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Hi John,

I think that you should remove all of those extra scripts out from your page to prevent problems in the future. Here' are my 2 solutions:

1) if you don't have experience with coding and have your original content, the copy and past your content into Notepad. Open your index page, remove all the content and start rebuilding it again. This time copy it from Notepad and paste it on your index page. Use Synthasite's tool bar to help you with font size, color and style.

2) if you have experience with coding, then manually remove those extra scripts out from your web page.

Our experts from Synthasite might have better solutions.

Best,

Niddy

Remove the following code from your index page and links will work properly again.

<!--

<div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div><div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div><div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></object>
<hr>
<div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div><div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div><div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div><div class="sys_page_shield_panel" style="left: 0pt; top: 0pt; position: absolute; z-index: 9998; width: 100%; height: 100%;"></div></div></div></div>
</div>
</div>

-->

It's right after your "GoDaddy" image where it specifies the width and height.

Hope this will fix your problem

Niddy

Hi John,

I looked at the source code of your site and found lots of scripts that are not supposed to be there. I suspect that you copied and pasted your content from Microsoft Word or something. When you did that, there usually will be extra scripts (code) on your page. There are these extra scripts all over the page. Most of them are fine to be there. But toward the bottom of your page, right after your "GoDaddy" image thing, there are this weird thing that prevent link to perform properly.
It starts with <!--- <div...> -->, remove it and your links will work properly again.

I tested your page using a tool on my browser and removed those extra scripts out, all the links on your site worked just fine.

To solve your problem, open your index page and click on "<>html" (on tool bar). Then start removing those extra script.

I'm sleepy at the moment so if what I wrote doesn't make sense to you, please let me know.

Hope this help.

Niddy

Hi Dr O,

In addition to Adrienne's suggestions, you can also try using margin attribute.
For example, in the right column, after you drag and drop text widget, you can open html editor and do something like this:

<!--

<div style="margin: 10px auto;">
some text here
</div>

or

<div style="margin-left: 10px;">
some text here
</div>

-->

For the bottom space, you can drag and drop text widget under the 2 column widget and then open the html editor and do something like this:

<!--

<div style="margin-top: 10px;">
some text here
</div>

-->

Hope this works for you

Best,

Niddy

I'm sorry I forgot to mention about color.

If you have custom color and know hexadecimal value, then just replace it.

for example of maroon color:

<!--
<div style="border: 4px dashed #800000;">Example 4</div><br><br>
-->

Thanks

Niddy

Hi Monica,

You can play around with the border styles which are solid, dotted, dashed, double, groove, ridge, inset, and outset.

To determine the thickness of the border, just change the number right before "px".

Thanks

Niddy

Hi Monica,

Drag and drop HTML or text widget on to a test page. Copy and paste the code on the HTML editor. Remove "<!--" and "-->. Preview the page and you will see different samples of borders. These sample are basic border with inline CSS, if you want more better look, it can be done.

<!--

<div style="border: 1px solid ;">Example 1</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 2px solid red;">Example 2</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 3px dotted gray;">Example 3</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 4px dashed green;">Example 4</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 1px double ;">Example 5</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 1px groove ;">Example 6</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 1px ridge ;">Example 7</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 10px inset ;">Example 8</div><br><br>
<div style="border: 10px outset ;">Example 9</div><br><br>
<div style="border-left: 10px solid;">Left border only</div><br><br>
<div style="border-right: 10px solid;">Right border only</div><br><br>
<div style="border-top: 10px dashed blue;">Top border only</div><br><br>
<div style="border-bottom: 10px dotted pink;">Bottom border only</div><br><br>

-->

Hope this help. Let me know if you have any questions.

Niddy

Hi Todd,

I offer a weekly article on my site where I have an article page on it own. Then on my home page, I have a little summary of an article then I add a link [read more] where it would take users to the article page on my site.

At the same times, I have been publishing my articles on several ezine article websites. I didn't put any links back to them. Actually, by publishing on those websites, it drives some traffics to my site.

I just started writing, so I only have 6 articles. It's just a few articles, so the way I temporarily archived it is the I have an anchor ink to the end of current articles where users can see the title and summary of each past article.

Once I have lots of articles then I will start thinking of better organization and archiving. One of my idea is to create a title & summary listing page, where each title is a link. A title will link to a each article page.

Some of the article sites I use are:

http://ezinearticles.com
http://articlecube.com
http://isnare.com

hope this help

Niddy

Hi Dmerk27,

I believe, there is no widgets to create a paging feature at the moment. It is possible but it is not easy to do it because it is required you to know some coding. If you really want to, you will need to know some javascript, XML and XSLT. With all 3 of these, you can create paging feature on your web site.

