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> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What would it cost or is there already a system with a CMS like Joomla that would create the back-end of a website like this one: http://www.appliance- appointment.com/


Looking for a "database/dashboard" CMS. Any tips?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I'm looking for a CMS that can handle:   * User types at 3 authorization levels (client, partner, admin)    * a dashboard for each one of them with relevant info about the other 2 user levels Concretely I am building a website where gardeners can set up a work schedule for their clients where the client can see when the next meeting is and its cost; the gardener its next meetings and monthly income etc. The admin obviously has an overview. I don't believe any CMS exists that covers such a use case but might there be any that can help me get started quickly? Thanks for your tips guys and don't hesitate If I haven't been clear!


What are some alternatives to ASI iMIS Content Management Systems?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am working with a team to select a new content management system for a large membership organization (around 25,000 members). The organization has revenue so I'm not looking for a dirt cheap solution. The site currently uses ASI iMIS which is based on ColdFusion. It's difficult to work with and not flexible for our needs. What other possible alternatives to ASI iMIS are there? Ideally the solution would have some sort of support from the vendor. So far I've come up with:   * Drupal/Acquia   * SDL Tridion   * Plone   * Ellington (probably too news like)   * Pinax (probably not developed enough)


Online Marketing Website

Which CMS site would be the best to use for building my new website. I am currently using Wix, would this be suitable? There will be loads of blogs, constant picture uploads and press releases added on a weekly basis.


Web-based CMS for mobile app

I'm just about to start developing a mobile app which needs to be fed from a CMS. I started designing the tables when I thought there must be something out there which could save me a load of time and let me concentrate on the mobile side of things. So, I'm looking for a CMS that will let me create hierarchical "pages" which will just be 4-5 database fields with a simple front-end to allow to edit and update them. I don't mind having to write some code to layout the database and forms etc, any saving on starting from scratch would be good. The only requirement is that I be able to access the data via some sort of web service, REST, JSON, XML, anything really... Can anyone suggest anything that might help? Thanks, J


Do you know a good web CMS to manage a sports team?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a web based CMS that enables me to manage a sport team, I need the following features:   * Calendar**   * Schedule events (sync with the calendar, RSS feed), it would be great if I could schedule a weekly event too, so that I don't have to schedule it by hand each week**   * Announcements (same RSS feed as events)**   * A place where I can put some documentation, rules**   * Keep track of the matches and scores   * Photo and video gallery ** means feature is required; otherwise optional Any technology for the CMS is probably fine, though I would prefer an SQLite- based CMS.


PHP photo/album gallery script with an admin backend and easy to integrate

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an open source photo and album gallery software that should be is easy to integrate in a webpage and have an easy-to use back , admin panel for adding/deleting/modifying photo/albums and thumb resizer . I've found myGallery which basically does what I want but it doesn't cache photos and is **really** slow.


Which eCommerce has a good module with product configurator?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? i'm looking for a eCommerce software which have also a good "product configurator". My company sells product highly configurable. Which ecommerce has a good configurator ? Thanks


Looking for quick and simple blogging solution

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a really quick "plug in and play" style blogging software for php. It's to be used on a website that has already been design and deployed and it's really going to be used to add that extra bit of functionality. The things I really need it to do are:   * Manage blog posts (including some form of editor).   * Display blog posts on arbitrary webpages.   * Unobtrusive to implement.   * Nothing more. This basically rules out wordpress/drupal. They are far to overburdened and I don't want to have to port the website to a word press theme. The blog is supposed to fit around the website not the other way round. Yes Django would be perfect for this job however, the environment in which the website is hosted does not allow me to use it. If anyone knows of anything similar for php that would be helpful. Does anyone know of anything like this? If not I will just write something basic but functional but it would at least save me a little time and effort.


Which eCommerce cms provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Which eCommerce CMS provide freedom of using my own eCommerce HTML template? We work on asp.net, however, we are okay with other languages as far as zero coding skill is required.


Could any current, well supported CMS support a live action role playing game?

A group of friends and I are looking to create a system which will support and allow interactions between a group of up to 70 people using mobile devices (phones and tablets) as part of a science fiction themed freeform game. In order to minimize development effort and support as wide a range of devices as possible, it's become clear that a web server based infrastructure is the only practical solution. The server would be connected to a wireless network, and the players would use their web browsers to access the server wirelessly. I think the only thing that will do the job is some sort of CMS, but I have no detailed experience with any CMS and as such could do with some advice as to suitable platforms. **Required functionality** is:   1. Some sort of wiki containing game information.    2. The ability for both players and referees to be able to identify themselves to the system by log in.   3. Access control to a per user and per page granularity (not all users will have access to the same pieces of information)   4. (Text based) messaging (essentially email) from within the web interface   5. A notebook page for each player to make their own notes. **Required user interface features** are:   1. A UI optimised for mobile and touch devices   2. The ability to increase the text size of the interface for each device   3. Not too complex to use - some of our end users will not be technically minded The **required infrastructure** is:   1. Extensibility without a huge learning curve - we have several people with a programming and/or systems administration background, but this is a hobby project for all of us, and none of us are CMS or web app gurus. In particular we are likely to need to develop a script to change users access permissions if they scan a QR code at some point in the game (giving them access to new information).   2. Longevity - this system is likely to be in use for at least 5 years (in short bursts, but not being able to maintain or set up a new server in 3 years time would be a real problem). Things which are **desirable** , but are not essential   1. Some sort of off-line operation (don't think we're going to get this one, but it doesn't hurt to ask)   2. Built in voice/video conferencing/messaging   3. Ability to tie a log-in to a device so the user only has to log-in once (mobile web browsers often being killed by the OS task manager the moment the user switches to something else)   4. Something that looks good on a tablet as well as a phone screen What sort of solutions would people suggest if they needed to develop a system with these requirements?


I need an alternative to Pligg.com

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was working with Pligg - The Social Networking CMS and it seems like a great software. But there are few things that are not so working well for me. The content scrapper module is not perfect and has lots of bugs. If anyone knows any other alternatives? All i am trying to do is create DIGG like website. Thanks


Multi language CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? need very simple multi lingual CMS. Currently site is in pure html. So all pages are written in pure html. No dynamics, block, etc. What I need is: I can create 3 versions of site and add content to it. That's all. Currently I think of Wordpress+qtranslate or TribiqCMS. But I am not sure right now.


Help with a CMS for content only not display

Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities (questions) according to their level which they can solve in around 3 months logging periodically to the website, plus I need teachers to log and look at the reports. Now, I'm a graphic designer myself so my skills are mostly html5 and css3 and I know some php (edit existing ones only) and javascript (jquery) as well, most people tell me that I need a CMS to do the tool but all I find is CMS for display like blogs or news websites which I think aren't useful for me because the website is already made in html and css3 only (I need to add an extra page for the tool) I understand I need to create users and give them special rights according to what type of user they are and I also understand that I need a database where I can store all my questions. What is the best way to do this? what do you suggest me? Thanks


CMS for sharing media files?

I was looking for a CMS to host my uploaded files, share the download link and view a report of how many times a file was downloaded. Is there any CMS that I could instal in my Host? Wordpress, Drupal and Joomla just not working for what I want, I am looking for similar as megaupload, mediafire (who has a backoffice view, front-end, etc). Thanks!


booking and reservation content managment system

I'm looking a cms with a can: Make booking and reservation for a event or restaurant. payment system and open source if is possible.. Thank you all


Custom Upload Advanced Scripting CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific content management platform that would display themes for my application. Requirements are as folllows:   * Any user can upload content, but has to be approved by an administrator   * When the user uploads the content, an external application is called to generate a thumbnail I could create this using codeigniter or something, but I would much prefer to use an existing system. I have experience with Drupal (seems a little bloated for my needs), and Wordpress (I'm using it as main website right now). Maybe I need a plugin for WordPress instead of another CMS. WordPress currently blocks uploads of my file type. I can modify it, but it's a pain to update it every time WordPress has a new release.


Which CMS or framework for a website with classified ads?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? A non-technical friend has asked me to provide some guidance for his new website idea. To avoid losing a friend - I intend to send him to another professional to setup and maintain his website. The idea is not revolutionary - a basic website with user submitted ads, but given it is for a niche he might get some traction and I wish him good luck with that. Given that functionality is really very standard, should I suggest to him that he goes with something fairly mainstream such as Joomla or Wordpress that can be easily hosted on shared hosting? The only data that we want secure is the emails and phone numbers of the ad submitters. Any particular steps to take there? The other major req is that the site works well on mobile devices. Which particular product would you suggest and why? I also welcome any general suggestions on products or approaches that he can take.


Best content management system for a web hosting provider website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Which is the best CMS for a hosting provider website?   1. Wordress (Is this Not fit for websites?)   2. Joomla (low security)   3. PHP Coded pages    4. Drupal


Best CMS for a membership site?

