Hey everyone, working on my first ZZ project. As with everything the learning curve is there, but mostly on the templates..Which I'll explain what I did to make this easy. After fiddling with everything I finally got some random pages built. I think my host is a pain with FTP though, since the sites only seem to update after a ton of trys. I know ZZ is connecting though, since I setup a virtual ftp on my machine and connected, and zz uploaded everything.

It really depends on the hosting with this tuel, since zz uses your browser connection to ftp, it has to re-login everytime a page is uploaded. The biggest problem I have found is with the hosts ftp service not liking this.

Onto the templates. Kurt laid out a good plan above. If you plan ahead in your template you can really randomize the hell out of your pages. Which is awesome. Crank out a 50 page site with keywords, move on to the next. I setup my template in the following way:

I added these tags in the title: 0keytitle1 <<keywords>> 0keytitle2
I have separate text files named 0keytitle1 and 0keytitle2. In these files I have about 200 lines of the beginning and the ends of common sentences, respectively. When I run replacez to change out these tags, I simply go into the respective text files, plop the keywords into replacez, and create human looking sentences that use the keywords. I do something similar for the header of my page.

Then I added a static "chunk" of an article with the following template tag: 0keychunk1. I again have a txt file with paragraphs on their own lines. Run replaces, This will give the page a static element. Then I use a few varying ZZ tags. I have one that selects a post from a specific newz category, and one that selects a specific keyword, with the "all" tag for better results. (I have a hard time getting results with the "exact" tag, so I use "all".

Then I put a "0backerz" tag in the template, so I can run the backerz tuel in this area to add back/next links. And to add some relevant links I put in a "0keymapz" tag to run keymaps.

For my next project I will experiment with adding twitter tweets and identi.ca posts. I found a site named http://feedity.com - What this does is actually rips the site you tell it to, and converts it into an RSS feed. I ran the free service on twitter and it updates the tweets every 10 hours. Pretty cool! Hows that for random relevant content. They say with the free service your rss could be deleted after a month of inactivity, I think the paid service is 3 bucks a month. I'll stick with free for now. But I thought I'd let everyone know about this as an easy way to update your sites with Tweets, forum posts, or any site with user-added content.

If anyone else has tried this let me know. I will try to post back with results if I get this up and running, but it seems like a great way to blast out tons of tin pages with user content.

Also kurt, is there a post with a list of active freehosts that work with ZZ? Also Freesites that let you ftp upload, and use THEIR domain with a keytag> (eg: http://freehost.com/mywebsitehere/)

Chris