Searchable Member Sites in Seconds!


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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.

 

| <----- 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 fram
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Frame 2
blank page
width=5pixels
 

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");?>
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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
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Add Our Tags to your web page

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.

 

 

   
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.
Create your own look and integrate it here.
 
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 Upload template
Custom Template Details


Click on the Upload template link.

Template Name

 

Template File (locate the html or image file you need uploaded)

   
Back to Template Selection

Once you have uploaded the template page along with its images,Go back and select the custom template.

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

 

Template Selection screen

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.

 

Create your own look and integrate it here.
 
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 Upload template
Custom Template Details
 

 


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