Supersite gallery

I've been wondering how many supersites are out there? I publish my little humour pages as a supersite and I thought it might be interesting to see what uses others have found for supersites. I'm sure supersites could be useful for all kinds of things So if you have a supersite you would like to show us feel free to post the link in this thread.

So to start this off here is my supersite web publication: http://www.goodmorningsunshine.ca/on...sues/index.htm This will open the most current issue and we over write each week so our readers can bookmark the link and always have quick access to the newest issue.

Hmm. I don't really know what all to say.

When I visited the Super Site using a desktop browser, the pages are way to small to read comfortably. As well, any attempt to resize the page using ctrl + +, well:

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When I went to the main site, it was far better sized for a desktop browser. However, the first few links I attempted to click on are dead links.

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Thanks Mike. I had the scale to fit screen option checked in the website export options. but interestingly when I tested resizing the browser page with Ctrl++ I didn't get the same results the page just didn't resize. If you try now it should be much better.

The dead links will soon be fixed the main site is under reconstruction.

Frances, you might give some thought to a page title to let the search engines know what kind of website you have. :o index does not do it.

Good point Title added :)

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Thanks Mike. I had the scale to fit screen option checked in the website export options...If you try now it should be much better...

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Ah, far, far nicer! Scales here nicely in a couple browsers...I can read it without squinting.

Well done. Mike

So does anyone else have any supersites they would like to share?

Pardon me for sounding ignorant Frances, but can you explain to me what a supersite is?

Hi buckobeck,

See HERE

Hi Frances, site is working much better now but I dislike scrolling to the bottom of each page for the navigation ;)

Try ALT+arrow keys, Egg.

Why is this topic 'sticky'?

Egg, thanks for the info and the link.

I like your site. Here is a vertical Supersite I just published a couple of days ago:

http://everydayesp.net/

It occurred to me that a vertical supersite would be perfect for a streaming version of our home study course - people could just keep scrolling down from page to page through all of the lessons. But then I ran a test and it looks like it won't work. The uses php pages that can be protected. With a regular site, the first page is index.htm (required by Xara) and can be used as a longin page. Then all the rest are php pages. But with the vertical supersite, it all acts like an htm site and none of the pages are protected.

Here is my test site:

http://silvashop.com/memsm/

I'll try a side-by-side site and see if it works any better.

Ed

@ Egg: when the visitor finishes reading a page they would be at the bottom which was why I put the navigation there (about where you might turn the pages in an actual printed publication)

@: Steve: This thread was made sticky as the idea was to provide a little space for anyone who might want to show how they use the supersite feature. It is not just a showcase for my work. If you have a supersite you have done you are more than welcome to share it here.

@ restless:I think in order to have your protected pages a supersite might not be the best Idea. A regular site might better suit your needs. but I like the long scrolling site you posted except it gets to be a lot of scrolling after about 4 pages or so.

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@ Egg: when the visitor finishes reading a page they would be at the bottom which was why I put the navigation there (about where you might turn the pages in an actual printed publication)

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Hi Frances,

Fine on a printed document page, as it has a fixed physical size, all of which is visible all the time. On a printed document I don't have to read all the page to turn to the next page. However on a digital document scrolling is often required and it's therefore more common to have the navigation at the top of the page (or top & bottom) :)

Thanks Angelize, yes, I need to edit out about 2/3 of that material. I should have mentioned that I was testing to see what the Supersite would look like, and just added info from a lot of pages. On our regular sites, people would click a link to go to the specific information they need. I really like the idea of the vertical supersite as a sales page for a single product.

Did you notice that I put a link to buy the product at the bottom of every page. I got that idea from the long-form infomercials, where they offer you an opportunity to buy every 5 minutes or so. Then they keep on selling for another 5 minutes or so, and offer you another opportunity to buy.

My hope (perhaps only a fantasy) is that we will find a good internet marketer who is looking for a good product, who will take that information and use it to build a really good marketing web site and sell the products. I guess what I have in mind is like a Joint Venture arrangement. We could make an independent sales person a really good deal.

Our online course will have about 15 lessons, so I sure wish there were a way to use a vertical supersite, so people could just keep scrolling down from one lesson to the next. With an index on the first page so they could just jump straight to the lesson they need. If I find a way to do it, I will let you know.

Better and better

Ed

'Supersites' mecanism is really interesting, refreshing only the content... but what's about the SEO consideration?? Does it have any impact about our dear G**GLE bot indexation ?

Hi akaoma

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A Supersite consists of one HTML file for the whole site so keywords, description and and title and meta tags are taken from the first page of the site. Search Engines still work exactly as normal with Supersites, and will index all your content, but that they might jump to the home page of the Supersite when following a search engine link.

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From:

http://support.xara.com/index.php?/K...0/0/supersites

ouppps I didn't take the time to read carefully all of the document... Thanks for this precision Egg! :)

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Hi buckobeck,

See HERE

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Thanks for telling about the supersites..interesting...never heard of it before......

Perhaps a little bit off topic but is it possible to convert a normal site to a super site?

Can you mix both a normal website and a supersite? I have some areas of my planned site which would benefit from scrolling down and other areas where one screen page would suffice. Apols for my ignorance.

Yes, it's possible, but you'd need to create two site and place the first in the root directory and the second in a sub-directory.

Mmm, righty-ho, I'll bear that in mind - I am no web designer. I've got the free trial version and will have a play. Many thanks, Egg.

You don't sound convinced but it really isn't to difficult. Get back if you want further help ;)

I will do. I'm quite the novice - what's that about a little bit of knowledge being dangerous? :D
I'm just considering swapping over to xara from serif. Serif are no longer producing their webplus range.

Good morning, I just checked out the "super site" and think it's very neat and clean. Is this something that can be done in Xara?

Yes, it's quite simple to do it in Xara.

Tried supersite on my website, for My state of California 22 pages long when someone would visit it they would get internal server error message, contacted my hosting company was told the page was to large and was causing the error went back and did conventional site cured my problem so I did like things about supersite but in the end I ended up redoing my whole site as conventional. So for a moderate size site I think it is wonderful, but if it grows in size conventional had to be it for me.

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Tried supersite on my website, for My state of California 22 pages long when someone would visit it they would get internal server error message, contacted my hosting company was told the page was to large and was causing the error went back and did conventional site cured my problem so I did like things about supersite but in the end I ended up redoing my whole site as conventional. So for a moderate size site I think it is wonderful, but if it grows in size conventional had to be it for me.

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22 pages long does not seem a problem. It might be if it were all hires images and Variants. Xara allows on-line document publishing and these can be 100s of pages long, books in other words.

CA-page 20 is 110kB, which is big but not excessive. 22 such pages would still only be 2.5MB.
Your images are typically trivally small but repeated. Using the special Name - filename="imageName" - would reduce these for all your pages' duplicates.

I would look at your service provider more closely.

Acorn