Jonathon Podolsky's dashboard

sure thing. I find that good widgets are hard to find. Yola has found some nice ones. In general though, imho, Widget websites don't do a great job at categorizing or showing which ones are really useful/complete.

Hang in there!

Thanks for such a quick response. The current email feature is very nice. Thank you for passing my ideas along to the programmers. I'm impressed and appreciative of Yola's quick response to feedback and rapid development of new features.

Hi Peter,

Sure thing. I appreciate your work on this.

I do have Adobe Acrobat Professional. I hadn't thought of using that before. I was able to export it to html, open that, view page source, and copy/paste into the html content widget. However, 1. The column width is wider than the columns in the template, and 2. I can't edit the text itself--I need to fix some glitches in the text.

Here's what I have so far:

Hi Peter and Ruth,

I am able to get it into plain text but it strips the formatting (fonts, color, bold etc.) and messes up some of the spacing etc.

The PDF can be downloaded from www.foodwithheart.com or you can go directly to this URL that should start the download: http://www.foodwithheart.com/resource...

Thanks,
Jonathon

this problem is currently occuring on http://getsatisfaction.com/home/compa...

It goes to http://ccpact.com/ which is coming up as page not found.

@Papa: I respect your comments and where you are coming from. I want to make sure that my comments and questions were clear:

I agree that Yola and the template designer should have fair compensation and that removing the links should pay for Yola's lost revenue and some profit for them. If I were to produce these sites for others, I would charge them substantially less than for a hand coded website. I wouldn't mislead them to believe that I hand coded everything from scratch or designed the template. I would charge for the amount of work I put into it above and beyond what comes with the template and Yola tools.

There's discussing the customers needs, ongoing discussions with the client, choosing the template, button names, what goes on what page, the order of text and images within each page, tweaking html, copy writing, finding and setting up widgets, scanning images, uploading documents, search engine submission, checking the rank on search engines, updating, consulting the client on marketing the site etc...

Anyhow, it seems that Yola is working on a fair option. – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 05, 2009 22:50

CANCEL MY COMMENT ABOUT BUYING RIGHTS TO PICS ON PHOTBUCKET. I meant sites that sell stock photos, like: http://www.gettyimages.com/ – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 05, 2009 22:46

@Monique (regarding the ethics etc... of removing designers name). Thanks for your response. If art is being represented as being an original artwork it should not have someone else's name on it. I would not want to represent it as my own unless 1) I made radical changes to it and 2) had permission from the original artist and 3) it wasn't represented as solely an original work. It gets fuzzy with collages...let's say if someone took clippings from a bunch of different magazines...they wouldn't be expected to credit each of the original publications.

If it were in a museum, the artwork is assumed to be made by the person who has signed the work, unless specified otherwise; for example, if it is a direct interpretation of another artist's work, then the description is supposed to include the artists name and have the word "after" written prior to the name of the previous artist.

Commercial art can have different rules. For example, if you purchase pictures from a website such as photobucket, you are purchasing certain rights to it, and are not expedited to give attribution. One wouldn't expect the designers name listed under a logo or on design that is made on product packaging.

A store that just tears off a label of a designer garment is taking away credit that the designer expects to receive. However, if the designer wants to sell a modified version of the same garment, under a different label at a different retail store (that is also aware of this), that's fine. And it's also ok to sell the garment as a private label item, as long as that is part of the agreement with the designer.

There are lots of ecommerce websites that include free templates that do not have the name of the designer on it ... it's just part of the service from the website and it's known to those who are making the template.

There are lots of companies, sometimes called "3rd party providers", that will remove their "branding" from the site you are paying for, in exchange for a fee. I think this would be fine for Yola, as long as it's structured in a way that makes it in Yola's business interest. Yola is wonderful because of it's simplicity, great tools, responsive staff, innovation, and low cost. At the same time, I consider it a content management system, or suite of tools; if it receives the compensation that makes it worth it for them to remove the label, then it's fine.

The I believe it's ethical, however, only with prior permission and payment to the
For example, it's very common for marketing firms and other companies that outsource certain parts of a project to others to not name each of their "3rd party providers."

Some of the reference points to consider are:

1. Is the artwork unchanged but someone else takes the exclusive credit for it?
2. What is the common practice for the given circumstances?
3. Has the artist agreed ahead of time?
4. Is the artist being compensated fairly?
5. Is the audience misled? – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 05, 2009 22:21

I would like to use Yola as a way to sell websites to businesses and add to my portfolio. I assume though, that if the customer could login to the backend, and it says Yola, that in the future they would just sign up from Yola directly and it would reduce the chances that I could make a business out of producing sites for them. Any thoughts? – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 04, 2009 23:57

I would also like a way to remove the name of the designer on the template. Of course they should get some compensation. Currently my website says "designed by..." at the bottom. That makes it look as if that person designed the whole site, even though they only designed the template part. – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 04, 2009 23:55

This would be great! Depends on the fee of course. It would be fair to offer this only for the sites where we registered the domain name from Yola -- after all, if the site still had Yola in the URL, eliminating the link at the bottom would not be as useful. I am assuming that Yola is making a little bit of profit from the domain name registrations. – Jonathon Podolsky, on June 04, 2009 23:49