Search help
- Type your keyword(s) in the box provided
- Select the areas of the site to search within – the whole site is selected by default
- Select whether to search for all your words, or any of them (see below)
- Click the "Search" button
all words, or any. Example:
looking for john smith with all words selected, will find pages with BOTH of the words "john" and "smith"
somewhere on the page (though not necessarily in that order or even next to each other);
looking for john smith with any words selected, will find pages with EITHER of the words "john" OR "smith"
somewhere on the page.
Obviously, if you are searching for only one word, it makes no difference which option is selected.
Separate keywords with spaces.
Searches are not case-sensitive.
The search-engine will rank the results according to how many of, and how often, your keywords are found within the pages
of the site.
If the "Awards" section of the site is included in your search, then the Gallery of Winner's database within that section will
also be searched, and the results presented in a separate list below the text-search of the site. These results will not be ranked
as are the text-search results. You may prefer to use the Gallery of winners
dedicated search.
If the "Art Day" section of the site is included in your search, then the databases of Children's Art Day events within that section will
also be searched, and the results presented in separate lists. These results are not ranked.
Most "common" words such as articles, conjunctions, conditionals and the like will be ignored by the search-engine,
and needn't be entered as keywords.
Apart from words such as "o'clock" or names like "O'Connor", omit the parts of words that follow an apostrophe; eg, enter
"Children" rather than "Children's", "pupil" rather than "pupil's", etc. This will increase the accuracy of results returned by the
search engine.