I have been told Joomla but I am partial to WordPress. Can anyone let me know the best membership CMS, its plus points and any big sites running it? This is for a non-profit members only site mainly dealing with tutorials, stock galleries, templates, blog posts and support forums.


I want something ready to start with

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for something quick like a weblog in wordpress or blogspot maybe, that when I write a blog post I can put it there, for example if I write something about .NET or Java or Database,..some quick tutorial with some small code samples that visitors can use ... And I don't know anything about webdesign and I just want a ready-made thing to use for this purpose. What do you suggest? any samples of that that I can take a look?


php cms withouth database

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? A friend of mine asked me for a easy website for him. As it was just 3 subpages, no database need or anything, I've done it quite fast with plain PHP, HTML, JS and CSS. But then another and another friend showed up. They only wanted arrange differently they navigation, some different picutures etc. So I though, is there any kind of CMS, that allows build small business website (barbershop, local groceries shop), with small list of subpages, yet allowing us to arrange look'n'feel. There's no need for the databas as content won't change, or can be stored in simple textfiles for example. Things like WordPress might be simple overkill Does anyone know such cms?


CMS for code snippets?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need the most simple way to publish code snippets in PHP, Javascript, HTML and CSS. What is the best free CMS to use with PHP / MySQL with these requirements?   * Made for code snippets, or very good at it.   * Syntax highlighting for the code snippest, when published but even when writing if possible.   * Possible to write some documentation around the code snippet.   * Nice urls, like /html/input-search/   * Tags or categories for code snippets. I'm using Wordpress for other things but I don't think it's simple enough for code snippets.


Script for a community blog

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to start a community blog: a blog where anyone can post. Basically: I need a CMS that has the following features:   * People can post from the front end: they don't have to go to an administrative interface.   * Anyone can post   * The popular posts (the ones with the most views, links, comments, etc.) are moved up to the home page, while the less popular posts are not as visable.   * Categories and Tags   * Comments   * Some sort of internal trackback system: if user1 creates a post with a link to user2's post, then user1's post should show up in the comments of user2's post.   * a simple profile (name, avatar, bio, etc.)   * The ability to rate post's and comments.   * Some sort of anti-spam system. Technology: php Any suggestions?


Pligg like CMS to create digg like sites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  I need an alternative to Pligg.com I am trying to find Pligg like CMS that I can use to create Digg like sites. With Pligg, I am not able to import the links automatically. They even have the plug in. I read about that plugin and it looks it can fetch only from selected sites. I'm not sure how good the plugin is. I checked out Drigg from Drupal but I don't understand the installation steps properly and I am not able to find documentation on doing this. Can anyone please suggest a CMS like Pligg that can pull bookmarks from other places?


New to CMS - Media Uploads & Profiles?

I am a designer / developer. My experience is in `HTML/CSS/JS`, some knowledge in `PHP`, `MySQL`, and Wordpress one-click-install. It'd be helpful if you could share some experience in choosing and setting up a CMS. Ideally, I have two places/needs for content management:   1. A media gallery in `HTML/CSS/JS` that can populate with images from a CMS image upload.   2. A series of 'profile cards' with fields I can customize in the CMS. A name, a title, a bio, an image etc. And then be able to display that content in customized `HTML/CSS`. These two features, along with a well-designed intuitive admin panel are the requirements. I'm still very new to backend installing and hooking into a CMS. Drupal is my first choice since it has a large community and I like that it has extendable modules. So, can this be accomplished with Drupal -- or is there an alternative I can look into?


CMS for a site with blog, login, shopping cart, etc

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am in the planning process of a website that will have a blog (as well as other pages which will be static), a login area (so that registered users can access private content), a shopping cart, and possibly later on a forum. What would be the best CMS to use for all of this?


Some sites with wiki-engine in the web for hosting

Are there any sites in the web like Wikipedia and this site, which have wiki- engine and may be used for hosting? Wikipedia has some troubles nowadays with formulas tags converting, so I want to use the other site.


Is there any Open Source alternative to e-paper CMS?

I'm looking for an open source CMS such as   * Express News   * Dawn E-Paper Similar question has already been asked but its still without a proper answer.


Need a CMS for a church - sermons, galleries, front-end/simple editing

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm creating a site for a church (news, events, sermons(audio & video), group pages, etc.) For many clients, I use Drupal, Joomla, or Wordpress - however, none of these will work in this scenario. I need the church administrators to be able to create layouts easily, etc, and not be bogged down in the number of features. Often for these types of clients, I use Joomla, but editing content in multiple areas can be confusing for clients (is it content, a component, or a module, etc.). Drupal is great for form based content submission, but the rest would be overkill for this client. I was leaning towards concrete5 for it's simplicity of use for the end-user, but many of the concrete5 add-ons feel like the alpha/betas of other CMS's extensions/add-ons. I was also tempted by Fork CMS, but it's fairly new and doesn't offer a lot in the way of customization abilities. So what would be a good CMS that allows either front end editing, or the backend is intuitive - offers good solid extensions/add-ons, and is mature and sees regular updates.


Light CMS that does not require a database

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a light CMS that I can use for creating a simple personal website for a friend. The server that he will host his website only supports PHP and no databases. So, I need a CMS that may not be very scalable but the important thing is that it must be easy to use with a simple user interface that a layman can use to add content (and as I said no databases).


Choosing a CMS for Non-Technical Users

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am currently looking for a free CMS geared towards non-technical users. I'm hoping to find something where they can easily create tables, move blocks around, with a WYSIWYG editor, etc. Does such a thing exist? Myself, I can put up with any CMS I come across. I can use HTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL/etc., so I can install whatever I need to and add edits wherever I need to for the web design/template/theme. I know the popular ones: WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla. They're apparently not simple enough for what I need.


We require a blog plugin to our asp.net website?

We require a blog plugin to our existing ASP.net website. I've used Wordpress before, however as our site is ASP / IIS Wordpress is out (I understand there may be workarounds but would prefer something that works out of the box). We need blog functionality to add in to our existing website template (header, columns etc) so only require a subset of full blog software functionality, as most blog software out there is aimed at creating a whole blog website, whereas we only want it to be a page on our website, in line with the current formatting of the website. What software would you suggest I use?


Blogging platform that supports group , private , public blogs and advanced tagging

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? After some bad questions here, i finally have my main question in mind :) I need to design a platform that provides: -Personal blogging (blogs that are view able only by them) -Group blogging (blogs that only people part of a small group (3-4 people) can see the posts and comment) -Public blogs Also about the content itself, i would need -Advanced tagging (common tags amongst all blogs AND tags specific to a blog in addition to the common) -Search capability -Rich text content with photos media e.tc. on the blog entry -A database that i could access and create custom applications (most read-only) on the data. Also an API would be helpfull. an example of a custom application would be to select your blog posts and create an offline file (.zip html e.t.c) and have it stored locally on your machine. After some research: -Forum platforms are NOT suitable for this as i would have to create hundreds of sub forums with selective security for each of them. It would make administration almost if not impossible. -Joomla and joomla-alike cms also give me bad signs as i couldn't have specialized tags per category of articles and i suspect heavy coding in order to do it. Also i don't know if it could satisfy my other above-mentioned needs. -I have found a combo that may work. Invision Board and IP.Blog. IP.blog supports almost all of the features that i want ,but it seems maybe too good to be true (any input of someone that already uses it would be helpful). Many solutions follow the logic that a blog is public and allow for some level of security on them, which is not suitable for what i want.


Turnkey software for a community website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some software to run a small community website. Ideally, what I want is:   * A wiki   * Static pages of some kind, perhaps cms controlled.   * Some sort of blogging or news functionality I've been playing with django, but it's difficult to get the results you want when on cheap shared hosting (limited control of httpd.conf) Perhaps some sort of wiki package would provide most of this?


What is a good solution for web based course management portal?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to host a web based course portal in my college. The portal would be used for the following tasks:   * Instructors will upload lecture notes, assignments, embed videos(youtube etc.)   * Students will consume the content, and in addition upload their assignment submissions.   * Instructors and TAs will monitor students progress and give feedback.   * Students, instructors and TA's will use a forum on the portal for discussions. Could you please recommend a good web based solution(preferably free) which would satisfy the aforementioned requirements to the most.


Which is the blog engine for my needs?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am hosting two websites, which basically contain two filtered views to one blog-like data base. Both sites have their own domains and the files are hosted on the same machine (currently in two directory, but could be changed to one directory easily). Now, as a matter of fact, I am sick of maintaining my own php code just for such a blog, so I thought, there must be a blog engine out there which I can use instead. So I googled a bit and I simply don't know with which engine to start trying out. Can you help me an tell me which engine is able to fullfil my requirements. I don't need a setup/configuration tutorial so something. I will figure that out myself as soon as I know which software to look at. My Requirements:   * I want to continue to host the sites by myself.   * I want to use different design templates on both blogs.   * I want to feed both blogs from one data base and filter the entries, e.g. through tags, so I can have entries showing on only one site or on both sites.   * I want to write entries in two languages, so the user can see the whole site in the language he/she selects. However, I want these still to be one blog entries, i.e. if a user comments on an entry I want that comment to show in all versions (both languages and both sites if the entrie is visible on both sites).   * I want RSS-Feeds (or similar) of the pages (filtered, similar to the webpages themself). Does anyone know a simple/small CMS which can do that for me without being too huge?


