Template Issues

[smiley]

Hi,
I want to add 3 additional pages to the sites I build with rssE; TOS, Privacy Policy and Contact Us pages. When I do what I understand is necessary I cannot get it to work so I am hoping for some feed back.
This is what I'm doing for creating and naming my pages using TOS as an example:

I copy a template I have altered to make unique. I strip all the rssE tokens having to do with links, keywords, text and rss feeds (it wouldn't show up anyway since I am not generating the page with rssE). I insert the TOS text where I want it and I rename the page. This is the coding I understand is the correct way to name the page:







Prior to generating the site I have coded into the Index, General and Sitemap page templates links to my TOS page. I have tried 4 different methods.
Here are the methods I have tried for linking back to my TOS page:

method 1:

© 2006 - 2007  
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Original Design  
TOS

method 2:

© 2006 - 2007  
http://www.freecsstemplates.org/">Original Design  
http://www.mysite.com/tos">TOS

method 3:

Meta

• TOS

method 4:

Meta

• http://www.mysite.com/tos.html"TOS

I have tried this with several different templates. I have tried both opening with my browser from desktop and ftp'ing the files and still the links don't work. I have tried using .html on the full url and leaving it off. In essence I have tried everything I can think of. BTW this is a css template if that can make a difference.
So PLEASE can one of you folks enlighten this man humbled by his limited knowledge?
Thanks a bunch,
Larry

[smiley]

Looks like you were right about the 90% Omar...
I will ask another way:

Is it possible to link pages not genererated by rssE within the same website/folder with pages that are generated by rssE?

Has anyone else done something like this?

And lastly am I wasting my time working on this? I had read that having TOS, Conatct and Privacy Policy pages improves ones appearance to Google of having a "valid" site thus impoving the chances of having my pages presented to a surfer. I respect the source but if many say Bah! Humbug! then maybe I will blow it off.

All the best,
Larry

[LazyAffiliate]

I think it must be possible by just "hard coding"  the links in your template but i wouldnt waste my time on it personally.

[Omar]

I am not sure i understand what exactky did not worked with all those methods. If you want to have more pages, not created by rsse, you should hardcode the links in template, most nice and easy would be your method 3

Meta

• TOS

But, you also have to have a tos.html page already created, and uploaded to same folder where all the rsse generated pages goes.

[smiley]

Thanks for the feedback.
I don't understand what went wrong either, Omar. I must be missing something in the coding. Admittedly I am not the strongest with html. I think I will take Lazy Affiliates advice for now until I have some "extra" time to learn more and see what I can do to make it work.
Thanks and all the best!

[evertdutoit]

You didn't state this explicitly, so the obvious question for me is, did you copy the extra files you want to the output directory for rssE? For example, did you copy tos.html from your template directory to the directory where rssE created your site?

[Omar]

You didn't state this explicitly, so the obvious question for me is, did you copy the extra files you want to the output directory for rssE? For example, did you copy tos.html from your template directory to the directory where rssE created your site?

If you want more pages in a rss site, and harcode the links to those pages in the templates, you will have to copy/upload any those files manually to same place with the rsse generated files.