Hope this help

Niddy

Thanks Monique!

Hi Dan,

One thing though, I will not post any email address here because I have respect to Synthasite and do not want to cause troubles.

I have 2 files ready for you since yesterday. One is a script file and another one is a detail instructions on how to do it.

All I need is you to email me so that I can reply to your email with attached files.

Please go to http://thaicookinghouse.com/contact.php on that page you will find an email address.

Thanks

Niddy

Hi AAHAP,

I'm going to give my opinions about your site and if I'm offending you, I'm sorry. I know you worked hard on your site. First off, I'm looking at your site using linux OS, so I don't know how it looks on other OS.

I'll start with minor bugs I found:

1) donate.php, I can see the outline of the box and the button. I can't see any texts on the box at all. Although I can click on the link - the button like work fine. I just don't know what it said on the box.

2) login.php, I think you should make "Login to AAHAP" as a link to your login because you have it underline and users may think it's a link. At the bottom of the page, there's a link "need help?" It took me to Help Center which is another subdomain. I think it might confuse users because I was clicking on Home and I expected to go back to aahap main page. Is there a reason why you create need help as another subdomain? You might consider somehow integrate it back to aahap main site.

3) forgot_password.php, you might change your wording choice for "Forgot Both?" or explain what "both" refers to. I'm not sure how you do it since we can not write code at Synthasite. But you have an option for users to write any info (more information), users may not even remember what they wrote. Shouldn't it be a dropdown menu with specific questions like "your favorite pet name?" All of these should be asked when they sign up, so that you can check against it. Just a thought.

Your current site has a good amount of pages and information and my guess is that you will even have more info or stories about pets. So I would like to talk about look and feel next:

1) the current background color is black. I have no problem with black background but when you have a form with has a white background. It's very contrast and hurt my eyes at least. Since you are going to have more pet stories and featured pets, you would want your visitors to stay on your site as long as possible, so color choice is very important. You don't want them to feel tired reading. Play around with text color and the wufoo's design template, see what you can change the template theme.

2) where you have your page heading, like "Pet Stories", right under the menu, you should be consistant with the space between the menu and your page heading. Some has break line some don't.

3) May be you want to consider make your text aligning left or right, instead of center. Then have a picture next to it. You can use "two column" widget to help you with this. This is because you want to capture users not only with images but also with some text. For example, pet stories, you have an image first then the story below. You can have text wrap around an image. Same thing goes to featured pet page.

4) I notice that you have Google Custom Search at the bottom of your pages. It would be better to move it to somewhere under the menu on the right or the left side, at the same location for every page. This way users can right away see they can search on your site. You put on the bottom of the page, users may not get a chance to see it.

This is just my opinions, so you may want to check with other people as well. Once again I'm sorry if I'm offending you. Your site is good, it just need a little touch up.

Regards,

Niddy

Hi Monique,

If users have question about features on my site, you can send them my way. There were a few people emailed me directly (through my site) and I've been answering questions. I'll be happy to help but just can't be right away like you guys since I've a baby who just turned 1. :)

Niddy

Hi Dan,

Send my an email and I'll email you back with javascript file and instructions how to do it. I'll get back to you as soon as I can, by tonight. So don't worry, good things will happen soon.

P.S.: Monique, am I giving you troubles here? :)

Niddy

Hi,

What if I rename the site on development box, will it help? I don't think it will help much because they both have the same content and keywords. Anyway, please let me know your thoughts on this.

Thank you

Niddy

Hi

I'm sorry to bother you guys on this issue. My friend told me that when she types "Thai cooking classes, Corvallis, Oregon" in Google search box, it didn't return the live URL, instead it returned the development URL. So, I tested and she was right. Google returned the development URL as a second place on the first result page.
I went through 15 pages of the result pages and couldn't see the live URL - which I understand that my site might not yet be indexed or something.

But returning the development URL as their top 3 results? I'm getting worried again. I also checked the Google Analytics, the number view on main index.php of development box is staying the same since last week but other pages (on development box) were going up slowly especially classes.php page.

I appreciate you guys put some preventions in robots.txt file. What can I do on my side to help prevent this from happening?

My site is http://thaicookinghouse.com

thank you

Niddy

Hi Deathnote,

I visited your site and clicked on Execution Ep 17, on my computer the navigation is on the right hand column. I looked around your site, and I didn't see the problem you mentioned.

Niddy

Hello,

I just wanted to let everybody, especially those who like Thai food, know that I have started adding authentic Thai recipes to my website. New recipes, 1-3 recipes, will be added weekly. http://thaicookinghouse.com

If you don't see your favorite dishes, drop me an email and I will add recipes as soon as I can.

Cheers to Thai food.

Niddy