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You have got to be kidding, this is intuitive?
I have two other real estate template sites that are EASY to set up and change. Website tonight is anything but easy and I can't see anyone doing something semi professional in a night.
I am on dial up and it takes forever to load up pages or make changes. Say it's not your issue but I don't have insane wait times to change the other sites.
I have all of three images on one page and it's telling me I need to upgrade.
Give me a break.
VERY DISAPPOINTED. Don't have time to play website developer. I need to get in and get out.
With my company site, I log in, quickly do contact info, load up a photo and can change it's location on the page on the fly and do any nunber of other things with a click or two, no waiting forever.
If I need to add links, vendors, buttons, etc I can do than within seconds and place on the page where I need it - no boxes to insert, no hovering of the mouse, etc.
What am I suppose do with your calender? I inserted it but didn't see anywher in the help about how I add an event or anything.
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Hi Keith,
I appreciate your feedback on the program and am sorry to hear that you had a tough time getting through it and publishing your site.
For the most part, the majority of our users haven't had any problems with creating their pages. In fact, we have one particular user with over 100 pages! As far as creating professional looking pages, I suggest trying out one of our new CSS based templates that offer more flexibility over our standard templates. The new CSS templates don't cost any more or any less (consider them 'included with the cost of admission') and they all offer the ability to swap out the template images for images that would better suit your site's needs.
Since we're always interested in hearing suggestions on how to improve, you can e-mail ideas to suggestions@websitetonight.com.
Again, I appreciate your feedback and encourage you to send us suggestions on how to improve.
Thanks Keith.
Clifford
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I don't think Keith and I are in the minority. I just think you people have blinders on. I complained for months and months about how slow your site was. All I got was it was me and I should use Firefox instead of Windows Internet Explorer. It did help some. And I have had - still have- other issues with your company. I have decided to cut my loses, let it go and quit throwing good money after bad. So two years of work building and TRYING to maintain a site that is not acceptable has just been flushed. PRINT THIS IF YOU DARE!!!!! David
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Hi David,
I'm sorry to hear that you're frustrated with the application. I can offer you some excellent news though. In August (within a week) we will start releasing WST 4.0 which removes a lot of the frustrating areas that WST 3.0 had and brings back the WST 2.7 familiarity of click and type editing.
Shortly after the initial release, we'll have more updates to increase the speed of the application since we have been toiling away at streamlining the back end processing.
Thanks David.
Clifford
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David, I am in the same position. I've been complaining about the speed for a while. It's a joke how slow it is. I have VERY fast internet and spend all day on it without a problem. If I weren't busy doing other things I would be going elsewhere. Maybe next year.
Kevin
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Kevin - you're in luck man. WST 4.0 is right around the corner and is going to undergo a staggered roll out TONIGHT! That means some will have it tonight, more will have it tomorrow and by next Monday or Tuesday- EVERYONE will have it.
By the way- I updated your account so you can check out the new WebSite Tonight 4.0.
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I like where you are going with WST (4.0). The speed is better. Needs and UNDO button. Keep it up. It's LONG overdue!
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For the most part, this application is working for me. However, I do have a problem with how the pages work. I need to have several pages that are "invisible", that don't show up on the Links list but that need to be linked to by an image on another page. I don't want to have 100 page links showing up on my site.
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Dear Renee
Please uncheck Rebuild Navigation button in Settings or Organize Site and click OK. You can customize the Navigation links on each page. Please lookup how to link images to the pages in your site in our help system.
thanksGomathi
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I see we can put rotating photo album on website tonight. I can't figure out how, can you tell me. Thanks also, I did www.swimmisports.com only using godaddy products. Love it,
Scott
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Hi Scott,
First of all thanks for using godaddy products. And congratulations for maintaining such a wonderful website (shop.swimmisports.com).
Now to answer your question, once you are done with creating your photo album and publishing it. Click on the photo album, that will open a new window called 'Photo Album Slideshow' where you can see rotating pictures once you click the start button at bottom of the window.
I hope this helps, and thank you again.
Sanjay
Developer - WebSite Tonight
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I used Website Tonight to initally post a page for a website because I didn't have time to build one. Now I would like to build my own and I can't seem to access the site using an FTP program. Can I do this?
