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Accessing your site
Integrating into an existing site you have
Customizing the look
Accessing your site
Your site may be a free standing site. Maybe it is a new site you created from scratch.
Your member sites URL's to access the site in the browser will look like 'http://username.memberdatabases.com/databasename2.htm'
Example : http://tester.memberdatabases.com/BIG_TRUCKS2.htm
where username= tester & sitename=BIG_TRUCKS
Integrating into an existing site
Using Frames
Frames is one way to integate our database into an existing site. Heres a sample: http://you-could-be-here.com .Click the Quick Search link. You ll note the results appear in a framd page with 3 sections as shown below. In that case, the results appear in the lower right hand section of the page.
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Simply create a frame page on your other sites with 2 frames . In the example below, frame 2 is only a few pixels in width while the left frame 1 is the bulk of the page width. Set the frame borders =0.
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<----- page width=780 pixels ----> |
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Frame 1
width=780-5pixels=775
Url =the URL of the main search page generated . To get this do a right click on the main search page then select properties. Copy and paste the documnet address ,ie. http://.... for the source address to this frame |
Frame 2
blank page
width=5pixels |
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These frame pages will refernce our site..
Invisible Site Integration -Integrating Seemlessly
It's all invisible to your user on your existing site. Ap erson does a search, your server communicates with ours, and we send back the search results which are embedded into any page you design.
You can do this by inserting one line of code into a page
<? $domain='tester.memberdatabases.com';
$url="http://$domain/BIG_TRUCKS2.htm";include("getPage.php");?> .
You also need to upload our 'getPage' module onto your server to communicate with our server.
Currently this setup is used for non member setups in which you just want to display a searchable database.
See a sample here
Customizing the Look
You have a site and want to add a database for members using the look of your site.
Here's How.
| Add Our Tags to your web page |
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Adding a web databases to your present site is simple. If you dont want to use our templates, you can upload your own. The template is a web page that matches your site. You simply have to add to it our own special tags we created
(see here))
These tags look like %%Home%% , %%Login%% %%Register%% and so on. You can leave out the home tag if you already have a site. |
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| Go to the Template upload pageScreen |
| Select Your database Site on the main admin panel (here)and click on the 'Output Display' button then to the template upload load link on the right lower hand side of that page as shown here. |
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Click on the Upload template link.
You will be taken to the Upload page. Here is the screen
Fill out the template name or select it from the drop down menu then find the file on your computer. This file should be an HTML web page or text file. Click 'Upload' . If you have images on your template then select the tamplate name then clcik the 'Browse' button to locate them then press 'Upload'.
Note: The system is designed to look for images that are in the same directory as your template page and will put those images in the same directory as the template page on your website so you must design the page this way else use for the image source a full URL like
<img src="http://memberdatabases.com/pic1.gif" name="pic1.gif">
Click the 'Back to Template Selection' link
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| Template Selection screen |
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Select the template you uploaded from the drop down menu and click the Radio button below it. Click 'Continue' on the bottom of the page.
On the following page , click the 'Preview/Submit' button to generate your database site.
To get an actual full screen view . You should return to the main admin screen. You can so so from selecting 'File' ,'Select Db' from the above menu then selecting 'User Search' button on the main admin screen.
More modifications to the look of your database site can always be made by selecting 'Output Display' on the main admin panel.
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