Ed-a-Torials @ Honey Bear Playhomes's dashboard

I have been making, selling and giving these away for over a decade and I thought I would put a twist to it by offering one flying license to ten of you out there in the forums if you can write a paragraph about how much you love using this fabulous site builder called YOLA.

No one is excluded from this contest (employees included) so feel free to share... Please enter only once per week to keep it fair. If you have a child or know of one that you want to surprise by letting them find St. Nick's actual flying license Christmas morning then let loose your vocabulary and share it here... Reminder... This is about how much you love using YOLA and not about how much you want a free license.

The judging is simple... There is none.. As I am sure all of your thoughts will be equally as meaningful so at random ten numbers will be chosen which correlate to the quantity of entries and from that the winners will be selected.

The actual cash value of the licenses are $10 each plus shipping to whatever part of the globe that you might be hiding. ;) I begin manufacture in mid November with the first shipment going out in the first week in December to arrive at your door the week before Christmas.

Obscene, disrespectful or rude entries will not be considered to be valid and will be asked to be deleted from the thread.

I am in the design phase of the 2009 model but last years model is a good representation of what to expect.

So here I was having a lazy Sunday and out of the blue my site and site builder froze on loading. I scrambled, freaked and tried to figure out why it failed to load the page beyond 4 inches of the screen and after frantic searching it dawned on me that it was my .JS and .CSS files that were hosted on an external hotlink file host elsewhere on the web and far away from YOLA's servers in San Fransisco that was not loading. Turns out that the file host was and still is a day later having a server issue and all files contained on them are inaccessible to the hundreds of millions of websites around the globe. Distressing as this was it was exacerbated that much more by the fact that my website in the site builder was in a disarray due to switching over to the new premium rounded corners style and not yet ready for any kind of update. Every page had content hanging over the right side of the screen as the new style was narrower on width and it truly looked a fright.

After nearly 7 hours of editing and uploading the .JS and .CSS to my file manager in addition to changing the banner to fit the new style I was at long last able to relax and update my site.

The new Pro feature and the ability to upload files that were previously inaccessible is to my site a blessing as I can now be assured of 99% up time and never again worry about my sites being stuck on the load and my visitors going elsewhere. Not that I have the traffic now due to the bad economy and playhouses being a high end luxury item but if this had happened during a holiday buying season then it could have related to thousands of dollars in lost sales for that one day the site was down.

I would highly recommend to all those who use a host to store their .JS, .CSS and HTML files to spend the extra $4 per month and buy the YOLA Pro account to save yourself the grief of your site being down while you know nothing about it. If I had not checked it may have been down for days or longer. The fact that my files are now on YOLA's servers will put my mind at ease and I can be assured of the best up time around...

Happy site building and you gotta try out the new premium styles if you can ;) I just love the rounded glass one...
Ed

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