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New Sandvox Tips PDF for FaceBook Fans

tips-ebookWe've created an eBook (PDF book) called "One Hundred and Something Tips and Tricks for Sandvox" for fans of our new Karelia Software Page on Facebook and it's already being called a "MUST READ for all Sandvox users."

become a fanWe're sure you're on Facebook, right? Come by and make yourself a "fan" of Karelia Software, and download this eBook!

Oh, and while you are there, we hope you'll make a note on our Facebook "wall."  Really, we won't mind!  Upload a picture of you showing off your Sandvox website, or with whatever your website is about!

Dec 15, 2009 4:29 PM

Adding Site-wide Search in Sandvox Pro

The Sandvox Yahoo! group recently discussed adding a form to one's Sandvox website to enable visitors to search the site.

For a website to have its own truly built-in search function, it would have to have its own index of the contents of the website. That's beyond the scope of this article, though it could be set up by somebody who is handy with working with the "back end" of a website by installing a search engine like the open-source DataparkSearch like we do for our documentation website, or one of the many commercial search engines around there.

searchformsFor most Sandvox Pro users, on the other hand, it's actually easy to add a form for searching the website by using some other company's index of your website. Many of these have free options, or paid options if you don't want to show their advertisements.

There are several that we've found: Google Custom Search (or Google Site Search, which is geared toward larger businesses), PicoSearch, FreeFind, and FusionBot, to name a few. These will provide a form that you can paste into your website (as a Raw HTML pagelet in Sandvox); searchers will get their list of results from your website.

Be sure when you are creating the form that you specify a compact width, so that it will fit in the 200 pixels width of most pagelets on Sandvox sites.

Dec 7, 2009 9:49 AM

Sandvox Features

  • Drag-drop-publish website creation
  • Build a 5-page site in 20 minutes or less
  • No HTML expertise required
  • No design expertise required
  • Easily add photos, videos, forms, and much more to your website
  • Generates HTML5 websites compatible with all popular browsers on Mac and Windows platforms, iOS devices (iPhone, iPad)
  • Generates search-engine-friendly code to aid organic discovery on Google, Bing, and other search engines
  • iMedia Browser integration
  • More designs (now over 60 to choose from) NEW
  • More powerful architecture and editing engine NEW
  • Inspector with more options NEW
  • Photo galleries with “lightbox” effect to pop out of your page NEW
  • Slide shows to flip through multiple images NEW
  • Social media integration objects NEW
  • HTML Objects: Use raw HTML to inject custom HTML or CSS and JavaScript, PHP, embed codes, etc. NEW
  • Built-in jQuery support NEW
  • New Cocoa plug-in API NEW
  • “Lion” Features like full screen mode and version browsing NEW

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