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A comment on the idea "Keep your visitor on your site instead of letting someone else have them by the clicking of your external links, ads or images. This code allows you to retain at least one of your pages open on their screen at all time." in Yola:

No problem, I'm happy it worked out for you. Good luck with your sites. – gamedemon, on February 19, 2009 01:21

gamedemon replied on January 23, 2009 03:54 to the question "Synthasite, Upgrade in Future!??" in Yola:

Hi Justin,

Just to clear up a few things:

1. The user thing is something that the synthasite team is apparently working on. That doesn't mean it will come out any time soon, and it probably won't. But only because these things take time.

Also, just to get one thing straight. When Synthasite does get the user feature, it will be one of very few web hosts (free or paid) that offer such a feature. When you see a sign up feature on a site, it is because the webmaster spent years learning javascript and other web languages.

2. New templates come out periodically. Usually once a month.

3. Synthasite has no control over widgetbox what so ever. Synthasite is a separate service that is partnered with Widgetbox but does not run it. The words are annoying, but the service is free and they have a business to run.

4. There are many image editors that you can use to get the right image sizes. http://www.getpaint.net and http://www.gimp.org are both free but are very similar to Photoshop and would do the work. Just be creative, and you can create your own headers to the right dimensions.

5. You can use whatever advertising you want. It doesn't have to be adsense. You don't even have to use the Adsense widget. An HTML Widget works just fine. And you can use whatever ad network you want. I always use the HTML Widget for my ads, even though I only use adsense.

Hope this clarifies a few things.

-Michael

gamedemon replied on January 23, 2009 03:22 to the question "Printer-friendly and ads" in Yola:

Oh yeah, and if you want to create a two column layout, just use the "Two Column Layout Widget" aka the "Divider Widget".

Insert it in your site in the site builder, then put all of your other widgets in on either column. You can also re size the column's width by dragging the center of the Two Column Layout Widget.

gamedemon replied on January 23, 2009 03:11 to the question "Printer-friendly and ads" in Yola:

Hi Donald,

If you have content on your site that you want people to be able to print out, than one way to do that would be to create a word document with your content in it, and save the document.

Then upload the document to your file manager.

Then insert the File Widget into your site in the site builder, and choose the document from your uploaded file. That will create a link on your site that people can click on and open the file in Word.

If something is unclear, just ask.

-Michael

gamedemon replied on January 20, 2009 18:21 to the question "Newbie Question" in Widgetbox:

Thank you, I'll keep that in mind with my latest widget.

gamedemon replied on January 20, 2009 15:13 to the question "How do you get a forum with no posts in it?" in Yola:

Hi Steven,

Upon signup you receive an embed code which you put on your website.

You can learn about nabble in dept at this thread:
http://getsatisfaction.com/SynthaSite...

Just ask if something is unclear

gamedemon replied to "How to add 120 free online games to your site in max 3 minutes (if your slow about it)", but it was removed. see the change log

gamedemon replied on January 19, 2009 00:46 to the idea "How to add 120 free online games to your site in max 3 minutes (if your slow about it)" in Yola:

Thank you for your comments and interest.

gamedemon replied on January 18, 2009 23:34 to the idea "How to add 120 free online games to your site in max 3 minutes (if your slow about it)" in Yola:

I am proud to announce new developments to Instant Arcade.

1. We have a new template. Cool huh?

2. I've spent the past week learning about widgets and how to make them. Here are a few of the widgets that i have created so far.

Widgetbox.com: Instant Arcade now has it's own place in widgetbox. You can check it out at http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/insta...

Clearspring.com: Check out the Clearspring version at: http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/49...

Google Gadgets: Check out the Google version by clicking here

3. I'm in the process of making social networking apps for sites like Facebook, Myspace, Bebo, etc... But it's a challenge and I might have to come up with an ad-free version of my widget to do it.

4. Thoughts for the future. Instant Arcade is only version1.0. Instant Arcade version2.0 will hopefully have a lot more games, a cooler background, and more features. So stay tuned for that.

Thanks for stopping by,
Michael

gamedemon replied on January 18, 2009 20:45 to the question "Newbie Question" in Widgetbox:

Never mind. It just got approved. I guess I got my answer.

gamedemon asked a question in Widgetbox on January 18, 2009 18:40:

Newbie Question

HI, I'm new to making widgets at widgetbox. I just wanted to know how long it takes for a widget to get approved and go live in the gallery.

I'm not rushing anybody or being pushy. I just want to know and make sure that nothing is wrong with my submission.

If it helps to know, I'm creating the "Instant Arcade" widget.

Thanks in advance.

A comment on the question "Need help again please some HTML code" in Yola:

yes, good job. Best of luck.

The link above is wrong by the way. It leads to a parking page. – gamedemon, on January 13, 2009 21:38

gamedemon replied on January 13, 2009 17:29 to the question "Need help again please some HTML code" in Yola:

Hi Lycan,

Sorry it is not working.

Did you remember to remove the <!--- and the --->. I forgot to mention it but you are supposed to remove those before you press ok in the html editor.