Intranet Content Management System

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking to find a free CMS that would be suitable for an intranet environment with around 50 users. What suggestions do you guys have? All that is required really is a few pages listing links to different documents on the network and possibly an event calender.


Any CMS or Framework that support MongoDB as the only database?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'd like to exercise mongodb in a real world context so I'm wondering what are CMS', or better, Frameworks that support MongoDB as the main database out of the box?


Userfriendly CMS for a large organisation

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a CMS for a large organization. There are many sites managed by many webmasters. The size of the sites range from pretty small to pretty large (60,000+ pages). The choice of technology does not matter, as long as the product meets the following requirements:   * Allows complex workflows to accomodate the multiple needs of a lot of clients. (Many levels of revision, translation, approval, etc.)   * Very easy for the users (Very easy for developpers too is great but could live without)   * Has content history (It is possible to view what the content on a page was at a specific date)   * Must be multilingual (At least French and English)   * Has a flexible security model   * Has good performance   * The layout of the pages must be highly configurable (not sure if I should write as all CMS probably meet this criteria)   * It must be possible to publish content that respects the WCAG 2.0 AA standard Can you point me in the direction of a CMS that meets all those criterias ?


What's the best CMS for my project?

I'm new to content management systems and I have very little experience in web development. Which CMS do you recommend for the following tasks?   * Users can login and create list items   * Users can upload files to list items   * Users can comment and rate uploads (thumbs up down)   * Users are able to change the font size of the page via mouse click   * Users are able to export sites to pdf via mouse click   * Breadcrumbs   * Small and easy to use forum   * Users can change the language of the site So far I experimented with Wordpress, but I think it's not the optimal choice! I've to use MySql as database.


What is the best open source e-commerce application for services?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Normally e-commerce applications are designed for selling products. But I want to setup a website with an open source e-commerce application to sell services, instead products. Which is the most suitable open source e-commerce application to sell services instead of products?


Which CMS supports private key authenticated sftp uploads?

I use EC2 to host a website, & would like to implement a CMS which can logon with a private key file rather than a username/password. In order to keep high security on the server so no one can brute force their way in. When I Google Drupal & Joomla private key authentication, I get nothing. Is anyone aware of a web dev app that supports this? Preferably open source. Thanks.


Choosing open source vs. proprietary CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been tasked with redesigning a website for a small academic library. While only in charge of the site for 6 months, we've been maintaining static html pages edited in Dreamweaver for years. Last count of our total pages is around 400. Our university is going with an enterprise level solution called Sitefinity, although we maintain our own domain and are responsible to maintain our own presense. Some background-my library has a couple Microsoft IIS servers on which this static html site has been running. I'm advocating for the implementation of a CMS while doing this redesign. The problem is I'm basically the lone webmaster so I have no one to agree or disagree with my choice. There are also only 1-2 content editors right know for the site but a CMS could change that factor. I would like to use the functionality of having servers that run .NET and MS SQL but am more experience setting up and maintaining open source software like Wordpress or Drupal on web hosts. My main concern is choosing a CMS that will be easy to update / maintain / deal with upgrades (i.e., support) in case I'm not there in the future. So I'm wondering how to factor in the open source CMS vs. a relatively inexpensive commercial CMS decision and whether choosing PHP/MySQL vs. ASP.net framework for development environment will play into my decision. Thanks for any input that can be offered based on the details I've given. Thanks, Jason


What is the best CMS for .net?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need advice on the best CMS for an online shopping website in ASP.NET 4.0. Any advice?


Looking for a CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking for a specific CMS including Wiki, possibility to comment on individual paragraphs of the wiki and making these comments visible on the same page. The CMS should have a user system that allows to rate users on the quality of their comments. Ideally, the System should allow for different user roles/permissions based on their experience. I looked at the site rapgenius.com and would like to use it for a similar project in which people can contribute texts, work on developing these texts and comment on text passages. Sorry, I am not a software engineer or webmaster but I thought this might be a good forum for my query.


ASP.NET CMS for link or content sharing with vote system

I'm Looking for an asp.net cms which gets liks from users and shares them based on tag and stuffs. and I want users to be able to rate and vote each shared content or link. I know what I'm looking for is a special web application but I'm going to build it and I dont' want to start from zero. Do you know an open source asp.net cms for such thing?


PHP Image gallery that integrates well into custom CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I've been trying to find an image gallery that plays nice with our custom CMS. I've evaluated a number of them, but none of them seems to have the feature list that I would like:   * Run on LAMP environment   * Free software or low license costs (the website belongs to a non-profit organisation)   * Multi-user support   * Multiple albums. We're posting concert pictures, and would like an album per event.   * Pluggable authentication system. I want to reuse the accounts we have for our CMS. Permissions can be done inside the gallery itself, but I want to have a single sign on solution in a maintainable manner, by writing my own plugin/add-on for the software.   * Upload support (multiple images at the same time) And preferrably also:   * Can be integrated into a PHP page layout without IFRAMEs   * Automatic resizing of uploaded images to a maximum size   * Ability for visitors to place comments This combination is proving hard to find, especially the authentication requirement. I don't want to mess around all over the place in the source code to make it use the existing authentication. A plugin would be ideal, but alternatively a well thought out software design that allows for maintainable surgical changes would be acceptable. Any suggestions on which software I should take a closer look into?


Which CMS can I use for my project?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I have to build a new website for my client.. and he needs this stuff: A user generated content website.. where users can upload their own videos.. (i will use a video hosting platform with api like fliqz.com) I must manage a big user system.. where users can create their own "sub- users"... the site must manage paid subscriptions and payments through paypal.. and other payment gateways... So the question is.. i have to use a pre-built CMS and extend it.. or just a good framework? I've been thinking about joomla, drupal and expressionengine... It's not neccesary to use a open source cms... I've looking at drupal.. but is not as easy to understand and extend... Can anyone help me to make a good decision?


How to find a good photo gallery for my website?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? For my website I'm searching for a really simple gallery module that looks like the one use by Dropbox. But I'd like to have 2 additional features: allow visitors to make comments and display the number of hits of a photo. I was googling a lot for such gallerys, but could find anyone that really matched my requirements. Could someone reocommend a simple good-looking gallery that fullfills these requirements.


Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL?

My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension. To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as possible including index.html as the main entry page even the content management system might start with index.php or anything like that. Could you tell me which content management system lets me pick my own url for each page or entry ? Example : given url 1 by Content Management System as travel/whereonearth.php my old url : travel/whereonearthe.html given url 2 : travel/mars.php my old url 2 : travel/mar.html i will type all old url for each entry page, once the site up, i will delete the old .html pages. This is for users and not for seo or anything like. I don't like .htaccess or anything like that so please list the CMS that allows me to do this.


fusion news or cutenews

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am looking at using cutenews or fusionnews, neither have the specific option i want which is when a new article is posted to email all my subscribers the last article. I would like to know which one is most customizable to do this or of another application that can do this? i didnt want to use wordpress because i want to custime the layout and page, but if thats the only option then i may stick to wordpress.


Lightweight CMS for simple website

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a very lightweight CMS that allows me to design my pages in the exact way I want. All those I found give you standard templates to work with that are quite limiting. For example, I should be able to have generate a page with one full-screen image with a dynamic text area in its middle, or a toll image on the side with a few text areas scattered around. nothing too fancy... I just need freedom to place the objects wherever I want.


News Portal CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a specific news portal CMS. I know all the major "general" CMS (like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla) and even the less known ones (like TYPO3, Expression Engine, Text Pattern or Concrete5). I'm already working with a Drupal distribution called OpenPublish and another WordPress installation to determine which would be better, but these are more of a Plan B. I would like to work directly with a CMS that was build exactly for this kind of tasks specific to a news / media portal. It doesn't matter if the CMS is commercial (however, I don't want to pay a monthly fee) or free, but I need to be able to use it on my own server / hosting and I need to be able to access it's source code (not to modify it, but to integrate it with future plugins / modules). If you know any CMS that qualifies for this job, please let me know. In the last few days I was all over Google but I couldn't anything worth mentioning.


A Java based modifyable web shop platform?

I have a project which requires a web shop. It should be a Java based web shop, since I know Java well. The functional requirements are:   * modifiable layout for main/goods pages   * modifiable processes like checking out etc. Is there a solution, which would meet my requirenments, which I should prefer? (e.g. something as popular as Magento)


Which CMS would Google recommend?

