Hi there!

I'm currently working on (or attempting....) http://www.ToffeeSearch.com - Google, customised for fans of an English Football/Soccer team.

I have two quick questions that I'm hoping someone can assist with - Despite seeming simple, I've spent hours with no joy.

1. Can anyone suggests the best way to go about implementing RSS feeds?. I've read tons of tutorials etc and opted for one method by using Feedinformer but it takes an age to update the feed. A story is published and the feed isnt updated for several hours. Any help with this - think "Idiots guide" would be massively appreciated.

2. Lastly, I've masked the domain (with godaddy), however when a search is ran it displays the servers main domain. (The search does work, just click about in the grey box if you want to test what I mean, I cant get the white box at the moment...) Does anyone know how to keep the domain masked?

In order to get a white search box background, since you have specified the textarea input with id="q", you might try the following css:

#q textarea{background-color: #fff; color: #000; }

You may also specify

padding: 0 6px;

if you want left-and-right white space between the edge of the box and the edges of the text, and you can specify font characteristics as well if you wish.

I performed a search on your search engine, and got the grandoldteam domain name, but then I hit the Back button once and saw the search results under your ToffeeSearch domain. Maybe you can employ some kind of Javascript to write to the address bar, but perhaps the best approach would be to host the ToffeeSearch domain name.

Originally Posted by L a r r y

I performed a search on your search engine, and got the grandoldteam domain name, but then I hit the Back button once and saw the search results under your ToffeeSearch domain. Maybe you can employ some kind of Javascript ...

Here is another take on that Javascript thought: I just got through visiting the site again and performed a search.

As before, the grandoldteam domain name came up, but then I did a Back button press and saw your toffeesearch domain come up, still with the search results displayed.

I then visited a search result page and saw the correct results.

I also visited the page, performed the search and then hit back button twice to return to the search box with my search term still showing, ready to submit.

If we use Javascript to manipulate the browser's history, we can have these desired results:

Visit toffeesearch.com
Enter a search term and submit.
Get kicked back one page behind the scenes, and see the search results under the toffeesearch.com domain.

So I looked for a back button code and found code that uses a form and an onclick event to take the visitor back when he clicks a button on the page.

From http://javascript.about.com/library/blback.htm :

<form><input type="button" value=" &lt;-- BACK "
onclick="history.go(-1);return false;" /></form>

We need the part about "history.go(-1);return false;" and execute that function only if the browser history is on the grandoldteam site. So do a Javascript equivalent of

IF $pointer="grandoldteam" THEN
"history.go(-1);return false;"
END IF

That is BASIC syntax that I was using from my days on a Radio Shack Color Computer that I used in this example.


If you need, go into any number of Javascript tutorials for the specifics on how to do Javascript. I have not done Javascript for years myself, so I am not up on the proper syntax of the ideas that I have just presented.

I see that you did get your search box fixed for a white background since my first visit. I hope this helps point you in the right direction for the balance of your question.