As human interactions become more and more digitalized, your business and personal websites have become far more important than a couple of decades ago.
\nWhen a user lands on your website, it's essential to help the user find the right information as effectively as possible. Otherwise, the user may leave the website, losing potential business opportunities or visibility.
\nOne of the important ways to improve website design and help users find the information they want is to make the site searchable using the search functionality. It enables users to find content by searching for particular words without understanding or exploring the entire website or app, a quick or less complex way to find content.
\nLet's discuss why your website needs to have search functionality and its benefits.
\nIf you have a large site -- assuming an e-commerce website or having hundreds of pages, users could find it extremely challenging to navigate to what they're looking for. In this situation, a search box allows your users to see what they need with a quick search.
\nRegardless of where each user lands on your website, a search box will help them quickly find specific topics or pages.
\nSimply, the more straightforward it is for users to navigate around your entire website, the more probable that they will explore it.
\nIf it's difficult for users to track down what they're looking for, they'll head off to somewhere else that can fulfill their requirements. Help your users engage quite a bit on your site with a search textbox.
\nAssuming you can incorporate your search bar into your Google Analytics, you'll have the option to track how frequently individuals look for a specific term. You can utilize this data for on-page content, order details, or billing plans.
\nFor example, if the most searched item on your website is Perfume, you could create a separate section or link on the home page so that users can directly navigate to that item faster.
\nIn this mobile era, it's critical to ensure your site and applications are mobile-friendly. Whenever users are on their mobile phones, they could be out and in a hurry, and a search feature will allow them to search and navigate to a specific page rapidly.
\nPeople are habitual to using some features to the level that they don't think much before using them. Search functionality is one of them. In this digital world, you can't have a site that doesn't offer an ideal user experience. Keep in mind that this minor component can significantly help increase your website’s engagement rates.
\nAs the number of site visits increases, it indicates an improvement in brand engagement. Users visit your site because they are happy with the information and experience. This helps to raise your brand image among other competitors in your market.
\nA positive user experience will lead to more visits to your site. As the visitors' count and time spent on your website increase, search engines like Google will consider your website performing well and of good quality, which will further elevate your page rankings in search results.
\nYou will also find some new keywords from users' searches to search for similar or different information on Google or other search engines. These search keywords can be those words that you want to target in SEO and other marketing and search strategies.
\nAs you expand your website with new content, blog posts, or new products, it can make your website cumbersome and affect user experience. Accordingly, finding an exact item can become difficult. However, with the right site search strategy, website size or navigation does not hamper the user experience. Users can find what they need and get ideas for other related items.
\nIn a nutshell, search functionality on your website helps offer a smooth, consistent experience for your users. And a well-implemented search functionality has more potential to ensure the website's success.
\nTry not to stop your users from exploring all the features your site offers; add search functionality to your site soon!
\n","frontmatter":{"date":"February 24, 2022","updated_date":null,"title":"Why Implement Search Functionality for Your Websites","tags":["Search"],"coverImage":{"childImageSharp":{"fluid":{"aspectRatio":1.5037593984962405,"src":"/static/455ec841671081b53edc59522c28a138/58556/search-functionality.webp","srcSet":"/static/455ec841671081b53edc59522c28a138/61e93/search-functionality.webp 200w,\n/static/455ec841671081b53edc59522c28a138/1f5c5/search-functionality.webp 400w,\n/static/455ec841671081b53edc59522c28a138/58556/search-functionality.webp 800w,\n/static/455ec841671081b53edc59522c28a138/99238/search-functionality.webp 1200w","sizes":"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"}}},"author":{"id":"Neha Vyas","github":"nehavyasqa","avatar":null}}}},{"node":{"fields":{"slug":"/engineering/angular-roster-tutorial/"},"html":"If you're not familiar with Angular I'd highly recommend heading over to the Angular JS resource site and checking out what all the fuss is about. Once you've got a basic understanding of Angular and how to get it up and running this tutorial will show you some of the basic, but awesome features supported by Angular.
\nToday I'm going to be building out a roster for my fantasy football team. If that's not your cup of tea then by all means feel free to substitute the content for whatever floats your boat.
