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    Easy updatable + SE friendly?

    I am creating an outside website of my vBulletin forum, and was wondering what would be the best way to make it so I would only have to update one file to update the section of the site on all pages. ie. <?php include, <iframes, and so on

    What can I do to make it easily updatable like the vBulletin templates, but very search engine friendly?

    Thanks for your help

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    Hi blackice,

    This mod: How to create your own vBulletin-powered page! (uses vB templates) - vBulletin.org Forum is your best bet for making custom pages using the VB api.

    then, you can use a custom re-write rule (CRR) to make a more friendly name if the style they make is not to your liking.

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    Thanks for your replies guys

    Problem is I already have a custom designed, beautiful website done as a gift from my friend. Can be seen here:
    :: Hip Hop Related ::

    I like it alot, problem is, it is not very search engine friendly with the iframes. If there is not a better way, then I guess I can try to see which of these would be best for me.

    Also, I know this is off topic, he did the white space well..hes not a coder. lol, I am trying to duplicate his design with cleaner code, and am using cellspacing to create the white space, is there an easier way?

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    The flash menu doesn't help either...

    margins should be used for spacing.

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    Yea I know, I'm going to add the links to the bottom of the page also.

    How would I go about with the margins?

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    wrap your tables in a div, (or better yet, toss the tables all-together and stricly use divs/css) and apply a style="margin: 10px;" to the div.

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    Thanks for the spacing tip

    are <?php include's SE friendly?

    Only problem I can see with them is im including files like welcome.html. Which are called onto the main page of course, where CSS takes its toll and makes it look pretty. So what's stopping Google from indexing my welcome.html, which will just be a blank white screen with text on it?
    Last edited by Blackice; 05-25-2006 at 04:44 AM.

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    Anybody have any good suggestions?

    Ive updated it now using CSS for the white spaces.
    Hip Hop Related.com - The REAL Gathering of Hip Hop

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    Quote Originally Posted by Blackice
    Thanks for the spacing tip

    are <?php include's SE friendly?

    Only problem I can see with them is im including files like welcome.html. Which are called onto the main page of course, where CSS takes its toll and makes it look pretty. So what's stopping Google from indexing my welcome.html, which will just be a blank white screen with text on it?
    php includes are great. it complies on the server, and then renders 1 final document to diaply as page.php.

    to keep welcome.html out of the SE's, you need to add an entry for it in your robots.txt file

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    and that wont stop search engines from seeing it on the main page?

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    nope. it won't exist on the front page

    the "Text" and "html" from welcome.html will be included on index.php, and thus resides AS index.php.

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    Thank you so much Brian You've helped me ALOT!

    and hip-hop.php is just as good as hip-hop.html for SE's right? Last question i promise!

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    yes, extention has little weight differences.
    the best is NO extention, ie
    site.com/hip-hop/
    but php vs htm vs asp vs html vs cfm are all on the same tier.

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    Thanks Brian

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