If you did remove them, and it still doesn't work, there is another way to achieve the same result using iframes. But this only works if bravenet gave you a url for the guestbook.

Iframes let you put a website inside of another website.

Here is the code that you would want to use:

<!---
<iframe src="The url for the guestbook goes here" width="517" height="358" frameborder="no" scrolling="auto"></iframe>
--->

Just type or paste the URL given to you as is in the spot where it says "The url for the guestbook goes here"

And don't forget to remove the <!--- and the ---> because they are only there so the commenting system doesn't translate the code.

You can change the width and height values if you need to.

If nothing works, email me the guestbook code at admin@gamedemonarcade.com and I will play around with it a bit and see if I can get it to work.

Regards

gamedemon replied on January 13, 2009 05:50 to the question "Need help with table background color!" in Yola:

Hi Krazycalves,

You can change the color of a table by adding <!--- bgcolor="color" ---> in the table tag.

So for example, if you have a table that you want each cell to be black, the code would look as such:

<!---
<table bgcolor="black">
<tbody>
<tr>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
--->

That's it. You can also change the colors of the individual cells by adding the bgcolor code to td tags instead of the table tag

(recommended) You can also use color codes instead of just the name of a color.
So instead of "black" you can add "#993399". You can find more color codes at:
http://html-color-codes.com. Don't forget to include the #

Just play around with it and you will master it

Best of luck

If something isn't clear, just ask

gamedemon replied on January 13, 2009 04:40 to the question "Need help again please some HTML code" in Yola:

Hi Lycan76,

Try this code:

<!--- <div style="overflow: auto; height: 400px; width: 530px;">Type your embed code here</div> --->

This code is for the table. Paste the code for the guestbook where it says "Type your embed code here"

You can adjust the height and width values if you need to.

Your site looks very good for someone who claims to not know much about html

If you'd like to learn a little more about html, check out my html code page at:
http://webmasteruniversity.co.cc/HTML...

Good luck

A comment on the question "please help" in Yola:

we wrote our messages at the same time, sorry – gamedemon, on January 09, 2009 22:29

gamedemon replied on January 09, 2009 22:27 to the question "please help" in Yola:

Hi tony,

Is your address a synthasite subdomain or a registered paid domain name?

If it is a synthasite subdomain, example http://yourname.synthasite.com, that is no problem. Just follow the instructions I gave on this thread http://getsatisfaction.com/SynthaSite...

However,

If it is a paid domain name that you bought either through Synthasite or another registrar than there is nothing you can do other that buy a new domain name and sell or give away the other one. There is no such thing as a refund on a paid domain name (not that I know of).

If it is a paid domain name than you should speak to one of the reps for more information. Either by a support ticket, or if one of them responds to this thread.

Hope this helps.

gamedemon replied on January 08, 2009 16:59 to the question "Cloaking Hoplinks for Clickbank Products" in Yola:

Hi SanRamon,

Godaddy only offers forwarding to domains that you buy. Not something you want to waste on an affiliate link.

If you have multiple affiliate links, than tinyurl.com should do the job. All you have to do is type in your url in the form on the first page, than a new url comes out that hides the original one.

I'll do it right now:

I'll take http://yahoo.com and type it in the form

And I get this:

http://tinyurl.com/2ks

Notice how they both go to the same place.

Tinyurl should do the trick, but if you would like to research other free url redirection services, look at this: http://70.85.114.235/forums/showthrea...

The only problem is that that post was from 2002 and most of the services don't work anymore. So you will be doing some searching.

Hope that helps

gamedemon replied on January 07, 2009 22:46 to the question "Cloaking Hoplinks for Clickbank Products" in Yola:

Hi SanRamon,

If you want to disguise a url, you can always just use a free url redirection service like http://tinyurl.com or http://cjb.net

No need for ftp access. And tinyurl doesn't even need a signup.

There are many services like this.

Try doing a google search for free url redirection.

Hope this helps

gamedemon replied on January 07, 2009 22:32 to the question "Need help with HTML table" in Yola:

Hi Katie,

It's impossible to put a text widget inside of an html widget. What I suggest is creating a template for yourself and just filling in the information so that you don't have to type every word. Just copy and paste, then fill in the appropriate information.

So for example, you can use the following template
(remove the <!--- and ---> before use):

<!---
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
<a href="http://name.com">name</a><br>
--->

(note: the brs are line breaks and will cause your links to align vertically. If you want the links to appear horizontally, remove the br's and add a space.)

Just copy and paste that code in between the td's of your table wherever you want the links to appear.

Then just modify with the right information.
for example, if you want to link to Yahoo, just pick where you want the link to be.
Then, for "http://name.com" type in "http://yahoo.com"
And, for name type in Yahoo
And repeat for every link.

If you want the link to open in a new window, the html will look like this:
<!--- <a href="http://name.com" target="_blank">name</a><br> --->

You can learn more about links in my tutorial at:
http://webmasteruniversity.co.cc/HTML...

In my opinion, this is a lot quicker than doing it in a text widget. There are no opening windows, just copy and paste and add information accordingly.

Just ask if you need something clarified.