In article <dn89e7$hi$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz
<newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>__/ [Philip Baker] on Thursday 08 December 2005 02:19 \__
>
>> In article <dn6ugp$2lr5$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>>>__/ [Antigravity] on Wednesday 07 December 2005 15:09 \__
>>>
>>>> I dont have any control (i think) over the format of the URLs as they
>>>> are generated by the Miva commerce software. However, i do plan to make
>>>> a "front page" for the shop in good ole HTML stuffed with keywords and
>>>> links to the shop URLs in the hope that the search engines will be
>>>> sucked into the site through the splash page links.
>>>
>>>I honestly think that the one-word reply was redundant. With a CMS in
>>>place, a mod_rewrite would be too complex to set up, let alone generalise
>>>to all pages. A front page would be a wise step. Try to find out, with the
>>>aid of search engines, about workarounds people have devised to shorten
>>>Miva URL's or make them reflect on the page titles (/slugs).
>>>
>>
>> Does anyone know how popular Miva is compared to the alternatives, ASP
>> PHP, CGI/perl etc.? I never hear much about it, but it is available for
>> use on two of my sites.
>
>If my opinion is of any use, I have never heard of Miva before you mentioned
>it. I know a large number of non-commercial content management systems. In
>fact, you take them all for a live spin:
>
>http://www.opensourcecms.com/
>
>If you do some research, you can probably find out how many times Miva was
>downloaded, how many times it was installed and how many unique sites
>(still) run it. What counts as much as the userbase is the state of
>development. You probably don't want to see support and active maintenance
>reaching cessation.
>
>Roy
>
The two sites I referred to are hosted by Webfusion/Pipex. They have
perl, PHP and Miva available and as far as I recall some Miva scripts
available for use. In fact I think it is only there that I've ever
encountered Miva.
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Philip Baker
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