I thought it only made sense to incorporate some searching functionality into my site.

Even though I am still using Blogger.com as my blogging engine, I realized that I could still provide a search functionality via ColdFusion. To do this, I have used the Verity search engine included in ColdFusion.

Really, the search functionality is easier now than it will be once I develop a CF blog engine, because it is very easy to create a Verity collection by just scanning a directory of HTML documents.

One problem I experienced when implementing this feature, however, was the fact that I had a “Previous Articles” section in my navigation. The titles of those links would be pulled when performing searches, which was misleading and distracting. As a quick fix, I eliminated the portion of my navigation and reindexed the collection.

When I have a blog engine driven by ColdFusion and a database, this issue will be eliminated, because I’ll set up the Verity collection via a query instead of a path.