PowerSeek Ver 3 Manual Rev 3.0
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INDEX
1. Installation 1.1 PowerSeek Installation Instructions 1.1.1 PowerSeek requirements 1.1.2 Installation Instructions For Unix/Linux 1.1.3 Installation Instructions for Windows 1.2 Installation Notes (Please Read) 1.2.1 Extra Fields/Keys 1.2.2 How to add extra fields/keys at setup/installation time 1.3 Linux/Unix Installation Trouble Shooter 1.4 Upgrade Instructions to upgrade to a newer version of PowerSeek 1.4.1 For Unix/Linux 1.4.2 For Windows 1.5 How to Upgrade from Turbo Seek to PowerSeek 1.5.1 Upgrading From Turbo Seek to PowerSeek - Overview 1.5.2 PowerSeek Requirements 1.5.3 Upgrade Instructions 1.5.4 Upgrading From Turbo Seek to PowerSeek with extra fields/keys. 1.5.5 Changes After You Have Upgraded To PowerSeek 1.6 Upgrading From Turbo Seek to PowerSeek - Trouble Shooting 1.7 How to Upgrade From PowerSeek Ver 2.x to PowerSeek Ver 3.0 1.8 Moving PowerSeek to another host 2. The basics in 20 minutes (Getting Started) We highly recommended you read this if you are new to PowerSeek. This will teach you the basics and save you time in the long run.
3. Settings 3.1 Global Search Engine Settings 3.1.1 General Settings 3.1.2 HTML File Generation Settings 3.1.3 Directory/Category Listing Settings 3.1.4 Search Settings 3.1.5 New Submission Settings 3.1.6 Comment/Review Submission Settings 3.1.7 Control Panel Settings 3.1.8 What's New & Top Hits Settings 3.1.9 New & Popular Indication Settings 3.1.10 Modifying Links Settings 3.2 HTML Generation Resource Usage 3.3 Customize Emails 3.3.1 New Submission Emails 3.3.2 New Premium Submission Emails 3.3.3 User Registration System Emails 3.3.4 Link Modification Emails 3.4 Text Configurations 3.5 Extra Field/Key Settings 3.5.1 How to add an extra field 3.5.2 Changing Extra Field Settings 3.5.3 Removing Extra Fields 3.6 User Extra Fields/Keys Settings 4. The Directory Manager (Adding Categories/Directories & Links) 4.1 Overview 4.2 How to add a directory 4.3 Deleting a directory 4.4 Renaming a directory 4.5 Moving a directory 4.6 How locked directories work 4.7 How to cross link directories 4.7.1 How to add cross links 4.7.2 How to delete cross links 4.8 How to use hidden Directories/Categories 4.9 How to Generate Specific Directories/Categories 4.10 How to add related directories/categories 4.11 Adding a link to a directory 4.12 Adding more than 1 link to a directory 4.13 Importing Data/links 4.13.1 Order & Content 4.13.2 ODP Link Importer 4.14 Editing, Moving, Copying or Deleting Links 4.14.1 Editing, Moving, Copying or Deleting Links in directories 4.14.2 Searching for a link for Editing, Moving, Deleting Links 4.15 Crawling for titles, descriptions and keywords 4.16 Using custom HTML templates for different categories 4.17 Previewing categories 4.18 Targeting banners at categories 4.19 Retrieving Email Addresses
5. Customization (Look & Feel) 5.1 Customization Basics 5.2 Template Basics 5.3 How to edit templates 5.4 What is the variable words in the templates/HTML files? 5.5 How to use images in templates 5.6 Default Directory Template Customization Explanation 5.7 General Template Guidelines 5.8 How to use template includes 5.9 Global Variables (Variables available to all templates) 5.10 How to use custom directory templates 5.10.1 How to create custom template sets 5.10.2 How to assign custom templates to directories/categories 5.11 How to create your front page 5.11.1 Front Page Template Method (Easiest) 5.11.2 How to use JavaScript Includes to create and maintain your front page (Easy) 5.11.3 How to use IFRAME tags to create and maintain your Front Page (Easy) 5.11.4 How to use SSI’s to create and maintain your Front Page (Advanced) 5.12 How to customize your front page 5.13 Customizing The Search Results Template Plug-Ins 5.14 Customizing The Add URL Template Plug-Ins 5.14.1 User Registration Add URL & Modify templates 5.14.2 Standard Add URL& Modify templates 5.15 Customizing The Rating Templates Plug Ins 5.16 Customizing The Review Templates Plug Ins 5.17 Customizing The What's New Template Plug Ins 5.18 Customizing The Top Hits Template Plug Ins 5.19 Customizing The Broken Link Templates 5.20 Customizing The Mailing List Removal Templates
6. How to run a Static or Dynamic Directory 6.1 How to run a static directory 6.1.1 Generating the HTML files from the admin control panel 6.1.2 Updating Changes to existing HTML files (Previously generated HTML files) 6.1.3 Generating HTML files from Telnet or SSH 6.1.4 Using cron to generate your HTML files on a scheduled basis 6.1.5 Updating Changes to existing HTML files (Previously generated HTML files) From Telnet/SSH 6.1.6 Using cron to update Changes to existing HTML files on a a scheduled basis 6.2 How to run a dynamic directory
7. The User Manager 7.1 What is the User Manager? 7.2 How to enable the User Manager (Requiring registration or user accounts for link submissions) 7.3 How to disable the User Manager (Not requiring registration or user accounts for link submissions) 7.4 User Extra Fields/Keys (Collecting Extra Information when users register accounts) 7.5 Sending Email to users
8. Maintenance 8.1 New Submissions 8.1.1 Medium-Sized and Large-Sized Search Engines Add URL Forms 8.1.2 Premium and Standard Submissions 8.1.3 How to Approve/Reject New Submissions 8.2 How to approve changes to modified links 8.3 How to approve or reject new link reviews/comments 8.4 How to manage broken links 8.5 Generating HTML files 8.6 Generating Your Front Page (Index Page) 8.7 Recounting Links 8.8 Removing dead HTML files. (Clean-up) 8.9 Database Maintenance
9. Plug-ins 9.1 The Premium Link Manager 9.1.1 What is premium links and how to add them? 9.1.2 Premium Link Settings 9.1.3 Sending Email to Premium Link Owners 9.1.4 Retrieving Email Addresses of Premium Link Owners 9.1.5 Customizing Premium Link Email Responses 9.1.6 Expiry Emails 9.1.7 Sending Expiry Emails to Premium Link Owners Who's Premium Links is About to Expire 9.1.8 Browsing and editing premium links 9.2 The Banner Manager 9.2.1 How to rotate banners in categories 9.2.2 How to target banners at content 9.2.3 Displaying banners with search results 9.3 Email Mailing & Address Retrieval 9.3.1 Sending Email to Link Owners 9.3.2 Retrieving Email Addresses on a Per Category Basis 9.4 The Spam Filter 9.5 The Broken Link Checker 9.5.1 How to configure the Broken Link Checker 9.5.2 How to check for broken links using the control panel (browser) 9.5.3 How to check for broken links in specific categories 9.5.4 How to check for broken links from SSH/Telnet 9.5.5 How to manage broken links that has been reported by the Broken Link Checker 9.5.6 How to manage broken links that has been reported by visitors 9.6 Data Backups 9.6.1 How to Configure the Backup Utility 9.6.2 How to restore backed-up data 9.6.3 How to backup data 9.7 Top Search Term Includes 9.7.1 How it works 9.7.2 Setting up a Top Search Term Include 9.7.3 Previewing your Top10 listing 9.7.4 Getting the JavaScript code to place on your site 9.7.5 Keeping the lists up to date 9.8 Popular & New Link Includes 9.8.1 How it works 9.8.2 Creating a Popular or New Link Include 9.8.3 How to list the most popular & most recent links in external pages or templates 9.8.4 Keeping the Includes up to date 9.9 Category Includes 9.9.1 How it works 9.9.2 Creating a Category Include 9.9.3 Previewing your Category Include 9.9.4 Getting the JavaScript code to place on your site: 9.9.5 Keeping the lists up to date 9.10 Total Link Include 9.10.1 Workings 9.10.2 Keeping the include up to date 9.11 The Template Switching Tool 9.12 The Link Crawler Plugin 9.13 The Import & Export Plugin (Importing or Exporting Links) 9.13.1 How to Import Links into PowerSeek 9.13.2 How to Export Links From PowerSeek
10. Tips & Tricks 10.1 Using listings without URLs 10.2 Using images in link listings 10.2.1 Adding images to link listings 10.2.2 Adding images that is hyperlinked 10.3 Recommendations For Large Search Engines 10.4 New & Popular graphic indicators 10.4.1 What it is / used for 10.4.2 Settings 10.4.3 Implementation 10.4.4 Customizing the 'new' & 'pop' graphics
11. How To's 11.1 How to Create Your Front Page or Index Page in 10 Minutes or Less (Including Categories) 11.2 How to block automated submission services and spammers from using the 'Add URL' forms. 11.3 How to block automated submission services and spammers from using the 'Comments' forms. 11.4 How to enable Reciprocal Link Checking 11.5 How to let submitters upload images 11.6 How to add extra fields/keys after PowerSeek has been installed.