Got technical questions about your website? I shall do my best to answer them. Fire away.
Not to make you explain something really techy, but...
I was firebugging a site I'm a member of and they had something cool that I wanted to incorporate, but then I saw an HTML attribute that I was not familiar with.
Can you give me the layman's term explanation for the "role" attribute of an HTML (xhtml?) tag?
Thanks, Scott
-Steve
Hey Steve,
The 'role' attribute is used to declare the purpose of an element so that it can be targeted by script, and/or be displayed intelligently across different platforms. I'm curious, what was is that they did that you thought was cool?
Thanks,
- Scott
I'm using Post Affiliate Pro 4 for one of my promotions and so was this other membership site I'm a part of. I had been customizing mine for appearance, but they had a functionality 'add-on' that simply placed a small nav/logout menu up in the header.
It's not super cool by any stretch of the imagination, but compared to what PAP 4 has as the standard logout button, I really like the ability to see the link up top over the header rather than having to find it the affiliate options area.
It just threw me for a loop when I saw the role attribute. Had not come across that previously. I just know enough HTML, CSS, PHP to get by 🙂
Thanks for answering that for me. I think I understand now.
I certainly have a number of questions...
To put up the customized squeeze page that John sent us in MMM, I registered a 2nd domain name with my hosting company for free. When I went into Firezilla and logged into that domain name, all the index and website information was there from my original domain, which has my actual band website. I put the index for the squeeze page into firezilla, and it worked! Unfortunately, it wrote over the information for my original website, and now when I go to either domain I have registered, it brings up the squeeze page... Frusturated, and foolishly, I logged back into FireZilla under my regular domain, took out the squeeze page, and the original band website went back to normal, but now on the secondary domain name, there was no squeeze page. Even more foolishly, I logged into the second squeeze page domain in Firezilla, cleared out the index page and all the info, re-uploaded the squeeze page, and it worked. Unfortunately, I completely deleted my original website... It took me a couple days to finally call my hosting site, and they only have 48 hours worth of back up, and I might be screwed in that sense...
This brings me to my question. If you have the same hosting company, but two different domain names, how can you keep them from linking together when you upload a new index, say for a squeeze page? I'd also like to add a couple sub-domains for special offer pages. How would I go about doing that?
I'm realizing, I probably should just hire someone that knows what they are doing to do all of this, (and now probably design me a new band website) but I want the flexibility to create my own squeeze pages, with the correct color scheme, not the color scheme that comes with MMM, and I want to be able to create new pages when I want new offers. I realize I'm a complete newb with all of this, and there is a ton to answer, but any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much,
Danny
Hey Danny,
Your separate URLs should be in separate folders on the server. You'll want to contact your hosting company about how to set up subdomains since that will be different from one company to the next. Feel free to message me if there's anything I can do for you. Cheers,
- Scott