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timothyi34297763
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May 15, 2018
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Some Help making site fully functional - user accounts, user submitted content, etc

  • May 15, 2018
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Here is the new site I am working with https://test.1ink.us/index.html . It is a real estate investing site.

I am very happy with it, but it is not entirely functional:

It has a lot of cool front end features that are not functional, including:

  • User Accounts Registration and Login. There are user login details on the top bar of each page. Ideally, I'd like people to be able to add properties into there account to follow and track the property deals we complete together. If they buy a house from me, I'd like this house to go into their 'portfolio'. Would something like this work, is there another way?
  • Blog (Information) section has a keyword tag entry that I'd like to set up to be functional, in addition to set up user comments (I plan to use the facebook plug)
  • How do I set up the List and Add Properties functions by users so they can submit there own property (that is really cool). User submitted content.

I asked the template designer who made the site but he can't help with this 'back-end' stuff. Would appreciate a little guidance here. Cheers

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Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
May 15, 2018

Hire a back-end developer.  This will require advanced coding skills with PHP, MySQL and JavaScript. 

The trouble with purchased templates such as this is that they don't DO anything.   They just look nice. 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert
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timothyi34297763Author
Inspiring
May 15, 2018

I will likely do that at some point in the future, after a few higher priority tasks are taken care of.

Meanwhile, unrelated, what are your guys thoughts on url name length.

house-finders-program-on-distressed-houses-or-situations-hamblen-county

Is the above needlessly too long, not worth a marginal seo boosts, or possibly worth a shot? If the benefit is small, I might rather choose an easier to remember url.

Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
May 16, 2018

timothyi34297763  wrote

Most of the page names have much longer titles like:

house-finders-program-on-distressed-houses-or-situations-hamblen-county

so the full url would be ivoryestate.com/house-finders-program-on-distressed-houses-or-situations-hamblen-county.h tml

My question was if it is okay to have this page name long with lots of keywords. For domain names, keywords don't seem necessary, but what about the page names?

I'm told by a digital SEO company that I'm currently working with that a page name which is as long as that would not be favoured by Google. When it comes to SEO how long is a piece of string, ask 10 developers and you'll get 10 different answers.


According to Google, you should keep the URL under 2,000 characters.  No, I did not make this up.

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    pziecina
    pziecina
    Brainiac
    May 15, 2018

    Congratulations, you have just done the equivalent of buying an empty body shell of a car/auto.

    Sorry for the sarcasm, but I hope it does get the point across. What you are asking now is how to build the engine and all the other items required to make that body shell into a fully functioning motor vehicle. Doing what you ask will require a very good knowledge of server side code and databases, with html, css and javascript thrown in for the back-end functions.

    Trying to teach you what you need to know will require 100's of hours, and is not a 'use this and this' answer. I would suggest that you first look at what server side code and database your hosting provider supports, then find a developer who can work with those, to produce what you require.

    Word of warning though, it will nor be cheap and expect to spend 1000's for a good developer to do this.

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      osgood_
      Brainiac
      May 15, 2018

      pziecina  wrote

      Congratulations, you have just done the equivalent of buying an empty body shell of a car/auto.

      One point in its favour is at least the template developer has only use the Bootstrap grid ,not the crappy coded Bootstrap components, like the navbar.

      pziecina
      pziecina
      Brainiac
      May 15, 2018

      The main problem for me though, is that the OP has now tied the front end developer/designer into working with the person who will develop the back end, as the UI for the back end and the none server side functionality should match the front end.

      Yet another example of thinking web design/development is easy.

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