Creating "Quick Search" Links on your Landing Page

Concept

In addition to providing search tips for your visitors on your Landing Page, you can also list Quick Search links to help visitors find commonly searched for items in your collection. To view how these Quick Search links work, please visit our demonstration site, Corner Museum Center and click on any of the options under "Quick Searches". The links on this demonstration site go to the results page for a specific search in order to show multiple records relating to a certain topic; you can also make your links go directly to a particular catalog record to highlight a specific item.

The PastPerfect Online team is also happy to set up Quick Search links for you. We can also create more complex links with images. Please email pposupport@museumsoftware.com if interested.

This topic will discuss how to create Quick Search links similar to those you see at the Corner Museum Center demonstration site. Before following these steps please be sure to have created and uploaded data and images to your site.

Task

1. Sign into https://admin.pastperfectonline.com.
2. Select the Landing Page tab.
   
   
   
   
3. Locate where in the HTML you would like your Quick Search links to appear.
4. If you want to add a header for these Quick Search Links, type in: <h2>Quick Searches</h2>
   
   
   
   
5. Open a new tab in your internet browser and go to your PastPerfect Online site.
6. Perform a search for the first Quick Search link you would like to include on your Landing Page. We will do a Keyword Search for "Rocky Pine Ranch".
7. Copy the URL of your search results.
   
   
   
   
8. Return to the Landing Page tab in IMS.
9. To create a link for the Keyword Search results for "Rocky Pine Ranch" the HTML code is as follows:
   <a href="https://roundleft.pastperfectonline.com/Search?CurrentPage=1&search_criteria=%22Rocky+Pine+Ranch%22&onlyimages=false">Rocky Pine Ranch</a>
   • Replace the section in italics with the URL of your search results.
   • Replace the section underlined with the word or phrase you want to appear as your link.
     
     
   
   
   
10. Repeat these steps for each link you want to create. You may want to include <br> as a line break between the HTML code for each link so that they each appear on separate lines.
11. Once you have made your changes, click the Update Museum button at the top or bottom of your page to save the changes.
12. Click the Open Web Site link at the top of your page to see the new links on your site. You can style these links as you would any other portion of your Landing Page.

References

• Interface Management Site - Customizing Your Landing Page
• HTML Basics
• FAQ: PastPerfect Online "Quick Links"