Which CMS would Google recommend for web design. I tested various CMS systems with PageSpeed and I did not found a CMS that performed close to 100/100


Simple blogging software (WP replacement)

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this question, but I think it's certainly better than at stackoverflow.com. I'm planning to redesign my website and looking for a WordPress replacement for my blog. My requirements are:   * simple (I won't do a large, complicated website) and lucid   * well coded (OOP), extensions, templates, active development (not 3 years old)   * nice but temperate text editor (+images, links), tags and categories, page break   * easy integration with Flickr, Picasa and social networks   * technology: PHP and MySQL, not cloud service (like Posterous or Tumblr) Could you recommend me some blogging software which would meet these criteria?


Picture Gallery & Message Forum

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Any suggestions for both an Open Source Picture Gallery and also for a relatively simple Message Forum (only low number of users), PHP/Python/Ruby/MySQL or anything else which is available. What I am primarily looking for are applications which can easily be incorporated into our existing website (same header, menu, floatin footer, quick linkd panel etc.) rather than as a full separate webpage. Thanks,


Alternative of Wordpress for site with review

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? can anyone help with alternative of Wordpress for site with review. Need more seriously CMS. Thanks.


Looking for a specific CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for an application (web application, like WordPress) that you put your code into (CSS, HTML, etc.) and do something like "define variables" in the custom code that your clients can come back later and change without having to see any code. Is there anything like this out there? Even close?


Private forum /guestbook to coordinate rides for PHP password protected wedding website

I created a simple private PHP website for my wedding guests. The website is a single PHP page that prompts the user for a password that was snail-mailed to them with our invitations. If the correct password is entered, the PHP page serves up the HTML content which is otherwise inaccessible to the web. It works great! Now, though, I would like to add a forum, guestbook or some other method for guests to post their travel plans or requests rides from the airport and such. Any solution ideally would be:   * **Private** so that people feel comfortable posting cell phones or travel information   * **Simple** for less tech savy guests to use (e.g. no captchas, no email confirmations, no registration)   * **Easy for me to setup** I would like to avoid setting up MySQL on the server if possible. Things I looked into but gave up on:   * **Using a Google Docs spreadsheet** is too difficult because it would require me to solicit email addresses from every guest and then manually invite them to the doc. Any solution should be accessible via a link from my password protected wedding website.   * **NoNonesense Forum** This php forum looked promising but it would be very hard to make private from the broader web.   * **phpBB** and other more powerful fourms. These are too complicated, and not obviously private either.   * **Rideshare.us** This service is close, but its a little complicated and kludgy and it really takes people away to a complicated website. I'm wondering if I can do better, especially for less savvy users.


Whether to use Joomla or NOT for a site with following specifications?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want **Joomla developers** perspective for: " **Whether its advisable or not to use Joomla** " if I wish to develop a site with following features:      1. Mainly focused in e-learning. (quite similar to http://grockit.com)      2. Registered **students** can:   watch/download videos/slides present on the site,   -give quiz (either solo or multi-player) on various predefined topics on the portal,   -when chosen multi-player, they can chat with the other currently on the same quiz,   -get a complete explanation of all questions after attempting the quiz,   -see his/her profile/status on the portal.      3. **Teachers** can:   can upload questions/slides/videos on the site(through a UI),   review questions uploaded by some other teacher,   can join a chat-room(quiz) and help students solve the quiz.      4. **Admin** (not necessarily a website developer) can:   -approve new teachers requests.   -manage contents of the website(through a UI).      The key points are:   The site won't ultimately be handled by the developers. The future admin may not know any programming at all!   Is the compatibility issue on various versions of Joomla a big problem?   Is it really easy for person with no programming skills to handle the site afterwards?   Is Joomla efficient enough and easy to learn for developers?   Are there sufficient number of Joomla extensions/plugins available for developing such a portal. And whether its easy to edit/modify those plugins? What we are capable of developing:   1. All the basic features including personal/group chat,video streaming,and the required coding for development of the UI for students and teachers.   2. Also we presently do not have any time constraints for the development of this portal.


Which wikis have MarkDown support?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? There exist a MarkDown extension for MediaWiki, but it is very buggy. Does anyone know of wikis that support MarkDown?


Recommend an open source CMS for single page web site

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Hi I want to create a single page web site like http://kiskolabs.com/ or http://www.carat.se to display my portfolio. I want to add new products after launching the site without having to edit the entire site. I've looked at opencart (too much for single page site), Magneto (more for ecommerce), Wordpress (couldn't find open source / free templates which i can start from). Can you suggest a CMS which will support the creation of a single page site and allow insertion of new products without having to edit the entire page? I would prefer a CMS which also has open source / free templates which I can tweak for my use. I can do php and mysql, xml. If it is an easier option I can do PSD to site (but don't know much about this at all).


Non-dynamic CMS

Some of the web sites I visit every day (news, sports, etc..), although the content changes very often (several times per day), the URLs always have .html extension, what makes me thing that the content has been generated once, and then published as a static page, rather than generated in every call, or even cached in memory. For example, the fictitious site "mysports.com" have a "futbol.html" page, and then yesterday Messi gets injured and they have another thing to put in that page, then I presume they post the new item in their CMS system, and automatically a publishing action is triggered aftewards that recreates "futbol.html" in a CDN with the new item and probably discard the oldest one. Then the ETag changes and clients will get the new page if they try to access it. (the site is fictitious but this is what I believe happened yesterday in the sports site I read) This would fit in the CQRS approach, and I presume they have a huge performance. I know lots of CMS (WP, Drupal, BlogEngine.net, DNN, etc...), but I have never seen any able of doing this, or at least, I was not aware this feautre. How are called those distributed CMS? Which are the most well known? Cheers.


File Management CMS?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for some kind of a CMS -- or similar software -- for hosting non- web files (PDFs, Docs, xls, other proprietary formats, etc) for download, in a protected area. Specifically, I'm looking for a few features: 1) User login required 2) Logging of downloads (who downloads what, when, and how many times) 3) Fairly easy for administrators to upload new content Basically, users would login to the site, search for files (or see what they've downloaded in the past) and be able to download these files. Non- authenticated users can access none of the content. I've been thinking almost something like Dokuwiki would do the trick, though it lacks some features I need. Anybody know of anything that might fit the bill?


I want a multilanguage community membership CMS

I have built a website on my own which does the following:   * Strangers can apply and there is an interface such that the admin can accept or dismiss applications   * Each accepted member has his own profile where he can advitse himselft for the world wide web   * Members can be sorted in different categories, they can post advertises that will be available at different places on the side, and members can also buy certain things in the memberarea. I also create my own bills with fpdf. The reason why I want to switch to a CMS is the following:   * I want to have the website in many languages and I want for instance that some german members are able to change the german content of the website(not only there profile) and, therefore, I need a CMS. What would you advise me to do? Should I get some CMS (like Moode or Wordpress) and should I try to integrate my own code in this CMS or is there already some CMS that I can buy that has these features that I have listed above?


Looking for a CMS to publish online tutorials

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to create a site with tutorials on a specific topic. The tutorials would include code samples (so I need code highlighting), pictures, screencasts, and files to download. I would like to edit the pages easily, like on wikis, but also allow for comments like on blogs. I don't want wiki-like community editing, and I want to update a given tutorial page continuously, like on wiki, but not like in the blog. So which CMS should use?


Subscription Site CMS

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I was wondering if there are any subscription cms's out there which provide good functionality? I am looking to have a site which has different levels of users such as bronze,silver,gold. They will then be able to access specific content on the site. So articles and videos which are only accessible to certain members. Thanks


what is the best CMS for member login and job posting

Hi I have worked in wordpress and joomla but i am confusing to choose CMS.. which one is suitable for my requirements. Please read requirements and suggest me some CMS. Thanks in advance Directory which will list all of our members, with the option to sort by company name and category (eg manufacturer, supplier, developer, EPC, legal, accountant, education, government etc). Some members will fall into one or more of these categories. The directory should contain the following: Name of company Contact person Phone number Mobile number Address Category Membership Type Members should be able to add/edit their details so each member will need to be given a log-in and password. Admin should approve/manage the memberships. B) Job Posting Job posting section – members can post job opening


Does anyone know a good (video game) matchmaking CMS?

I'm looking for a good CMS that can work as a matchmaking CMS. Particularly for video game ladders and tournaments. Currently I work on Magneto and Pinnacle cart, and obviously I'm not trying to sell anything with my new site, but rather fill a niche that isn't being offered for this video game. That being said, does anyone know of a CMS that is pre-made for this type application? Or am I stuck modifying a Joomla, or dating site CMS?


Looking for a very lightweight PHP CMS for single page websites

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need a very simple, secure CMS for single-page websites, with a single page backend, multilanguage, and preferably XML based, although that is not so important... I know there are other similar questions, but most of them are quite old. Please don't suggest Wordpress, it is definitely overkill for something like this.


