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| February 22, 2006, 12:19pm |
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I was recently hospitalized with a serious heart condition and it scared me enough to try to start a support forum for heart disease. http://www.heartbeatforum.net/forum/It's all ready to go, but one thing.. how do you get a forum off the ground? I think it's a valid topic for a forum. Should I rely on google to get people there? A forum is only as good as the convesation going on there, and if there aren't members and conversation, I can't see how it will be successful. I'm pretty sure I'll be indexed by google soon, but theres not much to index. I've got the meta data in the template and have also setup the sitemap (with Sitemap.pl) and submitted to google... I also am using Justins's newer robots.txt suggestion. so I guess I'll just have to see what happens.. any tips??  |
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| Justin |
| February 22, 2006, 1:52pm |
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I wish I could help in advertising. All I know is to post around on forums that are wanting people to post about certain topics. I want to advertise certain things of mine, but I'm not sure. Don't spam people though ... maybe someone else has a good idea. Advertising with Google may help you? Not sure, never tried it (costs money ). Nice forum, btw.  - Justin |
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| kslager |
| February 22, 2006, 2:02pm |
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i know what ya mean.. i hate to go to other established forums and say... "hey! come to my forum instead" a lot of foums acually don't allow that. we'll see what happens!  |
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| Martin |
| February 22, 2006, 2:38pm |
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You can submit your site to the search engines. If you go to my site: http://www.pcfixzone.co.uk and choose Web Submission from the PC Help dropdown menu, you will find a few freebie website submission tools. You don't get listed in all of them but it's a good head start. |
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| Ding |
| February 22, 2006, 3:01pm |
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On my boards there are quite a few...umm...err...well age appropriate individuals. Of course I do know that heart disease isn't always age dependent. Anyway, I'll post a thread with a link to your new forum on my board and see if it helps. |
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| kslager |
| February 22, 2006, 5:28pm |
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| kslager |
| February 24, 2006, 12:09am |
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| Justin |
| February 24, 2006, 10:26am |
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| kslager |
| February 24, 2006, 11:52am |
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| kslager |
| February 24, 2006, 12:15pm |
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| rattycorner |
| February 25, 2006, 3:44am |
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On the advertising front, join every relevant forum, mailing list, Yahoo Group etc you can find, make useful contributions and put your forum address in your sig. Find websites on topic and ask for a link swap. Link to every related site you can, then the title of their site will be shown on yours and people searching for them might just drop in to your site too.
If you're expecting older visitors you might want to change the style sheets to display larger text as default.
Put an explanatory post on each empty board so it doesn't say 'Not Available', which might put newbies off.
Maybe give your members a completely off topic board so they can ramble on about other things?
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| Ding |
| February 26, 2006, 9:37am |
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Font size! Dang I forgot about that one. If you want I can send you all the stuff you need to put a Theme switcher in AND already have the fonts ready to go. If you look at my forum it is at the top. I like the smaller fonts as it keeps thing neat and tidy but alot of my members don't like looken through the lines of their glasses (lol) so I added three different sizes. Doesn't change ANYTHING other than the font size. |
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| kslager |
| February 27, 2006, 2:04pm |
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Dint, that would be great. you can email me at slagerman@gmail.com. didn't think about that small detail, and even I have horrible vission!!!
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| kslager |
| February 28, 2006, 12:55pm |
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Came up with a pretty easy solution for the dynamic text resizing.... It uses javascript.. Place this in the <head> of your template
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<script type="text/javascript">
var tags = new Array( 'div','td','tr','p','b','table','strong','emphasis','a','h1','h2','h3','pre','sub','sup','i','th','cp','ul','ol','li','dt','dd');
var pixelArray = new Array('10','12','16','20','24','30','40');
var emArray = new Array('0.7','0.9','1.0','1.5','2.0','2.5','3');
var initSize = 1;
function fontSizer(inc,unit) {
if (!document.getElementById)
return;
var size = initSize;
size += inc;
if (size < 0 ) {
size = 0;
}
if (size > 6 ) {
size = 6;
}
initSize = size;
getBody = document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];
for (i = 0 ; i < tags.length ; i++ ) {
getallTags = getBody.getElementsByTagName(tags[i]);
for (k = 0 ; k < getallTags.length ; k++)
getallTags[k].style.fontSize = (unit=='px') ? pixelArray[size]+unit: emArray[size]+unit;
}
}
</script>
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Then, Wherever you would like to have the links to change the font size, place these hyperlinks in your template:
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<a href="#" onMouseDown="fontSizer(1,'px')">Increase Font Size</a>
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<a href="#" onMouseDown="fontSizer(-1,'px')">Decrease Font Size</a>
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If there are certain areas that you do not want to have resized, just take their style out of the arrays....I think...
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var tags = new Array( 'div','td','tr','p','b','table','strong','emphasis','a','h1','h2','h3','pre','sub','sup','i','th','cp','ul','ol','li','dt','dd'); |
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