What information is missing? You should try this one as it has become very popular, and is growing with more and more webmaster features...just a thought

I'm not so sure that that is limiting the robots to Google. I run AD-sense and did not change the robots.txt file. I can tell you that bots/spiders hit me big time no matter what. Just check my stats at XOOPS @ IBDeeming! and you'll see that in the short time this site has been up - 21% of my total traffic has been bots. Part of that has to do with my other site PHPNuke @ IBDeeming! which is part of my family of development sites. Bottom line, my AdSense works, I get hits, and I didn't modify the robots.txt

I have been deciding on the next mod to convert/write for XOOPS. Check out CAFE REAL ESTATE - this is a demo site for the most part, and yes it is in PHPNuke, but the real estate mod that is run there is one I am thinking of converting. It's not a ton of work, just getting everything in the right place. It sort of gives you the MLS feel - without the MLS overhead. That site is incidently going to be changing to XOOPS if I do this mod right away. It will be converted to a FSBO site.

Let me know! I'm looking for suggestions on the next cool widget for XOOPS! XOOPS @ IBDeeming!

Just to help, I registered and used Mozilla Firefox 0.9.3 - worked just fine. I also used Opera, Konqueror, and Netscape 7.1 - no issues!

First off, I'd like to let everyone know that I am new to XOOPS community. I am building a XOOPS development site at xoops.ibdeeming.com but to get a feel for the types of mods I have developed, go to www.ibdeeming.com

Now, on with my knowledge. MS Weather, YaHoo Weather, Weather.com, and MSN Weather will all gladly shut you down, if you actually create traffic. The original WeatherMagnet developed for PHPNuke by me, created so much traffic that they shut all sites down running the great mod. Since then, I have developed WeatherHarvest. In conjunction with NOAA (who gladly and happily allow data access), I have created a mod that will get all kinds of great weather data from current conditions to radar.

Now, if the interest was high enough, I could begin translating that to XOOPS. I have created a soprt of project plan on a number of mods I have developed (from real estate mods, to corporate directories, to security mods, etc. etc). The WeatherHarvest mod is large. It has it's own (significant) database tables. In the PHPNuke world, it has become one of the largest and most popular downloads in the last year.

Oh, and at the risk of being long-winded - all of the above mentioned sources eventually rely on NOAA for their accurate data. The reason they don't really want you scrapping their data? Advertisment. If you buy advertisment from these folks, you pay on the number of impressions. Impressions are received by code display. If you are screen scraping, they are getting impression counts without actually displaying the ad. So, in essence, it becomes similar to fraudulant advertising practices...

Well, anyone interested in me doing this sooner than later, let me know. (converting the WeatherHarvest mod from PHPNuke to XOOPS)!