A new newbie with a question about freesites

[rabbitho]

Originally Posted by Licker4U

After you make the first site, make a new folder with a new name. Copy the "pages" from the first site and paste into the new folder. Change the title on each page. On the gallery pages use SSI to call the images from the original site. Same for any banners, other images, etc. Only takes a few minutes to make a mirror. I submit to around 85 LL's with no problems. (I also submit to most of those here at GG&J that have link lists, mainly just to "spread the love")

Er..."SSI"? I don't know what that is. I use Dreamweaver.

I'm guessing that you have your recip tables already built and stored in a text file, and just copy/paste those to the individual index.html pages?

Does anyone here use Chameleon's LL Submitter? I'm trying the demo to see if it'll help automate the duplication process, but so far, I'm extremely underwhelmed.

[horndog]

I do almost exactly what licker does if I mirror a site but I don’t use SSI, because I don’t know how to use it. I put my pics or movie clips in an image folder or the root folder for that freesite and for each mirror you can link to the pics in the image folder and then the only thing you have to copy are the pages of the freesite in a different folder which can save you space. Most LL’s but not all don’t won’t their link on a doorway page so your only choice is to create a new folder with a new index.html page.

Example:
Root folder
Image folder( all the pics and banners in each folder link to this images in this folder)
Mirror folder 1
Mirror folder 2
Etc,Etc,etc,etc,

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by rabbitho

Er..."SSI"? I don't know what that is. I use Dreamweaver.

I'm guessing that you have your recip tables already built and stored in a text file, and just copy/paste those to the individual index.html pages?

SSI=server side include. Yeah, I make a recip table and name it something like: lesbian1.txt. I upload all the .txt files to a folder I call recips. On the free site index page where I want the recip table to be I put: <!--#include virtual="/recips/lesbian1.txt" --> and it magically appears. (notice there is a space after .txt") For the next recip table, I call it lesbian2.txt and so on. When you copy your first index page to make the first mirror site all you have to do is change the number 1 to a 2 etc. If a LL drops dead or I decide not to submit to it anymore, I copy the recip table where that LL's recip is, put in a new LL and rename the .txt file lesbian1-1.txt .

On the gallery pages, instead of putting in the whole path to the original images I put ../(folder where images are)/image1.jpg, etc. And instead of having my images in a folder on the root, I put all the images and banners in the original site folder. That way I don't have to keep coming up with folder names for images on the root.

Hope that explains it.