Geodesic Solutions Community Wiki

User Tools

Site Tools

You are here: Auction and Classified Software Support Home » Tutorials » Creating a Site Map For Your Classified Ad or Auction Site
tutorials:site_map:start

Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

Link to this comparison view

Both sides previous revision Previous revision
Next revision 		Previous revision
tutorials:site_map:start [2010/04/23 21:54]
james 		tutorials:site_map:start [2017/09/05 18:27] (current)
geojames
Line 1: Line 1:
-====== Creating a Site Map For Your Site ======+====== Creating a Site Map For Your Classified Ad or Auction Site ======
  
 This can be problematic with dynamic sites where the content is constantly changing.  Within your classified ad and auction sites listings are constantly being inserted, expired and closed.  This makes static site map pages obsolete almost at the time they are created if done by outside software.  We have resisted the temptation to create a "site map" of all current auction and/or classified listings on the site as this can be quite a task for the software to create at once and can be too much of a draw on the site and overload some database servers on high traffic sites.   This can be problematic with dynamic sites where the content is constantly changing.  Within your classified ad and auction sites listings are constantly being inserted, expired and closed.  This makes static site map pages obsolete almost at the time they are created if done by outside software.  We have resisted the temptation to create a "site map" of all current auction and/or classified listings on the site as this can be quite a task for the software to create at once and can be too much of a draw on the site and overload some database servers on high traffic sites.  
Line 11: Line 11:
 If you decide to manually create links to each of the categories you want within the site map you will not be able to display the classified ad or auction counts next to each category but you can possibly be more comprehensive in the categories you display if you have more than 2 levels of categories.  This option gives you more control over how categories are displayed and which categories are displayed if you do not wish to display them all.  But if you change any of the categories within the admin tool you will need to manually update this page within the new categories you add or the old categories you delete.  If you decide to manually create links to each of the categories you want within the site map you will not be able to display the classified ad or auction counts next to each category but you can possibly be more comprehensive in the categories you display if you have more than 2 levels of categories.  This option gives you more control over how categories are displayed and which categories are displayed if you do not wish to display them all.  But if you change any of the categories within the admin tool you will need to manually update this page within the new categories you add or the old categories you delete. 
  
-We suggest using categories links within your site map page because once set in the software category links do not change unless you delete or add new categories within the admin tool which isn't near as often as classified ads or auctions are added/removed from the system.  You should be able to find more information about creating those category links manually using HTML [[tutorials/admin/category_navigaton_controls#using_html_to_create_category_links|here]].+We suggest using categories links within your site map page because once set in the software category links do not change unless you delete or add new categories within the admin tool which isn't near as often as classified ads or auctions are added/removed from the system.  You should be able to find more information about [[startup_tutorial_and_checklist:usability_configuration:category_browsing_configurations:creating_category_navigation_links|creating those category links manually using HTML here]].
  
tutorials/site_map/start.1272059656.txt.gz · Last modified: 2014/09/25 16:55 (external edit)

Page Tools

Except where otherwise noted, content on this wiki is licensed under the following license: CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International
CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International Donate Powered by PHP Valid HTML5 Valid CSS Driven by DokuWiki