Screenshot of a footer:
I'm unsure if there is a particular name for that kind of footer or if it's a widget for a certain framework. That particular example was taken from buffalonews.com
After I know the name I can refine my searching for implementing it. Thank you for your input.
I believe the name you're looking for is a Site Map Footer. This is common now-a-days to display the contents of the site to the user while also offering crawlers direct links to content pages.
The key here is to display pages that are relevant/important to the user without inundating them so many links they can't figure out where to go.
The part that lists the content of your website is called "sitemap" AFAIK
Looks like a fairly common set of copywrite notices.
There is no standard widget or way to present this, apart from legal requirements (which may vary depending on where the site operates from).
I don't think there is actually a name for this king of footer though I agree it is quite common.
Maybe it is because this "kind" is very subjective and would have to be very specific and most of the times not helpful. (Or maybe because nobody has coined it yet) :)
Look at Brad's answer
If you have wordpress you could see some here for inspiration. In wordpress and the popular CMS you can change the footer for many available ones.
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I'm sorry I do not know how to word that title better. I have tried searching google but my terminology isn't helping my results.
Let me explain the context. When you're on a news website or blog and you're on their homepage like: www.homepage.co.uk/ and then you click an article it will go somewhere like this: www.homepage.co.uk/2017/article/ how do they make the 2017 appear? because if you remove the /article/ from the url it takes you to an archive of all the links in that year? I don't understand, is there a process to this?
When I click a link in my website it goes to: www.website.co.uk/link
I want to be able to have that 2017/link/ in the url so they can find the archive of that year just like on their websites?
How do I do this?
I am sorry if I am not explaining this very well.
I understand changing my filenames to : "2017/article.html" might work but I do not believe that is the correct way of doing it?
Thanks a lot for your time and suggestions!
You're asking about a couple of things: one is the taxonomy of the site. Taxonomy, if you don't know, is the "shape" of or how your site is organized. News sites, for instance, are usually organized by date and perhaps topic (Health and Leisure, Politics, Entertainment, etc.). The other aspect of your question is regarding what you might call RESful "hacking" of URLs. One of the tenents of REST is that URLS (uri, to be accurate) are supposed to be hackable. A news site might have /2017/10/10 to display all articles for Oct 10. Maybe you remove the last "10", and get all the articles for October so far. If you are not using a site platform that does this for you, you will have to maintain that taxonomy yourself, and manually write all the links. Systems such as Drupal and Joomla, among others, will translate your taxonomy into automatically-maintained links. In editing a page on one of these platforms, you typically only refer to the system's internal name of the page (could be a shortened version of the article's title in the above example), and the underlying engine takes care of reconstructing the URL for you (in case the page moves, or its tags/taxonomy changes).
This is a big topic, and I encourage you to do some further reading:
http://searchcontentmanagement.techtarget.com/feature/Building-a-website-taxonomy-in-eight-steps
https://www.drupal.org/docs/7/organizing-content-with-taxonomies/organizing-content-with-taxonomies
By "dynamic links", I mean a list of links that will constantly be updated.
To illustrate my question, I have a website that I am constantly writing new articles for. I currently have about 10 articles. If someone is to read article #5, there is a list of links to all 10 articles in the right panel of the page. As I update the site, and article #1 becomes out of date, I'd like to replace article #1 with article #11. Rather than updating the links within every article (so 10 times), is there a way to update the links once and have them all update simultaneously to every page?? Could I create an iframe for this??
Thanks for any and all help!
What's your goal? Do you want to learn to be a web developer? Or are you mostly concerned with getting your articles published?
If you want to be a web developer, I'd recommend steering clear of large CMS system like Wordpress or Drupal. Those are great products. But you want to learn the basics first. I think starting a PHP tutorial is the way to go.
If you just want to publish your articles, I'd recommend you find a nice place to create a blog. There are so many to choose from. It all depends on how much you want to spend.
Feel free to ask follow up questions. Web development sounds simple. But it's really a complex topic. I can't imagine what is must be like starting out these days with so many choices and competing technologies.
