but i > can changee them to psd if necessary. > > I need several new nav images, using the one image, but with a new word on > each one. > > I don't know how to remove the existing text to put in new text. ( I tried > following a tutorial but my text is higher and just overlaps the existing > text, which isn't what I need.) > > I'll need at least 3 or 4 new ones to go with the ones I already have. > > If someone can help me by taking the image and changing the word, email me > OFF list. > > Thx > > Judy > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the FREEPAGES-HELP list administrator, send an email to > FREEPAGES-HELP-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the FREEPAGES-HELP mailing list, send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FREEPAGES-HELP-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 6, Issue 87 > ********************************************* >
At 01:47 AM 3/28/2011, Blair LeMire wrote: >I did look into using Google but I seem to be having a problem with >using my address >(http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lemirefh/Home.htm). >When I use this address as one of the site to search, it doesn't seem >to find it. Does it need to have www preceding it? Would someone have >code using Google that I could borrow? :) ================ Hi Blair, Folks have already mentioned that you should name your home page index.html or index.htm. Either works but you should be consistent in the file extension you choose. I would also suggest using all lowercase letters especially if you are going to use the RootsWeb file manager to upload your files. You are also missing parts of your page which you apparently have removed. Look at the source code for your page and check it versus what is in the original template http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/css-layouts/mabry-mill/mabry-mill.html Your doctype is not longer there as well as the opening and closing html tag. See this article for more help http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/html-document-structure.html on the basic structure of an html document. While the origianl template uses the xhtml doctype, you can easily change it to html transitional BUT you will need to add this to the top of your page <....!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <.....html> just before the opening head tag and this to the end of your page <..../body> <....html> Remove the extra dots at the beginning. Pat