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I think I’ve jumped the gun with Yola. I was upset about my own failure to research something I before I bought it and took it out on Yola. Last night I spent some time using Yola’s site builder and its actually really cool. On the Yola silver plan that I got for $25.00 there are tons of cool themes for your site to choose from. I was worried about not being able to have a community forum or a shopping cart since all the ones I’ve used in the past required a MySql database and a lot of tweeking to get the cart software to match the look of your site. I was really surprised to find out how easy it was to setup a community forum and a shopping cart using Yola. You really just drag and drop it into place and fill in a few details and your up and running. In about 2 hours last night I had a nice looking website completed with finished forums, shopping cart, YouTube, videos, embedded Google map, and tons of games. So after I gave Yola a chance its actually really cool. I think anyone that needs a business or personal site would do good with Yola. A lot of the issues that I had with the features that they don’t offer were solved once I started using the Yola site builder. They have many many ways to get around those little details already built into the site builder. As for my refund issue I spoke with a very nice lady today and she explained to me that the coupon code I used was from Groupon and that I had actually paid Groupon for my Yola service and the reason the previous reps were telling me they couldn’t refund me was because I didn’t even purchase it from Yola. She went on to say She said she’s going to give me the refund anyways if they could send it with paypal or mail a check since they don’t have any transactions from me. That’s amazing. I haven’t had the pleasure of doing business with many companies that are willing to go this far out of their way to make sure a customer has a good experience. (Even a jerk like me) If your looking for a an easy way to build a website with hosting included check out www.yola.com Just to your research first to make sure it’s what you want.

Yea I'm kicking myself for not researching these guys before i signed up. I normally would have but I guess it was a timing them. My current hosting plan was about to run out and I didn't have enough money to renew it. Then this coupon shows up. Owned. I didn't say I paid full price for the plan. After the coupon anyways, but I don't think I should be at their mercy when it comes to the refund. One of the things it does say on the sign up page is that they offer a 30 day satisfaction guarantee. I made it perfectly clear that I was not satisfied in the least. As for Yola letting you know they don't offer anything. Its not on the sign up page. You would have to research it to find out. That I now regret is something that I should have done. Them not wanting to honor their refund is icing on the rotten cake. The coupon doesn't have a TOS that I can find. Not that I would have read it anyways. The three main points to take away from this aside from me failing to research something before I bought it. Yola is intentionally misleading when describing what they sell. At least I didn't know I wasn't buying a real hosting package until after researching. Yola doesn't offer a number of basic web hosting features that every equally price hosting plan I've seen do offer. It was my understanding that these were common features for paid hosting. Yola will give you the run around when it comes time to hold up their end of the 30 day money back guarantee. At least with me their excuse is refunds don't apply to coupons. Just giving you my opinion of these guys. True if I would have known i would have never signed up in the first place. That should be a good indication in its self of a poor hosting choice.

Sup, I just tried Yola and they owned me. I went with the $100 silver plan and then found out that its just a knock off of my space. The only way to edit your site is by copying and pasting code into boxes. They don't give you ftp, php, mysql, or anything a real hosting provider would. It would be nice if they let you know that somewhere on the order screen. Anyways now i'm fighting with them over my refund. They say the have a 30 day refund period but they keep saying I can't have a refund because I used a coupon and got it cheaper. Yea i'm pissed at yola they really suck.

