Figure 11-7: Two styles of Yahoo! Map add-ons in Java

Drawer QR Code JIS X 0510 in Java Figure 11-7: Two styles of Yahoo! Map add-ons

When a visitor clicks the Yahoo! Map link, the browser leaves your site as it jumps to the Yahoo! Maps service Visitors need to click the Back button in the browser to return to your site The only way to have the map display in a new browser window is to use the technique I describe in the Creating your own Yahoo! Map link sidebar

Like Yahoo! Map, the Yahoo! Directions add-on provides an easy way to link to Yahoo! Maps service However, this add-on allows visitors to enter their address information and then receive customized driving directions to your location To add a Yahoo! Directions add-on to your Web site 1 Choose Insert Add-Ons Yahoo! Directions from the main menu The Yahoo! Directions Properties dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 11-8

2 Enter your address information in the spaces provided 3 Click OK The Yahoo! Directions add-on is added to your Web page, as shown in Figure 11-9 When visitors enter their address information and click the Show Me the Way button, they re taken to a customized page on the Yahoo! Maps Web site providing step-by-step instructions Like the Yahoo! Map link, the Yahoo! Directions add-on takes the visitor from your Web page Visitors need to click the Back button in the browser to return to your site

While the Personal Site Search (covered later in this chapter) allows visitors to look for content on your Web site, the Yahoo! Search Box enables people to start a search of the Web from your site You don t actually have to do much to add a Yahoo! Search Box to your Web site; just do the following: 1 Choose Insert Add-Ons Yahoo! Search Box from the main menu Unlike most of the other add-ons, the Yahoo! Search Box doesn t have any position properties, so it is immediately added to your Web page without displaying a dialog box A search box like this looks good in the top-left or top-right corner of your Web page Figure 11-10 shows the Yahoo! Search Box added to a SiteBuilder Web page

Just because you can add a Yahoo! Search Box to your Web site doesn t mean you necessarily should The advantage of having a Web search box on your page is that you can more easily get people to think of your Web site as a home base, so to speak, on the Web Your site becomes a good home page, not only because a visitor likes your site, but also because it provides Web searches The disadvantage of having a Web search box on your page is that once the visitor begins a search, he or she is whisked away from your Web page, maybe never to return

Perhaps the most powerful of all the add-ons that come inside of SiteBuilder is the Site Search add-on Once you add this search box to your Web page, visitors can use it to find content across your Web site as they search on a keyword or phrase

The Site Search add-on consists of two parts: The Site Search box: Visitors enter search criteria The Site Search Results box: Displays the results of the query You can specify what kind of page to display the results: A plain page created on the fly This is the default option An existing page in your site This page must be in the same folder as the page that has the Site Search box, which is typically the case with Yahoo! SiteBuilder sites unless you do something out of the ordinary A copy of an existing page on your site While the default plain page option is easiest SiteBuilder handles all the details for you when you stick with the default the resulting page appears quite vanilla and plain to your visitors As a result, I recommend creating a special resultshtml page that matches the design and overall look of your Web site and then identifying that special page as the target for the search results See 4 for more details on how to create a new SiteBuilder page