Best placement of text on page

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

Yes, I am working on that. I don't know if I can get rid of all the tables, but if I get it down to 1 or 2, should be an improvement. How do php statments/includes work? If I have a php statement on my index which pulls a list of links and descriptions, does Google only see the one php line? in that case I might be better off using a static list rather than a dynamic one..(?).

What I really want to do is move everything to Wordpress and have something along the lines of Ponygirls "blinklist" but I can't get my script to play well with Wordpress for now...

Luscious - I only have the main page on WP right now, all my category pages are still static html. I had to do an include for the main page, as I have link trades on there and couldn't change it to php, and was told that the SEs will see everything that the include pulls in.

I probably could integrate my category pages onto WP, but it just seemed to make sense to leave them as they were (due to the page extension problem) and so far this seems to work just fine, although there are a couple of minor glitches that I had to work around till I get to fixing them. I did have to play around with the WP css files to get it to look the same, but that wasn't too hard, I learned as I went. The best thing I did was to install a local server on my PC so I could test everything out before going live.

I really like being able to update the main page so easily, which is why I wanted to use WP in the first place.

If you need any help, let me know maybe I can point you in the right direction

[LD]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

Luscious - I only have the main page on WP right now, all my category pages are still static html. I had to do an include for the main page, as I have link trades on there and couldn't change it to php, and was told that the SEs will see everything that the include pulls in.

I probably could integrate my category pages onto WP, but it just seemed to make sense to leave them as they were (due to the page extension problem) and so far this seems to work just fine, although there are a couple of minor glitches that I had to work around till I get to fixing them. I did have to play around with the WP css files to get it to look the same, but that wasn't too hard, I learned as I went. The best thing I did was to install a local server on my PC so I could test everything out before going live.

I really like being able to update the main page so easily, which is why I wanted to use WP in the first place.

If you need any help, let me know maybe I can point you in the right direction

Cool, you've got one of the more innovative sites I've seen. You should probably trademark the name "blinklist" ...seriously.

Thing is, I want to be able to drop in my newest freesites, or premium sites in a sidebar widget which has php code which gets the info from the database. That's how I have it set up now, but ran into problems with Wordpress. They are looking into why it doesn't work...hopefully I'll get it set up soon. I too plan to leave all my category pages static, but I want the links to them in a sidebar widget named "categories".

Here's what I'm working on now...all f'd up but you can see how what I'm aiming for.

http://www.lusciousdelights.com/indexnew2.php


Wordpress just offers so much more in terms of moving stuff around and updating, like you say...and that's where I want to be. And if you get tired of looking at it, just drop in a new theme and presto, lovely new website. Also, it's cool to make post in the blog, maybe introduce a new sponsor, etc, etc. Such an easy way to add new stuff to a site. I already have my site on an "index.php" page, so my link trades should be fine.

I would be interested in knowing what you're using for a local server. Right now I'm doing the edit-upload-refresh routine.

[ponygirl]

for the local server, I use XAMPP - http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html, and WP actually has instructions on how to install into it - http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/

that way you can play around with the css and whatnot, preview it and everything, before you upload it to your remote server. It's saved my butt a few times

I'm not really good with php yet, so I'm not really using as much functionality as I can with WP. I hard coded my category links, and the right sidebar is a mix of php and hardcoded. It's not perfect because I get that damned empty outline running along the bottom right side. (I have to keep screwing with my css I guess) The important thing to me was the ability to post, and some of the plugins are useful. I've seen some (small) good results from it, so hopefully if I keep updating regularly it'll help.

I hate the sidebar widgets, I never can seem to get them working right lol.

(oh and btw, blinklist is already floating around out there, just not for what we're doing, and I think Preacher is the first one I remember to integrate blog posts into a LL, so I'm not that original hehe )