Website search function

[printerman]

Thanks caspar thats a very nice offer. Works very busy but the fact the firm is a bit skint is making me look at the roles different people have in the place and there value to our employee( if you say what i'm saying). I'd love to say yes, but i can get a lot of brownie points for doing this (especially that my boss the production manager has handed in his notice this morning!, a complete coincidence) and now there is a new position going.



Thanks again for the offer and any future help you might want to give is much appreciated.

Thanks again and have a good xmas!

[ikthius]

I think the google suggestion is best, I personally tried it ages ago, but it did not work for my site, maybe I never had enough hits.

ik

[printerman]

Thankyou all very much for your help....


Can i ask one more question?!

If i want to use pictures whats the best format (bmp, jpeg) and also what is the best quality to use..i read somewhere that after a certain point it doesn't get any better it just takes longer to load
Thanks again.

[altis]

Try this thread:

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/showthread.php?t=6064

[ikthius]

jpegs, are probably the best to load, they are quick, BMPs are slow because they are larger in kilobytes

ik

[printerman]

I'm sorry!!!! I know i'm being a pest but i need more help....i'm cracking along great guns thanks to all your help....small file sizes for pictures etc....very help!
I need another favour.....i'm after a customer enquiry box....just a box about the same size as i'm typing in right now. With send button on the bottom.....i know i'm always after freebies but i just can't do it...i've tried to edit the other search function themelon did for me but i don't know what i'm doing. I was going to say this will be the last thing i need but i know i'd be lying 'cos there is bound to be something else.

Thanks guys and gals.

[ikthius]

you can make a text area in html, and you can make the buttons and submit, but where will you be submitting the text to?

ik

[ikthius]

the bits you change in themellons post I have highleighted red change them to your webpages home do not forget the last / e.g. www.woskf.co.uk/

<HTML>
<BODY>
<FORM method=Get action="http://www.google.com/search">
<TABLE bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<tr>
<td>
<INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=25 maxlength=255 value=""><INPUT type=submit name=btnG VALUE="Search">
<input type=hidden name=domains value="http://www.cableforum.co.uk"><br>
<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="">World Wide Web<input type=radio name=sitesearch value="http://www.cableforum.co.uk" checked> Name of Your website
</td>
</tr>
</TABLE>
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

[printerman]

I'll be submitting it as an email to our sales department.

[Mr_love_monkey]

you're going to need formmail, or php or something like that to do that

[printerman]

Ah! Okay, thanks for the info....i've been trying to stay away from having our email address directly on our website, so that we don't get spam.....if i have it as a link (an icon or something) will the spam software still be able to see the address as source code or will it be less likely to attract spam?

[ikthius]

some spider type programs can search websites for such addresses, and spam through them.

ik

[printerman]

hmmm, so you are saying i'm going to get spam whatever i do?

[ikthius]

if you put your website up, you may get spammed, but I haven't yet, and my site has been up for 1 year now.

but I get spam to my ntl account which I hardly ever give out.

ik

[printerman]

Hi all,
I showed the site i'd/we'd put together to my boss and he's very pleased so thank you all very much.I know i'm a pest BUT i have another little problem! My page has 8 hyperlinks along the top of the page. When you click a link it changes from black to our company colour(blueish). The first link on the far left is obvoiusly black to start with but this link takes you back to the home page (index.html) which is my opening page (if you see what i mean). Right, when you click one of the other 7 links the first one changes colour. I guess its soemthing to do with the coding as it leaves the first page but i don't want it turning blue when i haven't clicked on it.

Wheoowww,, hope that makes sense.

Remeber i'm using a editor(webplus) which isn't great but i can't code html so i'm doing the best i can..

Thanks in advance for any help all...when this site is finished and up, i'll post a link so you can see my/(YOUR) work...and please don't tear me apart too much.