UK Duke's dashboard

A comment on the question "LARGE White Box in Picnik" in Yola:

also mike let us know what browser your using Mike because it doesnt make any differnece if the sidebar is open or not for me in firefox. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 22:43

A comment on the question "Keeping menu HTML code on my hosting server" in Yola:

<!--
Glad its working - it looks good - well done.

To finish it off you need to add the smooth sailing script...
Add this to your page and see the effect it has

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://hexham.info/resources/bookmarkscroll.js">

-->

If you want to host the java file yourself go here and download the file, upload it to your server and point to its url - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicin...

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 21:52

UK Duke replied on November 24, 2009 17:38 to the question "Anchor tag not working" in Yola:

<!--

Make sure the code is correct:

set the link <a name="#a"></a>

Find the link with this if its on the same page <a href="#a">A</a>

Or

<a href="http://SITENAME.com/PAGENAME.php#a">A</a>

If its not on the same page.

-->

UK Duke replied on November 24, 2009 15:07 to the question "Lost my .com domain name" in Yola:

Johnny, leave the staff a little more info, what domain did you buy?

When it comes to money and personal details its always better you email yola support - support@yola.com

I'm sure it will be sorted out really soon dont worry.

Lee.

A comment on the question "Keeping menu HTML code on my hosting server" in Yola:

Randy if your reading the last comment from an email - come to the forum and read it - i forgot to add <!-- --> - its right in the forum. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 14:22

A comment on the question "Keeping menu HTML code on my hosting server" in Yola:

<!--

So now you see that anything can go into the floating bar. Now we have to make the anchor links.

An anchor link works like this:

Put this <a name="a"> anywhere you like on the page (obviously it would go at the top of the a's on the real page.

Then add this (lets say) near the top of the page <a href="#a">A</a>

Thats it.

The same works for B -- <a name="b"> -- <a href="#b">B</a> and so on.

Also just so you know, with that floating bar you can change the width of it and the colour of it in the css your given from the page.

Lee.

--> – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 14:21

A comment on the question "Keeping menu HTML code on my hosting server" in Yola:

Hi Randy - its not super easy to implement but if you read the page slowly bit by bit you should be able to get it done - http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicin...

Get back to me if you need help.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 13:20

A comment on the idea "Wouldn't it be great if we could add hues or colors to each text background and border lines?" in Yola:

remember that you will need to change the URL of the images in the CSS to resources/imagename.png – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 11:20

A comment on the idea "Wouldn't it be great if we could add hues or colors to each text background and border lines?" in Yola:

Cornered boxs are actually 4 little images placed in each corenr with css.

The way i made mine was in paint i drew the corners and then made the css for placing them...

I think instead of me trying to teach you css and you drawing the corners yourself - the best thing to do is go here http://www.roundedcornr.com/

In my opinion the smaller the corner the better - i use 5 pixel corner radius on mine - just have a play round with different fiqures see what you like the look of - bigger corners to me tend to look cartoonish - not sleek.

Let me know if you get stuck.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 11:13

A comment on the idea "Wouldn't it be great if we could add hues or colors to each text background and border lines?" in Yola:

do you want square corners or rounded corners?

Square is very easy rounded are little more tricky - some prefer the look of them - have another look at my page i link above... see which style you prefer (forget about the colours etc. just look at the corners of the box's.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 24, 2009 10:48

UK Duke replied on November 24, 2009 10:23 to the idea "Wouldn't it be great if we could add hues or colors to each text background and border lines?" in Yola:

Hi Spazz,

Its not a built in Yola feature but its very easy to add to your site,

See 1 of my pages - http://hexham.info/advanced-taxis

Loads of different boxs and backgrounds

If you want help adding them to your site let me know and i'll talk you through it.

Lee.

UK Duke shared an idea in Yola on November 24, 2009 09:50:

time to step it up?...

Hi guys,

This is a moan and a ideas suggestions at the same time.

You all know i love Yola, but i also love being on the winning team, my friend has just made a site with (i wont link it) WP -- its really got some good things on it,
These are the features i thought 'wow' about.

