Creation of basic business pages

[lordkinjo]

I think that the addition of the following pages should help.

1. Contact page with form - really suprised that there is none... Im not posing my email for all spammers to get...

2. Privacy policy Page - Need to assure users that their info won't be abused

3. Site/Company information page. For obvious reasons...


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Acually what would be nice is a blank template that we can use to create any additional pages we need so we don't have to manually insert and link the pages up via ftp....

Lordkinjo

[Frank71]

ai,

i think ther exist a small mod viewpage.php or so.

I did this all by creating some more new files with a normal include... header, footer....

Not so fine, but I can use my own formmailer, my own mailling list software (indexu don't support names of the user).

By the way, I also use templates for that -> create the basic contact.php.
Include header, footer and so on with php and at last include your template that you can store in the template folder - so you can change it in indexu...

Frank

[esm]

As I understand those pages, there would normally not be any INDEXU information on them.

There are programs called Content Management whose purpose, I believe, is to manage all the webpages of a site. I don't think that is the intent INDEXU.

I already had contact/policy pages so all I had to do was to "cut" the content out of it and use ssi include calls to load the header and footer. Pretty much the same as the viewpage.php file.

For example, my contact page looks like:

<!--#include virtual="/indexu/templates/default/header.html" -->
contact content
<!--#include virtual="/indexu/templates/default/footer.html" -->

( I will ignore the potential add link error that exists in footer.html )

I think there are lots of different pages that folks have on their websites. And I think there may be some sites that do not have a need for policy/site pages or maybe even a contact page.

Maybe there does need to be a built-in way to include these custom type pages. If it is easily implemented by dody, then great, let's do it. But if not, then there are more pressing priorities. It can be done easily outside of INDEXU.

apenas mis dos centavos, mi amigo - Just my 2 cents, my friend. That and $1.00 will get you a cup of coffee....

[ideavirus]

To create forms, i am using eternalmart.com form processor. It so useful and user friendly, i storngly suggest to use the same.

The script is free to use and its quite feature packed.

You can take a look at my contact forms on hostoholic.com.

Good luck

[Hart_House]

I already talked to dody about this and he will consider it in his next release. In the meantime, I created a hack using add.php and renamed it feedback.php and then created a category called "questions and comments" (made it invisible) created duplicates of all the add.html and renamed them to feedback.html and thus was able to use feedback.php for visitors to contact me. Messages would show up as link being added under the category of questions and comments.

You can also create a new email message that sends them confirmation that their message has been received or completely disable it so they don't get a message that says.. your link has been added or rejected. I also removed the auto responder that says.. your link has been rejected in the admin area.

I hope I gave you guys a general idea of what I did. Dody should take this suggestion seriously in the next release as it is very easy to do for him, and is in great demand as well as an excellent feature to have to add to indexu's arsenal.