When there is a long page displayed on the site the menu disappears off the sidebar, right down on the bottom left hand side of the background.

This may be because there is another menu on the template. My original thought was to have the affiliate site as part of a garden site.
So 2 questions
How to I stop this menu problem for now?
What would be the file that I would link the site to if I did make it part of a larger site?

Barb

I think your suggestion about the cache directory is a good one.
Also the video on adding articles made the whole process simple to follow and understand. Thanks

Fairly certain a Google search box on your site would be fine - no reason THE SCRIPT won't display results.

robots.txt file is advisable, though not required. Upload an empty robots.txt file in the same directory as THE SCRIPT.

Thanks for the useful tip regarding getting traffic to the site. And as you know, leaving comments on blogs with a link back to your site also helps.

Dave

I like what you are thinking - I have considered the same. At this time, there is no RSS feed for the site. Creating one wouldn't be difficult.

What I don't want to do is create a feed that contains all 2,000+ products (very easy to do, but does that make sense - thoughts???).

I was thinking a better way might be to have THE SCRIPT go through the cache directory and grab the file names and time stamp and build a RSS feed based on that info. Basically, build a feed for only those pages already created that way ever person has there own unique RSS feed..

This will be on the wish list.

Dave

The search feature can be incorporated as you mention - by adding the %%SEARCH%% token to the template.php file.

I use notepad on my PC to save files (most certain don't use Microsoft Word as it has a tendency to add strange characters). Note sure what you mean by "the coding looked different" ... did saving the file remove all of the newlines (carriage returns). As long as you have a backup that you can copy over if needed, give it a try.

For your article situation, I would add a link back from your current articles to individual pages in your store.

Dave

A few questions / comments.

First, would putting the Google search box on the site work OK? Any comments regarding this approach?

Also, do you have a recommended robots.txt file to put on the site (and if so, would it go in the webroot)? I noticed a few 404 errors and they were all for robots.txt

And finally, I wasn't getting any traffic at all to my site, so I simply wrote a short article about the site on one of my blogs and included a link to it. I did this yesterday, and when I checked back today, Google had crawled 381 pages already! It's a start... others may want to try this. I'm going to do some other stuff today to drive some traffic.

Best regards,
Tom

The search feature can be incorporated.

Like you I use notepad. Note sure why the code would look different. Definitely do not want to use Microsoft Word as that program seems to throw in some interesting characters.

Probably don't want to double post an article. Linking to your store from the current article pages would be recommended.

Dave

Is it possible to add an rss feed from the site - maybe there is one there already and don't see it.

Thanks

Kevin