Guest sunshine Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I just had a revelation while reading the differant posts. It's sooo easy to change the look of your site in an instant when you've got the skins you like uploaded. Simply select the skin name in admin and VOILA! Weellll now, here's my revelation. INDEXING. keyword there. You change the skin, you change the links and such that are part of the indexing Tip here should be the obvious now. If your going to change the skin add something to the end of so it renames leaving you able to rename the skin in use as the same continuosly. No errors, no penalties :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest theorbo Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 Oh baby! That is EXCELLENT! I've been beating my head against all the tweaks you have to do to change templates.... THANKS! YOU are a PRINCESS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goober999 Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 I don't get it. Can one of you explain? Thanks in advance /Goober Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
convict Posted November 8, 2005 Share Posted November 8, 2005 LOL :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vrakas Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stijnj Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 (edited) I 'think' sunshine tries to explain .... You change the skin, you change the links and such that are part of the indexing in your skins folder you have 3 skins - Classic - Killer - Legend example : Your site is running with Classic and you want to change to Killer first set your site ofline next in the skins folder rename Classic to Classic_wathever next rename Killer to Classic put your site back online you are running the Killer skin now , but "the links and such that are part of the indexing" still are filed under Classic-skin somebody correct me if i'm wrong or brake a leg ( yours , not mine ) Edited November 9, 2005 by stijnj Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vrakas Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Now that makes sence and its a very good idea but will the logos on the header stay the same? I have to try this :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Yes, Stijnj, you've got that right Vrakas, the id's might differ. I haven't used Killer but i know there are some diffances in id names. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stijnj Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 seems a good "Tip Tip Important TIP" to me then ps: nice signature you have, sunshine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest estelle Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 I can't believe some of you guys only figured this out now!!! :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest vrakas Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Figured out what? lol <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest estelle Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hold on, i'm not sure i understand what you guys are talking about. Are you suggesting that you would rename the Classic skin to Classic_bla, and then rename Killer to Classic? Why? You're content should never depend on a specific skin name. If you're using a skin name such as Classic in your template files, you should instead make sure the following line is defined in the PHP include file, and if its not defined then add it: $view_cart->assign("VAL_SKIN",$config['skinDir']); And then use {VAL_SKIN} in your template files, rather than Classic etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markscarts Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Hold on, i'm not sure i understand what you guys are talking about. Are you suggesting that you would rename the Classic skin to Classic_bla, and then rename Killer to Classic? Why? You're content should never depend on a specific skin name. If you're using a skin name such as Classic in your template files, you should instead make sure the following line is defined in the PHP include file, and if its not defined then add it: $view_cart->assign("VAL_SKIN",$config['skinDir']); And then use {VAL_SKIN} in your template files, rather than Classic etc. Now, that I can understand Most of this thread is still Babylonian to me But I, too, like Sunshine's avatar :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goober999 Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 Oh my... This is getting more confusing by the minute. /Goober Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
convict Posted November 9, 2005 Share Posted November 9, 2005 What is this topic talking about? I like sunshine <_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 lol, we're all fruit loops Estelle, yes, wht your'e saying is true to have the skins APPLIED to the site. Though, what I'm saying here, is whenever you change the skin, even though it doesn't affect the content of your pages per say, It does affect the some of LINKS. This thereby causes a partial error. I think 302 link error. This makes a differance to some, not all bots. So, what I'm saying is no matter what the skin name you are currently using. Kepp it the same name so no errors are thrown. i'm luvin' you all :blink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stijnj Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 Most of this thread is still Babylonian to me laugh.gif But I, too, like Sunshine's avatar cool.gif Babylonian way of speaking I was refering to her signature , not her avatar, though looking at it I must confess that you have a point 'her' in this case being sunshine. I can't live without sunshine but that's another confession wich I want to discuss in private with sunshine. Are we still on topic? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted November 10, 2005 Share Posted November 10, 2005 lmao :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stijnj Posted November 11, 2005 Share Posted November 11, 2005 Did I mention , I once new a Chinese girl named 'Tip' ? She used to bring me sunshine */* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetic Posted November 13, 2005 Share Posted November 13, 2005 funny we can change skins at will from CC admin and nothing with links changes unless you hardcoded the skin name in a href or img src which is a NO NO skin name ia a VARIABLE and should never be hardcoded in a site doc or product link to another product use the varibles Our Lord and Master Brooky Gave us.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest sunshine Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 HI Kinetic, If you click 'Source' for your site in the the browser, you'll see <link h ref=your skin. It is a variable but once brought to the page, it becomes part of the page. :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest estelle Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 And having the skin name as part of the HTML source, this somehow affects bots? Is it something to do with search engine caching? Perhaps i should just ignore this thread... :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
convict Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 Perhaps i should just ignore this thread... Babylonian thread :w00t: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kinetic Posted November 14, 2005 Share Posted November 14, 2005 I think sunshine I KNow IM aware what you see when viewing source in a browser the problem is you dont understand thats is AFTER the php has been parsed hardcoding the skin name in a doc is silly use the variable... I think Ive been at web development long enough time to know what the heck Im doing and Ive been with cubecart since it was e-store.... and now I click the unsubscribe button for this topic cuz it is SILLY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest m00n1 Posted November 15, 2005 Share Posted November 15, 2005 I don't see this is important. Changing a skin will only change the reference to your CSS & your site images (not your product images). Search engines don't care about either of those things, they mostly care about your page structure & content, which are unaffected by skin changes. They may also care about your product images, via google images, but once again, unaffected by skin change. The only impact I can see is if your site images (eg your logo) are generating traffic from google images, which seems very unlikely, then a skin change will impact you, but this is a very unlikely scenario. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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