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    Is Zend google freindly?

    in Frameworks

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    If you have links that navigate your entire site and sitemaps that are up to date Google will crawl your pages... Your language of preference has nothing to do with your page index. The google bot is also just a client that receive your page content on the client side. It doesn't care what happens server-side, because it can never get there to look at your source code.

     

    So the fact is, just get proper SEO techniques and continue to use Zend as much as your heart desires. The only thing you should watch out for is URLs. Google prefers keywords in your URL. To demonstrate, a URL like this: example.com/coffee/cappuccino is better than a URL like: example.com/coffee.php?id=9187.

     

    From your post it looks like your URLs are already search engine friendly, so you have nothing to worry about.  :)

     

    Hope this helps

    Enjoy your day  :)

    .htaccess or some setting

    in Apache HTTP Server

    Posted

    I recently formatted my developing computer because my Windows became corrupt, I also never worked with .htaccess before seeing that I was hosted on a Windows server with IIS previously, so I don't know if this is mor of a .htaccess problem. But since I installed everything again, everything seemed to be working fine, until I had to download the Visual C# Express program from Microsoft's website today and something happened that I have never seen before - when I request www.microsoft.com, Apache seems to think that the request is directed to it, and it sends back the files that is in the document root that I specified in my httpd file. And when I request a file that is in my document root via: www.microsoft.com/filename the file on my computer under the specified document root is returned...  :wtf:  Is there anyone that has ever stumbled into the same problem in the past? I need to sort this out fast, because I really need to get Visual C# so it's quite urgent... Thanks

    Help with relative height of divs

    in CSS Help

    Posted

    Okay, so I have a parent div and a child div, the parent div is only for the "prettiness" and the child div will contain the content of the page. I haven't ever attempted such a UI, so it may seem obvious to you, but it is still very new for me... I want the parent div's height to be relative to the child div's height, so let's say the child div's height is 250px, then I want the parent div to be 290px (20 at the top and 20 at the bottom...

     

    I tried leaving out the child div's height, and filled it with content, and then I set the parent div's padding to 20px and left out it's height, but that didn't quite work.... Any ideas?

    Problems with opacity

    in CSS Help

    Posted

    I'm busy with an "ultra-modern" type of look on a project, so I tried something I have seen before, the background is a carbon-looking striped background that is somewhat dark, and for the content I placed a black box with curved edges, and on top of that I have another div that is supposed to contain the content, but I want to make that a bit lighter, so I made that div's background color white, after I have done that I decided it would look awesome if the black div at the back had some opacity, so I set it to 0.3, but then I discovered that the white div also received the opacity of the parent div, so I tried setting it's opacity to 1.0, but it still didn't work, now the content div looks a bit greyish...

     

    Here is my CSS code:

    #body {
position: relative;
top: 10px;
background: black;
filter: alpha(opacity=30);
-moz-opacity: 0.3;
-khtml-opacity: 0.3;
opacity: 0.3;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
        -moz-border-radius: 10px;
-khtml-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
width: 960px;
height: 450px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#content {
position: relative;
filter: alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity: 1.0;
-khtml-opacity: 1.0;
opacity: 1.0;
-webkit-border-radius: 10px;
        -moz-border-radius: 10px;
-khtml-border-radius: 10px;
border-radius: 10px;
top: 10px;
left: 10px;
height: 430px;
width: 940px;
background: white;
}

     

    And here is the HTML part:

    <div id="body">
<div id="content">

</div>
</div>

     

    Can someone please tell me how to get the content div completely white again without any opacity?

     

    Thanks!

    Seeking PHP5 framework advice

    in Frameworks

    Posted

    I don't know how Symfony is installed yet, but if it's anything like RoR, then I doubt that Network Solutions will host it just yet... I have contacted their technical support and keeping my fingers crossed. I heard that Kohana still doesn't use strictly PHP 5 OOP syntax, is that true? I really hope that I'll be able to use Symfony...

    Seeking PHP5 framework advice

    in Frameworks

    Posted

    Okay, for those of you who have read my previous posts in this forum section - I have to finally admit that I now see why you said a PHP 5 framework is better than a PHP 4 framework (I have also switched to Network Solutions which definitely has PHP 5) , CodeIgniter seemed great, but in my new project (Gaming website, almost something like IGN, just with user profiles, etc.), CodeIgniter seems a bit underpowered.

     

    I don't have a lot of time to learn a new PHP framework, would you recommend a switch to Kohana, Symfony, or any other PHP 5 framework (I still need a bit convincing before switching to Zend as I like a full-stack framework a bit more)...

     

    Any advice for choosing a PHP 5 framework this time?

     

    Oh, and I have a bit of experience in PHP OOP (not a lot, but I will definitely look into it when switching to pure PHP 5), and a whole year's experience in RoR, I heard that Symfony is a lot like RoR, is this true? If so, it'll win me over in a heart's beat lol...

