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I recently started to develop my first website. I have no programming/HTML experience as a non-techie am using Yahoo SiteBuilder. I have two problems:
1. When I align pictures/images in a certain position and go to preview them, they show up differently in the web browser? e.g. they have more space b/w them even thought i choose to space them "edge to edge".
2. Is there anyway to modify the size of copied/pasted HTML graphics or text?
Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!
affnewbie
I have used Geocities Pagebuilder for years, and it is a simple WYSIWYG program. But the pages do post differently than what they look like in previews.
Sitebuilder is a frustrating WYSIWYG piece of .
This morning I signed up with Yahoo for their Starter at $11.95 a month, and all day I have been getting misinformation from their employees. Yet, I was already told by one of their customer service reps that I was stuck with them for at least 11.95.
(Aside from Sitebuilder mangling of HTML) What You See Is Not What You Get. My pages are off center,as is the text compared to the preview. Not to mention the fact that my mouse arrow is not working once I start inserting things, or doing any more than writing text.
Is it just me?
For the mis-alignment problem, try this:
On the Toolbar, Click Arrange, Snap to Grid (it may also help you to check Show Grid)
This "holds" items in place so they should stay where you want them
Let me know if that helps
i cut & pasted a block of html into my home page & suddenly all of my carefully placed pictures were all over the place!
And as soon as i removed the html box, everything was perfect again!
The yahoo people also suggested the grid-lock function, but i cant get mine to work. (show grid, select items, click lock to grid, nothing)
Does anyone know how to keep the text & images in-line while inserting html to yahoo!sitebuilder pages?
Any help would be much appreciated!
thanks!
how does the yahoo!sitebuilder grid function work?
here's what I've been doing, & it's not working!
1> show grid
2> select all items to be held in place
3> click 'snap to grid'
nothing! none of my pictures move! at all.
what am I doing wrong?
and while I'm at it, does anyone know if sitebuilder supports meta tags? I have lots of keywords, but no meta tags that the Search Engine Optimization sites are so interested in. does any one know any more about this?
this is my first site, I have no training. ANY information at all is hugely appreciated.
thank you so much!
For most pages, I just used sitebuilders Insert Picture function which will Snap To Grid. I also have the Show Grid checked
One thing check the size of your page. Click Edit, Page Properties. What width is your page?
Meta tags are supported. In Edit, Page Properties, fill out page title, keywords etc and thay automatically fills out your meta tags for you.
When you publish the update to your site and View Source, you will see all your Meta Tags.
One problem I have not worked around is there is no line for Meta Description. I added it manually in HTML but sitebuilder overides it every time.
Yahoo support said do it via the domain panel and import to sitebuilder but again, sitebuilder takes it out and customer services just answer with irelevant stuff.
I haven't figured out how important this is. A couple of small search engines rejected my site because this line was missing in the headers but I got into Google & Yahoo etc so I'm not sure it matters too much. My meta Title and Keywords DO show up and I think that's more important
I am having to move them in Sitebuilder and keeping checking the web browser to see where they are appearing on the web page. I can't figure out why it's happening at all!
i am relieved to hear that yahoo and google both picked up your site, i am still waiting... but very glad to know that the meta-tags are not necessary. i'm sticking with my keywords & title for now.
sorry to hear that you are having the photo-placement problem again!
the only way i could fix it was by completely removing the html insert (its just a webring link, text & one photo). again, my "snap to grid" does nothing, so that's not helping.
right now i have the html all the way over the far right of my page, which seems to leave everything on the left side in place-- but my page is super-wide no matter how many times i re-adjust the page size & re-publish! ugh. yahoo sitebuilder really has a mind of its own!
please let us know if you have any luck keeping your page elements in place! thanks again, your input is sincerely appreciated!
1. I just removed some html and tried to place it to one side too...
2..and yes i must have tried to adjust the page size multiple times and it doesn't comply most of the time
any expert out there? i had no success with customer service. did receive the opportunity to fill out a survey for them recently and i really made it a point to bring up everything that is troublesome
if any of you get the oppty do the same...in the interim though what do we do? if there was a method to the madness one could work around it...but sitebuilder completely goes nuts sometimes
I'm willing to give another program a shot for my next site...as Yahoo just doesn't cut it.
The Problem: When the the HTML box is calibrated by the grid, it won't won't line up very well with the text, because the text is spaced based on font size and so on. Therefore, when using the grid, there is no direct relationship between the gird and mulitple lines of text.
The way I am dealing with this is to copy and paste each bit of test that is going to have HTML related to it in a seperate text box so I can align them with each other using the grid.
There are still some other glitches, but this is far better than what I was dealing with.
I had limited success setting all the text/photos of the page up using the grid and then "freehanding" the HTML box.
I had read your troubles and was trying to figure this out myself. I am satisfied with my discovery and havea ton to get accomplished, but I signed up so I could let you guys in on what I found out. I won't be back around. I hope I've been helpful.
[edited by: mack at 4:41 am (utc) on Mar. 20, 2005]
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