Thread: New site close to launch -useamap.com

Hi Blacknight,
What was you map name? I will look into this straight away and fix it for you if it is indeed showing the slashes. Thanks for spotting this.
Vinny

Vinny

You don't need to fix mine
I was only playing with it.. But if you could fix the actual issue that would be cool

Michele

Michele,
Only reason I ask, is that at the moment, the code strips the slashes and I was wondering what part you were refering to.
With a visual of the problem, I can sort it out much quicker. If you dont want to post the link up, can you email me at vinny@useamap.com with it.
Thanks very much,
Vinny

Fair enough

The map is UseAmap.com - TinyUrl.com for Maps, Save your Exact Location, Road Maps and Travel Directions Quickly.Quick guide to putting Map onto your own website, Printable

The issue only affects editing the link - the actual display is correct

Thanks very much for that, the name will now show up correct without slashes, also found 1-2 other places without slashes
I have changed the example page to useamap.com/sample to better explain the idea behind the site. The site not been usable by non computer literate people or people not understanding the purpose of the site, is in my books the worst possible thing a site can do. Let me know your thoughts and especially your opinion.

Why are you so verbose in the links?

Code:

For more information see this site: Michele's blog(goes to  http://www.mneylon.com/blog) 

Is the second part really necessary?

Hi,
In Fact, it is one of my first times to use this type of forum. MY signatuture got a little messed up
Vinny

Originally Posted by vinnyglennon

Hi,
In Fact, it is one of my first times to use this type of forum. MY signatuture got a little messed up
Vinny

I'd noticed that

Now you seem to have removed the link entirely!

Anyhow I was actually referring to the link on your site if you look at my previous post ....

Hi,
There was a couple of reasons for the lengthly message. The original idea, is that it would be handy for a Map to be linked to an actual website, for example the homepage of the person who created it. It would also function as a SEO feature, in that it is another link to a site. As UseAMap.com got busier, each small link would increasingly impact some of its influence to the owner's desired website, and boast the PageRank value for their own site.
I wanted to quickly explain what this was, and that was with the generic message "For more information see this site:" . Some people want to see what a link will bring them too, before they link on it, hence the "goes to http://www.mneylon.com/blog" notice.
This takes up a lot of real estate on the page, and am very keen if anyone has any ideas to improve this.
Vinny

You could put the extra information into a title tag

Problem solved