     

    Thanks

    3 column layout help

    in CSS Help

    Posted

    I have to redo my entire layout, because clients said it looks too "boxed in" (780px with a border around it).

    So I now made it a bit more dynamic with 99% width and margin-left and margin-right set to auto. But now I can't seem to get the layout of the columns right...

     

    I got the left bar and the content lined up correctly, but the right bar floats below them and is showing up directly under the left bar

     

    It needs to look something like this:

     

        170px          Rest of the 99%            170px

    <-----------><-----------------------------><------------>

     

    Here is the css code that I tried to achieve this result with:

    #body {
width: 99%;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#sidebar-left {
float: left;
width: 170px;
}
#content {
margin: 0 170px 0 170px;
}
#sidebar-right {
float: left;
width: 170px;
}

     

    Any help will be greatly appreciated...

    Thanks

    URL that Google tried to access

    in PHP Coding Help

    Posted

    Hi, I don't really know where this post should go, I have made a custom 404 error page called error.php, I want to make it a little smarter to get the URL that Google tried to access and try to find the best solution to where it should redirect the user with a 301. I have converted a website from .htm pages to .php and the website is losing a lot of web traffic.

     

    So what I need to know is if there's a way to get the URL that Google or other search engines requested? and what is the easiest way to dissect it in sections (like: /south_africa/default.htm into 2 variables, the one will contain south_africa and the other default.htm). Is this possible?

     

    Thanks

    Help with googlebot

    in Application Design

    Posted

    Okay, so I verified my website on Google Webmaster Tools for http://hotels-tours-safaris.com and for http://www.hotels-tours-safaris.com and set my preferred domain as www.hotels-tours-safaris.com, I uploaded a sitemap in xml format, and google validated and found no errors. I have a robots.txt file that contains all the necessary blocks and I have left a line open before the sitemap reference (that's a suggestion on some other sites  :confused:  )

     

    I have validated all my html and css, set a content-type, used the html5 doctype. My URLs are search engine friendly, I have unique title tags and description tags on each page, there are nno duplicate content on any page. The only thing I can think of that counts against me is the fact that I just removed the old pages and uploaded the new ones without setting up redirects, but my web host is busy setting up my custom 404 page to return a 200 instead of a 404.

     

    Can someone please check what else I have to do before my website is completely clean and a perfect candidate to get indexed. Also, where can I get some good quality backlinks to get the googlebot back to my website? I tried facebook status updates, messages and twitter tweets, but that didn't seem to work... And the Googlebot hasn't crawled my website since 24 June, and hasn't even seen my sitemap (I added it the evening of the 24th, after the last crawl.)...

     

    Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated!

     

    Thanks!

    Help with adding some neat effects and additions to spice up my website

    in Website Critique

    Posted

    Thank you very much, it all makes sense, something that bothers me is on some of the pages like the car rentals where the countries are listed there is also way to much white-space, can you please tell me what you think will fit in nicely there? And about the bookings page, I'm currently working on a multi-accommodation-rental kind of thing that uses jquery with some neat sliding effects to show the forms, as I said, I'm really no web designer, but I'll try my best, thanks

    Help with adding some neat effects and additions to spice up my website

    in Website Critique

    Posted

    Hi, this is my first corporate website, and I'm really no graphic designer, nor am I a web designer, I'm more of a back-end developer. But I was thrown in completely alone in this project and I must say I did a fairly good job. I want someone's honest critique on this project, and some things that you really like about this website, and some things you don't, I would also like to know what you would have done differently to make it better.

     

    The website is located at: www.hotels-tours-safaris.com

     

    Thanks!

    CodeIgniter Sitemap

    in Frameworks

    Posted

    Hi, I made a very simple sitemap generator that just reads data out of the database and in the view structures the xml file. When I submitted it, it gave me a whole lot of errors and all of them where for invalid URL... I tried those exact ones out, and found that they worked... my URLs are structured like this: www.example.com/index.php/countries/,

    etc. Why will google say that it isn't valid? is it because it doesn't have an extension? Please help

     

    Thanks

    Search engine help

    in Application Design

    Posted

    I use codeigniter, so I have dynamic URLs, lets say I have a URL that routes to the countries page:

    www.example.com/countries/

    and in the countries I have several dynamic links to several countries, for example:

    www.example.com/countries/south-africa/

     

    Should I define the extra /south-africa/ parameter also in the sitemap's <loc></loc> tags, or is www.example.com/countries/ enough?

    Search engine help

    in Application Design

    Posted

    Hi, I have redesigned an old static HTML website into a dynamic PHP website. The URL didn't change, and I saw through Google's webmaster tools that the bot crawled through the website but couldn't find the pages. I'm a bit worried, do I have to do something before Google and the other major search engines will update the website in their search results? Do I have to make a sitemap?

     

    Please help me

    Thanks

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