John's dashboard

A comment on the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

I will make one with a transparent background so it will be universal. – John, on December 10, 2009 01:47

John replied on December 10, 2009 01:01 to the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

I matched your background color....I assume you don't want a white background.....Let me know if this works for you or if you want it single instead of repeat.

John replied on December 10, 2009 00:30 to the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

That is a pretty large image......Can you post the URL to your blog and I can take a look at how much space you have ?

A comment on the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

Is that the actual image you want? I can make that repeat if that would work for you – John, on December 09, 2009 23:57

A comment on the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

And...I did try it to make sure it would work....@Katie you might have to experiment with the width as you don't want to have to adjust it within the actual post because it will be very hard to get all of them exactly the same....In other words ... settle on the size and after you insert it don't touch it and they should all be the same width. – John, on December 09, 2009 23:27

John replied on December 09, 2009 23:03 to the question "Break between blog entries" in Yola:

Just come up with a stock image you use all the time....At the end of your text in you blog post hit enter maybe once or twice then add your image.

John replied on December 09, 2009 21:34 to the question "Accounts on your Yola Site" in Yola:

Are you just needing a data base to collect information? If so using Google Docs you can add one of their forms to your site and the information will forward right to an excel type spreadsheet....You can either share the information or keep it private.

A comment on the question "Search Engine Details?" in Yola:

Yes of course....Do you mind sharing your site URL and maybe we can help get you started in a good direction.... This is one of THE most important things you can do for your site....and easiest. – John, on December 08, 2009 01:24

John replied on December 08, 2009 01:18 to the question "Search Engine Details?" in Yola:

It is up to you what is displayed pretty much....Your page/window title...page description...key words and the content of your page is what determines what is picked up by search engines.

A comment on the update "Yola.com experiencing technical difficulty" in Yola:

Did you remember to click Save and Update My Site? – John, on December 08, 2009 00:38

John replied on December 07, 2009 21:51 to the praise "Merry Christmas" in Yola:

Merry Christmas William and well wishes to you and your family.....Good name by the way my son named his second son William

John replied on December 07, 2009 20:26 to the question "The Competition" in Yola:

Blogs are great even if you just use them for company updates or when you run a special....You have the blogs on your www.a-class-driving.com site? Twitter is great also....Bing and soon Google will post tweets in a special search.....I include a few keywords and my URL.There is a nice firefox add on for tweets....https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire... you might like it....I use it a lot.....Here is what I am talking about for Twitter/Bing http://www.bing.com/Twitter

A comment on the question "The Competition" in Yola:

You just go to your Webmaster Account...Then to...your site on the web...subscriber stats....click submit feed as a sitemap...I used my blog rss URL and it seems to work fine. – John, on December 07, 2009 16:07

A comment on the question "The Competition" in Yola:

Is there any type of code you have added that only exists on your blog page? Maybe some little snippet of something is blocking them from crawling your blog page.

Did you see my post a few months back about submitting a separate sitemap.xml for your blog on your Google Webmaster Account? I get some good back links from being on blogged.com and http://www.blogcatalog.com/ They will want you to add their link to your blog page but I think it is worth it for the back links directly to your blog....My blog page ranks highest on my site and has about 250 back links pointed to it. – John, on December 07, 2009 15:53

A comment on the question "The Competition" in Yola:

I know they stopped grading blogs....But it does not pick up that you even have a blog? – John, on December 07, 2009 15:21

John replied on December 07, 2009 14:36 to the question "The Competition" in Yola:

I use Website Grader also and it really is just a tool to help keep you on the right track.....Have you listed your site with Google and Bing local business listings? They are both free and when anyone in your area does a search for driving schools you will come up....Age of a site is taken into consideration as is if your site is registered for more than one year....Have you submitted your sitemap xml to Google,Bing and Yahoo?

A comment on the question "My site has issues with Internet Explorer..." in Yola:

Everyone has problems with cross browser issues it is not a Yola specific problem....Site builder works better using Firefox but sites will display fine in IE....When I am going to make major changes I try it on my test site first then look at it on Firefox,IE,Chrome and Opera....The only one I find to be a royal pain is Opera....Most of the time if something is not working properly in IE it has been caused by bad code or pasting text directly from a rich text editor....IE is very very unforgiving. – John, on December 06, 2009 18:00

A comment on the question "i want to be a writer can yola help me..??" in Yola:

Got it....Thanks Boomer and I will respond a little later my friend. – John, on December 06, 2009 17:46

A comment on the question "i want to be a writer can yola help me..??" in Yola:

Did not get anything from you Boomer. – John, on December 06, 2009 16:57

John replied on December 06, 2009 16:26 to the question "i want to be a writer can yola help me..??" in Yola:

I do not mean this as an insult so please take this as a serious answer....Since you asked this in English I assume you want to write in English

The very first thing you need to do is stop the wanna b awriter sort of thing.
Secondly go to school...Enroll in an English class and a Creative Writing class

Your desire to be a writer has nothing to do with Yola and is 100% on you to cultivate your talent.Be prepared to make it a lifelong learning experience that must become a passion...In any of the arts the greats never stop learning and striving to make their next work better than the previous.