Hi Alex,
What a grand accomplishment. A pleasure to navigate, great organization,
loved how you set up the links to articles and practitioner info. A work of
art and a labor of love! Congratulations!
Jordan
On 11/12/09 2:03 AM, "alex_c_kent" <lbf_at_dragonrising.com> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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!
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> http://EmoTrance.com/
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> 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.
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> Some of the features we are most proud of:
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> + Complete visual re-design to make the content more friendly and easy to
> read.
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> + 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:
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> old: http://emotrance.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2
> <http://emotrance.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2>
> new: http://emotrance.com/learn_emotrance.htm
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> + The new hyperlinks make it much easier to link to our content from your own
> websites, blogs, newsletters, etc.
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> + 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.
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> + 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:
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> http://emotrance.com/movement_crystal_energy_help_feel.htm
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> + The members list now includes an image which massively increases the
> click-throughs to member pages, eg:
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> http://emotrance.com/practitioners/
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> + 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:
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> http://emotrance.com/members/sandra_hillawi/
> http://emotrance.com/members/teresa_lynch/
> http://emotrance.com/members/kim_bradley/
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> + 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.
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> + 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
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> + Many of the different sections carry their own RSS feeds, including:
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> - 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/).
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> 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.
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> 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 <mailto:yourname%40yourwebsite.com> .
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> 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/
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