Donald's dashboard

Donald replied on December 23, 2009 19:02 to the question "Opening a web links in a new window" in Yola:

what website creator did you use to build that website?

Donald replied on December 18, 2009 03:09 to the question "Browser window switches from one open window to another!" in Microsoft Corporation:

I really hate this forum, I can never get a response.

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 18:14 to the question "I bought a ready made website from a professional firm. How can i host it on Yola?" in Yola:

Just curious if there's a specific reason why you would like to host it on yola. The website does have a host right? I mean... it would have to or it wouldn't exist! What host is it currently being hosted on?

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 18:11 to the question "Is there any page rank checker which explains why your site specifically has it's current rank?" in Yola:

ok

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 18:08 to the question "Business Person" in Yola:

Well... Start by preparing your homepage (this is the page automatically created for you when you create a new site) and this is the step after selecting a template... just choose a template suitable to your wants. A good idea is finding a site you like the layout of and trying to use the same ideas, just with your information and uniqueness. Use the text widgets for text and images and image widgets for images, these are on the right in the sidebar. Use html widgets if you happen to have the html you'd like to use or know how to write your own html. Use the online store features to add items and donate buttons, unless you have a custom button from paypal then you put that code into an html widget. Let me know if there's anything else you need.

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 17:58 to the question "because this is my first site, what are tags." in Yola:

tags are used in html and generally requires a little bit of html knowledge, however, with yola's drag and drop features, no html knowledge is required for a basic website. I would recommend look at sites like http://w3schools.com or something. For example, a tag is

<!--
<STRONG> - Bold
<B> - Bold
<I> - Italics
<U> - underlined
<FONT> - font
AND MANY MORE!
-->

But you have to know how to implement them into html for them to be effective and not mess up your page.

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 17:54 to the question "Business Person" in Yola:

Put your business information on the page!

Donald replied on December 16, 2009 00:40 to the problem "mydomain.com redirecting me to mydomain.yolasite.com" in Yola:

you need to change your primary and secondary urls. Go into your list of sites and at the bottom click on Enable Advanced Domain Settings and it will scroll you back to the top. Click on Advanced Domain Settings. On the site this is referring to it should indicate two radio buttons, click on the one you want everyone to see. "The primary domain - mysite.com". I believe you have to republish your site for these settings to take place, problem should be fixed.

A comment on the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

Everything "looks" ok at 2 am... so when you wake up in the morning you wonder... what's this? FKSIONF! Did I write that? lol – Donald, on December 16, 2009 00:37

A comment on the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

my FireFox browser underlines mis-spelled words. This can help if you use firefox. Also, consider pasting into word do not copy from word to the site this is simply to identify which words are mis-spelled and which grammar should be checked, Word is also very good with providing spelling and grammar changes. This is just until Yola comes out with the spelling and grammar feature. Also, you might want to look for text editors where you can edit your text and paste the text into yola. Some of these editors will correct or suggest spelling and grammar changes. – Donald, on December 15, 2009 23:22

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 23:13 to the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

Also, I disagree with different colors cluttering and confusing text... in my website, I use a different color based on which heading it is so you know what is part of what. H1 = color 1, H2 = color 2, H3 = color 3, H4 = color 4, etc. Although I very rarely get to H4. If you use sizes to indicate this, you'll be squinting. Large and Medium aren't that big of a difference, so If you use Large for H2 and Medium for H3, a visitor won't know which is H2 and H3.

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 23:08 to the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

and Yola is contradicting themselves. It says, "don't use link borders around images" but that's default with yola. If you add a link to an image, by default it adds a border around the image. I don't even know how to remove this border.

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 23:04 to the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

and why is someone writing an article "Be Careful when you justify" if that person is going to justify as well? Does that make sense to you?

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 23:03 to the update "New Tutorial - Dos & Don'ts of Website Building" in Yola:

The example provided, "Be Careful when you justify" was actually fixed/staged". The browser displaying the justification that way has nothing to do with justifying, it has to do with margins. The margins were changed and they were not changed because of the justifying. If the margins were not modified from one example to the other, both examples would look the same.

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 21:21 to the question "How do I make a custom "you are being redirected page" if this is possible?" in Yola:

Well, provide a link from your product to the redirect page, then the redirect page will redirect to the affiliate's site.

Product A
Product B

Product A and Product B will have a page titled Product A and Product B... on this page titled Product A will have your redirect message and redirect code. The redirect code will redirect to Product A and Product B.

Does this make sense?

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 20:10 to the question "Working with many images" in Yola:

there's also the option of creating two images. Put two of the same images in your file manager with a different name. One large and one small. You can resize images in paint and in picnik... I find paint does it better because picnic tends to make images blurry when you resize it. Use the small image on your website and link to the larger image. When they click on the smaller image, they'll see the larger image.

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 20:04 to the question "hwo can i add an database kind of thing like this to my site" in Yola:

It's actually not as complicated as it looks like.

The Letters are on a anchor or page basis.

You would create a page titled, "A" and that's where you would list all your "A" items and same thing for "B', etc.

You can also put ALL items on the same page and create an anchor... by clicking on "B" it will take them down the page to the "B" items. For more on anchors, please visit... http://tipsandtricks.synthasite.com/A...

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 18:39 to the question "I'm thinking about adding free and paid memberships to my website subdomains and could use some ideas." in Yola:

yea, I'll wait til I create my first monthly newsletter and organize how my diet and workout plans will be before promoting it, last thing I need is to get 50 requests and not prepared! lol

A comment on the question "I'm thinking about adding free and paid memberships to my website subdomains and could use some ideas." in Yola:

yes, they claim it should not take more than 14 business days and said it's odd that it's taken so long. Today I finally requested a stop payment and they'll refund the money to me since I never received a check. I did request a check by mail. Until I'm making more money, I'm not going to link a bank account to paypal. No need, I haven't even received as much as $20 in paypal. – Donald, on December 15, 2009 18:38

Donald replied on December 15, 2009 17:49 to the question "I'm thinking about adding free and paid memberships to my website subdomains and could use some ideas." in Yola:

http://sitebuilder.yola.com/sites/D7d... - here's a preview of my membership page... although I haven't added the sign up option yet.