\nThere might not be an I in team, but there are certainly players, so before we do anything in the HTML we'll have to make all the necessary components in the controller. First up let's make an array of all the players we want to include (initially at least) on our team.
\nEvery player is a special little snowflake, and our player objects should reflect that! With this in mind we will make each player an object with his or her own properties like: name, position and team. Here's an example of what our array might look like.
\n$scope.players = [\n {name: "Tom Brady", position: "QB", team: "Patriots"},\n {name: "Tony Romo", position: "QB", team: "Cowboys"},\n {name: "Peyton Manning", position: "QB", team: "Broncos"},\n {name: "Rob Gronkowsi", position: "TE", team: "Patriots"},\n {name: "JJ Watt", position: "DE", team: "Texans"},\n {name: "Lavonte David", position: "LB", team: "Buccaneers"}\n];Now that we have our roster we can go back to the HTML and make use of Angular's ng-repeat directive. We put the ng-repeat on the element we want to be repeated, keeping in mind that all of its children will also get repeated.
\n<!--\n {{player.name}} - {{player.position}}\n-->Okay so if you're new to Angular there's a couple of things going on here. First like I said we've got the ng-repeat placed on the li (the thing we want repeated) which will create a new li for each player in the players array we defined earlier in the controller. Next up the data binding is being implemented here with each player name as well as position being used as the values for the list item.
\nWhile we're on the topic of data binding, let's throw this in just for fun. Pretty simple, it will calculate the length of your roster and keep it updated as any changes are made.
\n<!--You have {{players.length}} on your roster.-->Next let's add some search functionality to our list. Sounds like a lot of work, probably have to iterate over the array elements, match them to the argument being passed in and... just kidding. With Angular it's a breeze.
\n<!--\n...\n{{player.name}} - {{player.position}}\n-->Donezo.
\nLet's imagine one of our fantasy players isn't performing too well (ahem Peyton...) and we want to give him the boot (get it now?).
\nWe'll add a little delete button beside each of our players' names, and since we're doing it for each of them guess how we're going to implement it? That's right with ng-repeat we already have on the list items!
\n<!--{{player.name}} - {{player.position}}\n ×\n-->I'll also tack on a little button with an \"x\" as the content (as a side note, when you want to do this use × instead of \"x\" it looks much nicer). Then we'll attach an ng-click with a delete function where we pass in $index.
\n$index is a neat little feature available with certain Angular directives, and ng-repeat is one of them. It will be assigned the index value (starting at 0) of the position it holds within the array being used with the ng-repeat.
\nThat's all we need in the HTML, so now back in the controller we create a $scope function by the same name used in the HTML and give it a parameter of index. The body of the function is a single line which makes use of the array.splice method where we pass in the index of the item we want to delete, and then 1 to denote that it's only 1 item we want removed.
\n$scope.delete = function (index) {\n $scope.players.splice(index, 1);\n};Now since we just cut someone from the team, we've gotta find their replacement. Let's chuck a few text inputs in there, give them all a respective ng-model to bind with their value and finally another button with an ng-click but this time calling an addPlayer function.
\n<!--\n Name:\n \n Position:\n \n Team:\n \n Add Player\n-->This one's a lil' different from delete, but still super simple. Working from the inside out, we will create a new player object which gets the name, position and team properties from the ng-models on the HTML and then push that object to the players array. After that we clear those values just for some good housekeeping practice.
\n$scope.add = function () {\n $scope.players.push({\n name: $scope.new_name,\n position: $scope.new_position,\n team: $scope.new_team\n });\n $scope.new_name = "";\n $scope.new_position = "";\n $scope.new_team = "";\n};Now since this was all done purely on the front end, and didn't make use of cookies, localstorage, or sessionstorage none of this will persist (aka be saved). For that kind of support you'd need some sort of back end, which is beyond the scope of this article.
\nThis was a very rudimentary example of what's possible with Angular JS, so if this interested you at all please dig a little deeper and play around with Angular some more!
\nThat brings us to the end of this tutorial. Feel free to check out the finished (yet unstyled) product here on Codepen
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