UK Duke's dashboard

A comment on the question "want to add text enhancements" in Yola:

if you click on the image you will see it normally flickers. just not in the forum for some reason. – UK Duke, on December 01, 2009 13:48

UK Duke replied on December 01, 2009 13:47 to the question "want to add text enhancements" in Yola:

You could just add an image next to the text link and link the image to the same location.

Heres an example image:

Feel free to use it.

UK Duke replied on December 01, 2009 12:29 to the question "Pages not loading properly" in Yola:

it looks fine for me firefox.

What your seeing above is the page when the css didnt load.

It must have soemthing to do with the browsers cache or settings.

But like i say - all's well from my end.

Lee.

A comment on the idea "How to change the style of your blog post titles." in Yola:

Very good question Adam, i should have and normally would have added at the end 'to use a test page first and that if incorrectly added could perhaps cause a page break'.

Saying that it seems to work fine, if your using H tags on your page it will probably effect all the H tags, you could remove all but the H2 code from the css, the blog seems to use them alot.

<!--

Links on a page are controlled by this,

<style type="text/css">
a:link {color:#FF0000}
</style>

All the links (unless they have a colour attached to them in the page code) should go red.

css could damage a page, test it on a test page but these are just little tweaks they dont effect the main structure of the page so i'm postivie if applied and edited correctly they'll be fine.

--> – UK Duke, on November 30, 2009 15:39

UK Duke replied on November 29, 2009 21:59 to the question "Why does my page look like cut, and paste?" in Yola:

Hi Shane,

I'm not 100% sure what you mean.

What browser are you using and what exactly is the problem - your site looks fine to me. Firefox / normal settings.

Please expland a little

thanks

Lee.

UK Duke replied on November 29, 2009 15:03 to the question "adding videos to Yola" in Yola:

make sure the source of the video is not set to a URL from the original site.

i.e. make sure the video is accessable from its src url.

If its something else let me know - leave the code would be good.

Lee.

UK Duke replied on November 29, 2009 12:16 to the question "Tracking on Google Analytics died completely!" in Yola:

Hi Jan,

Is your analytics set up with this url,

http ://feedinghislambsministries.yolasite.com/

or this,

http ://www.feedinghislambsministries.yolasite.com/

If its the second it will cause a problem - make sure its set up without the www.

Lee.

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

Hi Kimberly,

Its actually fairly hard to get your head around BUT you can just cheat and use an online wizard - go here and you will beable to make your own very easily http://cssround.com/

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 29, 2009 12:13

A comment on the idea "How to change the style of your blog post titles." in Yola:

you should make 1 - they really help get visitors (help seo) -- You can draw in search visitors from other topics /keywords than what your normal site content allows. – UK Duke, on November 29, 2009 12:11

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

Thansk for you comment but i disagree - the new style template is more inviting to read the info on the page - if you see an old page version next to the new, the new looks much better.

About the rounded corners - try the link i gave smithy above - its really easy. – UK Duke, on November 29, 2009 12:09

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

Smithy, its a css technique - 4 images placed in each corner of a normal box.

I am learning csss at the minute so it was a part of that for me - the best (easiest) way is to go here and use the wizard - http://cssround.com/

Enjoy - Lee. – UK Duke, on November 29, 2009 12:05

UK Duke shared an idea in Yola on November 29, 2009 11:53:

How to change the style of your blog post titles.

I have heard loads of people ask this in this forum so its time for a UKDuke tutorial.

This will allow you to change the colour, size, font and other style attributes of the blog titles and dates.

See my new blog page (its a bit different) here - http://hexham.info/forum
I have changed the date style and the style of the blog title to match in with the rest of the page.

All you have to do is add this code to a html widget at the top of the blog page (not the individual blog post... the main blog page. ) <!--

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<style type="text/css">

div.sys_blog div.post small{
font-size: 12px;
font-family: arial;
font-weight : normal;
color: #ff0000;
display:block;
margin:0 0 5px 5px;
padding:0;
}

h1 a, h2 a, h3 a, h4 a, h5 a, h6 a{color: #3b5998; font-family: 'arial'; font-weight: bold; font-size: 20px;}
h1 a:hover, h2 a:hover, h3 a:hover, h4 a:hover, h5 a:hover, h6 a:hover{color: #ff0000; text-decoration: none;}
}

</style>

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--> The top section is for the date and the bottom is for the post title.

You can do almost anything you like to the style - if you need more help changing fonts or sizes or colours just ask on this thread and i or someone will tell you how to achieve it.

Enjoy.

Lee.

A comment on the question "Yola wont open." in Yola:

someone tripped over a plug? :) – UK Duke, on November 27, 2009 15:28

A comment on the question "Yola wont open." in Yola:

it probably wont effect published sites, just the site builder - i thought i was spelling my password wrong, least i'm not going crazy. – UK Duke, on November 27, 2009 15:25

UK Duke replied on November 26, 2009 23:54 to the question "Help with some title tags?" in Yola:

Hi Donlad,

Yola has the title tags at the start of the html anyway so thats incorrect information. The title tag is the window title in the sidebar properties.

Check your window titles for 'stop' words.

Also you never need to add head tags into Yola - your already in the body of the document.

Lee.

A comment on the question "Lines" in Yola:

I'm not sure. – UK Duke, on November 26, 2009 23:48

A comment on the question "Lines" in Yola:

<!--

Sorry i forgot to add the closing tag - make sure you include a </div>

So it reads

<div style="width: 200px; height: 1px; background-color: rgb(59, 89, 152);"></div>

--> – UK Duke, on November 26, 2009 22:51

A comment on the question "Lines" in Yola:

it should show - its blue at the minute.
To make it vertical just switch the values width: 200px and height: 1px is a thin vertical line.

You can add tags and categorys in the blog post editor, then there are widgets which list tags and categorys - its all automatic.

2.5 and 2.6 in this tutorial list explains it all http://www.yola.com/customer-support/... – UK Duke, on November 26, 2009 22:49

UK Duke replied on November 26, 2009 22:27 to the question "What can I do about the heading fonts?" in Yola:

Hi Amy,

I would reccommend you just remove them and incorporate the text into the banner.

Page headings are very low down the SEO ladder.

Lee. http://hexham.info

UK Duke replied on November 26, 2009 22:23 to the question "Lines" in Yola:

<!--

Hi William,

You can add horizontal lines with this code

<div style="width: 1px; height: 200px; background-color: rgb(59, 89, 152);">

You can change the colour and the height.

To get content to fit around it you use 2 coloumn widgets, this code would be in a very thin column by itself.

2) You can use categorys and tags to allow users to find sections of your blogs. Is this what your asking?

Lee.

PS. I got your email - no problem. Its all good.

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