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A comment on the question "How do a website's new page get number 1 in google within minutes of adding that new page?" in Yola:

google have different crawl rates set for differnet sites - not evry page they publish will get indexed so quick.

The higher your page rank and depending on the conet of your site it will get indexed at a faster crawl rate. – UK Duke, on November 20, 2009 17:00

A comment on the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

what you need to do is make your main nav menu. This would not have 100's of pages attached it would be a basic menu which would apply to all pages - then 1 of them links would link to a page which had a menu which was always added to and changed - you need to think of your main site nav and sub page naviagtion as 2 seperate things.

For example ebay doesnt have all its items listed in its main nav.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 16:06

A comment on the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

it looks great - i dont think the site style is now appropriate. I would think about changing the style, there is a lot of wasted space at the left – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 15:05

A comment on the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

Theres no real way to change much about the built in menu - you could change the colours thats about it.

I would go for the cutsom menu - the extra work will pay off on your site. You have a page structure which is crying out for a drop down menu.

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I Have changed the CSS sample to match the colour of your sites template - if you ever need a box just add <div class="leeboxcss"><br></div>

Lee.

--> – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 13:33

A comment on the question "Help me choose Yola vs Weebly,Webnode etc!!" in Yola:

no i'm sure it would stay the same - only the dns records change i dont see why that would effect a search rank.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 13:24

A comment on the question "Help me choose Yola vs Weebly,Webnode etc!!" in Yola:

Its very good. If you fill in all the meta fields and read up on the SEO tutorials you'll be ranked in no time. – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 09:27

A comment on the question "Disqcus_ting 3rd time asking" in Yola:

not really - like i said i dont use it a lot -

On the screen your talking about its got a button which says 'show more details' at the top right of the screen - press that it pretty much explains it all. – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 00:25

UK Duke replied on November 19, 2009 00:11 to the question "Disqcus_ting 3rd time asking" in Yola:

What are you trying to do William?

All i know about comments in blogs is you get the code form disqus - then you press the blog manager button and paste the code into the 'settings' page Thats all i did and it seems to work fine.

Not sure if that helps - Littleus knows her stuff about blogs, i rarely use them.

If you give a link or more info to what your trying to achieve it will help.

Lee.

A comment on the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

you would still have to put the link on every page - if you wnated that particular page to follow its style rules, you get over that chore by using save page as instead of create new page.

Having your own server is just like having a pro account beciuse you can host any file you like - perfect practice is to have it all hosted in the same directory but its ok to host javascript and css files else where.

Obviously with a pro account you alos get a premium style and footer removal - the extra hosting allowance permisisions is just a extra beneift.

This is where i do most of my web schooling http://www.w3schools.com/css/ - its a good base knowledge.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 19, 2009 00:01

A comment on the idea "New Page Design - what do you think?" in Yola:

I'll explain it all 2moro - bump this thread when you get up.

You can see right? under news... Its an rss reader which is (self) styled by CSS, no back links or widget markings in sight. It gets across the problem of people not being able to add directly to the site, RSS readers have always been around but being able to make it sink seamlessly into the site makes it much better :)

Have a good sleep - try not to have site building frustration nightmares (or is that just me)

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 18, 2009 23:52

A comment on the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

You wrap code in these things <!-- CODE -->

I have changed the CSS - browsers cache CSS so you may not see the change till you refresh or clear your browsers history.

You dont need a Pro account but it makes it easy - you can add CSS to each separte page but then that obviously takes away the master page joy of it all -- You could host the css file on your own server and link to that - that would work fine - as long as the server was always on and available.

Like everything else you just learn CSS slowly step by step - start with box's and text styles, they are simple. Learn about 'div classes' and everything else kind of falls into place once you understand that basic function.

Hope that helps

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 18, 2009 23:36

UK Duke shared an idea in Yola on November 18, 2009 23:25:

New Page Design - what do you think?

So, I have re designed my business contact page. I'm really proud of it, i love my new premier style - the extra width is really helpfull.

http://hexham.info/advanced-taxis

Something you may not notice right away is the RSS reader - i'm really pleased with how this fits into the site style perfectly and its become (by accident) a really clever way to allow businesses to add new content to the page. If they have a offer or annoucment they twitter it and it shows up on the site, it open ups loads of possiblities.

Hope you like it - i do.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Lee.

A comment on the question "What do you think we still need for this site?" in Yola:

Hi Spazz,

Favorite icons are the small icon displayed in the browsers tabs and bookmarks - you can add an image through the content sidebar under properties.

I used to have under construction signs up too, but Monique pointed out correctly that they are not proffesional either a sites open and constantly updating and constructing or its closed.

The best thing to explain SEO in Yola is the SEO tutorial set - http://www.yola.com/customer-support/... the following tutorials link each other at the bottom of the page.

Lee. – UK Duke, on November 18, 2009 23:08

UK Duke replied on November 18, 2009 22:50 to the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

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The best way to get your head around CSS is to see it in examples, i'll try to explain a little bit of it.

It basically saves you writing endless code for every object you create - the CSS holds all the style code and can be used whenever you like.

The CSS code is held in a single file and that is linked to at the top of every page you want the style applied on.

This is an example of a section of a CSS file, you might notice values you know from html code. This is just telling a box how to look.

.leeboxcss{
margin: 0px;
width: 100%;
padding: 5px;
background: #3b5998;
border: 1px dotted #ffffff;
}

At the top of any page you just link to the CSS file, then you only have to change the CSS file and the change goes to all pages.

Try it on your site, add this code to a text widget: I uploaded the code above to a css file, if i change it then it will change how the box appears on your page.

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://hexham.info/resources/test.css">
<div class="leeboxcss">Hello - look, i'm in a box.</div>

Lee.

-->

UK Duke replied on November 18, 2009 21:40 to the idea "Creating master pages" in Yola:

Thats what you call CSS. Thats exactly what CSS is used for.

I can change my menus on every page on my site, my box and border colours, styles, even text styles - i would highly recommend learning about CSS, it gives you the master page :)

You need Yola Pro to upload CSS files , then you just link to it on every page (not have the css on each and every page) but it can be used Yola free accounts, i did it like that for ages, its just not as tidy.

Lee.

A comment on the problem "renaming pages..." in Yola:

ok, that seems a bit odd to me - why dos'nt it just say "page already exsists" are you sure you want to continue - sort of thing? – UK Duke, on November 18, 2009 18:54

UK Duke replied on November 18, 2009 18:29 to the problem "renaming pages..." in Yola:

Hi everyone,

I did some more testing - it appears its when you try to rename the page to a name that already exsists - you can rename it something new but not an exsisting page name.

Firefox - Wide Round Glass.

A comment on the problem "renaming pages..." in Yola:

thanks - must just be me - strange. – UK Duke, on November 18, 2009 17:54

UK Duke reported a problem in Yola on November 18, 2009 17:36:

renaming pages...

Hello,

Maybe its just me - perhaps someone else could test it for me.

When I go to the site manager tab and try to rename a page it wont let me - the box comes up but when you enter the new name and press ok nothing happens.

Lee.

UK Duke replied on November 18, 2009 17:31 to the question "What do you think we still need for this site?" in Yola:

Hi Spazz,

Lets get down to business...

1. favorite icons
2. the banner is a cm to short (not wide enough).
3. all sites are constantly under construction - no need for the 'under construction' icon.
4. You need to expand on the window titles and add keywords and descriptions. All aspects of SEO.

Thats about it for now - it obviuosly needs alot more content - but you seem to know what your talking about when it comes to games so the site should be good. The basic layout and style is good.

Keep going try to finish a section at a time.

Lee.