Wanted: Minisite developer

mally · 14-08-2008, 11:23:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by storebuilder

you can do this easily yourself. Get a reseller hosting account that supports plesk (maybe cpanel supports this also) and create your mini site.

Then you create a master "skeleton" from your template.

Every domain you subsequently create will automatically have your mini site installed and you just need to tweak the logo.

It sounds simple, but in reality you spend more time arsing about with lots of little sites than building a concrete foundation.

This sounds interesting! Have you ever seen anything online, like tutorials etc on how to do this?

Thanks

Mally

storebuilder · 14-08-2008, 11:28:40 AM

A few years back I created a hundred or so joomla sites like this using the plesk auto installer and some tweaks to auto create the required databases. It works but the subsequent maintenance overload was a killer.

It's very simple to do on a small scale. You upload your site into the skeleton "default" directory and just check the box that says "use skeleton" when creating your physical hosting account.

stevebrowne · 14-08-2008, 03:56:08 PM

I have a system that works well. It has built-in affiliate support for Amazon and ebay (UK and USA). It has integrated google ads. It has product pages for links to affiliate sites. It has mail list registration. It has forums. It has a links page. It has an article list and detail pages. It has news pages. It has support for analytics. It has RSS feeds for everything. It pings the RSS aggregators when things get updated, to ensure indexing. It can also access a database full of affiliate feed data to have more than amazon products listed, but I'm not using that at the moment.

What it doesn't have is user facing admin screens, so it's good for me, but not really anyone else. I can't spend the time on making it user-facing currently.

I'm currently running 292 sites on it and each new site is one database row. Takes minutes to add a new site.

Forums are locked down to avoid spam (which is a HUGE amount!) so nothign publishes live until I manually tweak.

I have it all setup to use stylesheets to allow for different look and feel per site, but I haven't actually created any apart from the default yet, so might need a bit of work.

The sites pick up lots of long tail traffic (assuming they have some decent content/forum messages etc.)

monaghan · 14-08-2008, 04:01:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by storebuilder

you can do this easily yourself. Get a reseller hosting account that supports plesk (maybe cpanel supports this also) and create your mini site.

Then you create a master "skeleton" from your template.

Every domain you subsequently create will automatically have your mini site installed and you just need to tweak the logo.

It sounds simple, but in reality you spend more time arsing about with lots of little sites than building a concrete foundation.

Using a cPanel reseller, this is your cpanel3-skel directory, anything in the public_html and public_ftp folders will be populated into a new site on creation.

mally · 14-08-2008, 07:08:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevebrowne

I have a system that works well. It has built-in affiliate support for Amazon and ebay (UK and USA). It has integrated google ads. It has product pages for links to affiliate sites. It has mail list registration. It has forums. It has a links page. It has an article list and detail pages. It has news pages. It has support for analytics. It has RSS feeds for everything. It pings the RSS aggregators when things get updated, to ensure indexing. It can also access a database full of affiliate feed data to have more than amazon products listed, but I'm not using that at the moment.

What it doesn't have is user facing admin screens, so it's good for me, but not really anyone else. I can't spend the time on making it user-facing currently.

I'm currently running 292 sites on it and each new site is one database row. Takes minutes to add a new site.

Forums are locked down to avoid spam (which is a HUGE amount!) so nothign publishes live until I manually tweak.

I have it all setup to use stylesheets to allow for different look and feel per site, but I haven't actually created any apart from the default yet, so might need a bit of work.

The sites pick up lots of long tail traffic (assuming they have some decent content/forum messages etc.)

Whats your system?

stevebrowne · 14-08-2008, 10:30:26 PM

developed by me; not commercial. hence why there is no user facing admin pages yet - I'm my only customer

accelerator · 15-08-2008, 12:50:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevebrowne

I'm currently running 292 sites on it and each new site is one database row. Takes minutes to add a new site.

Out of interest how much unique content do you add to your site? Surely that takes a bit more time than a few minutes? Do you put all your site text in the database as well?

Rgds

stevebrowne · 15-08-2008, 06:08:52 AM

bit by bit, over time. The forum areas attract user generated content (after it has been despammed!) so that helps as well. Not pages and pages of the stuff, but I'm playing more of a long-term game with them.

steve

funkymedia · 17-08-2008, 05:29:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mally

Well things for me at first were fine, he done burglary which took about a week for �60 with 90% of the content. Looks pretty good.

He then started on business plans however its only partially done but still looks ok, just need the content now.

Come Lee, where you gone??

It seems that he is prone to burgle.co.uk people.

rjs_essex · 18-08-2008, 08:19:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by funkymedia

It seems that he is prone to burgle.co.uk people.

lol - Not having much luck with the ilusive Lee Burglaroni then?

Keep hearing a lot of stories about this guy...

Rich

14-08-2008, 11:28:40 AM	#22 (permalink)
storebuilder Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Telford UK Posts: 237 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (0% / 0)	A few years back I created a hundred or so joomla sites like this using the plesk auto installer and some tweaks to auto create the required databases. It works but the subsequent maintenance overload was a killer. It's very simple to do on a small scale. You upload your site into the skeleton "default" directory and just check the box that says "use skeleton" when creating your physical hosting account. __________________ Get Your Bet On!

14-08-2008, 03:56:08 PM	#23 (permalink)
stevebrowne Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 853 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 5)	I have a system that works well. It has built-in affiliate support for Amazon and ebay (UK and USA). It has integrated google ads. It has product pages for links to affiliate sites. It has mail list registration. It has forums. It has a links page. It has an article list and detail pages. It has news pages. It has support for analytics. It has RSS feeds for everything. It pings the RSS aggregators when things get updated, to ensure indexing. It can also access a database full of affiliate feed data to have more than amazon products listed, but I'm not using that at the moment. What it doesn't have is user facing admin screens, so it's good for me, but not really anyone else. I can't spend the time on making it user-facing currently. I'm currently running 292 sites on it and each new site is one database row. Takes minutes to add a new site. Forums are locked down to avoid spam (which is a HUGE amount!) so nothign publishes live until I manually tweak. I have it all setup to use stylesheets to allow for different look and feel per site, but I haven't actually created any apart from the default yet, so might need a bit of work. The sites pick up lots of long tail traffic (assuming they have some decent content/forum messages etc.) __________________ Guarantor Mortgage \| Instant Digital Cameras \| SDXC Cards

14-08-2008, 10:30:26 PM	#26 (permalink)
stevebrowne Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 853 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 5)	developed by me; not commercial. hence why there is no user facing admin pages yet - I'm my only customer __________________ Guarantor Mortgage \| Instant Digital Cameras \| SDXC Cards

15-08-2008, 06:08:52 AM	#28 (permalink)
stevebrowne Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 853 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 5)	bit by bit, over time. The forum areas attract user generated content (after it has been despammed!) so that helps as well. Not pages and pages of the stuff, but I'm playing more of a long-term game with them. steve __________________ Guarantor Mortgage \| Instant Digital Cameras \| SDXC Cards

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