Hi,
Just thought i might share a few mods of which I have implemented at my site www.htmldirectory.com . I take no credit for these.. just based on others ideas and scripts.
The first one is recommend it, you can see it by going to any of the directory pages on my site and clicking the "Refer this page to a friend: here!" link at the bottom of each page. You'll need to get Birdcast by Bignosebird its a free cgi script which you can grab from:
bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml its very simple, all you need to do is make the site link to the url of birdcast and it does the rest! It can tell which url the user wants to send to a friend by seeing what the refer was.. So if a user wanted to refer a certain subcategory it would refer that subcategories actual url rather than just the main page. Saves a lot of time changing and configuring to suit the different categories etc. I've simply put the following code in my site_html.pl $site_footer:
<$font><font color="#FFFFFF">Refer this page to a friend: <a href="http://www.htmldirectory.com/birdcast.cgi">here!</a></font> and thats it.. its a great way to get traffic.. credit goes to bignosebird.com for making this great script.
The second one is also very simple it allows you to put a individual counter on each category page.. you can see it for example at www.htmldirectory.com/Promotion/ some may find it pointless but I find it great for users to see what areas are popular.. as youll see it has Promotion (149 views) to do this you need any ssi counter I use MultiCount 1.1 from www.cgiscripts.net and then you simply add <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/mcount.cgi" --> next to $category_clean in Category Pages section of site_html.pl. Of course your server will need to support ssi and your html files be .shtml if needed. The script will count individual websites. Credit goes to cgiscripts.net for this great application. Oh.. and dont ask me how to do this in templates, I dont use them.. I imagine it would be very basic.
Hope you find these of use,
David
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ICQ# 12748164
[This message has been edited by backup (edited March 02, 1999).]
Just thought i might share a few mods of which I have implemented at my site www.htmldirectory.com . I take no credit for these.. just based on others ideas and scripts.
The first one is recommend it, you can see it by going to any of the directory pages on my site and clicking the "Refer this page to a friend: here!" link at the bottom of each page. You'll need to get Birdcast by Bignosebird its a free cgi script which you can grab from:
bignosebird.com/carchive/birdcast.shtml its very simple, all you need to do is make the site link to the url of birdcast and it does the rest! It can tell which url the user wants to send to a friend by seeing what the refer was.. So if a user wanted to refer a certain subcategory it would refer that subcategories actual url rather than just the main page. Saves a lot of time changing and configuring to suit the different categories etc. I've simply put the following code in my site_html.pl $site_footer:
<$font><font color="#FFFFFF">Refer this page to a friend: <a href="http://www.htmldirectory.com/birdcast.cgi">here!</a></font> and thats it.. its a great way to get traffic.. credit goes to bignosebird.com for making this great script.
The second one is also very simple it allows you to put a individual counter on each category page.. you can see it for example at www.htmldirectory.com/Promotion/ some may find it pointless but I find it great for users to see what areas are popular.. as youll see it has Promotion (149 views) to do this you need any ssi counter I use MultiCount 1.1 from www.cgiscripts.net and then you simply add <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/mcount.cgi" --> next to $category_clean in Category Pages section of site_html.pl. Of course your server will need to support ssi and your html files be .shtml if needed. The script will count individual websites. Credit goes to cgiscripts.net for this great application. Oh.. and dont ask me how to do this in templates, I dont use them.. I imagine it would be very basic.
Hope you find these of use,
David
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ICQ# 12748164
[This message has been edited by backup (edited March 02, 1999).]
