I am asking this question on behalf of a client of mine He wants to make a portal page where there will be 21 tiny flags of all the latin countries, when people click on the countries of their interest for search that link should take them to the directory of that country. In other words it would be a directory of directories for the Latin Countries. With this said would he need 21 different phplinkdirectories or could he just use one and call different templates for different sections or use one template but have a different flag for each section I would like to have your opinion about this and if you have any idea how to do it I certainly will appreciate any help
It will be possible to code phpLD into the 21 respective countries just requires some coding to enable that to be implemented
1 directory is all that is needed, just make each country a category. From there all you need is a picture (Map probably) that shows all Latin countries with their flag on top. Each flag would then be hotlinked to the category that was set up for the country. This is not terribly hard and could probably be set up in just a few hours. BTW: each category can have sub-categories under it so Spain/Travel/Hotels would be possible.
ok one other question what would be a fair price to do it for as he puts in the categories and sub categories as I don't speak nor write Spanish but I do the set up etc.........
Depends on how fast you work and the specifics of the project (unique skin, any hacks for the directory, etc). Personally, I would charge ~$500 because it wouldn't take more than an afternoon to set it up unless (s)he is wanting a pimped out directory. The homepage would be nothing more than the map with links to subcategories. To be safe, I would also set up some kind of sitemap to make sure it gets indexed in SE's since all your links will be inside 1 picture. Hope this helps!
right now he has no mods added yet I helped him do one with just a free template but he is getting a custom one done but this is totally different
There are few ways to do this depending on what exactly you need. If you need top categories only, you can create them and than copy urls and insert flags and make them links by hand-static html way. If you need subcategories to work too ones you create them you will need something similar to icons mod like on www.kwikgoblin.com What you need from that mod is each top category to have id-something like id="1" for first on and id="2" for second one etc. Than you can hide text via css for those id's using position absoulte of -99999px and add different background image(flag) for every id(country). Hope this helps.