1) If you've selected a theme that has a generic header image and want to replace it, first click on the header image and an orange EDIT IMAGE button will appear. Click that and take note of the Header size listed on the upper left-hand side of the page. (It will be listed in "px," or pixels, but if you don't have a photo editing program which can measure in pixels, use a ruler and measure the dimensions directly on the screen.)
Add Comment Weebly Templates So far, weebly.com is my favorite template website host. Not only are their themes attractive, very customizable and easy to update, but they offer free, slightly limited blog pages (pre-linked to Facebook and Twitter), online store modules (that work with either Paypal Business/Premier or Google Checkout), Search Engine Optimization, nice-looking slideshows with several options, plus a whole bevy of other free features, including using your own domain name. More features are included with their very reasonable hosting ($3.99/month for a year, prepaid). Okay, let’s just say Weebly’s an absolutely brilliant company with a goofy name and quick email support, going strong since 2007 and I am not paid by Weebly in any way to say so. This site is built using a modified Weebly template. Website Tonight® Templates I also customize godaddy.com Website Tonight sites. Their themes are are more business-oriented and have less options for customization, although they are improving. There are some really good Website Tonight features: you can change background colors of their site building units (text/photo areas, etc.) which they call "blocks," you can "share" linked blocks throughout the site (which change automatically when one is updated), and have the (extra, paid) option to host your site on a secure server — all of which you can't yet do without intense coding on Weebly. I've just been checking in and see there are several improvements that have been made lately — one of which is to their slideshow feature, which was badly needed. I'll report back when I know more and can take the time. Also on the plus side, GoDaddy offers exceptionally helpful 24/7 phone support, plus the dependability of a company with a long track record. These are just my opinions from my experiences. I'll add other template site reviews as I learn more. My template website FAQs page was getting unwieldy, needed to be sortable, plus I wanted a place for people to be able to comment, share ideas, or ask questions — so, a blog it is! I mainly customize Weebly.com website/blog templates, but also work with GoDaddy.com's WebsiteTonight template feature for a rather complicated site and will do my best to help out. So here are answers to questions you may have/solutions to situations you may run into. They worked for me, I hope they work for you. Please feel free to ask questions and share info with the followers of this blog. * * As you will understand, this page is solely meant to be helpful. Please take caution when you are working on your sites. While I take great care to be accurate, I am not responsible for problems caused by following these suggestions, whether they are my own or another's input. There is no claim of infallibility here. If there was, I wouldn't be able to offer any info at all. * * I'm not reimbursed or paid in any way by Weebly or GoDaddy. Not exactly. You can't download an archive of the site to your computer, but GoDaddy does back up your site when you first publish it, for later versions if you select that feature when you are publishing a change to the site online, or when you select MANAGE>BACKUP/RESTORE, enter a name for the backup and click SAVE WEBSITE. (Do back it up!) Make a backup of your existing, even messed-up site before restoring, just in case.
Complete restore: if you have a disaster, GoDaddy lets you restore your site completely from one of up to five backups, however there is no way to select just one page or block to restore using this function. Partial restore: this workaround is especially helpful if you've messed up just one block (or just a few) while doing major changes to your site, but it needs to be done carefully . . .. Weebly is not great with the undos. I think it's their automatic save that is the culprit here. Usually that auto save is a very good thing — otherwise we'd be saving each little step in each little section, which could be positively crazy-fying.
Text: In the case of text, as long as you don't navigate out of the text section you are working in, you can often still press COMMAND-Z (Mac) or CONTROL-Z (PC) on your keyboard to undo what you've just done, just as if you were in a word processing program. But navigate that cursor out, and it's saved as-is. Deletes: In the case of deleting something you want back, that's where the "not great" comes in. It's deleted. The first thing I had to learn with Weebly was to slow down and try to be very present and zen-like, so I did less un-undo-able things. The other thing I learned was . . . |
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