I sent this message yesterday, but from the wrong box. I forgot I changed all lists to this one because of problems with the email. LOL Boy am I embarressed! 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
At 10:07 AM 11/2/2010, Sheri Bush 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/ ============= If I was taking over the site and clean it up, the first thing I would do is develop a template on which to base the site. The first thing I would make sure I did was add the navigation to every single page. Right now if someone enters by anything other than the "front door" or Home Page, all they can do is return to the home page. Depending on what editor you are using to develop the site, you could use server side includes for those parts of the page that remain the same so that you only have to edit the ssi page to make changes. The downside to using them is that you cannot see them on your local computer unless you make sure of Barry Carlson's work around using javascript so that you can view them on your local computer. Search box can go on the side menu if you choose to use that as in this site http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ or on the top as part of the masthead like on this site http://www.genealogy-web-creations.com/ More on using server side includes http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gearyfamily/server-side-includes.html including more resources. I believe the search uses javascript to achieve the popup results. Pat ---------- Pat Geary, Microsoft MVP - Expression Web We discuss FrontPage and Expression Web http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/frontpage/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gearyfamily/expression-web/ http://www.expression-web-tutorials.com/ Migrating from FrontPage to Expression Web EBook Revised to include EW 3.0 http://frontpage-to-expression.com/