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Yes, you can we have repaired the problem try again
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Spell checker is not showing whole words with apostrophes or hyphens, shows part of word before or after apostrophe to spell check. Dictionary is not large enough, missing common words like proven and advisor.
Insert image: Images need to have fewer pixels to load faster. If not clear enough user can use preview. If loading 12 up pages, need 1/4 size pics for quick selection. a full-screen page of pics would be even better. Pics need basic one or few word tags and a subject or keyword search box.
Template fields: Fixed Template fields should be delete-able just like other text fields.
Template colors: Should have a box for palette choice to globally change template color scheme or individual fields. Medical template needs a white template (reverse of black template)to best allow logo paste in without excessively large field or problems with exact color matching to pasted-in field.
Builder site is often dial-up slow -- do you have enough capacity in place for peak use? I'm using a cable modem and recent top-of-line desktop with 2mb memory.
Bullets program is buggy, needs to work like Word and only bullet selected text and have selection of bullet shapes and fonts.
Fonts don't include character sets needed, like Wingdings and Webdings (1,2,3) for many uses.
Built site should be portable for a price (maybe hefty) especially if client is willing to continue to pay same amount for hosting. Clients who need to post their site in their own country or outside the US for legal reasons, but like the Website tonight ease of use should be accommodated, may be a large market.
MUSIC: Is this driven by customer preferences? Still end up having to listen on support holds, need more opportunities to # elect out or how about modern jazz instead of Dixieland?
Where are the other user blogs? Are they hidden?
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Awesome points. I'll add a few of these to our list of things to do.
About the hold music when you call in - sorry, we don't have any control over it. BUT IF WE DID - we'd probably let you upload your own music.
And, other user blogs? Please explain.
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I'm still in the planning stages for the website, but have a couple of questions: 1. Are cascading links available? This is a link on the page that expands down with additional page links to choose from. 2. I noticed the comment that CSS templates provide more options. Perhaps you could expand on the advantages and disadvantages of CSS templates versus traditional templates in greater detail.
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Dear Gordon,
WebSite Tonight currently doesn't support cascading links (a.k.a. nested menus).
CSS templates have several advantages over traditional templates:
1. They are faster to design, publish, and view.
2. You can change the layout of the main content area of a page without losing its content.
3. You can switch to another CSS template without losing content.
4. CSS layouts handle large content (wider or taller than the layout's dimensions) more gracefully.
5. You can customize all the template images.
Eric
WebSite Tonight Developer
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Is it possible to add a blog or forum to a Website Tonight website? If so, how?
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Dear Godron,
WebSite Tonight currently does not support the creation and administration of blogs and forums. Please visit https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/blog/landing.asp, however, for information on GoDaddy's Quick Blog.
Eric
WebSite Tonight Developer
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Some of the Flash intro's have photos moving by. Can these photos be changed to photos that I upload?
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Hi Gordon,
Unfortunately not, the photos that are setup in the flash file are fixed.
You raise a good suggestion though - perhaps adding the ability for you to add your own flash file as an introduction will be a nice feature.
What do you thnk?
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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Clifford -
Thanks for the reply. Yes, having the ability to author your own flash introduction and/or substitute your own photos instead of the stock photos would be a very useful feature.
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Wrote to customer service but thought I'd put it here also.
How do I put a DocType on my WebSiteTonight web pages.
Telling me that I can not put a DocType in the HTML on my WebSiteTonight pages is not an answer as it seems a DocType is now almost required of all web pages.
Not necessarily to be seen on the web but to be indexed by Search Engines and to be Search Engine friendly.
Thank You for making it possible in advance.
Don
twist-it-out.com
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WebSite Tonight currently does not support adding DocType to a page. To optimize a page for seach engines, however, you can add title, description, and keywords via its Page Properties. Custom meta-tags (such as Expiers, Content-Type, Robots, etc.) can also be added via the same UI.
Eric
WebSite Tonight Developer
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How can I direct a form submittal to an email address other than the default email address for the website?
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You cannot. WebSite Tonight forwards all form submission to the email address provided on the Contact Information page. If you change that email, all submittal will immediately begin to be forwarded to the new address.
