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/html /body closing tags on main pages

PostPosted: Sat Aug 31, 2002 7:47 pm
by Bill Werle
Hello,

The following is an email I received from a customer of ours. I looked at my
new site I'm building and he's right. The closing tags are in the "More
Info" pages I create but not any "main" pages that I create.
Does he have a legitimate complaint? I have to assume this is by design and
Shopsite has a reason for this. If so can I get a reasonable explanation for
the customer.

<----Customers Email------->
ShopSite does not seem to want to create closing </html> and closing </body>
tags. This could end up being a serious issue with many search engines.
Is there a reason why it does not do this? Perhaps an over site on the
makers part?
Since listing these pages is rather important, I hope there is a way to
correct this issue. I'd say it is a bug, however, they may have a reason for
it.

The problem is, bug or reason notwithstanding, not having them is a
submission issue that is going to get in the way with more than a few
engines, etc.
<------ End Customers Email-------->

Thanks,

Bill Werle

Re: /html /body closing tags on main pages

PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 5:26 pm
by Bill Werle
Good point, my bad.
Shopsite 6.1 manager on Linux.

Examples here.
http://www.decalfactory.com/shopsite/ma ... ecals.html
http://www.grizzlymtngifts.com

Sites are created with a shopsite default template, nothing special, no
custom templates, etc....

Thanks!

Bill Werle



Norman <shop1ob@aol.com> wrote in message news:3D72E6C6.F4ECBFC@aol.com...
I just looked at several of our main pages and they do have the tags. You
might
want to give the ShopSite version that you are using and links to a couple
of
pages for people to look at. We use ShopSite Pro SC 4.3.

Norman
1 Ocean Boulevard
Beautiful, Quality Swimwear
http://www.web8.com/ocean


Bill Werle wrote:

Hello,

The following is an email I received from a customer of ours. I looked
at my
new site I'm building and he's right. The closing tags are in the "More
Info" pages I create but not any "main" pages that I create.
Does he have a legitimate complaint? I have to assume this is by design
and
Shopsite has a reason for this. If so can I get a reasonable explanation
for
the customer.

----Customers Email-------
ShopSite does not seem to want to create closing </html> and closing
/body
tags. This could end up being a serious issue with many search engines.
Is there a reason why it does not do this? Perhaps an over site on the
makers part?
Since listing these pages is rather important, I hope there is a way to
correct this issue. I'd say it is a bug, however, they may have a reason
for
it.

The problem is, bug or reason notwithstanding, not having them is a
submission issue that is going to get in the way with more than a few
engines, etc.
------ End Customers Email--------

Thanks,

Bill Werle

Re: /html /body closing tags on main pages

PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 8:43 pm
by Jim Stavast
This was reported to us recently and a fix will be in the next release.
The problem only occurs on the Lefty theme/template.

Jim

Bill Werle wrote:
Hello,

The following is an email I received from a customer of ours. I looked at my
new site I'm building and he's right. The closing tags are in the "More
Info" pages I create but not any "main" pages that I create.
Does he have a legitimate complaint? I have to assume this is by design and
Shopsite has a reason for this. If so can I get a reasonable explanation for
the customer.

----Customers Email-------
ShopSite does not seem to want to create closing </html> and closing </body
tags. This could end up being a serious issue with many search engines.
Is there a reason why it does not do this? Perhaps an over site on the
makers part?
Since listing these pages is rather important, I hope there is a way to
correct this issue. I'd say it is a bug, however, they may have a reason for
it.

The problem is, bug or reason notwithstanding, not having them is a
submission issue that is going to get in the way with more than a few
engines, etc.
------ End Customers Email--------

Thanks,

Bill Werle

Re: /html /body closing tags on main pages

PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:19 pm
by Norman
I just looked at several of our main pages and they do have the tags. You might
want to give the ShopSite version that you are using and links to a couple of
pages for people to look at. We use ShopSite Pro SC 4.3.

Norman
1 Ocean Boulevard
Beautiful, Quality Swimwear
http://www.web8.com/ocean


Bill Werle wrote:

Hello,

The following is an email I received from a customer of ours. I looked at my
new site I'm building and he's right. The closing tags are in the "More
Info" pages I create but not any "main" pages that I create.
Does he have a legitimate complaint? I have to assume this is by design and
Shopsite has a reason for this. If so can I get a reasonable explanation for
the customer.

----Customers Email-------
ShopSite does not seem to want to create closing </html> and closing </body
tags. This could end up being a serious issue with many search engines.
Is there a reason why it does not do this? Perhaps an over site on the
makers part?
Since listing these pages is rather important, I hope there is a way to
correct this issue. I'd say it is a bug, however, they may have a reason for
it.

The problem is, bug or reason notwithstanding, not having them is a
submission issue that is going to get in the way with more than a few
engines, etc.
------ End Customers Email--------

Thanks,

Bill Werle

Re: /html /body closing tags on main pages

PostPosted: Sun Sep 01, 2002 9:44 pm
by Bill Werle
Thanks Jim,

This explains why none of our other shopsites that use shopsite themes
display this behavior.

Regards,

Bill Werle


Jim Stavast <jstavast@xmission.com> wrote in message
news:3D72DE45.BF6B59A5@xmission.com...
This was reported to us recently and a fix will be in the next release.
The problem only occurs on the Lefty theme/template.

Jim

Bill Werle wrote:

Hello,

The following is an email I received from a customer of ours. I looked
at my
new site I'm building and he's right. The closing tags are in the "More
Info" pages I create but not any "main" pages that I create.
Does he have a legitimate complaint? I have to assume this is by design
and
Shopsite has a reason for this. If so can I get a reasonable explanation
for
the customer.

----Customers Email-------
ShopSite does not seem to want to create closing </html> and closing
/body
tags. This could end up being a serious issue with many search engines.
Is there a reason why it does not do this? Perhaps an over site on the
makers part?
Since listing these pages is rather important, I hope there is a way to
correct this issue. I'd say it is a bug, however, they may have a reason
for
it.

The problem is, bug or reason notwithstanding, not having them is a
submission issue that is going to get in the way with more than a few
engines, etc.
------ End Customers Email--------

Thanks,

Bill Werle