The search function has been preliminarily activated. You can add a search box to the bottom of your page by turning on "add search footer" in /editpage (click on [editpage] at the bottom of your page.) This performs a brute force case insensitive search of all the text on your page (including your archives, or in other words, through all the text that's ever been on your page.) It is very simplistic at this time. It just tries to match the entire string, so a search for 'george bush' will not find any mentions of 'george w. bush'. Also it searches without thought to html, so a search for 'nasa' will return every post that includes the text string 'nasa', even when that string is not visible - for instance if the post contains a link to "pictures.nasa.gov/images/spacecraft.gif", but doesn't otherwise use the phrase 'nasa'.
This will be expanding. Soon there will be a seperate search page you can go to for more advanced features, plus the ability to search more than one page at a time. Still, this is a start.
My search button works well for hits; if there is a miss, you get a page that says "Return to" but isn't linked to my page. Viewing the html, it looks like all it needs is my URL in the quote marks.
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This will be expanding. Soon there will be a seperate search page you can go to for more advanced features, plus the ability to search more than one page at a time. Still, this is a start.
- jim 5-16-2001 8:13 pm
My search button works well for hits; if there is a miss, you get a page that says "Return to" but isn't linked to my page. Viewing the html, it looks like all it needs is my URL in the quote marks.
- tom moody 5-17-2001 12:48 am [add a comment]
OK, thanks, I think it should be working now.
- jim 5-17-2001 6:59 pm [add a comment]