Indexing a site

[Brian Robertson]

I have a web site that deals with railway history. The main body of the site
consists of tables. An example is:
http://www.britishrailways1960.co.uk/WLNCM01.html

Now then, the faults with this web site are many. It is badly designed, it
is designed with FrontPage and...... I could go on and on, and doubt you
people could go on and on and on and on.

In its favour, once you have found the table that you are looking for, the
information is (I think) clear. That's all that I am looking to provide. I
simply do not have the time to master too many web design skills. I know
enough that I can get 'beneath the bonnet' of html a little bit when I need
to and I am aware of how much more CSS could improve things, but I don't
need people telling me that I shouldn't be using FrontPage. I know!

What I would like to know is how I provide a search facility on the site.
Basically it is a list of railway stations in the UK. How can I increase the
functionality of the site by allowing people to enter a station name on the
front page and go to the table the covers it?

Any advice much appreciated.

 

[dorayme]

I have a web site that deals with railway history. The main body of the site
consists of tables. An example is:
http://www.britishrailways1960.co.uk/WLNCM01.html

Now then, the faults with this web site are many. It is badly designed, it
is designed with FrontPage and...... I could go on and on, and doubt you
people could go on and on and on and on.

In its favour, once you have found the table that you are looking for, the
information is (I think) clear. That's all that I am looking to provide. I
simply do not have the time to master too many web design skills. I know
enough that I can get 'beneath the bonnet' of html a little bit when I need
to and I am aware of how much more CSS could improve things, but I don't
need people telling me that I shouldn't be using FrontPage. I know!

What I would like to know is how I provide a search facility on the site.
Basically it is a list of railway stations in the UK. How can I increase the
functionality of the site by allowing people to enter a station name on the
front page and go to the table the covers it?

Any advice much appreciated.

Sounds like

http://www.google.com/cse/

might be for you. Pretty easy to use and does a good job generally.

 

[richard]

I have a web site that deals with railway history. The main body of the site
consists of tables. An example is:
http://www.britishrailways1960.co.uk/WLNCM01.html

Now then, the faults with this web site are many. It is badly designed, it
is designed with FrontPage and...... I could go on and on, and doubt you
people could go on and on and on and on.

In its favour, once you have found the table that you are looking for, the
information is (I think) clear. That's all that I am looking to provide. I
simply do not have the time to master too many web design skills. I know
enough that I can get 'beneath the bonnet' of html a little bit when I need
to and I am aware of how much more CSS could improve things, but I don't
need people telling me that I shouldn't be using FrontPage. I know!

What I would like to know is how I provide a search facility on the site.
Basically it is a list of railway stations in the UK. How can I increase the
functionality of the site by allowing people to enter a station name on the
front page and go to the table the covers it?

Any advice much appreciated.

How about a simple dropdown list?
Since the main page doesn't have all that huge of a list, I think a
dropdown list would suffice quite well.

 

[Brian Robertson]

Sounds like

http://www.google.com/cse/

might be for you. Pretty easy to use and does a good job generally.

Many thanks for that. I will give it a go!