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A comment on the question "can we have flash templates?" in Yola:

Hi there Sabinat,
Unfortunately Yola is not a Flash based website creator so we will probably not be getting flash templates. If you are wanting to add flash to your site you can do so by uploading it into your file manager and then embedding it into your page using an HTML widget. Here is the code:
<object width="200" height="400">
<param name="movie"value="resources/myswffile.swf">
<embed src="resources/myswffile.swf"width="200"height="400"/>
</object>
Remember to substitute "myswffile.swf with your file name.
I hope this helps. – jeremy, on November 27, 2009 04:45

A comment on the question "Changing colors on my site" in Yola:

Thanks Sanja!
Randy, I hope those codes helped. – jeremy, on November 26, 2009 06:29

jeremy replied on November 25, 2009 06:00 to the problem "Site looks different on web vs. in site editor. Wrong photos etc." in Yola:

Thanks Diane, that is usually the cause.

Nathaniel, Have you clicked on the Yellow Update my site button?

If not, could you please update your site and see if the changes are published.

If this does not solve your problem, please let us know.

jeremy replied on November 24, 2009 13:34 to the question "Changing colors on my site" in Yola:

Hi there Randy,

Unfortunately your menu is linked to your style and you can't edit it that much.

I would suggest either changing your style or creating your own menu. In your case It seems you are wanting something very specific and I would suggest creating your own menu using some HTML.

You can take your pages out of your menu (click on the "Edit Menu" button and drag the pages from "in menu" to "out menu" - this will hide your default menu).

Then create your own page links using images or text and place where you'd like this new menu to show up. This can be done by adding text, highlighting it and clicking on the link button on the text toolbar above.

You can then link your text or image to the specific page.

You may find this tutorial helpful: Creating Sub pages

I hope this helps.

jeremy replied on November 24, 2009 04:31 to the question "Changing colors on my site" in Yola:

Hi there Randy,
Are you wanting to change the background color on your site?

You can change the background color of your site as follows:

1. Click on "Edit Page Design" and then "Format Background".
2. A dialog box will open, click on the down-arrow next to "Background Fill" and the color picker will open.
3. Select the color you would like to use and click on "OK". If you know the Hex value of the color you would like to use, enter it into the space provide here's a link to a Hex color generator .

I hope this helps. If not, please let us know.

jeremy replied on November 22, 2009 20:43 to the problem "Unable to Publish my site" in Yola:

Hi there Rachael,

Yes, unfortunately Google Chrome is not yet one of our supported browsers.

You should be able to publish your site using another browser.

If this does not solve your problem, please let us know.

jeremy replied on November 22, 2009 20:08 to the problem "Preview vs reality" in Yola:

Hi there Kent,
Your page looks great - I have added an image showing how it looks on my machine. I hope this helps.

jeremy replied on November 20, 2009 05:19 to the question "Opening a page that has been linked to an external web site" in Yola:

Hi there John,

Unfortunately if you have an auto-redirect it will also redirect from your sitebuilder. You will have to delete the page and re-create one.
If you want to add a new page with an auto redirect here is the code to redirect from your menu: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2; url=http://webdesign.about.com">

Out of interest are you wanting to add a Smugmug gallery to your page? You can do this with Yola.

1. Drag-and-drop the Smugmug widget onto your page.
2. Click on the "Properties" tab on the right-hand sidebar.
3. Delete the existing URL and replace it with your own from Smugmug (the URL should look something like http://yoursite.smugmug.com/gallery/5...)
4. Click on Apply.

I hope this helps.

jeremy replied on November 19, 2009 06:16 to the question "Adding Google Maps to Blog" in Yola:

Hi there Bengalireview,
You can add a Video to your blog by using the "Embed Code" that YouTube gives you. Click on the HTML button in the tool bar in the post body tools when you are adding a new post and add the embed code there. When you click on HTML again you will see your video.

You can do the same with Google Maps.

