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how to add these new freewebs widgets to my html site

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I'm trying to have links to all paragraphs at the top of the page so that people don't have to scroll through. I thought you could do that on the new site builder but it says I have to 'upload' paragraphs - how do you do that? And it doesn't do anything when I click on 'upload' anwyay.

A: That is done with anchor links.

Example:
<A href="#name of link">text of link</a>
Placed where the paragraphs are listed.

<a name="name of link">text that you are linking to</a>(a word or sentence is enough) Placed in the paragraph that you want to jump to.

One word of caution. If your page is too long, and covers too many subjects, it's better to just make new pages. You don't have to add the links to the navigation, you can link from anywhere.

I'm not sure whether you can add these in the easy site builder, there's nothing like trying...

One other difficulty... I found that it was necessary to create an extra anchor link, to get the rest to work!
What I did was ... < a name="Q & A">Q & A < /a > at the top of the rest of the anchor links, without adding the coresponding link at the top of the page..... Why does that work... instead of correct coding? Dunno, freewebs has a bunch of junk code... see this topic

Q: I need sublinks on my website,
like -> home - inside - ...
-Cool stuff
-Hot stuff
-more

is this possible??
how I can create a page that will not be in nav. bar and link it to another page?

A:Kinda like this?

Try here

Scrolling paragraphs are nice too.

Just add "overflow:auto" to the paragraph style description... in the in-line p style= or in the head of the page or in the external style sheet.
You're going to need to define the width & height as well as background-colour, padding, margin so that your scrolling paragraph looks & acts the way that you want.

I have a scrolling paragraph on my first page.... if you want to see an example of a scrolling paragraph.

I found the code at one of the myspace help sites.

I just switched to HTML only mode and I know HTML rather well, but I cannot figure out how to change link colors or link to external sites.

Can anyone help?
w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

There's several ways to change link colour.

Start by learning to code links & anchors.

I'm not sure what you meant by change link colour.

If you wanted them all the same colour, you could do that in the body tag:

<body background="" bgcolor="" text="" LINK="" VLINK="" ALINK="">

If your page has a style sheet, this may not work.... You would need to change link colours there.

If you wanted different colours on the same page, My preferred method is to send them to class.

In the style-sheet:
a.blue {color:blue; } In the link:
<a class="blue" href="http://www.somewebpage/">somewebpage</a>

Do you need to make your first style sheet? Here is where I learned:
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/011/firstcss
Q: we have recently set up our site with a .com address. We are based in the UK but have noticed the site will not come up on a UK search. Can anyone tell us how we alter this?

A: You have a beautiful site. Google likes content, you certainly have that....

The good news is that developing content is the hard part.

All that you need now is to optimize your site for search engines.

This is not hard, but you should probably start learning to code html.

In the meantime, go here to learn seo.

Q: How do you add your url to Google I am desperate to add mine to google just for users to find me, but don't know how to do it, I heard it is really hard to do that?

A: add url to google

You can not expect your page to show up immediately... it does take a month or possibly longer...

google has webmaster tools that will allow you to keep up with how many pages of your site they have indexed... & also when the last time their robots came & spidered your site.

this page was created before freewebs developed the raw html paragraph.
While the method outlined for adding html using outlook express still works, it's no longer the only way to add html to the easy site builder.

Pasting cut & paste code into the easy site builder using outlook express

You have this great free site with Freewebs.com & you've found this really great webring that you want to join.
Or maybe you've found this really cool game that you can't wait to add to your site.
Or maybe an excellent curser?

The one thing that all this stuff has in common is a need to paste html code into your site.

Wait a minute! There's no way to paste code into a freewebs easy site builder!

Now faced with this reality, You can either learn html and do the entire site in it, or you can find another provider that allows access to the html with their site builder or do what most of us do, feel disapointed at our inability to add cool factor to our site.

I've found a way to add these things to the easy site builder. I'm going to share this with everybody.

Using outlook express in your computer, Click create mail.
click view and one of the choices in the drop down menu is source edit. Click that. Now you have access to the source code of your email client. I found this a handy thing to have. This became a springboard to my eventual html only site.

click source at the bottom, the email opens up and shows you the source code.

Now for the really cool part: You know that html code they posted on that webring that was so cool? Or that game? Paste the code in here, before </body></html>.

After pasting the code in, click preview. Most of the time, you'll be able to see how it will look on your webpage. Sometimes you won't. If you don't see anything, don't worry. It will still work!

Finally, click edit at the top of the email. click select all. click edit again, click copy.

Now paste what you copied into easy site builder. save, save again. view the page & see if it worked. It usually has for me.

If a games site is what is desired, it might be easier to sign up for an invisionfree forum. Here's my games arcade. Ten pages of free games is a pretty good deal. Here's another games site that I put together when a friend sent some flash game files.

I've got a ton of help links and cool places to find cut & paste code (games & stuff) for your site posted on my website help links page

Questions? Comments? Send mail! or use the form on my contact page. I also have a forum for this discussion.