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OneSwo
12-10-2005, 01:57 PM
I am currently working with certain individuals in my area to put together what will be considered as a HUGE website in its category. I really wish not to get into to much (any at all) detail as to what the website and company will specifically do. Sounds stupid but there are currently no other websites tha I have been able to find in all of my years of geekness that do what this one will, yet demographics say that people will use it. Polls say that people want it. And the events we've been covering in the name of this company have been prooving it.

Anyways point being i'll be looking for quite a bit of help along the way, I was just wondering who here may be a web-guru of any sorts that would be willing to help along the way or pherhaps point me in the right direction when the times come? Ive currently got 3 developers on the project, arranged through local universities to work no more than 20 hours a week, but as internships for their IT classes, so that really works out nice, but often even I dont have all the answers for them.

Anyhow someone please post a reply to this or send me a PM. Ive been around zgeek for close to 5 years now it seems, I know at least past sept 11 2001 :) because I specifically remember seeing those events on zgeek before CNN (rep points for zgeek.com), I figured its about time I started contributing and looking for resources out of here for once. Anyways, thanks in advance.
-Ivan

Spingo
12-10-2005, 02:16 PM
Some would say that I might be of help for such a project. But what would they know.

OneSwo
12-10-2005, 02:40 PM
Is SEO ever an issue for you guys here at zGeek?

dwarfthrower
12-10-2005, 02:49 PM
Is SEO ever an issue for you guys here at zGeek?
With keywords like "anal" and "fish sticks" in the meta tags, it's a pretty safe bet pirate doesn't give a shit about it.

Regarding help developing your website however... I've got 10 years web / dba / software eng experience covering everything from web design to back end programming to developing complex web-delivered applications for major organisations and government departments. But I'm not cheap.

Spingo
12-10-2005, 02:58 PM
As far as I'm aware, SEO is not really an issue with ZGeek because ZGeek doesn't have that much specific content that needs to be optimised for location in a search engine. Most of the content on Zgeek is the front page (which is a collection of news from other sources) and the forum (which is random-based in nature like most forum).

Having said that, I'm sure that Pirate has done other stuff to try to make Zgeek more prominant on search engines. But most of the visitors come from word of mouth referrals and regular visitors.

OneSwo
14-10-2005, 11:44 AM
Update. Got SEO out of the way. We are using .htaccess and the methods of Apache to refer to a non suffixed php file (index as a file instead of index.php) so instead of :

http://url.com/?var1=blah1&var2=blah2

it looks like

http://url.com/blah1/blah2

which explodes the URL and checks ad turns blah1 and blah2 into the vaars we need. ahoo pickedup our events and galleries right away.