{"id":737,"date":"2009-03-04T18:44:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-04T23:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=737"},"modified":"2011-04-06T18:11:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T23:11:03","slug":"simple-forms-for-quick-access-to-major-sites-from-your-own-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2009\/simple-forms-for-quick-access-to-major-sites-from-your-own-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple forms for quick access to major sites from your own pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedigitalmachine.com\/wiki\/index.php\/Forms_for_Portals\">Forms for Portals<\/a> project is a simple collection of forms to help you quickly access google, dictionary, wikipedia, imdb, maps, yellow pages, etc. from your own web pages.  I&#8217;ve mentioned my portal before, hopefully the new article makes it all easily digestible (and yummy!).  It&#8217;s a reaaally oldskool approach, yet still pretty useful IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>And just so I&#8217;m eating my own dog food&#8230;<\/p>\n<style type='text\/css'>.ffpButton {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 1.2em;}<\/style>\n<style type='text\/css'>.ffpText {font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 1.2em;}<\/style>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search\" method=\"get\"> <input name=\"num\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"20\" \/> <input class=\"ffpText\" maxlength=\"255\" name=\"q\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"g\" \/> <input class=\"ffpButton\" name=\"btnG\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Google search\" \/> <\/form>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search\" method=\"get\"> <input name=\"db\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"*\" \/> <input class=\"ffpText\" maxlength=\"50\" name=\"q\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"c\" \/> <input class=\"ffpButton\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Dictionary\" \/> <\/form>\n<form id=\"searchform\" action=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search\" method=\"get\"> <input class=\"ffpText\" name=\"search\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"w\" \/> <input class=\"ffpButton\" name=\"go\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Wikipedia\" \/> <\/form>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/find\" method=\"get\"> <input name=\"s\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"all\" \/> <input class=\"ffpText\" name=\"q\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"i\" \/> <input class=\"ffpButton\" type=\"submit\" value=\"IMDB\" \/> <\/form>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\" method=\"get\"> <input name=\"f\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"q\" \/> <input name=\"source\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"s_q\" \/> <input name=\"hl\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"en\" \/> <input name=\"geocode\" type=\"hidden\" \/> <span id=\"so\" style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p><select name=\"mrt\"><option selected=\"selected\" value=\"all\">All results<\/option><\/select><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p><input class=\"ffpText\" title=\"Search the map\" name=\"q\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"a\" \/> <input id=\"q_sub\" class=\"ffpButton\" name=\"btnG\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Google maps\" tabindex=\"2\" \/> <\/form>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/yp.yahoo.com\/py\/ypResults.py\" method=\"get\"> <input name=\"stp\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"a\" \/> <input name=\"tab\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"B2C\" \/> <!-- you'll want to adjust these for your location... --><\/p>\n<p><input name=\"city\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"Holly Springs\" \/> <input name=\"state\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"NC\" \/> <input name=\"zip\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"27540\" \/> <input name=\"country\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"us\" \/> <input name=\"msa\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"6640\" \/> <input name=\"slt\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"35.637900\" \/> <input name=\"sln\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"-78.836200\" \/> <input name=\"cs\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"5\" \/> <input class=\"ffpText\" name=\"stx\" size=\"24\" type=\"text\" accesskey=\"y\" \/> <input class=\"ffpButton\" name=\"Submit\" type=\"submit\" value=\"Yahoo Yellow Pages\" \/> <\/form>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Forms for Portals project is a simple collection of forms to help you quickly access google, dictionary, wikipedia, imdb, maps, yellow pages, etc. from your own web pages. 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