How can you start with a blank page with SynthaSited without using a template? I do not want to use a template. I want to create my own web page from scratch. Is here jusst a white page to start with?
Posted 11 years ago
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Ed-a-Torials @ Honey Bear Playhomes, Champion
sadly though you are still left with a green block on ether side of the new black banner in evergreen
I had been looking into it right after he posted
I had been looking into it right after he posted
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Yes, it is not ideal. We need more options in this area. Like the new avatar!
Speaking of which, how does one do a profile and avatar (profile picture) here. I am very new here and while I see some serious shortcomings (none seeming that difficult to address) I love some features. One that is nice is the very simple publish to hard drive feature.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
On the navigation bar at the top of this page you will see a link that says "You" with a drop down arrow. Click on this. Then click on "Your Profile". Your dashboard will open up. Click on "Account Settings" and you will see an option to upload an avatar. I am glad you see hope for addressing our current shortcomings. We are also hopeful and committed to working on these issues!
Monique, VP of Customer Support
To give you some idea of how complex this is and how much content it entails there are well over 3000 links involved.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Wow! Sounds like a huge project. The image links should be easy enough to create with our link editor. You can use the Edit Menu function to move pages in and out of the menu and rearrange them. I would like to see the start of your site and then I will see if there are any additional suggestions I can make. I am very concerned about our file manager. It is another one of our problem areas and uploading large numbers of images is going to be tedious for you.
Game over. I can't stay. Only one image is allowed per "line". That shoots it right out of the water. It simply can't be done here, but thanks for the help anyway.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Not true. You can add multiple images per line by using "insert image" on the text editing toolbar to add images inside a text box or using the two column layout widget to create multiple columns for your images and add as many per line as the style will support. I think the file manager is going to be your biggest problem. We are sorry to see you go, but wouldn't want to waste your time.
I am certainly not going if you continue to be so helpful!!! Not worried about the file uploads. My "minions" will handle a good part of that. It will be slow but divided among us not so terribly tedious.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Nice to have minions! The help is good but the tool is still very young. We only launched as a public beta product about 8 months ago. If you are willing to grow with us we will work with you. If our site builder is not powerful enough yet for your project we will understand (Although we hope it will be soon). I also suggest sizing your images before uploading them if you are not doing so already. Our resize tool is a rather buggy at the moment.
One more thing... Midnight Alley is not too bad for a basic black. Things are locating lower than I would like but it is acceptable and the top fade rather nice.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Great! Glad you spotted another option!
Just browsing, thought I'd say that I have been building sites with Synthasite for 7 months and the rate of growth and development of the company and product has been amazing. Whether you start a project here now or not, if building sites is important in your life, I recommend you keep an eye on events. By the way, I recently heard someone from Google (not an observer) say to try to keep links to under 100 per page. This may not be possible for you, or even pertinent, but I am chopping up some pages on my mega-link webcomics site PsychedelicTreehouse.com, to bring down about a dozen pages that exceed 100. I probably have 1500-2000 links spread over a 180 page site. I'd like to gain confirmation and explanation of what I heard but honestly it helps the design to chop so I don't mind doing it.
Good luck with your project. - Bengo
Good luck with your project. - Bengo
Boomer, Champion
Sorry to butt in 1331.
Why don't go over to my site and have a look at some of the Synthasites.
http://forsite.synthasite.com/
You may like the "Photography Books Site" or the "dtours Site"
Hope this makes up your mind. Anything is possible with Synthasite.
Why don't go over to my site and have a look at some of the Synthasites.
http://forsite.synthasite.com/
You may like the "Photography Books Site" or the "dtours Site"
Hope this makes up your mind. Anything is possible with Synthasite.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Boomer you are a star!
Boomer, Champion
You're Welcome - I'm sure 1331 will be as happy with Synthasite as we all are.
Can't wait to see all the PASSAGES and CHAMBERS ??
Can't wait to see all the PASSAGES and CHAMBERS ??
Monique, VP of Customer Support
I hope so! I can't wait until we release lots of great new styles though!
How did you get the "links" at the top of this page http://www.aahap.synthasite.com/ ??? I'm also tryng to create a page about my dog and need to add the links but the only place i seem to be able to put them is in the main page.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
popeye, I think the links you are referring to are the ones in AAHAP's menu. When you create a new page a link is automatically added to your menu unless you uncheck the box in the "new page" dialog that says "include in menu." The position of your menu links is dependent on the style you select. Some styles have menus along the top of the page like AAHAP's. Others have them down the right or left hand side of the page. You can also put links on the main page as you have already discovered. Let me know if you have any trouble with your links.
Inspiring site, Boomer. It is cool to be able to see things you've done that I've not thought of and be able to "read" how you did them. BTW, what is "Website grade?"