You need to get the embed code from the Map (see image)
and then add that to the HTML of your blog post. (again, you do this by clicking on the HTML button in the toolbar)

You will then see your map on your page.

I hope this helps.

jeremy replied on November 18, 2009 12:35 to the question "Print button wont work an any new pages" in Yola:

Hi there Rob,
I see you had a paragraph tag on the top of your code. <P></P>
I removed this and your code seemed to work perfectly on my test site.
Can you please re-try adding it without the <P></P> and see if it works.

jeremy replied on November 18, 2009 09:58 to the update "Yola Planned Downtime" in Yola:

Hi All,

The release is being slightly delayed - we are still working on testing and will update you as soon as we know a more exact time.

jeremy posted an update in Yola on November 18, 2009 08:21:

Yola Planned Downtime

Hi there All,

We are going to be having some downtime for a planned release at 2 AM PDT. See here for the time in your timezone: World Clock

We are hoping to have log-ins disabled for as short a time as possible and will keep you updated on our progress.

Many thanks for your patience

jeremy replied on November 18, 2009 05:39 to the idea "Yola teezers" in Yola:

Hi there Randy,

Thanks for the great idea. It would be great to have a list of things we are planning on releasing but unfortunately we are unable to commit to exact dates and the order of how our releases will go out.

I will pass your idea along and see what we can do.

A comment on the question "Problems transferring domain name" in Yola:

Good luck Randy. Let us know how it goes and if we can assist you at all. – jeremy, on November 13, 2009 12:47

jeremy replied on November 13, 2009 12:30 to the question "Problems transferring domain name" in Yola:

Hi there Randy,
Your domain host or configuration shouldn't make a difference to your Hostmonster account. As long as you have pointed your domain to Yola correctly your site should work with it.

jeremy replied on November 13, 2009 12:11 to the problem "blog images not viewable" in Yola:

Hi there Tom,

I am sorry you are having this problem. What browser are you using?

I have just checked in both FF and IE 7 on separate machines and your blog seems to be working correctly.

Are you able to view the other pages of your site correctly or are you seeing errors there too?

jeremy replied on November 13, 2009 04:59 to the question "Problems transferring domain name" in Yola:

Hi there Randy,

Unfortunately it is not currently possible to transfer your domain to Yola so that we are your domain registrar. We will be offering this option in the near future.

To publish your site to your own domain, you will need to edit the settings on your domain so that it points to Yola. You will be able to find information on these links:

Publish to a domain you already own

Using a Domain Name not purchased from Yola .

If your domain registrar does not allow you to create or edit the A Records on your domain, you can use the services of ZoneEdit. There is more information available about ZoneEdit on this link.

I hope this helps.

jeremy replied on November 12, 2009 12:58 to the problem "CAN'T LOAD WEB PAGE SO I CAN EDIT" in Yola:

Hi there Ernst,

I see you have recently published your site to kapstadtlodging.org - is this correct?
If you have, then it sometimes happens that Googles "Freshbot" - (Google's daily crawler, which picks up newly-submitted URL's) picks up your site and you get listed quickly.
You can then get dropped off the Google rankings quite easily and hopefully once the main Googlebot crawls your site it will appear in the rankings more consistently.

I hope this helps explain why your site isn't listed.

jeremy replied on November 07, 2009 14:27 to the idea "Yolasite.com is too long for me!! Why not yola.com?!" in Yola:

Hi there Abby.rath13

There are 2 reasons we only offer subdomains with yolasite.com instead of yola.com.

1. To improve network security, the domain yola.com, will be used strictly for our systems that power official yola.com websites.
2. To make it more difficult for fraudsters to create phishing sites with our tools, we need to separate our domain name from those available to our users.

I hope this helps.

A comment on the update "Yola has added to the Premium Style Library" in Yola:

Hi Boomer,
Yes that bug is an irritation. We are working on a fix and hope to have it out soon. Enjoy your walk :) – jeremy, on November 07, 2009 11:47