Eric
WebSite Tonight Developer
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Please consider adding the feature permitting a form submission to be sent to an email address specified (other than the default email address). In my specific case, the default address is the webmaster email address. However, the form submission needs to go to another person in our organization for action. It seems like an unnecessary restriction to have all form submissions go to one person for further distribution when the information can be directed to the proper person automatically. If you feel that there is a valid reason for such a limitation, please explain it to me.
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Gordon-
That's an awesome suggestion! I've added it to our list of "to-do" items so keep posted with our releases in the future.
Thanks!
Clifford
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Once on this blog, is there an easy way to get back to the website you were designing with WebSite Tonight?
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The "Product Blog" link from within WebSite Tonight, launches a new browser window. Your WebSite Tonight session is still active, and it can be accessed in the original window.
Eric
WebSite Tonight Developer
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Going back to the "original window" requires signing on again (customer number and password) and then two or three other steps to get back to the page I was working on. I wouldn't consider this "easy". Is there a better way?
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Hi Gordon,
I just tried it out and you're right. We'll get that fixed in our next release. Until then, try this short cut that works with any other page on the Internet - hold down your "Shift" key while you click a link, the link will open in a new page.
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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I have dreamweaver mx and am trying to link it to my godaddy.com site. It asks for a root file but i cant find it. It is possible to use this program to create my site? Also, how do i view my page in HTML format? I want to move my tables around a bit but have trouble doing so.
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Hi Tommy,
Unfortunately you will need to use a traditional hosting account if you want to use your Dreamweaver MX program. The WebSite Tonight application is itself an online web-building tool.
Thanks for your post.
Clifford
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I like the product but am dismayed at the lack of interest in getting features that will allow developers to be compliant with guidelines for people with disabilities (ADA). Here is an article for those who are interested http://www.w3.org/WAI/intro/accessibility.php Any site should keep in mind that our viewers are not cookie cutter perfect. Anyone else interested in suggesting that Go Daddy put some effort in this direction?
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Hi Mary,
I'm interested in hearing more about what you'd like us to include. I reviewed that page on the w3.org site but found more information with the Checklist of Checkpoints of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines for 1.0. The 2.0 version doesn't really add much more to the 1.0 version.
From what I read, alt text and a text equivalent for every non-text equivalent element. This includes images, symbols, animations, aplets, sounds, video, etc... Although we want to make sure the majority of our users are able to use and enjoy our products and services, it would be quite a daunting task to meet every requirement and I'm not sure how well the pages would look.
Currently I'm proud to say that we do provide alt text for the navigation buttons on pages produced with WebSite Tonight. Text/background colors provide nice contrasts for easy reading. For the most part, a lot of that is up to you all as site designers.
Other than that, let us know what you'd like to see and we'll see if we can add it into the mix in the future.
Thanks for the post Mary!
Clifford
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I am disappointed with the templates and colors offered. They look very masculine. I bought this 4 months ago for my young teenage daughter, but the selection of templates and the flash intros are very limited for her. Can't you offer fun selections-something that a teenage girl would like? Brighter colors too? You have to admit, most of the colors are drab or very business-like.
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Hi Kathy,
I just got word from our Creative department that we'll have kid friendly templates in the next batch.
Thanks for the post!
Clifford
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Is website tonight supporting Hebrew?
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Hi Dudi,
Sorry for the inconvenience but WebSite Tonight unfortunately does not support Hebrew.
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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For some reason my fonts changed on my website from the time I published it last night until this morning when I went in to look the site over again. I went back in and changed the fonts back to where they should be, but now when I try to publish the site again with the changes, I get an error message. There are no help instructions on what to do when you get an error message. That would be helpful.
The error message that I'm getting is:
Could not find a part of the path "****************". What does this mean and what do I do?
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Dear Sonja
Sorry for the inconvenience. I looked at your project and there are text that is copy and pasted from Microsoft Word. Please use the font picker from the advanced editor to set the font. This should resolve the error.
Please use the 24/7 Support link under WebSite Tonight Links in the blog to send support request if you still get publishing errors.
thanks
Gomathi
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Sonja-
I had a similar problem, and there's someting else you should know. The Website Tonight program can not accept text that's copied and pasted from offline... You'll need to either retype it within the website tonight interface, or run the "clean microsoft word HTML" feature under "Tools" in advanced edit window of each box.
