Hi All,
This is my first post to the forum, and I've searched on this topic extensively. I apologize in advance if I've missed the solution.
I use DNN to drive my entire site and I use Google AdSense to deliver ads on the site. I would also like to use Google AdSense for Search, which provides a Google search capability from within the site, but this breaks the DNN skin and does not function (as further described below). As with AdSense for Content, Google generates the HTML to be used for the search form.
Here is what happens. Suppose I create a brand new page on my DNN site. It uses the default Horizontal menu, fixed-width DNN-Gray skin with very basic CSS modifications (text colors and backgrounds only). I then add a Text/HTML module to the Content Pane. So far, so good. The page renderrs fine and everything is as it should be.
I then take the Google-generated "Search Box" code and paste it into the Text/HTML module (using the HTML editor) and update the page. When the update is complete, the Right Pane is rendered below the Copyright on the page -- the rendering is screwed up. Somehow the Google-generated code is interfering with the DNN module/page code.
As soon as I remove the Google-generated code, the problem goes away and the Right Pane goes back into place.
This is really an annoyance. I was relying on the ability to drive Google searches from my site, and need to resolve the problem. Unfortunately, due to the Google T&C I cannot share the Google-generated code with you. I have asked Google for help, but we'll see how long that takes. My hope is that someone here has, either directly or indirectly, heard of this problem in the past.
My first guess is that the DNN search form and the Google Search Box conflict. I think I might try modifying the default skin to not present the [SEARCH] in the menu bar.
Any thoughts/advice are welcome. This is a problem for the community at large, and I'm sure that I'm not the only one effected by this.
Thanks in advance.
Adam