Google Search Appliance Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance - Manual (Page 56)

Google Search Appliance: Getting the Most from Your Google Search Appliance Search Experience 56
Using the Page Layout Helper
Even if you do not have any special knowledge of XSLT, you can effectively customize a Google Search
Appliance user interface using the Page Layout Helper. Use the Page Layout Helper to perform the
following tasks:
• Changing Global Attributes—In the Global Attributes section, you can quickly put your logo on
pages, specify the fonts to use, and add the HTML header and the HTML footer code used on your
web site.
• Changing the Appearance of the Search Box—In the Search Box section, you can make changes to
the Search text box and button, to the language and encoding, and select which collections are
available to your users to search.
• Changing the Appearance of Search Results—In the Search Results section, you can make changes
to the top and bottom of the results page, the content of results, and various page elements such
as links and dividers.
The Page Layout Helper has a Preview button that you can click to open a browser window and see
how the page will look when you save your changes.
The following figure shows the Global Attributes section of the Page Layout Helper.
Take note that the Page Layout Helper enables you to change only some of the elements in the XSLT
stylesheet. If you want to make extensive changes to a search appliance user interface, you need to
work directly in the XSLT Stylesheet.
However, you can start by customizing the user interface using the Page Layout Helper. After you finish
making and saving changes in the Page Layout Helper, you can make further changes in the XSLT
Stylesheet Editor. Any changes that you make with the Page Layout Helper appear in the XSLT
stylesheet.