The whole blog side of things is in a different league. YOLA NEEDS THIS

There is a in-site site search which works really well. YOLA NEEDS THIS

There is a in-site RSS reader - really nice. YOLA NEEDS THIS

Better in-site image scrollers/galleries than i have ever seen. YOLA NEEDS THIS

In-site social share icons. YOLA NEEDS THIS

In-site log in. YOLA NEEDS THIS

All of the above add up to a great looking/feeling site. I think at WP they call some of the features above plug ins... Yola should perhaps think about this sytem of things if you dont want to confuse entry level builders.

If you want a link to the site that was built with WP and impressed me so much send me an email.

Looking forward to a response.

Lee.

A comment on the question "don't know how to design my page." in Yola:

Shift key - thats what i meant - thanks Sanja. – UK Duke, on November 23, 2009 14:12

A comment on the question "Keeping menu HTML code on my hosting server" in Yola:

Thats a great suggestion Christo, its really nice of you to offer your knowledge and expertise like this. I wish i knew 1% of what you know about java.

In this case i have 2 questions - i know the answer is for Randy but i was also hopeing to have my menu in a single file as i now have 100's of pages.

So question 1 - is this 'normal' or good practice for a main site nav? - i presume if the browser has java scirpts blocked or can not display them the menu will not be visible. Do big sites use this method? or is standard practice a div on the page?

Question 2 - would this effect the chance of Goggle choosing sitel inks for your site? (you know the 4 or 5 page links under your domain name) Also would it have any bad effect in SEO terms?

Thanks Christo - Lee. – UK Duke, on November 23, 2009 08:22

UK Duke replied on November 22, 2009 20:04 to the question "don't know how to design my page." in Yola:

Hi Debra,

Site building is not easy but its very rewarding.

Do you mean when you press enter in the text editor it gives you too big a line space? - if it is this what you do is hod the Ctrl key while you press enter - if its not this let us know and we can help you further.

Yola has a great set of tutorial swhich really helped me out when i started building - this is the image tutroial - http://www.yola.com/tutorials/adding-... -- there is a 1 for just about everything here http://www.yola.com/tutorials.html

To make 2 column you just drag in a 2 column widget - see the image below.



Hope this helps - if you need more help or info just ask.

Lee - http://hexham.info

UK Duke replied on November 22, 2009 19:57 to the question "LARGE White Box in Picnik" in Yola:

Hi Mike,

Picnik is working fine for me... but it can be a problimatic app.

In the mean time just go staright to picnik.com instead of going through Yola.

You could check a couple of things... First amke sure your using a new version of a browser - Firefox 3.5 is my recommendation.

Then if you have a new browser version then make sure you have the newest version of flash installed go here and try to download the latest version http://www.adobe.com/products/flashpl...

Let us know if this fix's it.

Lee.

A comment on the problem "black line - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh" in Yola:

its ok Monique, it needs fixing - it was the reason i didnt change over to round glass (the original size) - That also has the same issue, Its very hard to get a white background banner to look good, even if you are using the built in menu, without the menu its really ugly.

I'll be looking forward to an outcome.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 22, 2009 17:05

A comment on the idea "round corners..." in Yola:

thanks Sanja - i'm proud of this 1 - i made everything - the css, even the little round images all by myself - (and i suck at graphic work) :) – UK Duke, on November 22, 2009 17:03

A comment on the idea "round corners..." in Yola:

i think we'll be all be eating soil by the time 3.0 shows its face :) – UK Duke, on November 22, 2009 17:01

A comment on the idea "round corners..." in Yola:

Yeah Gosforth is only 20 miles away from Hexham, say hello from me - or 'alreet' - she'll know what you mean.

The alphabet links are just anchor links inside whats known as a static link - they have an exact postion on the screen, dosnt matter if you scroll down they stay where there meantt to be - i also added a script to the page which gives you the effect of the page scrolling when you click an anchor link.

I'll help you add it to yoru site if you like. Lee. – UK Duke, on November 22, 2009 17:00