Resources - Zoom Search Engine Tutorials - Search Layout
The search result page layout can be modified by clicking 'Configure' and then selecting the 'Results Layout' tab from the panel.
Checking the boxes in the 'Search results layout' section of the panel changes the information shown for each search result on your page. The handy preview pane at the bottom of the panel gives you an idea of what your end result will be.
Search Results Layout
Result Number - All search results are numbers from 1 onwards. 1 being the results which is most relevant to the keyword searched on.
Title of Page - This displays the title bar from your webpage ie the content between the <title></title> tags.
Meta Description - Meta tags are contained within the head section of your website. Checking this options will display your meta description of your website within your search results.
Image - Images can be associated with a particular webpage. This is done by inserting the following code in to your webpage, replacing the path and image name to your image and the correct path to where it is located:
<meta name="ZOOMIMAGE" content="images/zoomImage.jpg">
You can apply a different image to each page, the images are then displayed to the left of the search results.
Context Description - This displats the selection of text that contains the keyword searched for.
Terms Matched - Number of occurances of the keyword searched for within that particular document.
Score - Score based on the relevance of that result.
Date - Displays the date the webpage was created or last modified. If the date is not available, the date of the search is shown.
File Size - The size of the page the result is found on, the size does not include the images on the page.
URL - The full address of the page the result is on.
Highlighting Options
There are 2 highligting options available, they can both be used or used on their own.
Words matched in search results - hightlights the keywords searched for on the search page.
Jump to match and highlight in document - When the user clicks on the result the relevant document opens and scrolls down to the area where the keyword is first located, it also highlights the keyword.
This option requires an additional .js file called highlight.js to be applied to every webpage that you need this feature on. This file is included in the Zoom Search Engine folder on your c drive. Use the following code between the head tags of your pages:
<script type="text/javascript" src="highlight.js"></script>
Also add the following onload instruction in to the first part of your body tag:
<body onload="hightlight();">
Fonts and Colours
Clicking on the 'Modify template' button opens up your template file in a chosen html editor. It is best to use a proper html editor rather than ms word.