Add search box to the index page

• initial draft

the search box will only search within the maven site.

Now, that is a big box!!!

Isn't there a way to make the Google logo a bit smaller? (I guess there are legals considerations there).

For the design part, I would prefer 2 separate boxes for search and download.

Would it be possible to add a radio button to include search in the mojo.codehaus.org domain (in addition to maven.apache.org) (maybe legal considerations there too)?

• applied dennis's suggestion

Using the original proposal, I added a small javascript that sets focus to the searchbox so that you can start typing right away.

I also moved the image outside of the form and removed a paragraph to minimize the space above the image.

I like the separate box with no image better - can we get that one as a patch with the focus javascript?

done

After a bit of research, it seems we have to keep Google's logo:
http://www.google.com/searchcode.html

So I guess we can still go for the smaller logo:
http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif

I guess the last version, with google Logo aboce the search box would be fine for me (but now, I'm just a user, so my view is not that important )

Submitted my recommended changes:

• Include smallest Google logo, for legal reasons
• Strip br in the box, as they don't have any use
• Change id of new box, and make use of classes instead
• Try to comply with XHTML standard. Only 3 issues remaining on this point, but they are already there in current version.

+ Make use of existing focus script (with improvement to Javascript code).

corrected CSS stylesheet

Corrected link to css (so that HTML page can be viewed)

I'm getting crazy.... Hope this time uploaded html will be right.

I guess this entry need a little clean-up (but I haven't got the necessary credentials).

The search box is way to huge and this really needs to be integrated as an option in the site plugin.

Someone can reopen this is they care. It's all Maven committers anyway now working on this.