Zoom changed my website!

[davek7]

I have just installed zoom search and I'm doing a test to see how it works. I pointed it to www.portlandwinegroup.com and after it spidered the page I did not see a way to get the code to place the search box on the page. And when I went to my site, all the listings are supposed to be left aligned and for some reason they are all centered! Why? I did not change anything. Did the zoom have something to do with it? And when I look at my site in Dreamweaver it is still left aligned.

I'm not happy with zoom at this point if its altering my site. I was going to learn it and help someone else with their site.

Please explain what is going on!


Note: I was able to go back into Dreamweaver and upload my site again and the alignment changed back. I found the form code on the help site. Do I have to add the path as in:

<form method="get" action="http://www.portlandwinegroup.com/pwg/search/search.php">
<input type="text" name="zoom_query" size="20" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>

Is this correct?
Thanks

[David]

It is quite impossible for Zoom to have changed one of your pages as a result of downloading the page. If this is what you are suggesting.

Much more likely is that you have tried to add a search box on your home page and made a simple HTML error.

I did some poking around you web site and found the working Zoom files uploaded at this URL.
http://www.portlandwinegroup.com/search/search.php

So to create a simple search form on your home page (or any page) you can add this HTML code.

<form method="get" action="/search/search.php">
<input type="text" name="zoom_query" size="20" />
<input type="submit" value="Search" />
</form>

[davek7]

Thank you.

[Ray]

... I did not see a way to get the code to place the search box on the page

For your information (and other people who come across this thread), this is answered in our FAQ here:

Q. How do I add a simple search box to each page of my site?
Q. How do I put search forms on pages besides the search page? (Or define my own search form?)

And is also documented in chapter 6 of the Users Guide:
http://www.wrensoft.com/zoom/usersguide.html

As well as the Help file that comes with the software, under the heading "How can I add a search form to my menus, main page, etc.?"