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links to paragraphs
   sublinks (links not in nav bar)
   pasting content into freewebs site builder
   scrolling paragraphs
   Search engines
   how to switch freewebs to html
   problem with using apps on an html only site

how to add these new freewebs widgets to my html site

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Q & A

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 can't paste.
When I right-click, I don't get the option of pasting my content into the freewebs site builder.

A: Kind of a drag...

But, there's always a way around these difficulties... There's 3 or 4 different ways to do anything on the computer...

To copy, first select the content by dragging your mouse (I frame, arrow) over the text... hold down the control key and hit the "c" key.
to paste, hold down the control key and hit the "v" key. Viola! Your content is now pasted into your editor.

Warning: There seems to be some issues with the freewebs site builder.
See this article on pasting into site builder.
Apparently, pasting from other sources creates conflict with the freewebs code.... Not like in the old days when I could develop html content in my fave html editor...
It would seem that you should paste your content in notepad, to remove whatever formating was attatched to the content... Save your text file.... re-open, and copy from note pad b4 pasting into your site editor.
Even that isn't fail-safe, I make sure the clipboard is cleared by clicking edit >> select all >> cut. when the content is cut from notepad, the content on the "clipboard" is reliably replaced by the content I desire.

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.

Q: How do I make the switch to html?

switch freewebs site to html as answered on forum.

Switching to html means creating a template... I changed the template on this page and my index page, got rid of most of the tables & switched over to a double column layout, using this tut:
http://inobscuro.com/tutorials/read/25/

As the freewebs people keep changing their "help" and making the links to their help obsolete, I'll attempt a clearer explanation.

Look for the "more settings" side box, is on the "site settings page". Get there by clicking the "site settings" button... In the black bar at the top of the "site manager" page. Or just click the link I've provided... :b

Click the downgrade site link, click again when freewebs asks if you're sure.
Nothing to it except using code afterwards... Learning to code is an on-going process.

Q: I was working with my members app, and checking out the facebook app... when I went back to my site, it had reverted to what it looked like before I made the switch to html.

I had a page still open, and downloaded it, and was able to put it back almost how I had it... except the webring had disowned me....

I didn't know what to do about my other reverted pages, not having any back ups in this computer... After some thought, I searched google for my cached pages, and put the other pages of my site back...

Then I tried to fix my webring... and the site reverted again!

Not sure freewebs knows about this issue, it's been a while since I did anything with the freewebs part of my site, but I seem to remember this happening before....

Question posed here:
problem using the freewebs apps with html site
Still waiting on a solution.

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.