Remember Your Contact Information
Mood:  chatty
Topic: Tips & Tricks Info

Don't forget your contact info! It's not that uncommon to come across a website with great content that has a cool product or service available and one of the most fundamental pieces of information is either missing or buried in the site... namely: the contact info. A large percentage of visitors to almost any website are simply looking for a way to contact you... it's always a good idea to oblige them with easy access to your contact details. The top 4 approaches are:

1. A "Contact Us" page in your site's navigation... with all your details included on that page.
2. The Header area... putting your contact info right at the top of the page makes it hard to miss.
3. The Sidebar... this is a handy place to keep it.
4. The Footer (often on every page) - this is very common and many web visitors will think to look down there for it.

Changing Publish Locations in Webon
Mood:  happy
Topic: Webon Tip

Did you know that you can change the published url of your Webon site after it has been published?  You can!  You can change your published url as often as you want to or need to.  To do this, please follow the steps below:

 

1. Log in to the Control Panel and go to your Webon Site
2. Select "Unpublish" from the drop-down arrow
3. Click the "Save & Publish" link
4. Select your publishig location.  You can publish to the root directory or to a subdirectory

   

5. Click the "Publish" button once your selection is made
6. Once your site is finished publishing, you will see the screen below with the url of your site

 

 

Reapply Webon Styles
Mood:  happy
Topic: Webon Tip

Webon Styles have been going through updates lately.  If you are noticing problems with your style, please try to reapply your style.  Go to the the Styles tab, select the same style that you currently have and you should see the "Style Changed" box pop up.  This will refresh your style code and may resolve some issues you are having.

The updates that we have made to the styles is primarily to the code behind the styles.  You will not see any changes in the look of the styles, we have made improvements to them based on feedback from our customers and problems they are seeing as well making sure they work better with the new editor.

Here is a list of styles that have recently been updated:

• Americana
  
• Gasp
• Jagged
• Scraps
• Tranquility

Styles will be getting updated over the next few weeks, this is not a final list.
 

 

Webon Search Feature
Mood:  special

We have recently added a search box to the Webon Sitebuilder.  This search box is provided on each tab.  When running a search, it will only search for the filename on that particular tab and folder within Webon.

If you cannot find an image or you don't want to scroll through a number of pages in your Media Tab, you can enter part or the entire file name to locate the desired image within the selected tab. Below is a screenshot of what my Media Manager would like like:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example, I entered the search term "nature" and now only images with the word nature should appear in my list of available images, as displayed below:

 

Clear Text Formatting Tool
Mood:  happy
Topic: Webon Tip

 

 

 

Clear Text Formatting allows you to revert your text back to the default text format for the selected style. This feature is especially handy when you have pasted text from another source into the Site Builder and the formatting did not carry over correctly. Simply, select the text you wish to fix and click “Clear Text Formatting”.

For example, I pasted the text below onto my Webon page, however as you can see from the screenshot the text did not copy over that well:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see from the screeshot above, the text is not very appealing.  If I then select the text and click on the "Clear Text Formatting" button, my text will now look like the screenshot below, which is the default text style for the particular Webon style I have selected:

 

Control Panel Icon Description
Mood:  happy
Topic: Tips & Tricks Info

We have recently seen a number of questions regarding how to do edit your site if you are using the Site Builder or Webon tools from the Control Panel. Below is a list of all icons and their functions, we hope this clears up any confusion on the icons and what they represent in the Control Panel.

 

Click on this icon to Edit your site

 

Click on this icon to Create a New Entry in your Blog or Add New Photos to an Album

 

Click on this icon to Manage you Blog or Photo Album

 

Identifies that the site was built with Webon

 

Identifies that the site was built with Site Builder

 

Identifies a Blog

 

Identifies a Domain Name

 

 Identifies a Photo Album

 

Identifies a link to an RSS feed of a Tripod Blog

 

 

 

Tripod Blog: Updating Blog Link Groups
Mood:  energetic

Did you know...

...that you can change or delete your Link Groups and links within a group that appear in the navigation bar in your Tripod Blog?  Yes, you can and it is very easy to do.   Please follow these easy steps:

1. Log in to the Blog Builder Editor
2. Click on "Manage Links" under the Blog Appearance section
3. Select the Group that you wish to edit from the drop down and click the "Go" button
   

Once the group that you wish to edit has been selected, you can now:

• Delete the group
• Change the Title of the group
• Add additional links to the group
• Delete links from the group
• Change the link url or title within a group
  

In the Manage Links Edit screen you can also add a Group of Links to the navigation.  Simply, click on the "Create a New Group of Links" button, give the Group a name and start adding links to the new group.

Changing Styles in Webon
Mood:  chillin'
Topic: Webon Tip

Did you know...

...that you can change your Webon style as many times as you want?  You can and it is super easy to do as well.  We now have  84 different styles to choose from and many more getting created and added to our Webon Style Catalog each week.  To choose a new style, please follow the simple instructions below:

1. Start in the Webon Editor

2. Click on the Styles button  in the top navigation bar

3. Find the new style that you wish to use on your Webon site

4. Select the style you wish to you use and click the "X" to close the styles window

Here is a sample of what our developers currently have in the pipeline:

 

 

Twitter Feed in Webon
Mood:  happy
Topic: Webon Tip

Did you know...

...that you can show your Tweets in your Webon site?  Yes, you can, in 2 easy steps!  You can set your Twitter feed to display in your Webon site, by following the instructions below:

1. Click on Add-ons
2. Enter Twitter Username
   - Your 10 most recents tweets will now display
   

If you click on the button, you can edit the Twitter Feed settings.  From the Edit window, you can change:

• Twitter Feed Header Title
• Display Header
  
• # of tweets to display (1-5, 10, 15, or 20 tweets)
  
• Change the Twitter Username 
• Show a link to the Twitter account in your Webon profile.

Please visit our Webon Examples page to see a sample display.

Custom 404 Error Pages
Mood:  bright
Topic: 404 Error Page

Did you know....
...that you can create a custom 404 error page for your website?  Yes, you can if you have a paid account!  To do this you will want to create a page and name it "error404.html" and upload it to your file manager. 

If you are using the Webon Site Builder* tool, you can do this as well.  You will want to create a new page and then go back to rename it "error404" (no need to enter .html - the system will automatically do that for you).    You can see my error page at helpfulgal.tripod.com/error404.html.  For some ideas on what you can do with 404 pages and why they are useful to customize, please click here.

* One important thing to remember for our Webon users: remember to uncheck the box to "Show link in site navigation".  You will not want your 404 Error page to show up in your navigation bar.