On: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:07 AM (UTC+13) Sheri wrote:- > Help! :o) > I have adopted a state on Trails of the Past and have encountered a > problem. I have never tried to write java, and am having trouble figuring > out where I can put the search function on this page. So far I have only > put my contact info on the page. The site needs a lot of work and I > suspect it was written with a program. I want to clean it up and make it > more organized and functional. I know the person that got it online > worked hard to make the search, Freefind, do more than I knew it could. > It presents results in a pop up. I want to keep the search function as it > is. Where can I put all the code on the page? Could it go into css? I > don't want to mess it up. Right now I can't tell if it should be before > <body> or after. To me it appears to be css, and the css is on the page, > not a separate file. I want a clean page and a css file separate. It is > just simpler and cleaner. How do I not mess up the search? > The site is here: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~intttp/ > > Thank you very much! -------------------------------- Sheri, I'd go along with Pat Geary's advice. Do not worry about the FreeFind search function script, as it can be configured to display on any of your pages, and the script can be saved as a separate file and called from each page. The location of the Seach Box should be standardized in each page and most likely would be included along with your navigation in a Server Side Includes file. On recommendation regarding the use of a text editor, as you probably have the default Notepad editor and I believe you would be better served by using something a little more user friendly such as - Araneae (spider) which is available as freeware from:- http://www.ornj.net/araneae/ Feel free to ask for help in how to do any of the things that have been suggested when you are ready. Barry
Again I sent this to a person not the list. I'm sorry. I think I have most of the problems worked out on the site. I have tried to organize, clean and simplify it. It has a good htm foundation with one of Pat's templates. But, I have rendered the search to a normal search. It no longer pops up. Is it because I put it in SSI? I still haven't identified what made it pop up to start with. The java appeared to be RW coding seemed to be on the page in a strange place. Everything looks ok to me. The search code looks the same as it was. Does the code need to be on the page to pop up? Thanks Sheri