<SNIP>would include: http://www.positionpro.com and
http://www.inceptor.com </SNIP>
Kelly Mitchell> "Has anyone used either of these products and achieved high
rankings with
them? I am especially interested in data comparing use of this technique to
standard doorway page creation (basically reproducing the dynamic content in
simple HTML)."
Either I missed the start of this, or I am being very stupid (let's be
honest here, a combination is likely!) but I am unsure of the goal.
You either want to make dynamic pages look like static pages, or you want to
take dynamic pages and convert them to static pages. I see no real reason
for doing the latter - the dynamic content will be lost, so the static
content created will presumably go out of date.
It is possible to "hide" dynamic content - all of my site
(www.internetdesign.com) is dynamic, but 90%+ of the pages end .html - I
just told Apache to treat .html as .php. This could cause a server slowdown
if php was trying to parse all these pages and there was no need to, but
given that all the pages have php content there is no loss of quality. Feel
free to mail me for details of this - I don't want to bore the entire
subscriber base with my nerdy ramblings!
To convert a site into static pages all you need to do is grab the site, and
possibly rename all the files (assuming that you are grabbing .asp (for
example) and want .html. Changing every link and every file name should not
be too hard - using mass search and replace tools (textpad would do the job)
and a file renaming program (there are many available). A wonderful (and
free!!) site grabber is: HTTrack Website copier.
http://www.httrack.com/index.php.
I used this to download a large dynamic shopping cart so I could check all
the items had been moved correctly (the previous host was not generous when
it came to passing on client files). It works fast, and it works very well.
I hope that helps,
John Smart
InternetDesign.com
A Human Touch in a Digital World
JSmart_at_InternetDesign.com
Received on Thu Aug 22 2002 - 14:46:00 CDT
