Welcome!
My name is RC and I’m one of the developers of Website Tonight. I’ve been working on the product (both the current and previous versions) for more than 2 years. In that time, I’ve seen the product grow and evolve in many ways. I’ve also learned a lot about the product and the many, many ways the product is used. I look forward to sharing any insight I’ve gained with you. So please feel free to send in your questions about the product.
More importantly, we strive to continuously improve on what we have. In order for us to do this effectively, we need your help. We value and appreciate any input you might have. Your feedback is very important in the continuing evolution of the product. With your help, we will work to make sure that Website Tonight continues to be as great as it can be. Thanks.
Hi - A few things I would like to see improved is the speed - seems like it takes FOREVER for screens to load. When inserting pictures, it would be nice if it would default to my pictures instead of yours. Also, it seems like I don't have very much on my pages, yet it tells me that I should remove some of the stuff. I would love to include more graphics, etc., but it seems to be overloaded very easily.
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Hi Mary,
Speeding up the program is something we are working on and you should see a noticeable difference within the next week.
As far as the warnings due to the large file sizes, those are to tell you that site visitors who are viewing your site via a dial up connection may experience longer loading times while they view your site.
Thanks!
Clifford
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Good morning,
I have had great results with your product. My frustration comes with the integration of other supporting parts.
My file sizes also say they are larger than they should be. How do you change that so that the site stays within the proper boundaries? I upgraded and was told that would correct the problem. It hasn't.
Thanks for a great, easy to use tool.
Colleen
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Hi Colleen,
I'm glad to hear that you've had a great experience with the WebSite Tonight tool. About those warnings that you received just before you published, those are to tell you that site visitors who are viewing your site via a dial up connection may experience longer loading times while they view your site. Your site will still publish and be viewable - don't worry.
Thanks!
Clifford
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Hi I have been asking for awhile so I thought I would ask again. . . we need the ability to add a google site map to our websites or need to be able to add the google code between the head and head tags in the template. None of my go daddy sites are doing well in the rankings because google can't find them easily. I have sites hosted on other accounts and they have far surpassed my website tonight rankings and very quickly. See any change of any changes on this in the future? Every time I've called tech support, they tell me just to copy and paste but google says the file has to be uploaded into the root or index file. Maybe I'm still doing it wrong, but it won't take when you add it into the html by copying and pasting. Any improvement in this area would help all of us alot. I love godaddys support and ease of use, but that one thing has prompted me to think twice when building another website. We all know how important google is
thanks.
margaret
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Hi Margaret,
Thanks for the post and I'm glad you mentioned this idea. We've been kicking this idea around the office and I think it's something that we can probably work into our development schedule in the near future. Please keep posted with our blog and developments!
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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After reading about the advantages of using a CSS based template, is there a way to see a list of those templates that are CSS? As far as I can tell, you have to go through each category to find them.
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Hi Terry,
When we were releasing the CSS based templates, we were debating on having them all clumped up into one section but we plan to eventually have ALL of the templates in the CSS based format so a new section didn't fit well with that plan. So we opted to just keep them in their respective categories but place them as the first templates in each. This way it would be somewhat easier to find.
Unfortunately until we conver them all, hopefully that will be sooner than later, you will have to check each category to find them. Sorry for the inconvenience but rest assured, we are working on it.
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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We are a scrapbooking Business and would like for the developers in increase the time allowed for our customers to shop. As the program is now it "times out" after 15 mins. The customer not only gets kicked out they loose their orders. Can you fix this?
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Hi Karen,
I'm not sure I understand which program you are talking about. Just in case you're talking about Quick Shopping Cart, I've forwarded your comment to that department.
Thanks for the post.
Clifford
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I just signed up for website tonight and I noticed that there is not one political themed template and/or flash introduction. Is there anyway that can be added to website tonight?
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Hi Jose,
Thanks for using WebSite Tonight. We currently don't have any politically themed templates or flash introductions however you can replace the images on any of the templates with your own politically themed images to give your site that unique look.
You'll have more flexibility with our CSS templates. In the near future, all of our templates will be converted to this new CSS system.
Thanks again.
Clifford
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Is it possible to upload PDF documents using WebSite Tonight?
Thanks
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Hi Joe,
Thanks for the post. Yes, it is possible to upload a PDF file using Website Tonight. There is an Upload Files option under the Build Web Site menu of our designer. You can upload your PDF using that function. Then, you can create a link to open that uploaded PDF file from any text or image on your site by pointing a link to:
http://yourdomain.com/uploads/yourfile
Just to be clear, you'll want to substitute "yourdomain.com" with your domain name and "yourfile" with your file.
Thanks,
RC
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The templates don't seem to accept Google AdSense code to implement the ad links. Is there any way I can do this? or is it a similar problem to Margaret's comment posted on 8/13/06? If we can implement the code for the ads, please tell me how.
Thank you
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Hi JDotson,
Having this work is on our "to do list" and yep, the solution is similar to what Margaret mentioned earlier this month.
Thanks for your post. Rest assured this is coming in the future.
Clifford
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Hello JDotson,
I tried to figure this before and I found out the solution! You need to click on the Insert Script and paste the Google Code into it.
Art
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thanks art, you really helped me out. i was having crazy trouble on how to do it and you got the answer!!!
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Hi,
First of all thank for developing a nice program that is relatively user friendly. I've been struggling with dreamweaver and this seems like a more efficient way to go.
Next, I need to tell ya to please give your phone tech support guys and gals a clue that this blog exists. Twice I have asked them and both times they check around the office and nobody knew of this blog's existence. I've read every comment here on the blog and got better answers than they were able to give me on the phone (particularly the page navigation button questions).
