SEO Tycoon

**ForrestCroce** · 10-05-2007, 10:29 PM

Probably an odd question. But this really isn't very good by any measure; it's ugly, and a navigational dead end, but it's the code, the whole code, and nothing but the code. It needs syntax highlighting and better tabs, which anyone who's interested in has an ide that will take care of.

Google uses html to accomplish this on the page, and make the code look pretty. I'm thinking that might be the way to go. But it's one thing to display a snippet that shows how to do something particular, and another when it's 200 lines of code. Seo is mostly about usability, so what's the most convenient way to get code like this?

**vangogh** · 10-06-2007, 01:07 AM

I think I'd bite the bullet and set up a stylesheet to display things the way you want. Have a class for variables and a class for functions, etc

Then when you set up the html you'll just have to add the class to the html, probably wrapping things in <span>s

It'll take awhile the first time out, but each time after will be quicker.

Having said that it wouldn't surprise me if someone has developed a script to do a lot of the work, but I'm not aware of one. If it doesn't exist and you're up for creating one it would probably generate a lot of links to the page.

**ADAM Web Design** · 10-06-2007, 03:29 AM

I tend to agree with Steven. Use pre tags to preserve the spacing, and CSS to format those tags (it can be done). I use it on the layouts on the SEFL site, and then some regular expression stuff for the color coding. Feel free to steal my CSS, or even the colors if they appeal to you (it's not like the stuff isn't public domain anyway).

By the way...I tried opening up your .CS file after allowing the restricted content, and I made the discovery that it's a default extension for Color Schemer (I also discovered that I still had it installed on this machine, after using it once...I really have to uninstall stuff more often.) You may want to change that extension.

**chrishirst** · 10-06-2007, 07:25 AM

One of my ongoing personal projects is a server side syntax highlighter for a code snippet site I'm working on in what is laughingly called "free time"

Have you looked at http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ ?

Google took up what used to be the DreamProjections syntax highlighter and developed it further.

**ForrestCroce** · 10-06-2007, 03:07 PM

That's fantastic! I've looked at ActiPro's code highlighter, which is free but only works on .net servers. My site runs on Apache, so javascript is a much better solution. And this saves me from a lot of manual work.

Thanks! I owe you some TP, but apparently I've been handing too much out lately. I'll have to come back soon and fix that.