.NET open source free CMS for millions of pages

I have done extensive research on the umbraco cms system. I have concluded that it is not suitable for web sites that will contain millions of web pages. When loggin into the back office the software must load all the pages which takes a long time and may even time out with millions of pages. is there a good cms built on the .NET platform that can handle this?


Blog/CMS software with editing style like Stack Exchange

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any pieces of content creation software for making a blog that support an editing style like Stack Exchange and Stack Overflow? Or magic combinations of Wordpress plugins that offer the same? I have been updating a Wordpress blog lately and found the turnaround time for content creation and editing is much worse than for Stack Overflow posts. Part of this has to do with being original compositions rather than riffing off a question. But part of it is the software. I am looking for CMS/blog software that has an overall editing experience similar to Stack Overflow. The most important features I'm looking for:   * Inline editing   * (mostly) Real-time preview on the same page are all important features for speeding up data entry.   * Markdown support (with inline and block-level code support)   * Syntax hilighting The features I must maintain from my self-hosted Wordpress:   * Somewhat popular/supported software, with extensibility support   * Self hostable   * Will work with MySql Wordpress has plugins for all these, but they don't necessarily work together. For example I've found a few markdown-on-save plugins, but I doubt those have a chance of ever supporting inline editing or real time previews. Also the most popular syntax hilighting plugins don't support inline code blocks, and I doubt previews would work with other syntax hilighting methods. If I get a wiki/web page content creation system along with it, or somehow integrate this into GitHub (with all the features I requested) I'll accept those as side benefits.


simple cms for one page portfolio

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I want to use a simple cms for a one page photography portfolio. Here are some screenshots of the website: homepage and interior page Basically I have just to insert a thumbnail image for index and a specific page for each thumbnail that contains a title a description and some images. I don't want to use Wordpress, I think is too much. Could you recommend me some other cms for this type of portfolio?


Which FLOSS Python CMS for video sharing in a school?

I have an university project in which we develop a **video sharing system for schools**. Our central use cases are as follows:   * The system has to **manage videos** (and associated arbitrary metadata)   Where management includes uploading, transcoding, browsing (by metadata) and playing   * The system has to implement a **3-tier release process** :      * pupils may add videos to the system     * teachers may approve added videos, publishing them to other pupils     * administrators may revoke the approval of published videos The system needs to be developed in an agile fashion, oriented on Extreme Programming. As a result, the system needs to be implemented in a programming language, the developers are familiar with. The biggest overlap in competences of the developers is Python, so with additional functional requirements to be expected:   * The system needs to be implemented and extensible in **Python**. The system needs to be released to the general public, so   * The system and all components need to be licensed as **open source**. Which extensible open source Python CMS, supports video content and a role- based workflow?


Looking for a Social Bookmarking Content Management System

I want to make a website like Reddit, I already tried Pligg, Drigg, Elgg but the codes were too messy and impossible to customize. I really like WordPress and Joomla but they are not designed for that, I am wondering any suggestion or plugin to make them like Reddit or other cms?


Strengths of various open-source PHP Content Management Systems?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? What are the strengths / weaknesses of the various PHP-based open source CMSes?


Blogging platform for private/family blog?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am trying to setup a blog to be used for our family. This blog will not be open to the public and family members will require a username and password to enter the site. I had originally settled on Wordpress with some content restriction plugins but I am beginning to question that decision. So many Wordpress features are not relevant to a family blog. Items like Trackbacks are confusing to users and still show up even when trackbacks are disabled for a specific post. To that end I am looking for recommendations on open source blog engines that might fit the bill. I run IIS and Apache so either platform is fine. Thanks.


> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? i need a cms for book online reading and sharing like slideshare.net site


What free website system do you recommend to promote intepretation/translation services

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I am a business interpreter based in Hangzhou,China. I am considering to mount an independent website to promote my service. I will register a domain name for it. My question is, what free website system do you recommend? The website system needs to include a content management system so I can add information.


Best wiki engine to use?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking to set up a wiki as a simple CMS for a resource page. Mostly just pdfs and word documents will be hosted, but the two main features I'm looking for is the ability to restrict pages based upon user privileges and for blog- style comments between the users. From what I've researched, mediawiki can easily do the first part with restricting users, but I haven't had much luck finding any plugins for comments. I'm trying to avoid the discussion style pages from wikipedia, and have more of a comments just under the article. So far I'm leaning towards trying Tiki out, any other recommendations?


I need a multi-language site with webshop functionality. Which CMS to choose?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I need to develop a multi-language site which includes simple webshop functionality. I have extended experience with WordPress. There are numerous shopping cart plugins available for WordPress however none of them is compatible with multi-language plugins such as WMPL. Drupal is an option I looked into (using i18n and Ubercart) and I am not sure this is the solution I am looking for. Another solution I considered is to develop a custom WordPress cart plugin that is compatible with WPML. Anyone familiar with this situation? Any recommendation regarding CMSes that fit my needs? Thanks!


Photo contest plugin

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? Consider this template I would like to build a similar site looking site which allows users to register and upload their images. Each image should have title and short description, provided by the uploader, and be immeaditely available on the site once upload is complete. Any suggestions?


Django plugable news story application

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? Are there any plugable django blog apps that can be embeded into existing pages or templates. It doesn't have to be a full fledged blogging engine. The features I am looking for are:   * Displaying multiple stories with 'read more' button. Display should be like news items on a news-agregator, without the regular features of blogs like commenting or social networking buttons.   * Url for each story   * Support for pagination to limit the number of stories that can apper on the home page.   * Loadable on to the existing pages or templates. If there are no such apps, suggestions for how the modules (views, models, urls) can be written are welcome.


CMS without templates

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS)/Wiki should I use? I am looking for a CMS where I can layout the page from scratch using HTML/PHP/CSS and simply enter code such as:-               FOR EACH (listOfArticles) SORT mostRecent CATEGORY news LIMIT 5
{title}

{body}
     END      to get a list of the five most recent articles of a certain category in the relevant place. Does such a thing exist anymore? Unless my mind is playing tricks on me, the CMSs of five or ten years ago had this approach. I am thinking of MovableType and the now defunct CityDesk. It seems to me that CMSs these days have a 'templates first' approach. I.E. you must always choose a template before doing anything - which I find really painful. Learning how to design these structured templates also seems overly painful. So can anyone help me in my quest? Thank you, Mark


Secure enterprise wiki technology?

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use? I'm looking for a secure wiki technology that will allow shared note taking and documentation. Security, organization, and revision control are critical. Any advice will be appreciated!


non-invasive database content management?

I work for a group that has an already existing, built-from-scratch LAMP (plus javascript) website. There are currently no content management systems in place, and up to now the method for updating content has been for one of us more database savvy employees to simply manually update the database through mysql workbench, etc. I'm looking for a solution that would allow us to customize an interface for non-developers to update certain content that lives in our mysql database. The problem is, I don't want it to also have control over our page templates and front end styling, as that is already all in place and incorporates many complex web apps that could be difficult to incorporate into a site managed by a full CMS such as Drupal. cushyCMS has functionality very close to the scope I am looking for, but it deals in direct editing of specific html files, whereas I am searching for something that would allow users to edit specific parts of a database. Ideally, I imagine a drupal-like interface for user editing/input (ie drop- down menus, limited functionality so people can't break things, etc.) but applied to a pre-existing database. Anyone caught any wind of something such as this?


background css help

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  image behind adsense i have a google ad, where i want to place an image, i tired the css, but the image is not coming properly, my google ad size is height=280, width=336 the image url is http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png i want this image behind my ad, i tried this following code:-               {         background:url("http://www.clker.com/cliparts/e/p/V/F/o/0/notepad-hi.png")transparent;         height: 300px;         padding: 50px 30px 0;         width: 350px;         }


How to ensure mysql starts automatically if server restarts on Ubuntu Server

Occasionally for various reasons my webhost 'reboots' my VPS after doing some routine maintenance or upgrades. However when they do, or if I reboot the server for any reason myself, mysql doesn't restart. To restart it I need to ssh in and run...               service mysql start      How can I make it start automatically like the other programs my website depends on to work properly. Otherwise users of my site see the site down until I can get in and fix it. Is this an issue with Ubuntu Server or is it my vps host?


Adding an RSS feed to a Facebook page

I want to add a client's blog feed to a Facebook page. Is there a way to do that without using a third party app?


Changing to PHP 5-5.5

I've been using **`PHP-5.4.3`** for about a month now, and today, I decided to make a switch to **PHP-5.5.5** , I downloaded the source code, and placed it in `C:/php` ( _also renaming the folder`php-5.5.5` to `php`_) and I added server variables, as usual `C:/php/` _< -- but here I got stuck_. Because, usually I appended the `php.exe` at the end, which was found inside the PHP folder so, I could be able to access PHP from the command line, or start the built-in server, but now, I can't find this file, and I can't find a way to start the server from the command line either. Anyone help.


