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Brent replied on June 06, 2008 19:21 to the question "Need help with my domain" in Yola:

Hey Tim,

It seems as if your domain is already working. Checkout http://thescaleshop.info. Let me know if you are still having issues.

Brent replied on June 06, 2008 19:13 to the question "Need help with my domain" in Yola:

Hey Tim,

I'd like to help you with this problem. Could you tell me what domain name you are trying to use?

Brent replied on June 05, 2008 02:38 to the problem "My Website willl not load properly!" in Yola:

Hey Ryansarcade,

I suspect that this problem is being caused by the width of your AdSense unit. Browsers deal with width and overflow differently which is why things look OK in Firefox but not so good in Internet Explorer.

Could you use a narrower AdSense unit? Let us know if that solves the problem for you.

Brent replied on June 02, 2008 23:44 to the problem "Trouble editing my html widgets." in Yola:

Hey gAMEdEMON,

We've fixed the problem. You should now be able to edit the HTML widget without any difficulty. Please let me know if you have any further issues.

Thanks for letting us know about this!

Brent replied on May 29, 2008 21:31 to the question "Why doesn't my website look okay on other computers?" in Yola:

Hey Guys,

I'm looking into this problem right now. It seems as if the problem occurs only in IE. I'll get back to you as soon as I find a fix.

Brent replied on May 25, 2008 21:23 to the question "Any ideas for a simple site search box ?" in Yola:

Hey John,

Google offers a neat service whereby you can embed a Google Search Box into your page that will search and display results from your website in your website. It's a reasonably simple setup process and it is well documented at http://www.google.com/coop/cse/.

We are keen to build this function directly into SynthaSite but you may as well use this until we get around to doing so.

I'd love to see how what you come up with. Please let me know if this works for your requirements.

Brent replied on May 25, 2008 19:55 to the question "How do I make html widgets appear centred on my page?" in Yola:

Hey Deb,

Try wrapping your html code with a div tag with center alignment. For example:

<div>...[Google or PayPal Code Here]...</div>

Hope this helps!

Brent replied on May 22, 2008 18:51 to the discussion "Trouble at www.codnor.info" in Yola:

Hey Stuart,

I'm sorry that you are experiencing this difficulty. I've had a look at your site and have refreshed various pages numerous times. I have however not seen the problem that you are describing.

You have built a great site and I'd hate it if it did not appear correctly to every user. Please take a screenshot when you next see the problem and email it to us as at support@synthasite.com. This will be really helpful in terms of debugging the problem.

Brent Viljoen replied on May 05, 2008 20:33 to the question "red loading notification sticks" in Yola:

Hey Kathe,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having problems.

I'm running a MacBook Pro and Safari as well but can't reproduce your error. I'm running Safari 3.1.1. What version are you using?

Brent Viljoen replied on May 03, 2008 05:47 to the question "log IN" in Yola:

Great! I'm glad you've come right.

Brent Viljoen replied on May 03, 2008 02:19 to the question "log IN" in Yola:

Hi Kathe,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having trouble accessing your account. Could you please tell me more about what is happening? What error message do you get when you try to log into your account?

I hope to help you solve this quickly so that you can continue working on your website!

Brent Viljoen replied on May 01, 2008 01:26 to the question "godaddy Windows account, can I still publish? Without PHP maybe?" in Yola:

I'm glad that you heard about us and that you are experimenting with SynthaSite. I would love to know how long it takes you to post a website once we have resolved your problem.

It seems as if GoDaddy does support PHP/Windows on their shared hosting plan although it is run in safe mode. I'm not sure what the impact of this will be or if this is related to your problem. I'll see what I can find out and get back to you soon. Note that this facility has been deprecated by GoDaddy and that they no longer provide technical support for this. See http://help.godaddy.com/topic/107/art....

In the meantime you may want to consider hosting the site with SynthaSite. You can still use your own domain and the setup process is quite straightforward. You can access this option from the Publishing -> Publishing Settings menu.

Brent Viljoen replied on March 12, 2008 03:54 to the problem "can someone help me please!!!!!!" in Yola:

These are the steps to upload your files into SynthaSite:

1) Open your site
2) Go to the Site Manager page. You can access this from the "View" menu.
3) Select the "Manage Files" option, then click the "upload" button.
4) You can now select the files that you want to upload to your synthasite by clicking the browse button. If you want to upload more than one file at a time, you can click the "More upload slots" link. Click OK once you have chosen the files that you want to upload.

This will upload files to your site and you will then be able to use them in the Image Widget.

Brent Viljoen replied on March 12, 2008 02:46 to the problem "can someone help me please!!!!!!" in Yola:

Hi Junebug,

What seems to be the problem? Is there an error that is preventing you from loading files into your site?

Brent Viljoen replied on March 04, 2008 19:58 to the problem "When I click on a text widget all its contents is deleted" in Yola:

Hi Gadfly,

I'm sorry to hear that you are having this problem. I too am interested to hear if anyone else is experiencing this.

I'm busy debugging the problem and any additional info will help me.

Brent Viljoen replied on February 02, 2008 06:33 to the discussion "If you are a SynthaSite user, or just happened to find us here, Welcome! This is a group for anyone interested in publishing content on the web. SynthaSite makes this easy, fun, and above all FREE! So if you have any questions about SynthaSite, or just want to talk to other members of the SynthaSite community, you have come to the right place. Start the conversation right here, right now!" in Yola:

Hey Ben,

Glad to hear that you are enjoying SynthaSite and thanks for being the first to join our new forum!

What type of email service would you like to see in SynthaSite? Are you hoping for a personal email address or are you looking for a newsletter management system?

RSS (Really Simple Syndication) makes it possible for people to keep up with their favorite web sites in an automated manner that's easier than checking them manually. It can also be used to keep the content on your website updated without having to manually edit your page.

SynthaSite's RSS Reader widget allows you to pull content into your page from external websites. Once you have added the widget to the page, click the "Edit Properties" button on the widget. Then, click the "Edit Link" button on the Propertysheet. This will pop up a dialog that will allow you to enter the URL of the RSS feed that you want to display.

SynthaSite will have new RSS features in the coming weeks and months. Once we have released our blogging solution, readers will be able to subscribe to your blog via your own personal blog RSS feed.

We also intend to allow you to publish your development activity via an RSS feed so that your friends and contacts can keep up to date with any changes you make to your site.

Brent Viljoen
CTO, SynthaSite