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Essentially, if I wanted to learn how to add an HTML search bar code to a website and change the design, what type of language or classes would I need to take in a college? As a certification/continued education type of thing.

Web Desing/Programming? I assume the language is HTML.

I ask becuase at work I am managing a platform in where I am asking the IT of a costumer to install a search bar on their website, but most of them dont know how to add the code and more importantly - the design.

Work is willing to sponsor the class, but unsure where to start.

Thanks,

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The actual HTML part of that is trivial, as are most HTML things. You could just google that and have it done in minutes.

Making it actually search is harder but that depends on what you want it to do. If you want it to just match results on one field of a SQL table for example, that's another thing you don't need any sort of classes or certifications for.
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I already have the html code for the search bar that redirects to the website with the searchable database.

essentially what I need to learn is how to add that by html code to an existing website and then the design - example have my search bar be certain color while also having a tab that opens a second search that searches Wikipedia or google.

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Zangulus posted...

CSS.

Awesome, thank you. I assume I can get a verification of sorts, right? I mean, idk if you know lol.

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I'm not really sure what you're asking here tbh. I'm not super well versed in HTML but I'll try to answer off the top of my head.

I'm pretty sure you can use an input to do a search bar because it's really just a text field. CSS for styling. HTML doesn't actually do the search but you aren't really writing a search if you're just opening a Google/Wikipedia page. You just have the search link to that page with the search param it gets from the text input. I'm not 100% if pure HTML can do that but if not it's just some very small JS that could probably be done inline. Google already offers embedded search components though I think. Whatever route you take, this stuff is easy and doesn't need an entire class or cert to be done
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I own/run a small IT web development firm, I'll ping one of my developers for advice.
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as someone who went to college for four years, don't take any courses in college they will make it their job to teach you nothing
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Viking_Mudcrap posted...

Essentially, if I wanted to learn how to add an HTML search bar code to a website and change the design, what type of language or classes would I need to take in a college? As a certification/continued education type of thing.

Web Desing/Programming? I assume the language is HTML.

I ask becuase at work I am managing a platform in where I am asking the IT of a costumer to install a search bar on their website, but most of them dont know how to add the code and more importantly - the design.

Work is willing to sponsor the class, but unsure where to start.

Thanks,

I can't even begin to answer this question. The web development landscape is so ridiculous today that your customer could be running one of a hundred different web stacks, all of which handle HTML generation differently. There's a zero percent chance that anyone is still running statically generated HTML in this day and age.
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web design is a series of languages working together. it can be a little (lot) harder to learn than other platforms because of this. took years for it to "click" for me, and we never formally covered it at all in my whole degree. (though we did write basic web servers in the networking class IIRC.)

Viking_Mudcrap posted...

if I wanted to learn how to add an HTML search bar code to a website and change the design, what type of language or classes would I need to take in a college?

roughly:

HTML: defines the search bar on the page

CSS: makes the search bar look fancy (or also does mundane sizing/positioning and related things)

JavaScript: make the search bar do something (and can manipulate both html and css, so you don't necessarily need to use either of them directly)

HTTP: the protocol ("language") the browser uses talk to the web server

Web Server (IIS/Apache): handles HTTP requests, returning a stream of text, which can be a text file on the server (myfile.html) or something generated by a program

Web Application: a program written in some language (php/c#/other) running on the server that can respond dynamically to the request, and generate custom webpages on the fly. (ie: generate page 3 of thread 12345 of forum xyz).

AJAX: rather than just GET whole documents, the client side can talk to the server without refreshing the whole page. so you could click a button, send a request to the server, and then when the data comes back, add it to the existing page.

also, if you mean "add an HTML search bar code to a[n existing] website", note that you can't add server-side code to an existing site. you can only modify the client-side, and maybe can talk to your own separate webserver, though AFAIK there can be restrictions about that kind of thing (since that's the kind of thing malware will do a lot).
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Judgmenl posted...

There's a zero percent chance that anyone is still running statically generated HTML in this day and age.

True, but it's still helpful to know what kind of HTML you want to generate and how whatever they actually use generates it. I still don't really understand exactly what he's trying to do though
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