Hi everyone,
I'm delighted to say that the new http://EmoTrance.com/ website is now online. Do check it out and let us know what you think!
The old EmoTrance website served our community well for the past 7 years and has brought countless thousands of people to discover more about our life-skill techniques.
Seven years on and we've decided that it's time for a change, so have been working for the past couple of months on the new site.
Some of the features we are most proud of:
+ Complete visual re-design to make the content more friendly and easy to read.
+ This website is a SpaceNode hence it's easy to update, easy to network with other websites and also is about as Search Engine optimised as is humanly possible. One example is the hyperlinks, eg:
old: http://emotrance.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
new: http://emotrance.com/learn_emotrance.htm
+ The new hyperlinks make it much easier to link to our content from your own websites, blogs, newsletters, etc.
+ We've been manually through each of the 211 news, article, case-studies, etc to double check each one is up to date, is in the right category, includes an image where appropriate and is juicy to the search engines.
+ We have installed our own Search Engine on our site to make our ever-increasing content easy to find. We have our own search robot which visits our sites once per day, keeping all the articles, member listings and events up-to-date.
+ EmoTrance Links directory, so we can build up connections with other EmoTrance websites: http://emotrance.com/links.htm – If you've got a website that links to http://emotrance.com/ contact us for a links exchange!
+ Each article submitted by a member includes an automatic link back to their members page. This has the benefit of always keeping contact details about an article in one place, eg:
http://emotrance.com/movement_crystal_energy_help_feel.htm
+ The members list now includes an image which massively increases the click-throughs to member pages, eg:
http://emotrance.com/practitioners/
+ Each members page is much more friendly and attractive, with each member's image being displayed and cute icons next to the contact details.
+ Each members page features the recent articles written by that person, alongside any events they've got coming up. Eg:
http://emotrance.com/members/sandra_hillawi/
http://emotrance.com/members/teresa_lynch/
http://emotrance.com/members/kim_bradley/
+ Members can update their own profiles as often as they wish. Just login with your SpaceNode login (which is the same as you use for DragonRising.com) and the system will recognise you. This makes it much easier for non-primary English speakers to keep their page up-to-date and be found for search engine queries in their own language.
+ Each of our article categories has their own RSS Feeds. Say for example, you wanted to have an up-to-date list of available EmoTrance Primers in different languages, you can add this RSS feed to a block on your website: http://emotrance.com/emotrance_primer.html?output=RSS
+ Many of the different sections carry their own RSS feeds, including:
- EmoTrance news: http://emotrance.com/?output=RSS
- EmoTrance Products: http://emotrance.com/products/?output=RSS
- EmoTrance Events: http://emotrance.com/events/?output=RSS
+ Reviews System – storing all the nice comments said about EmoTrance: http://emotrance.com/reviews/ - do remember to keep sending your comments how EmoTrance has worked best for you as it makes fascinating reading for newbies looking to find solutions to their problems.
As for the future, I'm hoping by the end of the year, we'll be able to give all members their own SpaceNode, either on their own domain for a few pounds per month (such as my http://alexkent.com/ or Silvia Hartmann's http://1-eft.com/) or in a sub-directory of our main website for free (such as http://emotrance.com/members/alex_kent/).
Having a SpaceNode gives you the freedom to have different pages on your site rather than the one-page system we have at the moment. Members will easily be able to create blogs, their own events pages, articles and even setup their own online shops using PayPal to take the money. They'll also be able to add their own blocks to their pages, so they can feed in news from other sites, or display `widgets' such as their facebook status, twitter tweets, etc.
This will probably be the first real option for many of our members to own their first website, along with getting a professional email address such as yourname_at_yourwebsite.com.
It really is exciting times for EmoTrance and its wonderful members who bring it to the world!
Best wishes,
Alex Kent
EmoTrance Admin
http://EmoTrance.com/
Received on Thu 12 Nov 2009 - 01:04:59 GMT
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