Anonymous
06-13-2005, 08:44 PM
Hello!
I am reposting this here, from the site5.com forum.
I have not used the product before, but it may help me for a lot of functions.
A. Preliminaries:
(1) How stable is the version 2? I am tired of using betas.
(2) What securities were taken so that this software does not become a port of attack?
(3) As a way to improve security, is there a way to require registration (and subsequent log-in), validation of emails, location of registered users (correlated with IP address), short description of interest and directories they want to help develop, etc.? And, is there a way to block the IPs of violators? The purpose here is to allow certain people (regular contributors or community leaders) to input desirable links, rather than a free for all input of links. Sort of a special class of users, to help monitor and develop the site. There will still be a general link addition, but any link added to the latter will need approval before they get into the directory.
(4) How does the link validation work? An automated process, or manually? Sometimes, sites just change their URL rather than a truly dead site. [These sites usually give the latest URL address.] Is this considered in the validation of links?
(5) Can this become some sort of a module so that it be included as an add-on feature of a content management system?
(6) If I wish to link only those sites that are without spywares, pop ads, and ads in general, is there a way to do this? In fact, a means to delete any violator of this policy?
B. Database issues
(1) How is the database configured?
(2) Is there a way to configure the database so that a link directory, say as large as the DMOZ directory, can be fragmented into sub-databases so that it will not be too bulky nor slow to access?
C. Directory Presentation
(1) Priority listing
Is there a way to include a "priority" listing type of presentation? The program currently has either alphabetical or popularity ranking, as a basis of presentation. In some cases, it would be good to present a set of say links based on how useful they are, so that they are ranked based on a set of criteria, e.g., stability, years online, accuracy and up-to-date information, quality of staff behind the internet site, no ads, etc.
(2) Flexible aphabetical listing:
I do a lot of A-Z navigation links for my site index, with a page for each letter in each category. Another would be in tabular form (either with or without borders) -- where the table width would be fixed so that the number of rows and columns would depend on the text length of the link and the total number of links. Are these doable, and how do you automate the process?
(3) Introductory and details of linked site
Instead of just linking URLs, is there a way to include a survey form to obtain information that will be included in a more detailed information about a linked organization, institution or company
For example:
Introductory information
Company name (linked to UR), address, phone, email, brief description
Detailed company information (this will appear as a pop-out page):
Include all of the introductory information, plus products (or services) target groups, etc.
Also, the user of this link software must be given flexibility to decide what are included in the introductory and detailed info pages.
(4) Can you tag each link so that it will be included in as many categories, as needed? This will be a very powerful feature because it will eliminate multiple entries for the same entity. For example, a company link may be tagged based on the information indicated in the previous section, so that it will be automatically included in the categories relevant to the above information.
(5) Is there a search option, and a master alphabetical list?
Perhaps many of these were already answered in the other sections of the forum. I have just schemed through the various topics but not had the time to visit that section of your website, yet.
Thanks.
cgc0202
I am reposting this here, from the site5.com forum.
I have not used the product before, but it may help me for a lot of functions.
A. Preliminaries:
(1) How stable is the version 2? I am tired of using betas.
(2) What securities were taken so that this software does not become a port of attack?
(3) As a way to improve security, is there a way to require registration (and subsequent log-in), validation of emails, location of registered users (correlated with IP address), short description of interest and directories they want to help develop, etc.? And, is there a way to block the IPs of violators? The purpose here is to allow certain people (regular contributors or community leaders) to input desirable links, rather than a free for all input of links. Sort of a special class of users, to help monitor and develop the site. There will still be a general link addition, but any link added to the latter will need approval before they get into the directory.
(4) How does the link validation work? An automated process, or manually? Sometimes, sites just change their URL rather than a truly dead site. [These sites usually give the latest URL address.] Is this considered in the validation of links?
(5) Can this become some sort of a module so that it be included as an add-on feature of a content management system?
(6) If I wish to link only those sites that are without spywares, pop ads, and ads in general, is there a way to do this? In fact, a means to delete any violator of this policy?
B. Database issues
(1) How is the database configured?
(2) Is there a way to configure the database so that a link directory, say as large as the DMOZ directory, can be fragmented into sub-databases so that it will not be too bulky nor slow to access?
C. Directory Presentation
(1) Priority listing
Is there a way to include a "priority" listing type of presentation? The program currently has either alphabetical or popularity ranking, as a basis of presentation. In some cases, it would be good to present a set of say links based on how useful they are, so that they are ranked based on a set of criteria, e.g., stability, years online, accuracy and up-to-date information, quality of staff behind the internet site, no ads, etc.
(2) Flexible aphabetical listing:
I do a lot of A-Z navigation links for my site index, with a page for each letter in each category. Another would be in tabular form (either with or without borders) -- where the table width would be fixed so that the number of rows and columns would depend on the text length of the link and the total number of links. Are these doable, and how do you automate the process?
(3) Introductory and details of linked site
Instead of just linking URLs, is there a way to include a survey form to obtain information that will be included in a more detailed information about a linked organization, institution or company
For example:
Introductory information
Company name (linked to UR), address, phone, email, brief description
Detailed company information (this will appear as a pop-out page):
Include all of the introductory information, plus products (or services) target groups, etc.
Also, the user of this link software must be given flexibility to decide what are included in the introductory and detailed info pages.
(4) Can you tag each link so that it will be included in as many categories, as needed? This will be a very powerful feature because it will eliminate multiple entries for the same entity. For example, a company link may be tagged based on the information indicated in the previous section, so that it will be automatically included in the categories relevant to the above information.
(5) Is there a search option, and a master alphabetical list?
Perhaps many of these were already answered in the other sections of the forum. I have just schemed through the various topics but not had the time to visit that section of your website, yet.
Thanks.
cgc0202