May 04 2010

How to Add a Google Custom Search Box to your Blog

Filed under: Technology, Tutorials by: brennan

In this post you will learn how to create, customize, and implement a custom Google search box in your WordPress sidebar.

Building your own custom Google search box allows you to harness the power of Google’s search technology and apply it to your own blog. You’ll notice my custom search box positioned there at the top right of my site. Go ahead and give it a whirl to see how it works. You’ll notice that the results returned by Google are specific to only my domain and formatted to match the colors of my theme. The layout and coloring can be adjusted to match your blog, as you’ll see in the step-by-step guide below.

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Apr 08 2008

First Post

Filed under: Thoughts by: brennan

Hello World!

Welcome to HMTech, my personal blog that I started while traveling through Thailand in 2008. The main focus of this blog is technology, however there are also posts that discuss other topics such as travel, language learning, and philosophy. Although this blog was created at wordpress, it has since been moved to Bluehost, a web hosting service.

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