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cdrees
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Layout Question - 8/29/2005 23:33:01
I have a question for everyone.
I have a website I'm designing for a company that will have multiple locations (about 70) of them. Each location will have it's own unique website, that basically hangs off the main corporate site.
My initial thought is to create the main site (www.mainsite.com) and then for each territory, create a subdirectory denoting the state, and then the county (www.mainsite.com/nj/burlington)
This is a lot cheaper than going the virtual subdomain route (nj.mainsite.com) however, it's a little more challening for e-mail for each site. They don't want so spend a fortune, and I am doing the sites partly for pay, partly as a favor for a good friend.
So the first question is, how would everyone lay out the sites, and do you all see any issues with the way I'm doing it now.
Second question, is that each location will need a schedule page (all sites will be pretty much identical, except for a schedule/calendar page that will be different for each location). They would like each site to be able to maintain their own schedule. Doesn't have to be super fancy.
I don't see the need to create 70+ mySQL databases and give each site a database-driven calendar. What options are available, and what is everyone's favorite method for integrating a calendar or schedule within a site, that keeps the look and feel of the site itself? I'm using CSS to manage the overall look of the sites.
Thanks!!
-Chris
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Mojo
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RE: Layout Question - 8/30/2005 11:26:35
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This is a lot cheaper than going the virtual subdomain route (nj.mainsite.com)
It shouldn't be. The hosts I deal with offer unlimited third level domains - at no cost.
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however, it's a little more challening for e-mail for each site
Find out why it is costing more for a third level domain. It is not technically complicated and *would* make your life easier if you could use them.
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So the first question is, how would everyone lay out the sites, and do you all see any issues with the way I'm doing it now.
It all depends on the business goals. Who will own the sites? Who will administer the sites? Who pays for the servers and updates etc.? Do you have any concerns for SEO?
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all sites will be pretty much identical, except for a schedule/calendar page that will be different for each location
Why not have a single website with a single schedule page that is dynamically built from a database? When the user clicks a link from their city the schedule page is built based upon that locations details. All schedule information would then be saved to a central database.
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They don't want so spend a fortune, and I am doing the sites partly for pay, partly as a favor for a good friend
Red Alert!
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Reflect
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RE: Layout Question - 8/30/2005 14:04:37
Duplicate content penalty comes to mind. While you will not get banned sites can/will be downgraded in the SERPs.
"While all sites in our index return for searches restricted to "the web," we draw on a relevant subset of sites for each country restrict. Our crawlers may identify the country for a site by factors such as the physical location at which the site is hosted, the site's IP address, the WHOIS information for a domain, and its top-level domain."
Taken from here...
http://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html
Take care,
Brian
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