I have started using wfsections to list my links and would like some feedback please before i go too much further with the relisting process. Please start with the All Creatures Great and Small link as I have only put a few in to see how it works. I have not added any images yet, but if the feedback I get is positive I will put category images and either screenshots or buttons from the websites I list. I am trying to make the links more search engine friendly which is why I have done it this way. Please tell me it you think it easier to navigate the links by using wfsections the way I have set it up or if the old mylinks module is easier to use. Post feedback here or in my Whats the big idea forum please. Also if anyone knows if this makes the links easier for bots please let me know.

thank you to anyone who helps with this. I do appreciate it. The more feedback I get The better, even just a simple yes if you think its workable or no if you don't.

If you go to my website and look at the faqs, I have a link to an excellent instruction page from a XOOPS buddy with regards to Norton firewalls.

All you have to do once you have it installed is play with the bits and pieces with the site turned off. Read the XOOPS for dummies website, do lots of google searches and ask lots of questions in here. I know squat about code of any kind except the absolute basics like link tags and image url tags. I wouldn't even know how to make a table with code. And until a friend told me last night I didn't even know the tag to make text bold.
Go into the system admin menu and click on everything and change stuff one at a time then look at your page to see what it did. It might take a week or two of constant playing around to get it but once you do I'm sure like everyone else in the XOOPS community you will love what it can do.
Have alook at my site and tell me what you think of it..........I think it is living proof that a"dummy" can make a fairly classy site. Have a look at lots of other sites and if you see something you like send a polite message to the webmaster asking them how they did it. Most are more than obliging to help. There is plenty of support around if you're nice to people and have a little patience with yourself.

After having a look around at some different sites and at the way the different modules work, I have come up with an idea and would like to know if anyone thinks this would work. I downloaded wfsections, as that seemed a fairly popular module and it seems to be highly customisable. Here are the questions and ideas I have had.

1. Are the pages produced as articles static html. this may seem like a fairly basic question to a lot of you, but I am not a programmer and know very little about code except the very basics about html that I have taught myself.
2. Is there a way to disable the downloads and uploads section of this mod.
The idea I have had as far as using this for linkd indexing is this....because it is set up in what I will call three layers the sections(categories} would become the link categories, the articles name would be the link subcategories and the article itself would be the list of links. As I can add images at any level this really suits my needs. As an example I would have a section called
All Creatures Great & Small
with articles in it title eg
Birds
Dogs
Horses
then each individual article would carry the list of links.

Does anyone think this is feasible, see any drawbacks, know if it would make the links more visible to search engine thus allowing reciprocal linking etc etc

Any feedback on this would be greatly appreciated and I thank you one and all for your help in advance.

Has anyone had any luck with this module. I managed to install it but it didn't show anywhere on any pages and din't seem to do anything. Any ideas please??

Hi,
You need to go into the admin menu, system menu, preferences, general settings. There is a dropdown box where you set the default theme for the site. Whichever theme you choose here is the one the users will see every time they come to your site. Further down the settings page there is a box with selectable themes. You need to highlight the themes you wish your visitors to be able to choose in this box. Multiple themes with ctrl. Once you have done this then go back to system menu, blocks and make the theme block visible for whichever users you want to be able to choose. Hope this helps.

Would using the sections module for each link category and then listing the links in each section be a viable idea or would this not make any difference to how the search engines index the pages. The other thing I have noticed in looking around is that a lot of the scripts that say they are SEF have the full url as text below the description. Would this help at all. I know so little of these matters that any ideas are better than the idea I have lol.

Gee that was quick...lol. I had a look at that and because I know almost nothing about code of any sort I am looking for something very very simple. I found one called phpFlexlinks which is not too bad but I would prefer somethng that alphabetises links as they are added. I don't know if this is possible or not. I guess I am just a bit lazy and prefer leaving the smart stuff like coding to the smarter ppls lol

Is there a way of indexing links in XOOPS that is friendly towards search engines or a module I can add or else another script that I can run alongside xoops. The site I am building is essentially a link directory and as I try to get reciprocal links the common thread with so called 'quality' websites is that I am not really providing a link to them at all because of the way search engines look at things. Any help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

Please have a look and see what you think. Any ideas for improvements please feel free to post here or in my forum What's the Big Idea. Thanks.
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