I would like my content box to expand and shrink with the text inside of it. My issues is getting it to center as well. My content box appears to be positioned relative to the home button and that's causing it to move off center. I'm not sure why its tied into the home button. It must have something to do with the way I'm displaying my content with the on-hover effect. On test.php the right side of the content box is the only side that moves when the box expands or shrinks. The left side stays in the same place in line with the home button. http://www.wararmada.com/tdb/test.php #contentBox ul ul li { border:#000 solid; border-width:1px; -moz-border-radius: 1em; -webkit-border-radius: 1em; border-radius:1em; max-width:700px; width:auto; padding:10px; position:strict; margin-top:50px; color:#F0F0F0; background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.3); } I changed the code to positioned strict that "should" make it its own entity correct? Then I would plug in my width and my margin autos and it "should" be center right? It doesn't, its still aligned with the home button. It seems like position strict would break the connection to the home key. Is that how it would normally work? I just starting to get used to using position tags. I'm thinking this could be a side effect of the way I've got the content to display on hover. I guess technically my content box is inside of the nav bar. Its made of hover text that I've added some style to and then a bit of javascript to keep it from closing when you take your mouse off the button. I need the alignment to anchor in the middle of the content box in stead of on the left edge. I'm just getting my feet wet with positioning. Relative makes it move within its parent div and Strict should allow it to move freely as far as i know? Seems like no matter what I do the content box is still tied into the home button. I've also tried http://www.wararmada.com/tdb/test2.php #contentBox ul ul li { width: 75%; max-width:700px; margin: 50px 0 0 25%; padding:10px; border:#000 solid; border-width:1px; -moz-border-radius: 1em; -webkit-border-radius: 1em; border-radius:1em; color:#F0F0F0; background-color: rgba(255,0,0,0.3); } Its closer to what I want. The content box expands and stays near the middle of the page but depending on the amount of content in the box it could be off centered to the left or right side. Is there anyway to change the anchor point of the content box? If i could align it using the center of the content box as the anchor it would work. Any idea on how I can get around this? It could just be that I'm not very good with css. I'm playing around with adding another div around the content box but i haven't came up with any results yet.

Epic! Thank you! I've tried a few different test server setups but this was the first one I got to work. =)

Hi, I'm thinking about finding a free host and using a free sub domain to build and test the php-database stuff... Along with learning php and mysql stuff I've already got a lot of the php stuff setup but my file paths are all wrong. Is there anything I should do while I'm building this part of my site to make sure it still works when I move it to a permanent home ? So far I know that I shouldn't use the full path but instead something like assets/php/reallycomplex.php Once its complete and I have all of my info in the database my plan is to move to a real host and get a real domain name instead of the sub domain. Are there any other things I should know? Thanks for the advice.

oh nice. I thought that bit was important. Thanks man.

Nice! Thanks for the help. I'm remaking them with css so i'll make sure i'm not using the same id's this time.

I'm having some trouble with this error. One of the reasons that its throwing me off so much is that I'm using the exact same code in a number of places in my site and only one of them shows up as an error. <ul name="home" id="home"> <ul name="search" id="search"> <ul name="submit" id="submit"> <ul name="forum" id="forum"> <ul name="contact" id="contact"> http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wararmada.com%2Ftdb%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=1&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.2 Do you see where i going wrong?

Nice. Thanks for the help guys. This will defo give me a place to start. Cheers

I have hardware setup to preform an action on camera when i enter a url into the address bar. Pretty much you will be able to feed tarantulas. I'd like to setup a button that my user can click that will active the url without being moved off of the current page. I can't figure out how to stop the browser from following the link to a blank page. It messes the whole thing up because the feeder only runs for a second and if you get sent to the blank page and have to navigate back the the live video feed page you could miss the feeding. Thanks for the help

Face Palm Well I guess i should go ahead and remake them now while they are not connected to any php. Thanks for the link! That will give me something to go by.

Sweet! Thanks man I got it sorted.

Hello, I have my site setup to display its content when you hover over the buttons on my nav bar. Once you hover over the button the content will stay up as long as your mouse pointer is over the content box. I'm running into two problems that make me want to get the content box to stay open unless you click off of it. The first issue is that some of my buttons are close the the bottom of the content box and its not very hard at all to let the box close by mistake. I could fix this by making the content boxes larger and giving padding to the content. The second issue is worse. Most of my content boxes hold forms. The text boxes inside the forms remember what you have previously typed into them. The problem is that once you start typing into the box it has a drop down that gives you the ability to choose from text that you have already typed into the box. When your mouse goes over this drop down it closes the content box. This happens almost every time you type into a box because your mouse is normally left near the text box that you have just clicked on to type into. You are also not able to select any of the texts from the drop down as the content box closes when you start hovering over the new drop down. I like having the browser remember whats been typed in the text boxes but I don't know how to get it to stop closing my content boxes. I've seen some photo and video galleries that pop up an image or video and then the only way to close it is by clicking off of the pop up window or pressing esc. How would I apply that feature to my site? Its at www.wararmada.com/tdb Thanks

I have form's made out of tables. Have a look at the search, submit, and contact pages and let me know if this should be done using css instead. www.wararmada.com/tdb Thanks