Where are my friends that helped me with my php website?

[UDT89]

Well im looking for someone who knows how to edit php websites. My site in my sig, www.credit-card-approvals.com needs some work.

For instance there's always a ton of blank white space on certain pages that dont have a lot of offers, like student credit cards. I want to fill that space in with some search engine friendly content. If someone does do this for me I would like it explained to i can make changes.

Also I want to add page specific meta tags to each page as well as edit the links and titles. I heard you use mod rewrite for this, but i have no idea. Like instead of having /xxxxxxxxxx=Student, i just want /student to go to the page so people can remember the address.

Also on the main page I would like to add things to the left column. Like an "other resource" category for links instead of the footer, and a few other things.

Check out www.creditcardsapprovals.com The guy that makes the script, this is his personal site. And because he's good with php he customized his site exactly how i want it as far as search engine optimization goes, and added features.

If anyone can help, I am willing to pay for this so let me know. The big thing is that i just want to learn how to edit each page b/c its not like html where i just go to page.html and make the changes.

Thanks

 

[tyler811]

The reason you have so much white on the student page is because the things on the right are called "blocks" and things in the middle are called "Modules". If you add more content to that module then it will even out but if you take out the Google Ad Sense block they will be more even. Blocks load on every page by editing the each block yourself you can determine which ones show up. On your site you have left and right blocks on your "index.php" page (This being the home page) but click on your other pages and there is no right blocks.
I have mine edited so the same blocks show up on with each module or page. Modules make up the page. Such as "http://www.aaajim.com/modules.php?name=bf" will bring up my Bf42 server page and "http://www.aaajim.com/modules.php?name=stat" will bring up my Player Stats page. So the module makes up the page. You see the name of the module equates to the page. Some of my pages have more open space on boths side because the content of that module is more then the content of the block. From what I have seen this happens on all PHP sites but then there could be a way to fix it. I am rather new at this too only have started a month and half ago.
As far as meta the meta tags go, I do think not you add more different meta tags to each page as there is only one meta.php file and there is where you edit your Meta tags. You will this in the "includes/meta.php"
There is a module out there where you called up a regular HTM file. That is what I use for my stats and server info and a couple other pages. What happens is when you click on that page, the module is called up and the HTML page is called within it.

There are several good sites to go too and like here people are friendly and more then willing to help out.

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Getting back the Meta thing, if you use the module where you link to the MTML page, I guess you add meta tags to that html file but not sure. Hope this helps. Jim

BTW I an IP tracker block on my site that only I can see and it will even tell you the ips of the search bots on your site and each page it went to. I have search bots on my almost 24/7. An example would be I wrote a small article on Apollo Ohno from the Olympics on March the 5th and so far I have received 25 hits from that alone from Google. So not only do they search your Meta tags but also the pages themselves. It shows up about the middle of the page. Same thing with Yahoo and MSn search engines


LATE EDIT Again I am no means an expert, for the pros visit the links I have given. I hope this helps. jim

 

[UDT89]

Thanks for the help, though im still a little confused. LOL

 

[tyler811]

Tell me what? I will see if I can help.

 

[UDT89]

where do i find the modules to edit?

like to edit the home page i go to index.php and open it with notepad for simple things.

But if i want to add categories on the right i have no idea how to.

 

[tyler811]

TextTo edit the actual .php files you need to get into your server thru the FTP and you use notepad if you want. You dont edit edit the index.php you edit the module that appears with index.php file. For example my news module is called up with my index.php. You should start here Text and here. You can get to all your .php files thru the FTP on your host server but unless you know what you are doing, I would not mess with them. If you mess up one module or block it dcould bring your whole site dwon.

 

[UDT89]

so i guess it good to backup the files first before making changes.

is there anyone that wants to make a couple of bucks and do it? lol

 

[tyler811]

PM me what you want done. If I cannot do it then I will tell you I cannot do it. If I can I will