Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

[stevek]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

thanks I'll try that.
SteveK

[Surfer]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi,

My site contains written info in text boxes that is duplicated on several pages.
When using this method, do i put all the written info(text boxes) that may be changed at some stage in my menu page?

Also, do I publish every single page of my website as php?

When I do make alterations to my info, do I make them on my menu page and this will change every other page?

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi,

My site contains written info in text boxes that is duplicated on several pages.
When using this method, do i put all the written info(text boxes) that may be changed at some stage in my menu page?

Yes

Also, do I publish every single page of my website as php?

All pages that use this method must be published as .php

When I do make alterations to my info, do I make them on my menu page and this will change every other page?

Yes, all pages will be automatically updated.

[Surfer]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Ok thanks,

when you say blank page, for the menu page, must i leave it plain white or set it up as if it were my normal webpage, ie, same colour etc.

So all im going to have on my menu page is a whole bunch of text boxes, is that right?

[Surfer]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

does it matter where you put the html box on your regular pages?

Do you leave the text boxes on your regular pages or do you delete them and only work off your menu page?

[Surfer]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi Naval,

I am not sure that this is going to work. You said I must put all my text boxes that I will change on my menu page.
So I put every single text box from every page on the menu page, but the problem is that some of my web pages, don't need all the text boxes on my menu page.
Does that make sense?
So some of my actual pages only have one or two text boxes that are included in my menu page.
Does that matter?
I'm really stuck here and some help would be much appreciated.

I also sent two posts above.

[Collectors-info]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Hi Naval,

I am not sure that this is going to work. You said I must put all my text boxes that I will change on my menu page.
So I put every single text box from every page on the menu page, but the problem is that some of my web pages, don't need all the text boxes on my menu page.
Does that make sense?
So some of my actual pages only have one or two text boxes that are included in my menu page.
Does that matter?
I'm really stuck here and some help would be much appreciated.

I also sent two posts above.

Then you will have to make more than one menu page. Its still better than changing a possible 50 or more pages.
If your not sure on this method, try doing it with iframes.

[Karen Mac]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

You just put the text that you are going to use over again in a page or pages, not every thing on the site. Everytime you then want to use it.. you drop in the html box with the PAGE include, substitute page for MENU.

You delete text elements from the pages they are already on.. and use the INCLUDE to re-insert them. You will also have to change the pages from html to php.

Karen

[pink_eeyore]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

I've been using this method with great success and I only have questions.

Do I need to tell robots not to index these pages? A few of my pages are just an image so there is no point for the SE to index them or see them. On the other hand, the header and footer have my link menus on them so those I will not tell robots to ignore but should I inform them not to index the pages since they have no title or description? I recall reading someone saying not to name those page or enter in a description so the SE don't show those pages on search results. Is that enough, or should I add a "noindex" to the head of the page and the robot.txt?

Thanks!

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Noindex is correct.

[pink_eeyore]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Just to clarify, noindex meta tag in the page <head> or in the robots.txt or both?! I'm just not sure if putting in one over the other or in both will not be fully optimized knowing full well each crawler out there may or may not ignore them. My concern are the big 3 SE.

Thanks!

[smome22]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

I find this method to be an excellent way to save me time however my source page will show more than one set of headers. Will this confuse search engine robots as descriptive behavior or affect ranking in any way?

I'm trying to gather as much information as I can before I start building my site. Thanks!

[Loobi]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Naval - you ROCK! this is going to save me SOOO much time! Thank you! :)

[WSBlue]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Now you see, then you don't.

I use two menus for my site.

first Menu is:

<?php
include
("left_menu.php");
?>


and

second Menu is:

<?php
include
("az_menu.php");
?>

After publish, I go to my site,
I can see the first menu things for just a second but disappeared as soon as the the second menu thing appeared.

This is happening at Chrome and FF AND at
IE I can only can see the first menu but second menu don't show up at all.

But on my other site, I also use 2 menus and they work fine.

I name them:

<?php
include
("left_menu.php");
?>

<?php
include
("right_menu.php");
?>


Anyone can tell what I do wrong, I publish all of them in php extension.

Thank you.

[navaldesign]

Re: Single Menu Page with Bv and PHP

Links pls.