Hi,

Just recently installed XOOPS and have a few questions please.

1. How do I change the content shown on the front page:

http://jehoshua.net/index.php

so that there is not a blank area in the middle ?

Yes, I know usually you can point a 'module' as the default main page, but I don't want to do that, I want to be able to add some text/images, in say 2 columns, where nothing appears now.

There were three modules recommended to do this:

* Homepage
* Freecontent
* CJaycontent

but cannot find where these modules are, or if in use, what other peoples comments, experience (problems ?) with these modules are. Are there any other modules that do the same ??

2. How do I add a 'simple link' to the Main Menu, like:

http://example.com/aup.html
http://example.com/terms.php

or add a seperate 'sub menu', where I can simply place links to any PHP or HTML files ?

I guess this all falls under menu management, I did see the Tigra menu used on one XOOPS site. Would something like that do the trick ?

3. Are there any modules that would enable me to maintain web hosting plans/prices via admin, and then be able to display these through XOOPS ?

4. What are the SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) ramifications of changing this:

http://www.jehoshua.net/modules/newbb/

into ..............

http://forums.jehoshua.net

I would just do an Apache mod_rewrite, but I have experienced 'Google penalties' on one site, where a link to a 'test' path contained the same content as the main page, and Google, like most, when they find that, penalise the website because of duplicate content (the link to the 'test' path was only picked up by Google by mistake).

If I did the mod_rewrite, then I wouldn't want Google to any bots/crawlers to pickup the ..../modules/newbb/ link anywhere, that's all.

Would the mod_rewrite affect the admin functions of maintaining modules ??

Hopefully someone has some answers.

Thanks,

Peter

1. create a custom block (system admin -> blocks).

do a search for your questions and also visit: http://www.macambridge.com/dummies/

Hi,

Quote:

The search, of course, I had already done, that's why I posted in this forum.

Thanks for the link to the "dummies" site, I had seen a few links to it, but not visited. The tip was there:

http://www.macambridge.com/dummies/content.htm#How to wrap static HTML content in Xoops

and by just wrapping the PHP code before and after a html file, it works just great.

I will try a PHP file later, all I need to do now is see how to add the link in the menu, I think the same site had tips there, on how to do that.

Thanks,

Peter

Hi,

Quote:

Sorry, I didn't understand what you meant at the time. Since then though ....................

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Well after hearing of a number of modules that I would have to use to have content on the main page, I didn't realise how easy it would be to just do it with a block, see:

http://jehoshua.net/index.php

The small 'web hosting' message is just a test, but no modules needed, just used a HTML block, put it in the centre, activated it for annonymous users, and it worked.

This is great, now I know this is the product for me, I'll be able to control any sort of content on the front page _without_ having to use modules, or to have to use:

http://example.com/modules/news

or whatever is "pointed to" the main page. This is really good news, XOOPS is even more powerful than I first thought. :)
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Thanks,

Peter