Here are a few steps in order to create a new page for your site.

• Find a page on your site that will fit the basic page layout that you want.
• Go to admin virtual pages and clone the virtual page you found in step 1.
• Edit the cloned page and change the name to reflect the new page.
• In order to test the page use the URL http://www.MyWebsite.com/vp/The name of the new page.htm

When coding your copyright information at the bottom of the page use {CurrentYear} instead of hard coding the year like 2009.  Using {CurrentYear}  will be automatically replace based on todays date.  This eliminates the need to change your web page each year.

You can now backup your website before making changes. A new feature under utilities allows you to quckly backup all of the database content with one button. Before making changes make a backup just in case.

You can specify Page Titles, Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions for each record in your hot box. Simply add the fields MetaPageTitle, MetaKeywords and MetaDescription to your hot box definition. Then fill those fields out while entering your hot box record data.

If your hot box definition does not contain those fields then ask your web designer or call 4intranets 330-665-9933 and we will be glad to add those fields to your definition

When search engines look at your site they look at the page titles, Meta Desc and Meta keywords to see how to catagorize your pages. They want there to be meaningfull data as page titles and they want all of your pages to have a page title as well as a desc and keywords.

To assign these elements to your virtual pages you need to edit your virtual pages and click on the meta data tab. There you will find the fields that need to be filled out for your site to have meaningfull meta data. keep your page titles to a brief description 50-60 characters.
meta desc should be no more that 200 characters and keywords should also be no more than 200 characters.

For those of you who enjoy the benefits of maintaining your web site data through customized hot boxes we have added two new options.  When defining a hotbox view you can now determine the sort order of the hot box list.  You may also filter records from a hot box to show only hotbox records where a paticular field or fields have specific content.   For more information on how you might use these new options please contact our office and we will be glad to show you how to use these new options.

office: 330-665-9933

The Captcha process that was described in a previous post is used to stop bots from filling out your forms.

We have added an additional protection for the users who are posting their form information to contactcrazy.  When setting up a Connection in contact crazy you can put the name of the posting domain in the referer field.  If your website is yourdomain.com then place yourdomain.com in the referer field.

When contactcrazy process a form post it will check to make sure that it is comming from yourdomain.com before it accepts the post.

One common method of preventing internet users from spamming your internet forms is to provide a Captcha Interface.

It is simply a method by which the user has to enter text that matches the text that is presented in an image.

Since the automated programs that are filling out the forms (called bots) have difficulty in recognizing content in an image.  A random image is created with text characters and presented to the user. The user then is required to type the text in that matches the image. Only if the Text matches the text in the image will the form be accepted.

4Intranets now provides a Captcha mechanism that can be place the the forms that are generated in admin.

You can implement a Captcha form by following these steps.

1. The Form name needs to be “CaptchaForm”

2. You need to place the following Curly Bracketed fields on your form

{Captcha}

{CaptchaAnswer}

{CaptchaStatus}

3. Finally you need to place the following code on your submit button

 onclick=”return LBD_Validate();”

If you do these steps your form should be Captcha enabled and only by entering the correct text should the user be able to submit the form.

This should elimnate the automated bots from spamming your form.