DNN Gods,

So typically a website has a earch box in the top banner section of the site (say, to the right of the logo) and the results of the search are displayed in the content of the site within the page.  If I coded this myself from scratch i would simply create a little form in the top section and then write separate code to display the results further down the page on submit.

My question is - how is this typically achieved in DNN?  A typical module does everything within itself (if I am correct) and both form and results returned need to be with the same panel - Right?  OR wrong?

Please excuse my ignorance if I'm missing something obvious - I basically want to add a search box to the top of my DNN page and have the results returned within - As a side question with the addition of such modules, how does one get the data into the database in the first place - ie know which tables etc. a typical module populates - Does the module typically create these new tables itself upon install?

Thanks again peeps.