Google Search Appliance Creating the Search Experience - Manual (Page 92)

Google Search Appliance: Creating the Search Experience Customizing the User Interface 92
With a few simple changes, you can make a user interface that is specific to your organization by
replacing Google elements with your own. The following figure illustrates a search results page that has
been customized using the Page Layout Helper.
For descriptions of the customizations in this figure, refer to the key numbers in the following table.
Working with the Page Layout Helper
Without working directly with the XSLT stylesheet, you can use the Page Layout Helper to customize the
user interface. All of the elements that you can change using the Page Layout Helper can also be
changed using the XSLT Stylesheet Editor.
The Page Layout Helper has the following three sections:
• Global Attributes (see “Customizing Global Attributes” on page 93)
• Search Box (see “Customizing the Search Box” on page 94)
• Search Results (see “Modifying Search Results” on page 96)
The following procedures describe how to change each element in a user interface individually.
However, you can also open one or all of the Page Layout Helper sections and make changes to all the
elements at once.
Key Customization
1 Replaced the Google logo with the organization's logo.
2 Added the header used on the organization's web site.
3 Changed search button text from Google Search to Find Results.
4 Added a menu to search by collection.
5 Added dynamic result clusters.
6 Removed URLs from result snippets.