Author: John McLear

How to enforce safe search with google search cse

Posted on by John McLear

Enforce Safe Search by passing name=safe value=vss

I assume VSS stands for Very Safe Search

This will disable the ability for a user to change their safe search settings from strict to off.

Here is an example for you

<form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box">
  <div>
  <input type="hidden" name="cx" value="000753778363423014722:xie0vouxf9m" />
    <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
    <input type="hidden" name="filter" value="1" />
    <input type="text" name="q" size="35" style="font: normal 25px Arial; line-height:25px;" id="q"/>
    <input type="hidden" name="safe" value=vss />
    <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Safe Search" style="font: normal 25px Arial; line-height:25px;" onClick="checksearch()"/>
  </div>
</form>

Quick Primary School Link Creator

Posted on by John McLear

Worst post title ever.  I just did a mock up for Ian Addison and I figured I would share it.

Only took 1 minute, it is just an idea and may never be made, I quite like it, what do you think?

Something similar will already exist, I just don’t know about it?

Either way I could make something like this in 1 to 2 hours from start to finish so if you like it let me know and I will make/host it.

The reason I used shapes/colours instead of thumbnails was so a teacher can say “Click on the red love heart” or the “yellow circle” instead of click on the thing that looks like a granny racing a unicorn.

Double.

I added an admin screen design so Ian could see how to edit a URL.  It detects the title from the URL and I added a new site button to this view.