Advanced Tips for Your WhyPark Account

Header Graphic Option

If there could be an option to upload my own logo header graphic that would be great.

This feature is already available...just not through WhyPark. You can always host your image elsewhere and hotlink to that image from your WhyPark template. For example, one of my sites, FM Bridal, has a custom template using images stored at After 5 Web Design. Any basic hosting plan that gives you even the tiniest amount of storage will do, but I recommend 1 & 1 because I know it works and is only $3.99 a month. Plus you get your domain name free with a 1 & 1 web hosting account.

The html you need to add to do this will look something like this:

Need to Feed

Mandatory these days: RSS or is there a easy install to put outgoing rss on whypark domains?

Answer: Yes, there is. Dapper.net is a really great tool for creating a feed from your website. You can then use the RSS feed it provides for anything you would normally use an XML feed for. Here's a quick sample I made up:
http://www.dapper.net/RunDapp?dappName=ByRequestDJCompany&v=1&applyToUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.byrequest.dj%2F

And here's some of the things you can do with the Dapp you create:

Search Function?

Have a search function so users can easily find an article that is more to their liking because it would very hard find if they have to search through 1000 articles link by link.

Have you seen Google's new Adsense for Search? It uses javascript so you can embed the results directly on your page. Take http://www.carlaabye.com/ for example. It uses Google's Custom Search to do a site search AND displays some Adsense ads in the process. Much better than the old clunker Google used to give us!

More Relevant photos

We need more relevant photos for your templates and/or allow us to upload our own photos.

The same method for uploading banners and header graphics can be used for template photos. In fact, you can specifically taylor your images to your site and then create a simple random image script in php/perl/asp on your 1 & 1 hosted domain that will serve up your own random images. I don't have a sample yet, but Google it if you're interested because there's only like a billion tutorials on this.

Text Ad Option

I really like the power of Text Ads. However, we need an option that would link a Text Ad to one or more domains. Broadcasting a certain Text Ad across all of my domains would really be helpful and would eliminate the duplicate entries for each domain.

This is already part of your WhyPark account. Perhaps this suggestion was made before the option was available?

An "About" page could be useful

Have the option of adding an "About" page would be nice to have for those that want to personalize there sites a little more.

Ok, this is silly. Can someone explain why you can't simply make a custom page named "About"? Custom pages are own of the best ways of making your WhyPark site unique..learn to use it.

Traffic Stats

It would be nice to be able to see stats on sites.

Two words: Google Analytics. It will give you everything you need to know and more.

Ability to have subdomains

Having the ability to add a subdomain that would correspond with the subcategory and create a navigation bar for the users.

This is available already with one caveat: The top level domain must also be pointed at WhyPark. For example, both http://www.fargovideo.com and http://rentals.fargovideo.com are hosted on WhyPark. Once the TLD resolves to WhyPark, simply forward your subdomains there as well.

Number of Articles on a Domain & the number indexed by Google, Yahoo and Live

It would be nice to see the total number of articles on a domain because I've found that about 25 articles seems optimal. Then how many are being indexed in the major search engines. It would be great to get 25 of 25 indexed for search!

WhyPark will tell you how many articles your site has when you save the site's keyword settings. It is then a pretty simple matter of using the "site:" command at each of the search engines to see how well they are indexed.

Contact Form for Domains

I would like to have a Contact form on all my domains with following fields: 1. Your Name: 2. Your Email: 3. Category (Should be a dropdown with options like Feedback, Advertisement etc. Users should be able to manage categories for their sites.) 3. Message Subject: 4. Message: 5. Submit Button This will enable visitors of our domains to contact us if they want. Currently there is no such option and I don't want to publish my Contact Details by making a Custom Page. Pressing on Submit will send email to our account email Or Whypark should give us a option to set emails for each of our domains in admin. The Subject of Email should be [www.domainname.com] concatenated Message Subject of text box. Let me know if you need more clarification about this feature.

The mailto tag already allows you to do all that. Here's a great tutorial on getting the most out of this underused tag: http://www.ianr.unl.edu/internet/mailto.html.

If you're concerned about spammers and bots harvesting your email address, obfuscate it with javascript using this site: http://www.codehouse.com/webmaster_tools/email_obfuscator/.

"Send to a Friend" (Home Page e-mail Option Link)

A simple, "Send to a Friend" or "Email This Article" (or "Site") to a friend would no doubt push the circulation/brand value of both topic(s) and promotional considerations for all.

This feature can be accomplished using javascript to dynamically write a mailto tag. This has the benefit of not having a form that spammers can abuse. Here's the code to email a page to a friend:


<script type="text/javascript">

var thisSubject = "subject=Check out this great tutorial: " + document.title

var thisBody = "&body=I just read a great article I thought you might be interested in: " + document.location.href

document.write('<a href="mailto:?' + thisSubject + thisBody + '">Mail this to a friend</a>')

</script>



Simply put that code in any page you want, or place it in your template (layout) so that it appears on every page of your site. Here's an example of this script in action: