AquaMAD

I've now bought the AquaMAD domain.
The placeholder can be found at www.AquaMAD.co.uk.

I should now integrate the news parser to atleast provide up to the minute news on water sports.

In Japan

Now I've arrived in Japan I've been working hard on SnowMAD. The following activities have been completed:

1. Tidied up CSS a bit.
2. Entered more resorts details.
3. Applied for more advertising partnerships.
4. Integrated rotating adverts from Tradedoubler instead of static ones on the dynamic pages.
5. Integrated a second GoogleAds text data entry. This appears only on gear pages with specific data within it.
   This is achieved by the gear transform xslt looking for gear details in the xml page. If it finds some it transforms it into the googleads script. This is simple because it is not based upon the content of the page.
6. Integrated an ebay panel on gear pages.
   As above xslt transforms the gear data in the xml into the ebay script tag. However, the ebay URL needs to be amended to point to the correct category, country and search for the item name.
   Some of this info is not in the XML and only available in the ASPX engine. The XSLT therfer pumps out a TAG that can be parsed by the ASP.NET post transform.
   The above case parses ##EbayLocation## into the ebay country code of the visitor.
7. Applied to ebay to gain commission from Ebay affiliation. No answer from commission junction!
8. Developed and Integrated an external parser to gain extra data on items. Works using AJAX (javascript in the client accessing server side processes)
   The client javascript (pumped in by the xslt transform as above) calls the parser aspx page specifying the resource that is required. The parser ASPX is heavily cached so as to reduce the access to the remote data source and also reduce the overhead of the parser.
   This technology may be shifted from client to be ASP.NET server based so that the external content gets indexed too.
9. Added a news parser.
   I have developed a newsparser. It is a component that reads RSS and displays it. I've then called it from a new dynamic home page so that includes up to date news (collected by google).

The more I do the more needs to be done..

I've now got a nasty problem too. The logs are showing that the search engine bots are getting 500 errors when accessing the site.. That's right the bots no one else. Once I've worked out how to fix it or even test it I'll post..