Add a searchbar to your website

[Millwood]

Hi
I'm building a website via dreamweaver 8 (im building my experience with it, i'm stilll a novice) and was wondering how I would go about adding a searchbar to my website, I've seen these around, but I am unsure how to go about adding it in my own site (see pic)

If anyone has any thoughts, I'd love to hear them. I don't see an option in dreamweaver to do this, do I have to do it through another software program?
Thanks.

 

[nightelf]

If you want to search your own site you need to index the info, have the info in a db, or use a Google search box.

Google is the easiest way.

I found this article online: http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_can_i_add_a_google_search_box_to_my_web_site.html

 

[Millwood]

Thanks nightelf. I was considering google, but I heard the adsense needs to come with the search bar.

 

[ChicoWeb]

Adding a search bar is easy, but adding one that functions is difficult. It's not as easy as adding a text area and magically expecting it to search your site. Their needs to be a script that indexes your content and what not.

I've used DGS in the past. Works great for static sites and takes some tweaking for dymanic sites. Hope this helps.

http://www.digitalgenesis.com/