Monique and Boomer, I am getting used to things. As soon as I have a few pages done it will be apparent why headers get in the way, but for now I am a happy camper. As for resizing images, if it is critical artwork, NO resizer is adequate so that isn't a concern. I like how things link. Smooth and quick and with what I am doing that can be the biggest pain. Boomer, looking forward to visiting.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Yes, I think the link editor is pretty slick. I agree with you about image resizing. I am sure you have this well sorted out. I look forward to seeing some pages :-)
I was hoping to keep my links all together. Right now they are external
links, but i was hoping to put them in order. To do this would i be better
off starting from scratch. That would not be that big a problem for me.
links, but i was hoping to put them in order. To do this would i be better
off starting from scratch. That would not be that big a problem for me.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
You can't put external links on your main menu. I suggest putting them all in the same text box on the body region of your page if you want to keep them together. It shouldn't require you to start over.
I think i'm getting it now, but how do i put my email in the top along side the other links?? This is what i have so far. http://buddysplace.synthasite.com/
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Your site is looking great! Unfortunately you can't put your email address along side the other links. Only links to pages on your site go there. I have two suggestions for you. Create a page with the name "contact Buddy" and then put the email link on that page. Or place the email link directly below Buddy's Story on your homepage. I hope that works for you.
OH NO!!! Now what do I do? Got it up to the first CHAMBER but the images have bright thin frames around them when linked rather than floating in black. This is the site url until I transfer my domain name: http://1331.synthasite.com
Can you have a look and see if there is a way to turn of the highlighted frame around linked images? The ones I am most concerned about are the PASSAGES; the rectangular animation with the triangles surrounding it. Have the first image in the WATER PASSAGE right after THE BEGINNING and all looks fine except for those bright frames around the elemental (triangles) signs. Oh, yes, all of the art work IS original.
Can you have a look and see if there is a way to turn of the highlighted frame around linked images? The ones I am most concerned about are the PASSAGES; the rectangular animation with the triangles surrounding it. Have the first image in the WATER PASSAGE right after THE BEGINNING and all looks fine except for those bright frames around the elemental (triangles) signs. Oh, yes, all of the art work IS original.
What was the question again?
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Wonderful artwork. I am looking into the problem with the frames. . .
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Still looking. Did you upload that image with your file manager or use a URL to reference the image? We will get to the bottom of this. . .
Monique, VP of Customer Support
WONDERFUL!!! Given I will have large arrays of images I need to go with editing the html. It worked quite well, so again you have saved the day, Monique. Thank you very much!!!
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Glad it worked. I think we should stop the text editor from generating borders - so I will turn this into a bug report.
Now I am very concerned. On the page right after sign in, it shows the wrong template. When I try to load the editor, it will not load.
Update on that. It now seems to be working. Would like to make a suggestion on the link embed pop up screen while here. It would be nice if it listed how the pages are arranged in the site manager rather than alphabetically. It would reduce the scrolling necessary when embedding links.
Update on that. It now seems to be working. Would like to make a suggestion on the link embed pop up screen while here. It would be nice if it listed how the pages are arranged in the site manager rather than alphabetically. It would reduce the scrolling necessary when embedding links.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
So your site is loading and everything is ok with your template? I am relieved to hear that. That is a good suggestion about the link editor - I will pass it on.
Yes. Everything seems fine now. Didn't load for a few tries and then got around to it. I was able to sign in but it was showing that Evergreen template you had me try and would not load the site, even after refreshing a few times. Closed everything down and signed in fresh and it worked. A point about the file uploader; I have seen better, but it isn't nearly as bad as all that. It is working well for me in part because of the design of THE GAME things tend to be done in sets of four. The file manager is far more critical. The large screen here is VERY nice for graphics, but again, it arranges alphabetically; good sometimes, but it would be nice to have an option to organize catagorically.
Monique, VP of Customer Support
That sounds like an odd glitch. Glad it was nothing more. I would love to see folders in the file manager that will allow you to organize your resources, especially if you have many of them! Fortunately our developers are aware of this need and would like to address it as soon as our product development schedule allows.
1331, if you get that kind of wonky behavior again, try deleting your Synthasite cookies. I've been told Synthasite is optimized for Firefox, so if you are using another browser, like me, you might get that sometimes, especially if you have had more than one Synthasite window open at one time. One thing I notice is that Synthasite (the tool) is pretty fail safe, so if you get a bizarre event it is usually not a sign that something terrible has happened. Like any program, you can minimize trouble by being a frequent SAVEr as well. - Bengo
Monique, VP of Customer Support
Good tips, Bengo. Thank you.
My overall impression of SynthaSite is, IT ROCKS! and is willing to improve on that. Who could ask for more?
Monique, VP of Customer Support
And we couldn't ask for a better compliment! Rock on! :-)
Very True, Bengo! Frequent saves are a must. Good idea to back up as well. That brings up a question concerning something Bengo's comment prompted me to do. Went ahead and "published" to disk but it does not say where the zip saved to or what name it saved under. Where might I now find it?
Monique, VP of Customer Support
It should be saved under the name of your site in what ever expander software you have installed (WinZip, StuffIt expander etc)