Crikey - it’s Wednesday already? My, time is flying! And with it, stealing all my time for being online! Nevertheless, I will spare an hour to write my weevils, rather than, well, sleep.

Dedicated you see.

So this week’s weevil is search forms. Not just general search forms as such, but providing one on your site.

I’m all for making things easier, and let’s face it, who wants things hard, anyone?

In my attempt to make things easier for you, the still-wet-behind-the-ears reader (or the proudly-established-18plus-poofy-lion-reader - of whom I love!) I have gone and dived off the white cliffs of Dover…

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… er no… sorry! Wrong message! (The white cliffs of Dover may be pretty, but they are way too far away from me!).

Um no, for you, (as I was saying, before rudely interrupted…) I have added a search form to the site! Woo! Partay! Flying flapping frogeees!

*cough*

Actually, the search from is probably entirely useless to you unless you happen to be a regular visitor, or came here to find something useful. If the latter of which, you must have the wrong site, honestly!

So why add it?

Well, I personally find hate hate hate looking endlessly for something on a site, to the point I can give up. But I have super-powered perseverance, so don’t generally give up. Which means hours upon hours of web crawling.

Gah. Not fun.

Use-ability is important, and crucial to any site, so maybe my visitors want to check how many times I’ve said poofy lions, or really see whether I’m artistically talentless via my doodles.

So yes kiddos. Search for stuff! It’s great!

WordPress blog owners… there is the basic search form and function available (search.php and searchform.php need to be within your theme’s folder to work), but this lacks super-massssive-xray-beam powers.

In other words, it’s limited to being a rather silly search function that only does a half-arsed job.

There are many plugins out there to help do the other half of the job, I started with one, but switched when the first was only doing 3/4 of the job, which ain’t dandy!

I haven’t played with Movable Type enough yet but there appears to be a basic search function.

Cutenews? Ah, not sure.

Actually for all none major-blog-platform-powered sites, I would guess the answer would be using Google search?

Bottom line - if your site is growing, and building up many reference points, it may be worth considering getting your site search-friendly.

I would highly recommend getting some sort of search-ability up on your site, because it makes your site look ultra cool and important…

Plus, it might actually be of use to some of your readers and visitors!

Go for it! Take the plunge!