Change folder name in server

If I change a folder name in server ant thus the URL will be changed, could I perform 301 redirection or this is only for the case that the web page has been transferred to another folder?


Structured data and visible content revisited

Structured data (like schema.org markup) should traditionally be used on visible content (a search on here will confirm that) and Google and others have said as much. However, schema.org is now supporting JSON which would never be visible on- page. Additionally, and for quite some time, the Good Relations Snippet Generator has created snippets that are empty divs with instructions to post it before the closing `<body>` tag of your webpages. Does anyone have practical experience (even better, A/B testing) of the results (or problems) from using Semantic Web markup on visible vs. non- visible content or any insight/guidelines?


<br> in meta-description, ok or not?

I have a dynamically constructed page that automatically pulls specific page content and applies it to the meta description. There are `<br>` tags that end up in the meta description. Should I write the extra code that will remove and store this cleaned-up version, or is it ok/safe/bad-for-SEO to leave the tags there?


Suddenly website stopped to appear at Google Search

We have a working website for more than a year. Everything was ok, site worked, appeared in the relevant Google searches etc. Now, one day we discover that the site **totally** removed from Google Search results. (I don't complain that it's low, not that). It just never appears, even if I search Google for the site name itself, it does not shows. The site subscribed to Google Webmaster Tools, Google Analytics and AdWords (currently no Ad campaigns are running). All these tools show no single warning. We received no complain email or anything. I don't quite understand what could be the reason or is it a bug in a Google (?!) Bing does not show the website either, but we never checked bing before. Site does appear on Yahoo Search. On `ask.com` it does not appear. Any clue would be helpful. _One thing that I can think of - we are a dynamic DNS provider and we give to our users, domains like`user.website.com`. It is possible that some user may use that domain for some malicious activity, like sending spam or running a malware website or anything else. I know that some antivirus (I think avira), probably because of the aforementioned reason, marks our website as a malware site._ The site in question is `https://www.net-me.net`.


Google Analytics regards direct access as referral for subdomain

When I directly access `subdomain.mydomain.com` by entering it in the browser's address bar, Google Analytics Realtime Overview indicates that top referral is `mydomain.com`. I'm sure that I'm the only visitor of my website at that moment (It is just one visitor from my location). I expect that it should indicate for Top Referral: `There is no data for this view.` What is the cause of this behavior?


Prevent Google Indexing SubDomains

I have cPanel Hosting with only 1 IP. I'm in the process of pointing all my TLDS over to this server. I have created 'Addon Domains' and all the folders from which it creates are located in sub directories 'domain1.com' , 'domain2.com' in my root website '/home/user/public_html/client/' but they can be accessed from 'domain1.maindomain.com'. The thing that is worrying me is if google indexes these subdomains. What can I do to prevent this, would a rewrite rule like this be sufficient?               RewriteEngine on  RewriteCond     %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.domainpointtosubfolder\.com$ [NC] RewriteRule     ^(.*)$ http://www.domainpointtosubfolder.com/$1 [L,R=301]       Or is there a better way?


How to manage a site trying out different technologies?

I'm a complete newbie to web hosting. I only have programming skills, but I'd like to acquire a domain. Then I'd even like to have the chance to manage different technologies for hosting web sites and applications. I mean, I don't only want to try the Apache, PHP and MySQL stack but try out with node.js and Ruby on Rails. These might be subdomains and each correspond to different technologies. What is the suggested setup for using so many technologies?


In Google webmaster tools, can a "soft 404" be triggered by the text on the page?

I just ran across an error in Google Webmaster Tools that I have never seen before. I manage the website for my local community band (I play trombone). One of the pages on the site is a list of our upcoming performances. It is powered by a WordPress events plugin that uses a database of upcoming events that are entered through the administration interface. We just finished up our summer and fall concerts and our next performance will be our Christmas concert. I hadn't gotten around to adding that into the website yet, so there are no upcoming events shown on the page. In fact the text on the page says: > No upcoming events listed under Performance. Check out past events for this > category or view the full calendar. Then in Google Webmaster Tools, this page is showing up as a "soft 404": ![google webmaster tools soft 404](http://i.stack.imgur.com/sssFa.png) The page is returning a 200 status and Google is indicating that he 404 is "soft". I wouldn't have expected Googlebot to be as sophisticated to parse that particular sentence. Is Googlebot able to detect that the text on the page indicates that there is currently not content and then treat it as a 404 page because of that? If Google is treating this page as a soft 404 because of the text on the page, does that mean that like regular 404 pages, the page won't show up in search results?


Returning visitor stats reliably over longer periods of time in Google Analytics

I'm looking into how useful returning visitors stats in Google Analytics are over longer periods of time, such as two or three years. It seems that the `__utma` cookie is set to expire 2 years from set/update, so this suggests that this cookie should be updated each time the user visits the site, and the 2 year expiration reset. Would I be right in thinking then that it's reasonable to expect the returning visitors data to be no less accurate over longer periods than it is in the last year, for example?


Weird 404 crawl errors in Google webmaster tools

If anyone can help, I'd be very grateful! We're getting strange domains coming up in Google webmaster tools - they seem to be breeding. When I look where the links are coming from, it's either:   * non-existent pages on our website (usually) or   * some other site URL  I'll give some examples:   * hechenghai/article/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx    * sql-server-reporting-services-training/~/ms-project/~/stored-procedures/~/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx   * blogs/BradSchacht/ssis/blog/blog/enquiry/frmenquiry.aspx I'm sure Brad Schacht is a great guy, and hechenghai a great place, but I'd never heard of either of them till they turned up in Google tools, and they're certainly not on our website. Some things to help:   * I have a simple site map which Google knows about, and have checked this.   * We don't use an htaccess file (it's all in Windows)   * we don't use any illicit or black-hat techniques   * we generate the site from a .NET system which writes out the HTML pages You can see the site at http://www.wiseowl.co.uk


Is there a way to compile LESS files to CSS (so that every browser doesn't have to)?

I'm considering using LESS but I cringe at the thought of a browser having JavaScript disabled and my CSS not being readable (and the site looking awful). Also, it offends the engineer in me to force every browser to "compile" that Less file to .css when we could just "compile" it once every-time we modify it.


How many users use geotargeting in while searching in Google

Are there any stats about how many Google/Bing users may be selecting country (as in the pic) in the SERP?![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/O7EOM.jpg) As Susan says in here that geotargeting in GWT only works when users select a country as in the pic above. If it's small percentage then there won't be much use geotargeting wesite/pages by Webmasters.


Is LESS ready for use in a production site?

I'm considering using the Twitter Bootstrap HTML/CSS templates which use Less (a sort of scripting language for CSS) I've never used it so I was wondering if it's ready for "prime time".


image map does not work on Opera and Mozilla browsers (only Google Chrome)

I have created a WordPress blog and inserted an image with map and some links inside, but I can't open any link by pressing on the page using any browser except Google Chrome. This is the code:
     <map id="imgmap2013948720" name="imgmap2013948720">     <area title="" alt="" coords="5,4,167,167" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=14" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="174,6,336,165" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=16" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="345,5,506,167" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=18" target="_blank" />     <area title="" alt="" coords="514,5,678,169" shape="rect" href="http://pretesti.ge/?page_id=20" target="_blank" />          </map>


How to track click sources in a Google-compatible way?

On my website, I track when users click on a search result that brings them to a details page for an item. I then save what search query they used before they clicked. My current solution is this:   1. Each link in search results is in the form `/goto/<item_id>/?search_id=...`   2. `/goto/<item_id>/` saves that a user used a given search id to get to a given item, and then returns a 302 redirect to `/details/<item_id>/`   3. `/details/<item_id>/` displays the details page and does not do any tracking. For the users, everything works fine, but when I check Google search results for my page, the direct links to the details page URLs say `/goto/<item_id>/?search_id=...` with some old `search_id`, instead of `/details/<item_id>/`. I feel like I'm missing an obvious solution :) The only thing I came up with so far is using `/details/<item_id>/` links in HTML and using JavaScript to replace them all with `/goto/<item_id>/search_id=...`, but that seems like an overkill. Any better ideas?


What is the potential harm of using Google's Disavow Links tool?

Google gives a warning on its disavow links tool, that says: > This is an advanced feature and should only be used with caution. If used > incorrectly, this feature can potentially harm your site's performance in > Google's search results. We recommend that you only disavow backlinks if you > believe that there are a considerable number of spammy, artificial, or low- > quality links pointing to your site, and if you are confident that the links > are causing issues for you. What exactly is the risk of using this? If I have a bunch of spammy links that a competitor built, would there be any potential harm of disavowing them? EDIT: In my particular case, my main site has been delisted from Google's search results, and at approximately the same time, I noticed that I've started getting a lot of spammy links to my site. No warning has been issued by Google in webmaster tools, but I want to disavow the spammy links anyway.


Adwords traffic showing up in Analytics as organic traffic, not paid?

