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Output links pages locally? Link page formatting?

Tue May 15, 2007 1:51 pm

cvetter

Hey folks!

I'm really enjoying the link-assistant software. It's very easy to use and I have been thrilled with the resutls so far.

I am not going after hundreds of links. I am being very selective about what sites I link to. I am building an agent referral list for my wife's real estate site. So I'll fetch a few hundred sites for 'Alabama Real Estate Agent' and I'll go through them and pick out the ones I feel are the best. So I am constantly generating my links pages. Is there a way to ouput them to a local folder instead of FTPing them to a site? Unfortunatley, the host I am using provides a really nice web site package that does a lot of things that are great for realtors, but being SEO friendly and customizable is not one if it's strong points. I can't have ftp access to the site. I have been through all of the whys on this till I'm blue in the face. Why use them, they do provide an awesome product, drip feed emails, stealth site lead collection web sites and really great site and outlook letterhead and more. Stuff I can't write (not a programmer) nor do I have the money to invest right now. Anyway back to my point. I'm constantly uploading the pages to another site I have, re downloading them back to my machine and editing them and then uploading them to my site through a web driven administration application that sucks even more. . . . that's another story.

Second question. Is there a better way to format the pages? Are you going to allow some better page formatting like fonts? I keep having to pull the pages into Front page and reformat them, spacing is a problem and the text is Times Roman, that sucks online lol.

Anyway, thanks for your time,
Chris
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Wed May 16, 2007 5:25 pm

cvetter

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Re: Output links pages locally? Link page formatting?

Wed May 16, 2007 5:35 pm

LinkAssistant

Hi, Chris.

cvetter wrote:

I'm really enjoying the link-assistant software. It's very easy to use and I have been thrilled with the resutls so far.

Thanks for your kind words -- this means a lot to us.

cvetter wrote:

...Is there a way to ouput them to a local folder instead of FTPing them to a site?..

Sure. Every time you click the "Generate" button on the "Links Page" tab, all your links pages are saved into your local folder (you may simply click "No" when LinkAssistant prompts you to upload pages via FTP, and only local version of your pages will be saved.)

To find out where your links pages are being saved, please click the "Edit" button on the "Links Page" tab, and the second top field named "Save genarated link pages to this directory" contains the local folder on your computer where the links pages are stored. You can find the necessary pages in this folder, or you can change the desired folder and regenerate pages.

cvetter wrote:

...Is there a better way to format the pages? Are you going to allow some better page formatting like fonts? I keep having to pull the pages into Front page and reformat them, spacing is a problem and the text is Times Roman, that sucks online lol.

Well... Frankly speaking, LinkAssistant allows you to fully customize the generated pages -- you simply need to make the necessary changes to the code of your links page template (by default LinkAssistant generates a *blank* template that doesn't match the rest of your website.) HTML is
not so hard to learn, and you can use various tutorials like this one if you need to make some things.

For example, if you need to change fonts, the please follow these steps:

1) run LinkAssistant and go to the "Links Page" tab;

2) in the links page template's code please find the following line:

Code:

<body>

This is the opening body element which defines the documents' body. Body contains all the contents of the document (like text, images, colors, graphics, etc.).

3) so, now we simply need to "stylize" our body by adding a style to its font. As it is said at http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_font.asp you can adjust the following font properties:

- font-family
- font-size
- font-size-adjust
- font-stretch
- font-style
- font-variant
- font-weight

If we need to change the font family (to Arial), and, for example, font size (to 12 pixels), then we simply add the "style" parameter to our <body> tag, and the line above should look like this:

Code:

So, please change
---------------------------------------------------
<body>
---------------------------------------------------
to
---------------------------------------------------
<body style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">
---------------------------------------------------
and you'll get the desired (Arial) font, and font size (12 pixels).

4)The only thing left is to regenerate and re-upload your new links pages to make them available online. To do this, please use the "Generate" button on the "Links Page" tab.

Hope I was clear enough.
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Thanks!

Wed May 16, 2007 5:44 pm

cvetter

Very informative - Thanks!

Quote:

To find out where your links pages are being saved, please click the "Edit" button on the "Links Page" tab, and the second top field named "Save genarated link pages to this directory" contains the local folder on your computer where the links pages are stored. You can find the necessary pages in this folder, or you can change the desired folder and regenerate pages.

You know i was looking at it in that location, do you realize when you click edit and then the elipse box to the right of the path you do not see the files? If you navigate from my computer they are there. That's what we call an ' anomoly' lol

I know a little html, enough to be dangerous. I tried pulling it into front page and messing around and putting it back, it didn't seem to like that too much lol. Guess I'll have to brush up . . .
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