[Richard Scott]

19/06/2015 at 8:26 am

Hi,

I’m looking at the ‘Computing and the environment’ website unit assessment for ISDD (Package 1 I think). Does anyone have a way to provide a *search facility* for websites which are developed locally and not hosted on a server? I will be using portable XAMPP or similar with the class but just wondered whether anyone has found a server-less solution for this one task.

Rich

[Anne Griffin]

19/06/2015 at 9:52 am

Serif Web X5, web authoring package, has tools for a Search box and search results. It also has a tool to insert the coding for HTML and Java script to fulfil the coding part of the assessment.

[Anne Griffin]

19/06/2015 at 9:52 am

Serif WebPlus X5, web authoring package, has tools for a Search box and search results. It also has a tool to insert the coding for HTML and Java script to fulfil the coding part of the assessment.

[Lee Murray]

23/06/2015 at 8:51 am

I used Serif Web Plus x5 last year and it worked beautifully.

[Richard Scott]

25/06/2015 at 11:02 am

Eureka!

Thanks for the help. I decoded the method Serif Web Plus uses to implement a site search. Inside the javascript it places the text from each web page into variables and it is actually these variables which are being searched. It cannot do this dynamically so the text is ‘hard-coded’ into the javascript.

I am now using this as a basis for pupils to implement their own searches and is quite an interesting exercise for them to be editing the code, copying in the text and changing the references to file names.

I hope this helps anyone else looking for a similar, serverless solution.