<![CDATA[ - TEMPLATE FAQS]]>Sun, 20 May 2012 09:22:52 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Weebly has improved the way to handle multiple columns!]]>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 09:55:27 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2012/01/weebly-has-improved-the-way-to-handle-multiple-columns.htmlYay! It used to be easy to add columns to your layout, once you got the hang of it, but now it's even easier.
1) Make sure you're on the ELEMENTS tab, select the MULTIPLE COLUMNS layout icon, and drag it to the content area of your page. You can adjust the width of the columns by touching the vertical bar(s) and sliding them/it to the right or left.
2)  If you want more columns, hover over the blue bar at the top of the section and select the number you wish. Slide the vertical bars to adjust your column widths. Want more than five columns? Select four columns in your first section and pull down another MULTIPLE COLUMN section, then choose what works for you.

There's a new column spacing feature, too. You can change the amount of space between columns by clickiing on the upper right-hand <ll> symbol next to the column number choices and choosing the spacing you prefer. ]]><![CDATA[Can I transfer my Website Tonight site to another host?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:18:05 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/post-title-click-and-type-to-edit1.html_No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using WebsiteTonight templates and their server-side program(s). The "yes" part is not much, but you can copy any special html you have added,  write down the color (hex) numbers of your text, and use this info to help speed your rebuild elsewhere . . ..
_Images: you can go to your site online and pull off the images you've added to the site, either from the page itself, or your online photo filer. They won't have the same name as when you put them up, but they'll be what's on your site and can be stored in useful folders and used again for another site. Note: Header images that you've replaced will not pull off the website. A screenshot will take care of that. You can crop the shot in any photo editing program.
Files: download any pdfs or other attached files directly from your site.
Text: to save your text, copy and paste the text from each page into a word processing document. If you love the colors, copy down the hex numbers, or take screenshots and use a digital color meter (in your Applications or Utilities folder on a Mac and probably an equivalent program downloadable, free, elsewhere for PCs) to determine the hex number.
The look and organization: if you're really in love with the present site, take screenshots of your pages to remind you how your site is arranged, for future reference.
]]><![CDATA[Can I transfer my Weebly site to another host?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:09:01 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/can-i-transfer-my-weebly-site-to-another-host.html_No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using Weebly templates and their server-side program(s). But you can use an archive copy (see Archiving Sites in Categories listing, below) of your site to aid in rebuilding another site.
    After archiving your site, open the zip file and you will find a treasure trove of useful things:
Uploads: click into the nested folders until you reach your files. Every thing that you ever uploaded to your site will be in here, in both its original form and any versions Weebly saved in an altered form. Most files will not have their original file names . . ..

_Files>CSS/Theme: you'll find your CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) and and theme images nested within the FILES folder.
    CSS info includes the text colors, sizes and weights, the background color,  link colors, etc., which can save you some major rebuild time.
    If you designed your own theme images and uploaded them, they're there for you to re-use. If you didn't, and you want to design your own in Photoshop, etc., you can use these (especially their dimensions) to figure out how to do that.
Html: double-click on the html file while you have your browser open and in the browser window you will see the page as it was at the time of archiving, which is a great help in rebuilding. If this doesn't work for you and you're really in love with the look and organization of your present site, be proactive and take screenshots of your pages to remind you how your site is arranged, for future reference.
    You can also open the page files in Dreamweaver. You won't have Weebly's servers to recreate the page, you won't have rights to any template images* either, unless you substituted your own, but all the parts you created in the content area will be in place on an unformatted page. Image links may be broken, but easily restored. This may save time for building a new website.
    *Some templates have been donated to Weebly by designers and will have their contact info in the source code. To find out if your template has this info, go to your published site online, right-click on the page and select VIEW SOURCE. For my fellow Mac users, control-click on the page and select VIEW PAGE SOURCE. If you are using Dreamweaver, check out the html code.
Text: to save your text, copy and paste the text from each page into a word processing document and save as "text only." It's easier to copy and paste from the site itself, or the html page displaying on your browser than it is to take it from the actual source code, which will retain all the extra formatting codes.
]]><![CDATA[How do I archive my Weebly site?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:04:59 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/how-do-i-archive-my-weebly-site.html_It's very easy. In your site editor, make sure you're on the SETTINGS tab, select ARCHIVE/UNPUBLLISH. Select "DOWNLOAD YOUR SITE AS A .ZIP ARCHIVE." Wait a bit, and you will be prompted to save your zip file to your computer.
    An archive is helpful if you make a drastic mistake in some part of your existing site. You can't re-upload it to weebly, but you can . . .
_. . . use the parts to recreate what's been damaged. If you don't know how to do this, contact weebly or, if you like, use the contact or call me at 805-643-6993 (California business hours, please).
    If you want to rebuild your site elsewhere, check out the Transferring Sites post, in the Categories listing (right-hand column).
]]><![CDATA[What's happening with my Weebly site? Nothing's working correctly!]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:57:57 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/whats-happening-with-my-weebly-site-nothings-working-correctly.html_I don't understand the deep inner-workings of Weebly's servers or programming, but every once in a while, things just stop functioning.
