Using the NOF Google Search Component, you can easily include a Google WebSearch module into your Web site. The NOF GoogleSearch Component offers you three options for the GoogleSearch: Google Free WebSearch, Google Free SafeSearch and Google Free Web Search with Site Search.
This tutorial describes:
How to use the Google Search Component
Adding the GoogleSearh Component to a Page
Configuring the Google Search Component
Publishing the Google Search Component
You can access the NOF Search Component on the NOF Standard Components toolbar, in Page View:
If you do not see it on the Custom Components toolbar:
From the View menu, select Toolbars > Standard Components.
Select NOF Standard Components option (if it is not already checked).
The NOF Standard Components tool will appear on the Custom Components Toolbar.
You can easily add a NOF GoogleSearch Component to a Web page:
Launch NetObjects Fusion and open the site where you want to insert the Google Search Component.
In Site View, create the page where you will place the GoogleSearch Component (if you have not already created this page).
In Page View, select GoogleSearch from the Standard Component toolbar.
Draw a box on the Layout to indicate where you want to position the GoogleSearch Component.
The GoogleSearch Page dialog box appears.
Usually, when you first place a component on the Layout of a page in NetObjects Fusion, the Component’s dialog box appears. If you close the dialog box and you want to configure the component’s settings in a future moment of time, follow the next steps:
Select the component on the layout. You will see the component’s name in the NOF Google Search Properties window.
Double click the Editor from the Properties window and the dialog box appears.
On the Google Business Solutions section you have to select one of the three options from the Select drop-down list: Google Free WebSearch, Google Free SafeSearch and Google Free Web Search with Site Search.
After you select one of the three options from the drop-down list, you may select a country if you want to restrain your search area by using a linguistic tool. This option offers you the possibility to use the Google Interface in any language you want.
When you select a country, its domain name extension
appears on the text box placed beside. Instead of choosing a country from
the drop-down list, you can directly type in that text box the domain
name extension without selecting a country. On the published site the
Google Search Interface will be in the language that corresponds to the
domain name extension.
Using this configuration, you can:
Search the entire World Wide Web;
Customize the appearance of the ‘Results’ page;
Select the color of the Google background logo: White, Gray or Black;
Specify the target for the Search Window (it can open in the existing window, or the results can be displayed in a new window).
Select a new text for the Search Button, in the ‘Button text’ text field.
The default text that will appear on the Search Button is Google Search.
Using this configuration, you can:
Search the entire World Wide Web with filter for adult content;
Specify the target of the Search Window and the caption for the “Button text” text field.
Using this configuration, you can search the entire WWW and specific
domains.
In the panel, you will see and configure the following fields:
Site Search Option:
Domain: Specify the domain names that you want to search. Separate the names with a semi-colon.
For each domain, a radio button will be added to the component. Selecting a radio button while conducting the search will conduct the search only in the selected domain. The domain you are searching must be in the Google database;
Optional Customization of Result Page:
URL of your logo: the URL for a logo that will be displayed on the search results page;
Alignment of your logo: alignment of the logo on the search results page;
Google logo background color: color of the Google logo that appears on the search page;
Background color: background color for the search results page;
Text color: text color;
Link color: link color;
Visited link color: visited link color;
Background URL: background color for the URLs;
Active link color: active link color;
Important text color: important text color;
Faint text color: fain text color;
Results: you can endorse the window with the search results in your site or you can open it in a different window. Select ‘Existing window’ if you want to endorse the search results or select ‘New Window’ if you want the results to be displayed in a new window;
Button text: the
caption of the search button.
To see this component in action:Create a Home page (if you have not already created this page)
Place three instances of the GoogleSearch Component and configure the details for each option
Publish your site remotely.
After publishing, the page will look like this:
