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| 306517 | 2004-12-21 21:11:00 | Hi guys :) Long time since I've been here. Don't spose anyone remembers an old user named honeylaser? :o I come in search of help. Any assistance appreciated. I've created a site in Dreamweaver MX for the use of our helpdesk, it's located on a local server, accessed through our mapped K drive. It's fairly simple, with under 100 pages, nothing dynamic at all, just straight HTML. Now my boss has asked me to add a search function, which has caused me no end of grief! I've tried various java applets and javascript search dealies, plus using the simple ASP.NET functions in DWMX, but can't get anything working. There are a few neat looking scripts which can be downloaded, but none of them seem to work with local sites unless you create a database. I'm prepared to create one if I have to, but again, I have no idea. (How stupid do you think I feel right now?) Anyone have any ideas as to how I could go about adding a search? Help appreciated :) Oh... and Merry Christmas to all. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 306518 | 2004-12-21 21:29:00 | Yep, I remember you, *cough* Ieee reememberr you OOoooOOOoooOOooo *cough* Welcome back :D Anyway, enough of the corny song, don't know too much about what your trying to do but does this help? (www.google.com). I was kind of think along the lines of Google desktop search if you didn't want to do the database thing, but guessed you'd need to wall it off. Lo & behold there's something on Google just a few from the top. I did an OSS search because I presumed you'd like to start with something that isn't going to ding the budget too much although, I also guess your running an MS server OS (should be ok though). |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 306519 | 2004-12-21 22:56:00 | Hmm, I dunno about Linux. I'm wanting to stick with the basic stuff, and hopefully something that won't take too long to set up! Yeah, it's all MS AFAIK. All I know is that the files reside on a shared drive so we can all access them :) I had a look at perlfect, but that's all way above my head. I'm regretting sticking my hand up to volunteer to do this stuff! Thanks for your reply :) |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 306520 | 2004-12-21 23:02:00 | It's not so much the Linux stuff, but the OSS (open source software) that I was thinking of. Lots of good free server, web app and database stuff to be had that will run on Windows just fine. | Murray P (44) | ||
| 306521 | 2004-12-21 23:20:00 | because your code is all clean(ish) html and you've just started putting together your intranet KB, I'd suggest you look at a content management system. These are modular and highly customisable, and all come with a search function. They're fairly easy to learn and administrate, and should provide your intranet with some futureproofing. The advantage is that your'e starting with a good foundation and you can build a well structured intranet on top of that. I on the other hand have to overhaul an extensive existing intranet KB that uses messy file structure and messier code (curse you frontpage 2000!) I've got to strip all the extraneous code, clean up the file structure, convert it all to CSS and prepare it for porting into our new CMS intranet (we're using MS's solution, but outside of work I like MamboServer). Fun and games :( :rolleyes: |
whetu (237) | ||
| 306522 | 2004-12-22 00:01:00 | I'd suggest you look at a content management system. These are modular and highly customisable, and all come with a search function. I hear what you're saying there. Unfortunately though, I don't think they'll pay out any $$ for that sort of thing. I had to bring my own copies of Dreamweaver and Photoshop in to use because they wouldn't pay for a licensed work copy, so I doubt they'd agree, though it's a nice thought. It was pretty much my own initiative setting the thing up. I'd prefer to have it in HTML format rather than in a Robohelp (www.macromedia.com) style program, but if I can't get a search function up and running, they may very well insist that it all goes into a program like Robohelp (and where's the fun in that??) I'm thinking there has to be a reasonably simple way. But search me as to what that simple way is! :o |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 306523 | 2004-12-22 00:59:00 | I think Google could be your answer, in at least two ways. Google offers a search engine access that puts it's search engine on your own page, with an option to select the WWW or only within your site. Examples at www.dansdata.com and www.aardvark.co.nz. SiteSearch (services.google.com) Or you could Google for an alternative solution - try site search for example. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 306524 | 2004-12-22 01:48:00 | I think Google could be your answer, in at least two ways. Google offers a search engine access that puts it's search engine on your own page, with an option to select the WWW or only within your site. Examples at www.dansdata.com and www.aardvark.co.nz. SiteSearch (services.google.com) Or you could Google for an alternative solution - try site search for example. It's a local site and won't be searchable through google. I tried that channel earlier on. Seems that it's quite easy to create a search function for a live site accessible via the www, but not so much when the data resides on your network drive! I've downloaded and tried approx 15 different search packages since I started looking 2 weeks ago, so most of the common ones that pop up in google haven't done the trick. Thanks anyway. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 306525 | 2004-12-23 08:21:00 | I use Fluid Dynamics Search Engine www.xav.com but it runs on Perl. I find it a good free search engine and have installed the pdf plugin. Might not work for you but could be worth looking at. | berryb (99) | ||
| 306526 | 2004-12-23 08:41:00 | I've seen http://www.htdig.org/ used a lot. Never had to set it up myself so I don't know how easy it is to get working. | bmason (508) | ||
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