Framed Search Pages

The overall idea of this assignment is to get you to do something creative with framing and search engines. Since we cannot write our own search engines (we don't have the time) we have to play with the HTML interfaces to those engines.

Create an initial page which, when I go to it, will open up into a two paned window. This window will have a table of contents in the left frame (20% width) and some opening page in its right frame. The table of contents should have (at least) two things on it:

1. A Search Page Table Of Contents
2. COMSC 111 Index page

This is crudely illustrated below:

When I click on the "Search Page Table of Contents" link I expect to see the right frame page split into two frames. The top frame of this split should be a list of the icons of four different search engines. This is crudely illustrated by the table below:

When I click on the icon in the list, the bottom frame should be a search form for the search engine. This search form should be a page created by you. You can copy the HTML present on the search engine page into the pages that you create. Look for the <FORM> keyword. Also, often times the companies already have the HTML written for you, look for it on their sites.

Search Page

The search page is a page that you create which is just the searching aspect of a search page. For example, here is what you see when you use the Yahoo! search engine. This is what I expect to see when I look at the search page corresponding to the Yahoo! search engine:

Notice that there is no extraneous information present. Also, the links must work. This means that if I search for something it should go to the search engine and return the results back into the main window. In other words, if I do a search the results will obliterate all of the framed search pages. The only thing in my browser window will be the result of the search.

This assignment may seem like a lot of work for little points but most of the HTML should be cut and paste.