I've got Adsense ads running driving PPC traffic to my site. When I go into Google Analytics under the tab Traffic Sources > Search > Organic, I get all the search terms people have come through for. I can't tell if they're from organic or paid search, but I believe they are paid as I'm not ranking organically for the terms that I'm getting traffic through. If I go under Search > Paid I get nothing. They are linked via > Tools and Analysis > Google Analytics. Any idea what might be happening?


can mod_rewrite be used for this problem?

We used to have a URL `http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=144` which is moved to `http://www.abc.com/index.php?itemID=1556` we want our users which are hitting the above url(144) to reach to 1556. How can it be achieved. If with mod_rewrite or anything else.


Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title?

Apologies if this is a dupe. I tried searching, but didn't find anything specifically addressing this concern. When creating a large(ish) site, page titles usually reference both the site name and the current page name. However, it seems there are two main conventions:               Bob's Awesome Site - Contact Page      and               Contact Page - Bob's Awesome Site      I've looked around, and pages usually use one of the two variants above. **Is there any reason to use one over the other? SEO/readability/usability/etc?** I've thought about it, and have only come up with:   * Page first - Differentiates the tab when the browser is crowded with lots of tabs   * Site first - Immediately see the "parent" site, so to speak; more cohesive experience


What is the easiest/lightest setup to get a basic LAMP stack setup for development?

I'm looking for a minimum of fuss here to get up and running. Bonuses: - cross platform - portable (can be installed/run from a USB) _Clarification: I'm not looking to setup a full-fledged remote testing server, I just need something simple that I can load localhost in my computer's browser and check my latest changes._


Shared Host VS Cloud server

> **Possible Duplicate:**   >  How to choose between web hosting and cloud hosting? What the difference between a shared host and a cloud server. I have a url http://domain.com and with a shared host, easly I have FTP details where I can upload everything on the server. Is is the same with cloud server or is it the same as amazon Cloudfront where you haven't got FTP details etc? What are the differences in terms of speed? Thanks alot


Anonymouse versus logged in users on my site & Google Analytics

I'd like to be able to run two different 'tracks' for Google Analytics; One for anonymous users of the site and another for Users whom are logged-in. I say "track" because I'm not sure of the term -- but I definitely know I want it to all be in the same "Analytics Account", I just want to segregate my logged-in users. In the site template, I can very easily add a conditional to display one or the other (Analytics code snippet)... Which I'm hoping this comes down to and although I'm not sure, it seems that the last digit in your Analytics ID (e.g. `UA-15XXXX0-X`) could be incremented to gain such additional 'tracks'. My current footer snippet:               <script type="text/javascript">          var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");         document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));     </script>          <script type="text/javascript">          try {             var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-XXXXXXX-1");             pageTracker._trackPageview();         } catch(err) {}     </script>


Is the Title attribute still used?

I'm curious if anyone still uses the Title attribute? I've noticed that none of the sites I visit on a regular basis use it at all, I'm talking about sites like ArsTechnica, The Verge, the BBC, etc...big triple-A sites. I found one random reference on the W3C's site to it being abused, is it just out of favor now or is there some specific reason?


List of usage information to collect in a web application

I'm writing a web application that will allow people to create accounts, edit stuff, send stuff to people, &c. I plan on recording things like when things were created and sent and stuff. Is there a list of usage information that one should collect in a web application? I'd like to see whether I'm missing something. Also, is there a list of usage information that I shouldn't collect (Like maybe information that people find private)? EDIT: I was thinking about information that is collected automatically (like timestamps and ip addresses) rather than information that is entered manually.


Is it possible to add a logo to an existing image file?

Is it possible to add additional image to an existing image using php or jquery?The logic is same as watermark in PHP but I want the logo to be draggable so a user can position the image anywhere on the existing image.


Moving to a new domain - what to do to minimize visitor loss

I want to move my website to a new domain. Would be nice if you can share some experience or suggestion to minimize loss of visitors. In google webmaster tools there is an option which allows to move search result to a new domain. It should be done through a 301 permamently redirected page? Can you tell me what I have to do for this? do I need to put this 301 page in every page I had in old domain? More ideas are welcome. Thanks.


Blocking URLs and canonical questions

We are running a Magento store set up and was looking to block all pages with the exception of a select few. It seems the only way we can do this is with blocking direct paths to files that are in the root and then wildcarding various other diretories. My question is if we have a product like website/ultragloss-black.html the canonical is actually /zurfiz/ultragloss-solid-colours/ultragloss-black.html If we block /zurfiz/* will this block the short url version as the canonical is in the /zurfiz/ directory?


Can you put content from your site on Facebook, or will that cause duplicate content?

I have a question about duplicate content. Is it okay to take a paragraph or two directly from your website and put it on Facebook page as a post say, about your products or services, or even your about us page? Does this harm your website ranking, have no impact or is it not worth doing because it may be problematic but there is no clear consensus? A coworker and I have been discussing this where I admit to being more concerned about it than they are.


My website Internal links are no-follow

I have a website and all the link showing no-follow is it good for SEO purpose? or I want to make it do-follow what should I do now? Actually my website is access with two version `WWW` or without `WWW` and it was also access `index.html` but now I edit _.htaccess_ code file and and also do redirect (301) for the page `index.html` now website is accessing with `WWW` version and `index.html` is also redirect to home page but problem is that all internal links are showing no-follow please help me with the _.htaccess_ code. What should I do now? For more info find the snapshot of the _.htaccess_ code and write the code for me. ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/F4mG4.png)please find the images for more info-![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/6E5RG.png)


Page doesn't show up in Google searches

When I search on Google for "pollackstorch" I get an invitation to the administrator rather than the page itself. When I search on Bing or AltaVista I get the page itself. How can I get Google to return the page itself like the others do?


Does Google Analytics data affect SEO?

I have several pages on my site that I did not include the Google Analytics code. Will it improve my site's Google ranking if I include the GA on all of my pages and increase the number of visits on GA?


Include latest searches in search engines index

My websites generally include a page where you can publicly see what are the latest search terms used by the users of the web. I know it's not a good security practice to allow this since you can find undesired content. On the other hand it boosts the number of pages indexed since every new search can provide a link on Google and people can find you with related keywords that you are not using on your web page. What is the rationale behind including or excluding this results in search engines index ?


'Helvetica Neue' webfont

I am trying to figure out where do all sites that use the 'Helvetica Neue' font get it from. There are certainly too many sites using it for it not to be free. But frankly, there are only two fontsites which have it in their catalog, and it is for sale (and not as a webfont). Moreover, can you give some examples of **webfonts** which are similar to this 'Helvetica Neue' and are (mostly) free? Thank you!


Select cms to the construction site with e-learning

I want to suggest me someone who has experienced one cms or component to build website with e-learning


Is it possible fight against domainers?

these days I have looking for a domain for my web application, but I've realized that the 99% of them are bought and of these the 9/10 are from domainer speculators. "Welcome to the real world" maybe you think, but I'm wondering if there is anything that we can do to "fight" against this situation.


Global Statistics for Browser + Operating System

I'm trying to determine global statistics (similar to StatCounter's) for a combination of Browser + OS. For example, 35% (or whatever) of users are on XP **and** IE8. StatCounter only displays one or the other (ex. 47.32% on XP, 30.20% on IE8). Is anyone aware of a site that offers this information - preferably free of charge - or a way to glean it from StatCounter or others?


Is there a problem in having same product with different names in different pages?

When ot comes to structured data, schema.org for products, Is there a problem in having the same product with 2 different names in 2 different pages for layout reasons? Example: Category page with many products. Objects appear in smaller divs that don't fit complete name vs product page totally dedicated to one product that fits all the information. **Category Page:**               Dell 30" Monitor      **Product Page:**               Dell UltraSharp 30" LCD Monitor      Thanks


How should I prepare the design of a web page for a web developer?

What techniques, software or practices do you use to prepare a description of a web page for further development? I am doing some research (with little luck) in how to create description for web developers - what should be included on the web page (inputs widths, font sizes, images placement, etc). Right now I use a combination of Excel and Word documents. In complex cases this is inefficient. Any other suggestions?


Redirect *.example.com to example.com

I have some valid subdomains in my httpd.conf file. Now how do I redirect anything that's not a valid subdomain to the main website? What I mean is, if I have a valid subdomain hello.example.com, it should go to hello.example.com and if its blah.example.com which is not a valid subdomain, it should go to example.com. How can I make changes in my httpd.conf file to follow everything I just mentioned?


