___/ On Mon 14 Aug 2006 21:01:08 BST, [ Dr. Mike Wendell ] wrote : \___
Greets:
We went through this over on the phpNuke platform a few years back.
It was the opinion of Free Software Foundation that a link had to be
in there:
What started it all:
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4947
Francisco Burzi's response:
http://phpnuke.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6966
I had wondered about it since I see a number of themes that don't include it.
Intersting stuff! Thanks for the information. I have always
thought that Francisco Burzi's hardcoding of the footer
(with acknowledgements) was a matter of vanity and self
interest. I run two PHP-Nuke sites and I know it's hard to
remove that footer (I never have). All the 'out of the box'
themes appear to include the footer as well.
I just tell my clients it has to be in there. If they have an issue,
I suggest a color change for that line to make it match the background
or a nofollow tag. :)
The former can get the Webmaster penalised for hidden links
(people like Matt Cutts have discussed this before). The
latter is more reasonable, IMHO.
Best wishes,
Roy
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