Adding a Rollyo searchbox to your blog

1. Log into Rollyo and click on the Tools menu at the top of the page.
2. Click on “Put a Rollyo Searchbox on your site”
3. In the “Searchrolls” box, choose your roll and click the right arrows button
4. Choose a style (plain, plainer, gray, black, red) and you’ll see a preview of what you Rollyo Searchbox will look like to the right of your style choices.
5. Copy the code from the box called “Cope and paste Code” [use Ctrl-C]
6. Go to your blog and sign in
7. From your Dashboard, click the Layout link
8. Click “Add a page element” in your sidebar and choose the one called “HTML/Javascript”. Click the Add to Blog button.
9. Paste [Ctrl-V] the content from Rollyo into the large box and leave the title bar blank.
10. Click the Save Changes button.
11. If you have several things in your sidebar, click and drag the new box so that it appears in the order you want and click Save.
12. View Blog.

Week 5, Thing 12: Roll your own search tool with Rollyo

So far I’m not too thrilled with Rollyo. I couldn’t figure out how to add it to my WordPress blog. I have a feeling that WordPress just work well with this code. Here’s a link to my “My London” search, http://rollyo.com/nellkatz/my_london/ . That was also difficult to find (or maybe I hadn’t had enough coffee yet).