On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:11:29PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to implement a trackback feature in OpenGuides? I think I RT'd an enhancement ticket about this, but feel free to add it if I didn't, since I don't have my login details handy at the moment. Dave -- Dave Page <grimoire(a)sparky.ox.compsoc.net> Jabber: grimoire(a)jabber.earth.li

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 11:39:50PM +0000, Dave Page wrote: Just to clarify, what exactly is a "trackback"? I'm not entirely clear what the difference between a "trackback" and a "link" is. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton

Hi folks, Agreed that some URL writing amazon style would be worthwhile, ditto inward linking from other sites with high page-rank. Some other suggestions from me would be: 1. Page order matters. In the standard templates the actual page content doesn't start until halfway through the source code. The rest of the stuff above that is just the standard navigation that appears on the right in many Guides, such as Recent Changes. This ordering should ideally be swapped in the templates, with page content first, following by any generic stuff. Obviously the actual positioning of the elements visually can be done with CSS. At the moment we have the worst of both worlds(*): content positioned on the left, but actually further down in the code than the stuff that's positioned on the right. * actually London has this sorted - credit where credits due ;) 2. Titles Attributes on Links. Especially for things like Categories and Locales. This should be a 1minute hack, and can't do any harm. 3. Inter-guide Linking. Not even anything fancy like wiki-links across guides, but maybe even just links in footers to other guides nearby. We all have good pagerank, so lets use it. 4. Working the Metatags even further. At the moment the contents of our (as in the OGMK) description tags is pretty sparse, and wholly dependent on the contents of the "Description of this node" field. Pumping the first 150 chars of the article content into the description metatag after whatever the "description of this node" field contains, would give search engines more to go on. 5. More site-wide navigation. I like what OGL has done with the category-style navigation on the Node List pages. Something like this on every page would be great from a SEO and usability perspective. OK, hope these are some help. Cheers, Tom. On 09/01/07, Dave Page <grimoire(a)sparky.ox.compsoc.net> wrote: