Part IV: Making Money in Java

Maker USS Code 39 in Java Part IV: Making Money

Figure 14-10: The Build Index tab of FreeFind s Control Center, where you tell the search engine to start indexing your site

7 Click the Index Now link 8 In the dialog box that appears, click the Finish button to have FreeFind index your site FreeFind starts indexing your site and e-mails you when it s finished At the same time it does the indexing, FreeFind also creates a site map and a What s New page for your Web site

FreeFind gives you the HTML code for a basic search panel you can add to your pages All you need to do is copy and paste the version you want (either from the e-mail message or the attachment) onto the Web page on which you want to use it, and then upload the page to your site, and your search engine will be fully functional You can t use the search engine until FreeFind finishes indexing your site If you try to use it before FreeFind is finished indexing, you receive an e-mail message saying that the spider s indexing of your site isn t complete, and you get a Web page reminding you to wait Here s how to go to the goodies page and get your free code (if you re already in the FreeFind Control Center from the previous steps, you can skip straight to Step 3 here): 1 Go to the FreeFind Control Center at wwwfreefindcom/ controlhtml 2 Enter your Web site address, e-mail address, and password, and then click the Login button 3 On the main Control Center page, click the HTML tab (shown in Figure 14-11) 4 Scroll down the screen and view the different types of search panels that are available You can also click the links at the top of the page to jump to particular kinds of panels, such as ones that search your site only, as opposed to those that search the Web and your site 5 When you find a search panel you want, click inside the text area underneath it, which contains the HTML code, and select the code 6 Copy the code and paste it into your own Web page code If you want to customize and pretty up the search page, go to the Control Center page and click the Customize tab You can specify background colors and images, the type of logo that appears, the positioning of the search results, and many other options The choices that you make there also affect your site map so that both the search page and the site map share the same look

Figure 14-11: You find the code for different search panels you can use by adding FreeFind s search engine to your site on the HTML tab

If you re a go-it-alone type who doesn t want to rely on outside servers to process your site searches, you can drop in a Perl CGI script instead (See 8 for more on scripts) It requires a bit more technical skill than some tasks, or a little bit of help from your ISP or network administrator, but it s definitely doable, even if you don t know anything about CGI One of the best and easiest CGI scripts to use is Simple Search Written by Matt Wright, one of CGI s greats, Simple Search has been a venerable mainstay of many Web sites Figure 14-12 shows Simple Search on a Web page You can download Simple Search from Matt s Script Archive at world widemartcom/scripts/searchshtml To add Simple Search to your site, you first need to uncompress (unzip) the main file for the program (simplezip, simpletar, or whatever) and then make a few alterations in the enclosed sample files