Post installation

I'm finally going to use the great pathauto module to update some sites and wanted some opinions on good aliases that are intuitive, will get good rankings, and are easy to remember when possible.

There was talk before that google news won't index sites without a 3 number sequence in the path, http://civicspacelabs.org/home/node/12210, however, a quick check of google news showed this to be false. However every page did have a number in it. I do like the idea of using dates, but any introduction of numbers seems a sure way to keep people from remembering a path--not that anyone verbally shares a url much anymore, and of course major pages should have a thought out path, not one auto created by pathauto.

Browsing some news sites I noticed that many have no rhyme or reason and have links like "article/id=12345567.cfm" while most put the date in there somewhere, usually year/month/day or reverse month and day for non-American sites. My initial thinking is to have aliases like, category/nodetype/title/date for most nodes and perhaps blog/username/title/date or blog/username/category/title/date for blog pages or just use the default system for blogs. Any thoughts?

I've also noticed that several sites use .html in their title, though they are clearly not standard html pages but being pulled from a db. Is there any benefit in still using .html in your pat

I know how to set the default home page for the site, there's no problems there, But I've noticed lately (and I don't know if this has been the whole time or not) but when a user logs in, they are taken to the view of their account screen.

Is this spose to happen?

And if so, I really want them to continue to the homepage. How can I fix this?

Thanks

Hey there,

First: I've made some good progress since I stumbled blindly into this forum yesterday. Thanks a lot for vet's patience and help.

I installed and enabled phptemplate, and am now trying to modify box_grey to suit my needs. I'm developing under a directory called .../themes/theme_1/

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish:

I would greatly appreciate some assistance if anyone could lend a hand.

I have made one vocabulary/category called "blog category". In that, I have terms; video, news, etc.

I have set the site up that one may make a post in each section/term and my primary links list each post in the section.

My breadcrumb looks right, but I want it to point to actual nodes, and not a vocab term for that word...

Ex: "Grandparent >> Parent >> Child" - user clicks on "Parent" and is sent to the taxonomy term for "Parent" but I want them to go to the "/grandparent/parent" node

Any ideas?

Is it possible to use the Authorize.net module in conjunction with the e-commerce modules without having SSL on a site?

The connection to Authorize.net and the response is done over SSL, is that not enough? Why must the cart itself and checkout be done over SSL?

Any clarification is appreciated.

Thanks.