Adding a search feature to your website

[CabinLIving]

Looking to add a search box feature, for around 500 pages which are asp pages on a Windows server.

Considering buying something like zoom as if you pay I can index my whole site and customise the appearance of the search results to suit the site.

Thought I would ask if anyone had a better suggestion.

I realise there's google search for your own site but I want something I can adapt.

 

[DesignerNick]

Are the pages dynamic from a database? It will be quite easy if they are!

 

[CabinLIving]

The products are on a database, but there are numerous information pages which may be searched for too. Looking for something that would cover everything.

 

[DesignerNick]

Are the pages from the db or a flat file static page?

 

[Posilan]

Is the website using an standard CMS (eg Joomla or Wordpress etc) or a custom site?

If a standard one, there will probably be many plugins available for it. If custom, you need a web designer/coders such as above to write one for you unless you use Google Custom (http://www.google.co.uk/cse/ - but not as reliable)

Steve

 

[DesignerNick]

If asp it might be a not very common one! Any good asp developer will be able to knock one up for you

 

[Posilan]

If asp it might be a not very common one! Any good asp developer will be able to knock one up for you

Just check and yes, OP's site is ASP.

More worrying is the op's header:

<metaname="author"content="northleithmill.com"/>

Attempt to reach it via browser:

403 - not found

Whois on that domain gives:

dhnewmedia.com as the contact.

Attempt to reach it via browser:
403 - not found

Whois:

Registrant:
Contact Privacy Inc.

Someone is hiding!

 

[CabinLIving]

Its a mixture some pages are static some are generated using asp / database.
Therefore not everything is on the database.

Zoom search will work I'm fairly sure and is likely to be less than than getting it designed surely? around $100

Presumably less strain on the server also.

The site is bespoke not wordpress.

Still in touch with the original designer. Not sure what happened to northleithmill I guess Shell shut it down.

I am also looking to create a product search panel with drop down menu options to narrow a product search This is slightly different.

What I want to cover is some customers may search a particular model name or want more detail on planning permission or another static topic page which would only be possible in a full site search feature.

 

[Posilan]

Yes, Zoom should work ok. You would basically need a solution that crawls your website if it's not all dynamic/database driven.

Steve

 

[CabinLIving]

unless you use Google Custom (http://www.google.co.uk/cse/ - but not as reliable)

Steve

Had a quick look a this and its a $100 per year rather than the one off payment option I mentioned, assuming you don't want google ads in your results.

I definitely wouldn't want ads in the results