I had typed my text offline and copied it in place, but the site wouldn't publish. Took the Customer service group a little while to figure it out...
Hope that helps.
Jeff
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I'm with you Keith. Even though the programmers have worked hard to build a product, they should have studied IBM first, to avoid building something that is over-complicated, slim in features, difficult to learn quickly, and way behind the curve. I have to take my site off GoDaddy, or Website Tonight, or wherever it is and put it on a real host. Then I must go back to hand coding, which I'm comfortable with. To top it all off, after a layoff, I came back to edit some more and BANG! I'm locked out. I can't get in to edit. It seems like I have to buy more time with Website Tonight! What a crock! I've been forced to edit and complete my website on their schedule. I'm very disappointed and have lost a lot of time because of this. The time limit was probably lost in Bob Parsons' overly crowded web pages that try to sell you something at every turn. This is bad customer service and I've had enough of it. I'll buy my domains somewhere else and take my sites to other hosts. Too bad, Bob. Semper Fi!
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Hi Dave,
Thanks for the constructive criticism. I'd like to look into why you had such a hard time with our WebSite Tonight program. It sounds as though there was a large amount of time where there was inactivity and that is why you were logged out.
Other than the timing out issue, which we do for security measures, what else did you find over-complicated and what features would you like to have included?
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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well... I recently ran into a Java script/applet error. I need to use alot of java scripts for tickers-banners-images and so forth. after i put my 4-5th java script in, it said java runtime error-scripts usinfg same line or something of that nature. any advice on how to get around using many scripts with out an error?
thx Charles
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Hi Charles,
Without seeing the code, I can't be sure why you ran into a javascript error but most scripts need to have code entered into the head tags which are then later referenced in the body tag. WebSite Tonight doesn't offer this right now but we'll be adding the ability to add script into the head tags later this month so keep an eye out for our next release!
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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What is your target date for your next release, what will it contain and how will we (the users) be notified?
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Hi Gordon,
Our target date is the end of the month but I can't tell you what we'll be including just yet. A few days prior to the release I'll let you all know what we'll be including.
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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I am a big GO DADDY fan and have enjoyed your products and services. Web Site Tonight is a great product, but the speed leaves much to be desired. Even on the fastest high speed internet access, it's feels like dial-up. The functionality is great but the time it take to perform a minor task is appalling.
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Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the praise and the heads up. We're working on speeding the application up both on the software and hardware side of the equation.
Clifford
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First time poster...Enjoying Website tonight so far, but, I concur that it is too slow. Would you recommend a browser to work in to speed things up? Have tried IE, Netscape, & Firefox. IE seems more reliable. I'm on DSL in Midwest. Late night working session seems faster here, but I gotta sleep too.
Also, I'm not able to place a button into a container, it keeps putting in a form. That is annoying.
Overall, pleased, wish it was faster and more accurate.
Tom
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for the heads up, we're working on improving the speed of the application. For the most part, the application works best in IE so keep on using it if that is what you are using.
What areas of the program are you finding slow?
Thanks again.
Clifford
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Good stuff.
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I have use WST for a couple of simple static type sites and it is a little clunky at first but,you can work around it. My questions that I am hoping for help with are:
1.) Is there any way to adjust the size and or shape of the content blocks
2.) Where can you change the company name (spelling error)in the all rights reserved block
3.) Can WST support being tied to a database?
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Great questions Tracy.
1) Unfortunately there isn't a way to change the shape of the content blocks however you can change the layout of how the content blocks are setup to fit the content you want to enter. Also, you can drag and drop content from block to block if you'd like.
2) Under the "Manage" button on the green bar, click the "Contact Information" button and you'll be presented with a page where you can edit your e-mail address and your "company or individual name". That will change the "all rights reserved" block.
3) Unfortunately right now WST doesn't support a database but what kind of database features did you have in mind?
Thanks!
Clifford
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Is there any ways to use cgi or server side script in webtonight ?
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Hi,
I am in the process of moving my domain to godaddy..However i do not see ant Dental related templates in the website tonight.pls advise.
