Only half this question is a Dreamweaver question but maybe you can
help with the other half--Dreamweaver people seem to have pretty good
taste and seem to be pretty smart about a lot of things. :o)

My stupidity is going to shock you but I just found out two days ago
that sites aren't usually ranked by search engines--pages are. All our
"sites" (not domains but sites as defined by us and our page-to-page
links) are non-profit fansites for actresses. We had a site that
ranked like 300 and then we realized why--the site was all pictures
entitled "pic1" etc and the main page was like "Hi, here's our Jane
Doe site" and nothing more.

I did a test page with Dreamweaver MX 2004 (Mac) where I took one
actress and collected all the text-info I could find on her and put it
all onto one page.

My question (actually my "statement") is, I'm wondering where this
will stand in terms of:

(1) Search engines and ranking--good HTML for engines? I don't know
code YET, but any suggestions that would help me either today (as
ignorant Jackie) or tomorrow (as code-woman Jackie) would be greatly
appreciated.

(2) Net ethics--I see things like this done but is it okay? People
tell me it's fine but in vague terms--they won't come out and say it's
okay. I'm not worried about the legal aspect because my dad is a
lawyer and he says non-profit websites usually aren't worth going
after unless it's super-famous celebrity (which this person isn't)
with emotional issues. And also as far as ethics goes nothing here was
taken from other amateur fansites--it's all from huge interview sites,
etc.

Anyway here's the page if anyone would like to look:
http://homepage.mac.com/jake99/jacq...g/megantext.htm

Even if you don't have time now thanks for reading this post!
Jackie R Brooks

Jacquelyn,

(You must not be proud of your real last name, as I obviously am....)

If what you're saying is kosher, it would give a big advantage to
non-business sites, because business sites can't reprint things
according to the law so freely because their goal is not education and
entertainment without profit. In other words, non-profit people for
any specific topic, like steamships, for example, could exchange
information so that everyone with a non-business site about steamships
(all four of them) could post all information in existence about
steamships, whereas business sites could not use this information
freely. So at least in terms of content-rankage, business sites would
come after non-business sites.

I would not see this as a big threat to business sites, since even
"hot" topics like famous wrestler "The Rock" can't have more than a
handful of fan sites, whereas businesses that would like to sell you
posters of The Rock are numerous. An analogy would be waiting in line
at the supermarket with 200 things in your cart and letting someone
ahead of you who's buying only a pack of gum.

Amanda Tapping, A Movie
Blue Wind, Berkeley, 1979.

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