Search box to this site will help a lot to the members.

The search feature does work great but some of us can't see it.  It's invisible to me.  I just happened to find it one day while mousing up to the blue "Donate" box, which I can see.

The search button is just above the pink "Go" box that follows the Jump to a Forum drop-down menu, which I can see.  The logout button, which is also invisible to me, is above the search button. 

I agree it would be helpful to make the search feature more prominent.  Thanks Mods!

Thanks, Mods, I'm at 100% but tried going to 75% and still couldn't see the buttons. 

Maybe it's a simple issue of font color or background color?

On a maroon background, it says, "Welcome, b" and the rest of my avatar name is invisible.

The next line, also maroon background, says, "Member List" then the rest of it is invisible.

However, I know from mousing over it, there are six buttons I can't see.

my profile / my preferences / logout / help / rules / search

i think we determined that if i set my browser to less than 100% I could see the search function. I think it is the most awesome thing about the site.. Perhaps just moving the 'search' flag closer to the center could help.

One thing I've found very frustrating with the search feature on this site-I've been unable to search for very specific combinations of words, for example, "swollen breast" without getting all the posts with "swollen" in them and all the posts with "breast" in them, even if the words are not together. I've tried putting the phrase in quotation marks, and using the "+" between words, with no success.

Any suggestions?

Mary 

Thanks Mods! I tried it and it works!

Mary 

"by moderators:  

YramAL, I run into this too, and although the solution isn't ideal, when I really, REALLY want to find a specific combination of words, there is a way that usually works. Since BCO is crawled by Google, I go to the main Google search page and type in (using your example, and with quotes and format as below)

"swollen breast" site:breastcancer.org

It tells Google's search to find only the combination of words within the quotes, and only on our specific site. If the site has been crawled since the post, it'll be there.

We'll add this to the tech team's list too, thanks!"

This is super interesting.

I know little about forum software really, but that is an excellent tip for searching a 'cheap' forum i know of.  Thanks  This really is an excellent, excellent site.  To think one can come here for laundry tips, dinner ideas, jokes and fashion hints is a big plus.