SEO - advice on costing and setting deliverables

I've some experience of doing on-site SEO work for clients for whom I've been developing their website at the same time. It's always been added in as part of the overall package and the costing for the SEO work has never been explicitly separated from the main budget. The results have always been good, with me basically following best practice with on-site optimisation. I deliberately don't get involved with the off-site side of things. Anyway, without rambling on too much, I have a situation where I've been asked to cost for on-site optimisation work for a new client - but I'm worried about how to qualify what is an achievable result. The site has around 30 pages, none of which are optimised at all currently. The market they operate in is pretty competitive but I'd be confident of siginificantly improving their SEO ranking. How would deliverables be structured for this type of work? Do you promise that you'll get the site to a minimum of position n on Google? Also, out of interest, does anyone have any basic ballpark figures for what this type of work would typically cost for a site of this size? I'm looking more at a one off fee as opposed to an ongoing monthly service. Grateful for any pointers on any of this!


Ad Block is blocking some images, excluding others, on a site I host

I've created a website that has political banners (in .GIF and .PNG) with the intention of people being able to copy and embed them with the code provided below the image. Strangely, 3 of the 10 banners weren't appearing and I discovered that my Ad Block extension was treating those as ads, but none of the rest. They are all sourced from the same file path, they all contain relatively the same content, just different sizes. It would be my preference to not have these treated like ads whatsoever, but obviously that is not a decision for me to make. I'm curious as to why some are being excluded over others, though. If these are considered advertisements by the extension, it seems silly to me that as the 'source of advertisement' and host of this site, I can't simply provide something for others to share when they are voluntarily there to see just that. If this is something I have to eat for the greater good of preventing spam, then that's fine. I'm just curious to see if I have any options. Many thanks PWM


SSL on multiple directories

I have a website that is http, but has a port set up for https for a specific directory that is for the shopping cart. Now I'd like to use our SSL on a different directory in the same site as well. How can I go about configuring that? I have tried looking into all of the config files as well as the docs and cannot figure it out. I tried setting this in httpd.config as well               <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:[ssl port]>   #also tried *:[ssl port] and [actual IP]:[ssl port]         ServerAdmin shred@me.com         DocumentRoot "C:/path/sslNeededDir"         ServerName www.example.com     </VirtualHost>      hoping that it would cause pages in this directory to use ssl port and become https, but that didn't do anything. Any help is greatly appreciated. **Update:** This finally got migrated over. I'm still looking for a solid answer on this. If anyone could help me, it would be greatly appreciated.


SEO: how to organize a multiple, etherogeneous topics website?

I happen to have a decent knowledge about a ton of very different topics. I'd like to start a **large** blog website talking about them, but while some of those topics are more or less close, others are really alien to them. In example, I'd like to post a series of blog posts about how to optimize wordpress, another bunch would be about OpenCart. But I also know a good deal about configuring Ubuntu servers so I also want to create a series of posts about that (by series I mean 100 or so). But I also know a lot about finance and markets trading, I could write thousands of posts about that. But I also know a lot about online gaming (and coding), I could write a number of posts and make videos and so on. I have read that the best way is to keep everything under the same domain so to build "critical mass" which in turn brings Google rank. But wouldn't so many topics diversity actually convince readers that the website is amateur- ish or too much "do it all" / unfocused and actually lead them to abandon it? Also, I read that a best practice is to keep only one consistent theme across the whole website. I find it hard to setup one theme which is effective and good for such diverse stuff as wordpress and gaming or finance. I don't have problems implementing different themes as I got the full Genesis bundle. As of now I had started creating empty websites focused on one task (i.e. www.wp-optimize.com for wordpress optimization) but I fear I'd easily end up creating 7-8 unrelated small websites that would never gain momentum to rank up. Basically, I have the content, I have the quality (well, I hope so!) and even have some quantity. I am "just" asking, with this peculiar situation on my hands, if there are best practices to monetize my efforts (with ads) in a rational and effective way.


Is it a good idea to make "safety copy" of articles from referring sites?

My wife has a small business with a website, of which I am the maintainer. (I am not a trained web developer, but know the basics of HTML and CSS.) There are already a few articles / blogs / news items about them online on other sites. She would like to keep a list of references to these. However, she would like to ensure that the articles are available even if the other site removed the original content or migrated it to another URL. So she somehow would like to store a copy of these articles on their own site. This raises a few questions to me. First of all, is it a legal and accepted practice in general (assuming we have the original owner's consent)? I know the legal part is country specific and I should rather consult a lawyer. At this point I am more interested in whether Google and other search engines penalize this, and how to play by the rules if possible.


Sponsored blog or explicit owned?

I'm trying to convince my client to use a blog to communicate with his audience and promote his site. However, I'm still unsure whether this blog should explicitly advertise the brand as in Nike Blog or appear discretly as a sponsor, should anyone read the 'about us'. The reason I'm concerned is because the purpose of this blog is to produce articles about subjects that is of the brand's audience interest, not an institutional blog that would eventually publish news, promotions and what not. There's already a news bulletin for people who are directly interested in the brand and we're trying to reach another audience: the people who'd probably leave if they noticed the blog is institutional.


Check-o-matic? is there such a thing?

Several insurance companies use a service called Check-o-matic , where they deduct from the users checking account. Has anyone seen a service like this? It would be a competitor to paypal. I know paypal with deduct from a checking, but they are looking for a specific service. I don't know if one exists, but all the insurance companies call it the same, Check-o-matic.


How can a website survive an untrusted environment?

Let's say I have an internal website that holds pretty important data (well, contest strategies for stuff like FIRST), which I am bound to host on a Windows server with literally no security. I can't access anything but the public directory. We have script kiddies from nearby schools constantly trying to get a competitive advantage by hacking into the servers and stealing information. About 30% sure there's viruses on the system too. Is it possible to build a website that could survive such treatment?


Building a funnel retroactively in Google Analytics

I have a issue with trying to devise a funnel in Google Analytics. I am not looking to create a goal funnel, as I am looking to do it retroactively on my data so I need to either do the crunching manually or devise a strategy for it. I wish to see sessions who have navigated from these pages, for example:               / -> Category page A -> Cart -> Conversion     / -> Category page B -> Cart -> Conversion     / -> Category page C -> Cart -> Conversion      How would I go about creating a funnel like this in Google Analytics and extract this data **retroactively** (emphasis so I do not get recommendations for setting up goal funnels since I want to do this on already processed data)? I imagine I could use the segmentation sequence, but how reliable is that? I am getting sampled data very quickly and I want to be able to do this for a couple of months back, but I get sampled even after choosing a week. Any ideas?


Massive 404 attack with non existent URLs. How to prevent this?

The problem is a whole load of 404 errors, as reported by Google Webmaster Tools, with pages and queries that have never been there. One of them is `viewtopic.php`, and I've also noticed a scary number of attempts to check if the site is a WordPress site (`wp_admin`) and for the cPanel login. I block TRACE already, and the server is equipped with some defense against scanning/hacking. However, this doesn't seem to stop. The referrer is, according to Google Webmaster, `totally.me`. I have looked for a solution to stop this, because it isn't certainly good for the poor real actual users, let alone the SEO concerns. I am using the Perishable Press mini black list (found here), a standard referrer blocker (for porn, herbal, casino sites), and even some software to protect the site (XSS blocking, SQL injection, etc). The server is using other measures as well, so one would assume that the site is safe (hopefully), but it isn't ending. Does anybody else have the same problem, or am I the only one seeing this? Is it what I think, i.e., some sort of attack? Is there a way to fix it, or better, prevent this useless resource waste? **EDIT** I've never used the question to thank for the answers, and hope this can be done. Thank you all for your insightful replies, which helped me to find my way out of this. I have followed everyone's suggestions and implemented the following:   * a honeypot   * a script that listens to suspect urls in the 404 page and sends me an email with user agent/ip, while returning a standard 404 header   * a script that rewards legitimate users, in the same 404 custom page, in case they end up clicking on one of those urls. In less than 24 hours I have been able to isolate some suspect IPs, all listed in Spamhaus. All the IPs logged so far belong to spam VPS hosting companies. Thank you all again, I would have accepted all answers if I could.


What to do when we had a backlink (from a gone site) to one of our a 404 page?

Previously there was a page on our partner's site that had a link to our site. Now, this page and the whole partner's website is gone (404). But this page still exists in our website backlink profile. Do we need to disavow or take any other action regarding this partner's website (page)?


I have permission to republish articles. Do I need to use rel=canonical?

I made a deal with a guy. I will give him advertising on my site for his business. He will give me permission to reprint the articles that appear on his site (he wrote them). I was looking for a lot of content quickly and this gives it to me. But now I'm reading in order to not get dinged by Google, I need to pass any SERP power off to his sit using the rel="canonical" tag in the head of each page. Is this true?


Web service for selling intangible goods like file downloads

I have a product that I have developed over the course of 2/3 years in my spare time and wish to bring it to market. I won't reveal the nature of the product, but it is training based built around PowerPoint and Excel worksheets averaging around 3 to 5mb, and at the moment I have upwords of 10,000 separate files. My question to you all is, does a service exist to allow me to upload all of these, categorise them nicely together so customers can buy them as 'packs' or 'individually', and handle all payments and delivery of the files? Ideally I could use my own domain name aswell. I am UK based but would push to US services if cost differences are obvious.