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TIP 243: Adding a Search Engine

Name : Atomz Express Search

Developer : Atomz

Source : http://www.atomz.com/golive/

Cost : Free for sites up to 500 pages

Atomz Express Search is an easy way to add search capabilities to your site. The service is free for sites up to 500 pages, but you should contact Atomz directly for pricing for larger site installations. With the Atomz extension for GoLive, you can quickly and easily insert the Atomz Search form into your Web pages. The extension supports multiple Atomz Search accounts and multiple Atomz customer logins so a Webmaster can easily manage multiple sites and accounts all from within GoLive. If you don't already have an Atomz account, sign up at www.atomz.com.

Once you've installed the extension, be sure to quit and restart GoLive. Then select Special > Insert Atomz Search to insert the search form into the current document. You can also drag and drop the Atomz Search object from the Atomz section of the Objects palette in the Layout Editor.

You'll be asked for your email address, password, and site name, and the extension instantly writes all the code you need for a fully functional search engine ( Figure 243 ). It really is that easy!

Figure 243. If you can drag and drop, you can add a search engine with Atomz.

TIP 244: Automatically Converting Hyperlinks

Name : URLize

Developer : GoLive Product Team

Source : Sample Extension in the GoLive SDK folder

Cost : Free

Converting a bunch of email addresses or Web site URLs in a page to hyperlinks can be a really tedious task. Links pages and employee directories are perfect examples of Web pages with lots of hyperlinks or email addresses. It's not hard, but it's really boring and error-prone .

The URLize extension automates hyperlinking and is included for free as a sample extension with GoLive. If you don't have the Adobe GoLive SDK:Samples folder in your GoLive application folder, you can always download the latest version of the SDK and the sample extension at http:// partners .adobe.com/asn/golive/download.jsp.

To convert a link, select the email address or URL in the Layout Editor and choose Extensions> URLize text > Convert a selected URL or email text to a link ( Figure 244 ). GoLive instantly converts the selected text, such as http://www.adobe.com, into a link to itself.

Figure 244. Select one of the URLize commands to automatically convert hyperlinks.

You can also convert the entire page at once. If you have several URLs and email addresses to convert in a page, select Extensions> URLize text > Convert all URL and email text to links. What a timesaver!

TIP 245: Developing Data-driven Sites with OmniPilot Lasso

Name : Lasso Studio 8 for GoLive

Developer : OmniPilot Software, Inc.

Source : www.lassostudio.com

Cost : $199 US

Lasso Studio enables Web developers to build visually rich, powerful, data-driven Web applications using the familiar GoLive interface ( Figure 245 ). Solutions built using Lasso Studio can be deployed on any server running Lasso Professional 8 on any platform. Lasso Studio can connect to a variety of databases, including FileMaker Pro, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, Frontbase, Sybase, Openbase, PostgreSQL, Oracle, and hundreds more.

Figure 245. Lass Studio adds dozens of new objects to the Objects palette, a Lasso Studio menu, and three new palettes in the Window menu.

Some of the features Lasso Studio adds to GoLive include the following:

Display database tables and fields right within GoLive.
Preview data live from your database right within GoLive.
Syntax coloring for LDML code, including tags, keywords, strings, and expressions.
Code completion for all LDML tags.
Quickly build an entire data-driven Web site using the Site Builder wizard.
Lasso tags are represented as icons to minimize visual disruption of your layout while designing.
Instantly change the active database via the Database Selector.
Visual editing environment provides more than 1000 Lasso tags.
Build and edit robust programming expressions with guided ease.
Allow workgroup editing on a shared database without requiring direct access to databases.
Includes single- user version of Lasso Professional 8 server software for development and testing.

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