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Rama,
Thanks for taking the time to post on our blog. I'll let our Creative team know that they should consider some dental related templates the next time they work on new templates.
In the meantime, if you browse our templates and find a layout that you like but do not like the imagery included, you can always swap out the existing images with dental images of your own.
Hope that helps for the time being and we appreciate your post.
Clifford
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I have pretty much had it with this system. It is so slow, I am a very patient person, but the speed of this sight is just ridiculous. I also think it should automatically save things for you; I have had to recreate a photo album three times now because and unexpected error occurred while I was trying to insert photos. I am just fed up with the quality of this site and I honestly hope that it gets better because I am paying money for this and I am not impressed with the results.
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Hello Joe
Thank you for your comments. I am very sorry you are experiencing slowness in the product.
I can well assure the development team is working on making this application faster.
The application update should come soon.
Thank you for your patience
Sorry for the inconvenience
Gomathi
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Can I use google adsense in my pages? because I tried several times to posting using html box , but I don't know why is not working , I love WST I don't think about skip for another service.
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Greetings,
Sorry I'm a little late in this response it looks like you have already added a tower adsense unit on your homepage and thus the answer is .
Yes they work
Regards
John
WST team
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I am just a few days into using you program. I have no experience with building a website or HTML coding. I find that the help menus and "how-to's" are very vague. I post a form on one of the pages on my site. I added several fields to it. I later dedided against including some of the fields. While I was able to delete the informatino in those fields, the field itself cannot be deleted. It leaves a balnk space on the form. After a while with tch support, the final result i got was that i would have to go into the HTML settings to remove them. To me that is not acceptable at all. I asked if anyone in tech support could help me with that I was told there was no-one there that can do that. Here is my last question: If I knew how the fix the problem in HTML than why do I need WebSite Tonight? The whole purpose for me using the program is because I do not know or want to learn HTML coding. I also find it hard to believe that NO-ONE can fix this in tech support. I am very dissappointed with your product. I was however asked no less that 6 times in the last 2 days to upgrade my subscription. Maybe you should fix your product b4 you ask for more $$$
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Dear Vance,
I am sorry to hear of the difficulties you've had using WebSite Tonight.
To delete a row on a form:
1. Click the block which contains the form to edit.
2. Click somewhere on the row to be removed.
3. Expand the Table & Objects tool bar.
4. Hover over Edit Table.
5. Click Delete Row.
I hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Eric S.
WebSite Tonight Developer
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Is there a way I can force images to be published without placing them in a content block? I wrote a javascript to randomly select an image from a list of names. They don't show up unless I also place the image in a content block on another "secret" page on my site. I'm used to being able to FTP images to an image directory.
(Even when I do place the images, Website Tonight seems to change my image file names.)
Overall I have been very satisfied with what I've been able to do. I'm a code hacker and love being able to edit the HTML and add javascript!
David
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Greetings, David.
Sorry for delay in response on the previous comment which I'll address within this post. Firstly when you upload images through our bulk image uploader or to the file directory you are correct that they are not published until associated with the page. One way around this is to load the images to another location such as , Online Photo Filer, which you probably have a free version within your account, and then reference their location from there. Please let me know if this is a viable solution for your needs or if I could expand on the usage of Online photo filer within Website Tonight.
Regards
John
WST team
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Thanks John. I figured it out after reading all the help files and doing a little experimentation. The Upload Image as File feature is what I was looking for. When I upload my images this way, they get published in the uploads folder for my site and my javascript is calling them from there. It's working great and I can use the Manage/File Size feature to monitor how much space I'm using.
Thanks again,
David
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Hi, I am a new user. I've had a good experience for the most part, but am wondering if you have any plans to update the Forum. I need to be able to have emoticons, and for users to be able to embed photos, video, urls etc with out needing to know HTML etc.. Avatars that can been seen without a magnifying glass would be nice too
Thanks, Rob
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Greetings Rob,
Thank you for your feedback. The forum does indeed have plans and updates to the program are on the roadmap including most of the changes you mentioned. The avatar issue I hadn't seen prior , ok puns aside we'll take a look at that too.
Regards
John
WST team
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