One way to do it would be to use Server-side includes. (Wikipedia) They work like this:
<!--#include file="some-content.html" -->
or
<!--#include virtual="some-folder/some-content.html" -->
The difference is file="" finds a file relative to the current page, whereas virtual="" finds it from the domain root. Either way, this method can use any type of regular text file as a source. The actual addition of the content is done by the server (hence the name) so its contents will be parsed as regular HTML and all CSS will apply to it as if the file were part of your page. I don't know about compatibility with different hosts, but if your web server supports it, this is probably the easiest way to go.
I remember reading a while back on some random website about a program that would look at multiple pages on an HTML site and detect the differences/similarities between the pages to automatically detect which parts were template "boilerplate" and which parts were new content, and then based on this, automatically spit out just the parts that are content.
Unfortunately, I didn't remember enough details about this utility to actually find it on google, so I wonder if any of you guys have run across anything like this, and CAN remember the name of it.
Thanks.
Murphy's Law (or is it some other law) has stricken, and I've found it just moments after I'd given up and posted this question. The project I am thinking of is this:
http://code.google.com/p/boilerpipe/
Thanks.
For an example of what I mean, search on Google for "Last.fm". The first result will be www.last.fm and 8 additional links are listed; "Listen", "Log in", "Music", "Download", "Charts", "Sign up", "Jazz music", and "Users". I looked around in their HTML but couldn't figure out where this information was supplied to Google.
Any help? Thanks :)
You can try looking at the Google Webmaster Tools, and provide google with a webtree of your site.
Write semantic markup.
Google work out the important links from that, they aren't told explicitly.
Google's documentation explains the process.
In your sitemap you can specify priority for pages.
The above answers are all good.
You might also try NO FOLLOWING (rel="nofollow") unimportant links on your homepage or other pages. Google will the give more weight to the followed links.
It used to be that you needed to be pagerank 4 or higher to get the sitelinks to show up if you were the top result. (and then you could edit them via webmastertools)
but it seems like google are currently changing things around. apparantly they were not clicked enough to warrant taking up valuable space on the resultspage.
Use XML sitemaps. However, be warned that sitemaps must not be misused. There is a big debate on whether sitemaps are good or not.
I met such thing before.
What I did is submitting new, accurate site page to google.
Taking a close look at the content, as well as Mata tags to see if they are accurate and descriptive. In my case I reorganized the whole content.
Most important, I back to the track of SEO, refresh content frequently. Shame to me, I had not refreshed content for a long time.
I do not know which one plays the rule, but thing works pretty well now. Hope it it is worthwhile for you as a reference.
The reason I am keen to do this is that we have a wiki which works great, but I would like to store help pages for an internal application in the wiki and link to those pages direct from the app. Although we wouldn't have concerns with people seeing the non-article stuff (i.e. the help pages) when viewing the pages from the rest of the wiki, for it to be streamlined when viewed from the application I thought it would be ideal if I gave it a simplified skin which I would design.
I have already found out that URLs can have the useskin= added (e.g. as is done in the Preview Skin page within the User Preferences pages), but following the links will revert you to your normal chosen skin.
Is there perhaps some way to adjust the skin, so that all the links contain useskin=? (I think this might have issues, since you appear to need the full pagename for useskin to work (e.g. ..../w/index.php?title=blah....&useskin=cologneblue as opposed to the short URLs).
If this isn't a smart way to go, I could consider different approaches (I run the box the wiki is on and could create a distinct wiki perhaps, although there might be disadvantages to this, such as needing to combine the user tables and maybe this would still pick up the user's preferred skin unless I re-coded things).
Any sensible suggestions gratefully received! Let me know if there's any more info you might need or if I need to clarify any points about my objective.
[I did submit this on the MediaWiki.org Support Desk page, but it got no response... I hope my question isn't that bad!!]
You could put all your content in its own namespace, then set the skin for that namespace using this extension (I've used it, it works well enough):
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SkinPerNamespace
If you don't want to lock them all into a single namespace, you can also use the SkinPerPage extension to mark the pages individually.
Why not change the default skin to the skin you want?