Daily web design tips

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Please your visitors

People come to your website looking for something, make it easy for them to find it. The best way to do this is by adding a search feature to your website, and who are the masters of search? Google.

You can add a Google search box that will only search content within your website. It looks like this (Go on try it)

Site Search

This site only

Search results by Google

To add this to your site you need to copy and paste the below HTML [Define] into your web pages. How to add HTML to your website

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">

<div style="border:1px solid black;padding:6px; width: 200px;">

<strong>Site Search</strong><br />
<input type="text" name="q" size="25"
maxlength="255" value="" /><br />
<input type="checkbox" name="sitesearch"
value="giantmouseblog.blogspot.com" checked />This site only
<input type="submit" value="Search" /><br />
<font size="2">Search results by Google</font>
</div>

</form>

Easy modification to work on your website

You will need to change "giantmouseblog.blogspot.com" to "yourwebsiteaddress.com", remember not to include the www. part, otherwise it will search this website instead of yours!

Now you will have pleased visitors who can find information they are looking for, and are more likely to return.

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