Chris Hope
12-26-2004, 04:18 PM
John Bokma wrote:
> mike wrote:
>
>> I agree. But, that's why I mentioned "php site". The site is hosted
>> where they use a gui to upload content. The missing keywords in
>> descrips we can handle. But, almost everything else is " cookie
>> cutter". We didn't anticipate so much difficulty on account of that.
>> The urls are indeed out of hand. Drives me crazy. NOBODY would ever
>> type a lot of those , even if they knew the darn thing. They're crazy
>> long, some of them.
>>
>> I prefer old fashioned, plain html over this php, ( probably because
>> I have no clue how to manipulate it to do what I want ).
>>
>> We'll clean up what we can, and probably be in touch soon. With the
>> pop-up 'big' pics... We don't see a place to add text in those areas.
>> If this were a straight html thing I built, I'd have no problem
>> adding text. I'll root around some more. Too many crazy scripts in
>> here.
>
> PHP scripts can be reprogrammed. If the contents comes from a
> database, it would probably be possible to modify the script(s) in
> such a way that for each "ugly" URL the user also can enter a nice
> URL. With mod_rewrite and a *internal* redirection to nicer URLs. Or
> probably rewrite the script a bit more, in order to have it make
> better URLs in the first place.
It's using osCommerce (I can tell just from the posted urls) and osc is
a pain in the ass to try to clean up. I made some mods to a site myself
which uses osc and the urls are much nicer now eg
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/index.php/kayaking/
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/index.php/clothing/alpine-jackets/
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/product_info.php/2772-prophet-jacket/
instead of all that cpath and other crap. I can't remember if I cleaned
the HTML up all that much, although we used our own templates instead
of the default osc ones as you will see if you take a look at it.
The main problem with this site (ie the one I posted) is they don't have
a lot of content in the pages. They had a guy working for them who was
going to be dedicating a good chunk of his time updating the existing
products and adding most of the stuff in their store to the website but
they had some staff reshuffles and now he's the store manager and
doesn't have the time to update the site...
--
Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/
> mike wrote:
>
>> I agree. But, that's why I mentioned "php site". The site is hosted
>> where they use a gui to upload content. The missing keywords in
>> descrips we can handle. But, almost everything else is " cookie
>> cutter". We didn't anticipate so much difficulty on account of that.
>> The urls are indeed out of hand. Drives me crazy. NOBODY would ever
>> type a lot of those , even if they knew the darn thing. They're crazy
>> long, some of them.
>>
>> I prefer old fashioned, plain html over this php, ( probably because
>> I have no clue how to manipulate it to do what I want ).
>>
>> We'll clean up what we can, and probably be in touch soon. With the
>> pop-up 'big' pics... We don't see a place to add text in those areas.
>> If this were a straight html thing I built, I'd have no problem
>> adding text. I'll root around some more. Too many crazy scripts in
>> here.
>
> PHP scripts can be reprogrammed. If the contents comes from a
> database, it would probably be possible to modify the script(s) in
> such a way that for each "ugly" URL the user also can enter a nice
> URL. With mod_rewrite and a *internal* redirection to nicer URLs. Or
> probably rewrite the script a bit more, in order to have it make
> better URLs in the first place.
It's using osCommerce (I can tell just from the posted urls) and osc is
a pain in the ass to try to clean up. I made some mods to a site myself
which uses osc and the urls are much nicer now eg
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/index.php/kayaking/
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/index.php/clothing/alpine-jackets/
http://www.outdooraction.co.nz/product_info.php/2772-prophet-jacket/
instead of all that cpath and other crap. I can't remember if I cleaned
the HTML up all that much, although we used our own templates instead
of the default osc ones as you will see if you take a look at it.
The main problem with this site (ie the one I posted) is they don't have
a lot of content in the pages. They had a guy working for them who was
going to be dedicating a good chunk of his time updating the existing
products and adding most of the stuff in their store to the website but
they had some staff reshuffles and now he's the store manager and
doesn't have the time to update the site...
--
Chris Hope - The Electric Toolbox - http://www.electrictoolbox.com/