Couple o questions: I'm confused as to weather I should keep my website's blog on a separate domain or incorporate it into the website. Is there an advantage (for search engine optimization for example) to having the blog as a subdomain? or is it better to keep it as a separate domain? (This is all assuming I can just call the tech guys and say, hey, plunk this puppy into my Website Tonight account).
Next Question. I plan to have several HUNDRED pages on my website. And I'm using an HTML based template rather than CSS. If you, as you have suggested you will, change over to all CSS templates will I have to immediately import all my content into the new CSS template? Or can I stay with the HTML format for as long as I want?
Note: I would have chosen a CSS template but I couldn't find a one with main body sidebars on both sides. As it is, I had to resort to using photoshop slices to create my top banner.
That's all for now. Glad I found this blog (by accident).
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Hi Steve,
Thanks for the praise on the program.
1) Keeping two sites, one as a web site and the other as a blog is a good move. It gives you the ability to link back and forth from one to another and gives you more flexibility on how you want to market your sites.
2) Our conversion to CSS based templates is almost complete. You should start seeing our list of templates populated with CSS based templates within the next few weeks. If I were you, I'd switch to a CSS template now and switch back to your chosen template in the future when it becomes available in CSS form. All templates that we have will be converted to the CSS format.
We're glad you found this blog as well. Please check back next week - we'll have a few more posts to share about our most recent release.
Thanks again.
Clifford
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I just started using the Web site tonight default/example contacts e-mail form. This works perfect, except I'd like to find an Outlook add-in or other tool that will pull the address data from the Web site tonight form into Outlook contacts. Is there such a tool?
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Hi Michael,
We don't have a tool built into WebSite Tonight that will do this however that does sound like a neat feature.
I'll put it on our list of ideas to consider.
Thanks.
Clifford
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Why can't I run ads by using content boxes on my free Blog? There seems to be a lot space to do so along the side. I am interested in who benefits from this situation?
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Hi David,
Unfortunately this is the blog for WebSite Tonight, not the blog for Quick Blog. I unfortunately don't have control over what happens in the blog software however you can place ads in the free WebSite Tonight program.
Thanks!
Clifford
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I've been reading up on Meta Tags and have found that they really are almost obsolete now...that search engines are not really using them anymore. From what I've read, a well-constructed Title Tag is the way to go if you want search engines to notice your site. I have done a search on Web-site Tonight "help" buttons and can find nothing about this. Can you help me out? I'd really like to take advantage of this if possible. Also, can you give a little more info on how to make the blog work for me on my site.
Thanks in advance,
Robin
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Hi Robin,
I think along with the title, meta tags are still being used by search engines. In Website Tonight, you can also set a carefully worded text as your page title. This you can do from 'Page Properties' page. 'Browser Title' is saved as title. After you publish your site, you will see the text as browser title.
I found a good article on net about it. Please have look at it http://www.seologic.com/faq/title-tags.php
Hope this help
Thanks, Sanjay
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Hi,Sanjay and Robin,
My domin name is "Stufrsumpn". I went from unnoticed to #1 on a google search of that name by adding the metatags "Stuff" and "Something" to my page properties. Try adding a take-off on your domain to your pages.
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i wish there was a way ro resize a photo album (larger and centered on the page) and a way to add a link to the full size picture.
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Jon, thanks for the comment, we're working on some photo album related improvements right now!
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First, let me say "great product". Easy to use and headed in a positive direction, for sure.
However, I have several website through GoDaddy and I have the same problem with each when "advance editing" a block. The editing screen does not completely load the first time, and I must cancel and reload (sometimes several times) to get it to load.
My setup:
cable modem, 2.5mb/s download speed
Windows XP Pro
2.4ghz processor, 1Gb RAM
IE 6 set to Low on pop-ups for GoDaddy sites.
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How do I add the feature of "clicking on a picture to see an enlarged version of it?"
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Hi Carole,
If you want to add a link to a big picture from a small picture, there is a 2 step process.
1) Upload the larger picture by rolling your mouse under the "Build Web Site" button on the green menu bar and click on "Upload Files'.
2) Once you add a small picture into your page, click on it and then click on the
Thanks.
Clifford
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Hey, Guys. Thanks for a great opportunity and product. I have a simple question. Is it possible to have a different template image on each page? I've changed the header image successfully and of course it shows up on each subsequent page. If there was a way to have a different image on each it would make it perfect for me. Thanks.
All the best, Don
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Don -
Great idea. I haven't heard a lot of requests for this feature but if I hear more, it will be added to the road map as a future feature.
Thanks!
Clifford
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I second the motion!
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Yes, it would be helpful on some of the web sites.
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I am sure that you worked hard on this 4.0 version, but for me it is a nightmare. No one told me that I would have to rebuild my site, that the manual was to be so vague, and that the program would operate so slowly that it has taken me 3 hours to rebuild my home page. I am really frustrated right now and unable to publish anything new to my site until I get this thing done. I cannot put the mess I have on the web at this point. Please let people know that updates are not necessarily a GOOD thing.
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Jeanie,
Thank you for your feedback on the 4.0 version. I will indeed pass on your concerns regarding unnannounced updates that would result in revisions such as this.
Regards
John
WST
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Good Lord. Does that mean I have to rebuild my websites too?
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Midge,
When moving from 2.7 there are some elements that would require some user intervention to get the best out of the new designer / features. 3.0 to 4 should be seamless. If not please let us know
Regards
John
WST
*edited my comment to amend incorrect info
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