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30. Add a Search Field to Your Website

Adrian W. West

(1)Colyton, UK

A search field can increase a website’s usefulness, or it can draw people away from your site, depending on how it is implemented. If you choose to provide search capability on a specific website, this presents no problem. The search results will concentrate on that particular website, but occasionally one or two other websites might show up among the search results.

A search field is unnecessary for small websites that have a good navigation menu. For a large site with more than 12 pages, a search field can be very useful

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The search facilities offered in this chapter ...

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