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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/4 16:50

  • Jackwan

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ok I will try it later. thanks JM.



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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/4 16:25

  • Jackwan

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Also, I still do not understnd why I have to implement Mypage? Is it for spider crawling?



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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/4 16:21

  • Jackwan

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JM,

Still the same error.
here is my revised xoops_version.php

<?php
$modversion['name'] = "Main Links";//mainlink
$modversion['version'] = 1.01;
$modversion['description'] = "Static Main Links Page";
$modversion['author'] = "";
$modversion['credits'] = "";
$modversion['help'] = "";
$modversion['license'] = "GPL see LICENSE";
$modversion['official'] = 0;
$modversion['image'] = "admin.png";
$modversion['dirname'] = "mainlink";//mainlink

// Admin things
$modversion['hasAdmin'] = 0;
$modversion['adminpath'] = "";


// Menu

// Menu for submenus in main menu when page loads
$modversion['hasMain'] = 0;//0 to remove from main menu
// $modversion['sub'][1]['name'] = _MI_MYPAGE_SMNAME1;//define in language/english/global.php
// $modversion['sub'][1]['url'] = "../../modules/ipboard/";
// $modversion['sub'][2]['name'] = _MI_MYPAGE_SMNAME2;//define in language/english/global.php
// $modversion['sub'][2]['url'] = "../../modules/weblog/";


?>



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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/4 16:01

  • Jackwan

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  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


Hi JM,

What is the purpose of put the htmls into mypage? I have done what you said and now I am getting this error

I used your index.php

invocation of :
http://credata.creforum.info/modules/mainlink/

results:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/twkinc/public_html/credata/header.php on line 112

Here is my xoops_version.php, "mainlink" is where I installed the mypage files:

<?php
$modversion['name'] = "Main Links";//mainlink
$modversion['version'] = 1.01;
$modversion['description'] = "Static Main Links Page";
$modversion['author'] = "";
$modversion['credits'] = "";
$modversion['help'] = "";
$modversion['license'] = "GPL see LICENSE";
$modversion['official'] = 0;
$modversion['image'] = "admin.png";
$modversion['dirname'] = "mainlinks";//mainlink

// Admin things
$modversion['hasAdmin'] = 0;
$modversion['adminpath'] = "";


// Menu

// Menu for submenus in main menu when page loads
$modversion['hasMain'] = 0;//0 to remove from main menu
// $modversion['sub'][1]['name'] = _MI_MYPAGE_SMNAME1;//define in language/english/global.php
// $modversion['sub'][1]['url'] = "../../modules/ipboard/";
// $modversion['sub'][2]['name'] = _MI_MYPAGE_SMNAME2;//define in language/english/global.php
// $modversion['sub'][2]['url'] = "../../modules/weblog/";


?>


Sorry, not an php programmer. note: creforum.info is my test site.

Thanks.



45
Jackwan
Re:want xoops at root directory, how?
  • 2004/11/2 18:01

  • Jackwan

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Quote:

x-tatik wrote:
my physical path is /var/www/html/xoops right now.

if I move the entire XOOPS folder up one level, would the path then be /var/www/xoops ?


no it should be /var/www/html/

you will not have an XOOPS subdirectory any more, in the root directory you will see all the subs from XOOPS such as updates, modules.....

and your mainfile.php will be there also.



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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/2 17:28

  • Jackwan

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  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


Thanks JM,

I will try to implement your suggestions.
I did however downloaded mypage.zip as you told me and installed on to the test environment. I am not sure how to invoke mypage and when I pointed that to the index.php it did not work. The subdirectory resolved to another variable in php debug. I did however change the version.php to point to the right subdirectories.



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Jackwan
Re:How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/2 15:02

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  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


Quote:

Herko Coomans wrote:
WHoa.. that's like asking for a businesscase for your site. IMO that's what you should start with before you set up a site. However, here's some tips:

1. organise! Use the forum as a platform for organised discussions with experts, that last for a limited time (one day?).
2. don't just facilitate, but initiate! Don't present your visitors with a forum and topics to discuss, but initiate discussions with controversial posts and opinioned articles. People aren't driving because there are roads, but because they need to go somewhere...
3. activate! invite specific people to join in a specific discussin because of their (expert) opinions. You can also ask other organisations to initiate a discussion on your forums and ask them to invite their network.

These are just 3 tips from my experience. It works, but you have to work hard for this.

Herko


Thanks,
To reply your thoughts Herko, I have done the followings, if that is close to what you have suggested.

1. I go to lots of professional meetings and I had personally solicit people to post on my site.
2. I have initialed 50 topics on my site, some are controversial, its true, controversial topics gets more attention(view), but still not enough participation(post).
3. I have done that. But people in my field they prefer not to discuss openly online, they want phone calls instead.

In addition, I have joined google adwords, I did not spend a high per click $ amount because that will cost me $100+++/day. My thoughts are: If I can get Googles to deep spider my site quicker, perhaps I can get some traffic if the contents are exposed.

One thing I did to make my site more visible is to post advertising on the Newsgroups, it did work but at the cost of receive warnings from my ISP saying I was spamming.

Media campaign was done via fliers. In a local chamber of commerce, I included my flier to their monthly publication, but nothing happened.

I even started a FAX campaign, I sent out 500-1000 faxes. The results were not productive, I did get about 10 removal calls, nevertheless.

Any more suggestions?



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Jackwan
How do you get visitors to Post?
  • 2004/11/2 6:26

  • Jackwan

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  • Posts: 129

  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


I installed xoops. I installed the modules. Its all running fine. 20 visitors a day(report from Istat), great! Topics of interest, check. Web Contents - very professionally done. What more do I have to do to lead visitors to register and post in the forum? I'd like to know from those are successful in running a forum your thoughts.

A lot of work has been done to upgrade the contents of my site:
1. Carefully crafted forums.
2. Primed with good topics.
3. Daily National News Feed from Google.
4. Links to all other professional sites.
5. Registration incentives.
6. Web promotion on all major search engines.
7. Email Advertising
8. Printed media ads (no results).

Help me.

Thanks.



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Jackwan
$39/mo Dedicated Hosting Service, Good?
  • 2004/10/25 15:39

  • Jackwan

  • Not too shy to talk

  • Posts: 129

  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


http://hostcentric.com/

I found this company gives $39/mo dedicated self-managed hosting service with php and MySQL support.

Self-manage means no tech support.

Check it out and if you have anything cheaper.



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Jackwan
Re:Experiences with Surpass hosting???
  • 2004/10/25 14:36

  • Jackwan

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  • Posts: 129

  • Since: 2004/9/8 2


Dave,

They put people on servers at random and they have many servers, my experiences does not reflect the overall performance of surpass, just bad luck, I guess. Also, people tended to report bad things and none of these low cost hosting services are perfect. I switched to Surpass because I was disappointed with another service.

All shared services have the same problem, I think dedicated service is the only way to go if you want reliability.




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