Is there a search function connected w/ Milonic

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Re: Is there a search function connected w/ Milonic

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Ah! OK, now if you are talking about people that are on your site and want to search for something, you could create a search item in your menu, not a search box, but an item that when they clicked it, would open Google in a new page. So, for example you have the last item as Search Doug's Stuff. When they mouse over that you have an item that explains / gives an example of how to enter the search and telling them to click here. That click would then open up the google search page as a new page. I hope that gives you an idea. I will put something together and post for you so you can see what I mean, but in the meantime, if I have been clear you could play around with it. You might be able to use the target features to control the window that is opening, that is making it a bit smaller than your page, position it, etc.

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Re: Is there a search function connected w/ Milonic

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Hi :)

OK, I am putting what I've made up here for you to copy, but you should be aware that depending on the search term, if some other site has that term and ALSO includes your url someplace that site will also come up, I got two sites when I did the following search "bible" site: http://www.dougsstuff.com and got your site, mostly and then also these two sites

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http://www.battymp3.com/download-mp3/greg-koukl
http://www.webstatsdomain.com/tags/man+and+birds/
That second site is something to do with a Google Ad and reads like this

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man and birds :dougsstuff.com
www.webstatsdomain.com/tags/man+and+birds/
Ads by Google. Doug's Home Page. www.dougsstuff.com. Doug Wolfe's Web Site of religious information and lot's of computer. Tags: bible, jesus, computers ...
Anyway, here's what I made up. Add the following as the last item in your main menu

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aI("showmenu=search;text=SEARCH Doug's Stuff;");
Next, add this new submenu to your array file

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with(milonic=new menuname("search")){
style=style2;
left="offset=-50px";
aI("text=Using this Search option: Click the below link to open the Google Search Site in a new page. Limit your search to Doug's Stuff: enter your search word or words in quote marks followed by: site:www.dougstuff.com. <br><br> Example: \"evolution\" site:www.dougstuff.<br><br>Be aware that this will mostly limit the search to Dougs Stuff, but if another site references your search term and includes my url in its pages, that site will also appear.<br><br>;image=;type=header;headerbgcolor=#ffffff;headercolor=#0066CC;itemwidth=310px;");
aI("text=Google Search Engine.;imagepadding=5;url=http://www.google.com/;target=_blank;targetfeatures=height=800 width=830 top=100 left=50;");
}
'
With this it will open a new window that is going to be 830px wide and 800 high set at 100 px from the top of and 50 for the left. The reason I did that is that it's a pretty good size window but should be smaller than the existing web page so that your site page also shows a bit behind that search window. So, you can try that and see what you think. I think it will work :)

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