Creating A Website With Search Features

[Guest]

Hi all,

I've been trying to search the internet looking for a book/article/instructions on how to build a website with a search function. So far, I'm doing a decent job of the website, but I need to find out how to implement a search so people can type in a keyword and instantly see the results. I guess it would help to say that I'm trying to open up a stock photography portion on my website to make a few extra bucks. You can see what I've done at my website below. But I figured somewhere out there there are website gurus that may be able to point me in the right direction by sending me a link, or a reference to a book, or maybe something else. If anyone out there knows, it would be a great help and I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

www.dmassphoto.com/stock

[Dannik]

<form method="get" action="http://www.google.com/search">

<input type="text"   name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value="" />

<input type="submit" value="Google Search" />

<input type="radio"  name="sitesearch" value="" />

 The Web

<input type="radio"  name="sitesearch" value="dmassphoto.com" checked />DMassPhoto<br />

</form>[/code]


That is, if you want to use Google's search system instead of something homegrown.

[Guest]

Thanks Dannik,

I've seen the Google search thing and it may/may not work for my uses, but I was really trying to find something more internal. Basically, my site will have a lot of photographs with metadata embedded in them as well as captions and stuff. I need to find a way for people to easily find a photograph or set of photographs. I'm a novice dreamweaver user, and may have to take classes, but I can't seem to find search instructions in any books or online, yet there are tons of websites with them.