    Before getting clicky and frustrated, close out and re-enter the weebly editor via the blue ENTER button.
    If just closing out doesn't help, close out, log out, and log back in.
    Usually, that solves the problem without making things worse by . . .
_. . . possible unintended results of workaround efforts. (If those results have already happened, hopefully you've been smart and archived a recent version of your site . . . see below. Still, there is some comfort for those without an archive — site repair/re-creation is much easier in Weebly than, say, a rebuild from the ground up in Dreamweaver.)
]]><![CDATA[Weebly slideshows: Can I add captions to the images? How about links? Can I arrange the images in a different order? Add? Delete?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:48:45 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/slideshows-can-i-add-captions-to-the-images-in-weebly-slideshows-how-about-links-can-i-arrange-the-images-in-a-different-order.html_Yes to all. The captions are the sort that runs on the top or bottom of the image in a dark translucent strip. But there is a feature to add links, and you can re-order, add and delete images any time you like, so those are nice things to make up for the caption limitation . . ..
_    After uploading the images, click on the slideshow and select ADD/EDIT PHOTOS. Click on the speech balloon icon at the top of the thumbnail image to add a caption; click on the link icon to add a link; click on the orange ADD PHOTOS button to add images; click on the trashcan icon above any image you wish to delete.
]]><![CDATA[How do I attach a file in a Weebly site?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:46:07 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/how-do-i-attach-a-file-in-a-weebly-site.html_1) Make sure the title of the file is something you want to see on the site.
2) Go to MULTIMEDIA, select FILE and pull the icon down to the area on the page you'd like the link to be.
3) Click UPLOAD NEW FILE and on the panel that pops up, enter the words you want viewers to click to download the file. Also on the panel, choose LEFT, RIGHT or CENTER.
4) When you have things how you'd like, click UPLOAD NEW FILE; select your file from your computer, click OPEN and the file will upload. ]]><![CDATA[How do I choose more subtle colors for my text in a Weebly site?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:44:41 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/how-do-i-choose-more-subtle-colors-for-my-text-in-a-weebly-site.html_Most website builders offer swatch palettes with a rather garish selection of "web safe" colors. Weebly is no different, except, thankfully, they let you enter your own colors, too.
    Since computer monitors are much more sophisticated than they were when that "web safe" distinction was made, you can choose other, more subtle colors for your site with confidence. The next thing is how to find the codes for the colors . . ..
_Kuler: My favorite source of color inspiration is Kuler, which is an adobe site. You can select a theme and find the hex code for any of the colors shown by clicking on the little square icon to the left of the News & Features column. Just know that you will need to add a hashtag (#) before the hex code when you use it in your Weebly site (see below).
DigitalColor Meter: Macs come with a free app called DigitalColor Meter, which can be found in your Applications or Utilities folder.  Select the "RGB as Hex Value, 8-bit" setting and use its eyedropper tool to sample colors you might like to use. You can sample from any image on your desktop, including images you have on your site and anything you can view on a browser.
    The hex code will appear in DigitalColor Meter's three windows. Copy down the number pairs in order (R first, G next, etc.) and add a hashtag at the beginning when you enter the code into the white window on the swatch palette. For example, the yellow subheads on this page are R=CC, G=99, and B=33, hence the hex code is #CC9933.
Eyedropper: I've heard there's an app which works on a PC, called Eyedropper, but have not used it.
]]><![CDATA[How do I change text colors on my Weebly site?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:43:14 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/how-do-i-change-text-colors-on-my-weebly-site.html_There are three places within the Weebly interface to change text colors:
1) under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, where you decide the format of your SITE TITLE, PARAGRAPH TITLE, PARAGRAPH TEXT, and LINKS. Clicking on the color swatch will lead you to a swatch palette.
    Down at the bottom of the swatch palette, there's a white box where you can type in a hex code for a custom color. It must have a hashtag (#) followed by a code of six numbers and/or letters following it. For example, the hex code for black, is #000000, the yellow color used on this page is #CC9933. Type in your code and select OK.
2) Select any text within a text block, and click on the A with a red underline to select a swatch color or type in your own custom color. The method is the same as above.
3) for those familiar with CSS coding, under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, there is a downward-facing tab on the far right labeled EDIT HTML/CSS. Clicking on that will take you to a split screen editor, where you will be able to change the site's CSS and see a preview of your changes before committing them with the SAVE button. ]]><![CDATA[How do I make the page have more than one column in Weebly?]]>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 10:40:23 -0800http://www.siriweberfeeney.com/14/post/2011/12/how-do-i-make-the-page-have-more-than-one-column-in-weebly.html__(This post has been altered to reflect the improved column-building interface. Weebly keeps making great new improvements, darn them!)
1) Make sure you're on the ELEMENTS tab, select the MULTIPLE COLUMNS layout icon, and drag it to the content area of your page. You can adjust the width of the columns by touching the vertical bar(s) and once you get the <> arrow, sliding them/it to the right or left.
2)  If you want more columns, hover over the blue bar at the top of the section and select the number you wish. Slide the vertical bars to adjust your column widths. Want more than five columns? Select four columns in your first section and pull down another MULTIPLE COLUMN section, then choose what works for you. ]]>