I've put together an html/css site for a client and he's now asked for a 
search feature.  This isn't something I've done before, and I would be 
grateful for any advice on the simplest way to deliver a relatively elegant 
solution.

 I'm rather hoping that there's a fairly straightforward walkthrough I can 
source to show me how to add it to the site (and since I'm html-only, I'm 
hoping that it uses words of few syllables!).

 Many thanks in advance

Henry Ross <HR@HR.invalid> wrote:

> I've put together an html/css site for a client and he's now asked for a
> search feature.  This isn't something I've done before, and I would be
> grateful for any advice on the simplest way to deliver a relatively elegant
> solution.
> 
>  I'm rather hoping that there's a fairly straightforward walkthrough I can
> source to show me how to add it to the site (and since I'm html-only, I'm
> hoping that it uses words of few syllables!).

Would a Google-based search be acceptable? It's free, and one advantage
is that people are very familiar with using Google searches and
interpreting results.

Daniele

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from D.M. Procida contained the following:

>>  I'm rather hoping that there's a fairly straightforward walkthrough I can
>> source to show me how to add it to the site (and since I'm html-only, I'm
>> hoping that it uses words of few syllables!).
>
>Would a Google-based search be acceptable? It's free, and one advantage
>is that people are very familiar with using Google searches and
>interpreting results.

This is a useful article
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2006/02/16/search-engine-showdown.html

Sphider looks promising if you want to install your own. Requires PHP
and MySql though.

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"Henry Ross" <HR@HR.invalid> writes:

> I've put together an html/css site for a client and he's now asked for a 
> search feature.  This isn't something I've done before, and I would be 
> grateful for any advice on the simplest way to deliver a relatively elegant 
> solution.

I have used ksearch with reasonable success.  It was easy to set up
but can on index inside HTML and (with xpdf installed on the server)
PDF files.

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Ben.