After doing a CSS skin for www.AgingSafely.com I happened to check my entry at Google and other engines. Most aren't using the contents of my Description Meta-tag.

Some appear to be taikng the first visable text, some the first and last, some the text entered in DMOZ.

The screen has a logo block with register, login and search at the right side, a horizontal menu below followed by the ContentPane and Footer

How can I force the same layout, but make the ContentPane be earlier in the HTML, so that search engines that grab the first text will get the Description Text that also hapens to be be the first paragraph of the ContentPane?

Of course if someone knows how to get Google to use your description tag that would really help. It seems that every few months the pick some new text.

/DaveS

Another thought was to include an image in the skin and have the description text be the alt text. I tried inseringt an image into skin.aspx, but never could get the path right so that the image would show up at both my production site www.agingsafely.com and my text/development sits at localhost/as3 and localhost/4

Does anyone know some path syntax that well point to a common point for an image placed in a skin regardless of the ultimate url?

It would be nice if DNN gave you some way to do this with the Logo, wouldn't it.

/DaveS

One way I have done this is put the picture somewhere and use the complete url. http://www.killcravings.com/Photos/chicks.jpg

I would think putting the pics in a folder of the root like /Images and then using a path of ../Images/chicks.jpg should work.

Hello,

I now use a technique which allows you to place all of the non-essential elements that appear to the user at the top of the page, but in the source code they appear at the end. This is done using absolute positioning, you can see an example of this in action at liposuction info site

I am implementing this method in the new DNN Creative skin, but the new DNN Creative skin is a full width flexible type skin rather than the fixed width example above.

Thanks,

I look forward to seeing it. I assumed that I could "nail down" the logo et al at the top of my page in the css and then have the div's out of order in the skin.aspx file, I just didn't have the css savy to be able to do it easily.

When might we see your new skin as part of an article?
/DaveS

I would like to get the new DNN C skin released first and then tackle some tutorials related to some of the new techniques I have been developing. - It's taken a lot longer than planned to get it released, I've been working on and off with it since Jan! - I'm hoping that I can get it released throughout June, but it might be July.

I would prefer to create a tutorial that doesn't use the new DNN C design so I will need to create a new skin for release and then do the tutorial so we could be looking at July / August creating the tutorial for release in September?

It's a bit hard to say at the moment but I will be creating a tutorial once I have the new skin released on DNN C.

Just out of interest, here's a snapshot of a demo home page using the new pure CSS skin:




Thanks,

Hi
I'm a newbie to DNN and still researching and 'lurking' around the forums. This, I suppose is really a suggestion for an article or new forum within DNNCreative - The SEO area is really important wth my current web sites the site structure (folder and page names, going down to perhaps 3 levels) is considered REALLY important along with page content - the 1st few hundred characters..
I'd be interested in any other ways of implimenting DNN whic hides the struture of .../tabid/999/..../default.aspx

The thread might get you started in a good direction.

Also, the "friendly URL" feature might be helpful.

I believe that there are some other tools that help create friendly URLs for DotNetNuke sites.