FreeFind Search Engine - anyone help please?

[EmmaGale]

After looking at one or two search engines recommended to me this morning, I decided to go for FreeFind. Its great - already working and Im sure I will be upgrading to the pro version pretty soon.

One of the problems I am having is with a template I am trying to upload in order that the results are displayed in the same format as the rest of my site.

When I upload it says that there are relative links. I have been through the code and I cant seem to see any (there were one or two). I wonder if one of you who has used this before woudl be able to take a look and see if you can spot where I am going wrong.

The page is uploaded at:

http://www.northdorset-pct.nhs.uk/searchtemp.htm

Many thanks
emma gale

[EmmaGale]

Problem solved! There was an image tucked away in corner with a relative link.

[EmmaGale]

Apologies i feel I am asking question after question but I would be grateful if anyone who has used this before can help me.

I have managed to get my template sorted now and the search results are appearing within it. The only problem is now is that the results are stretched out over the page. I think there is a conflict between my css and the code of the search results... Can anyone see what is going wrong?
http://www.northdorset-pct.nhs.uk/index1.htm

One day I hope to be able to answer others questions instead of asking all the time :o)

Kind regards
emma gale

[paulhiles]

The problem could be due to the fact that you have a 50 pixel padding set in your maincontent table cells? Try this below:

#maincontent td { padding: 5px;}

[EmmaGale]

WOWWWWW.. that was so simple and very difficult for me to spot!

Thank you for your help it looks great now!

Kind regards

[Larke]

EmmaGale, I had the same problem recently.

However, as my site has a lot of php scripts some of the results were very hard for me to deal with.

Let me explain further.

Some of my classifieds have long urls. That's the way it is because of the program I'm using (I tried many, like this one the best). So when someone does a search with freefind they get the loooong urls and it 'breaks' my custom layout for the find.

Without excluding the entire /classifieds/ directory from freefind, I could not work my way around that issue. And obviously I would not want to exclude that directory from any search. I read all the freefind faqs, library et all pages. And could not find a work around.

So while I liked freefind for html only websites, I did not like it for dynamic pages. At all.

Perlfect Search is what I chose to go with. If you find you end up with the same problem, check it out. Or others read this. I hope you see this before you decide to upgrade your freefind account.

http://www.perlfect.com/freescripts/search/