I've actually got my website started! Add your Website ideas here!

fuzzylizzie

fuzzylizzie

Alumni
I\'ve actually got my website started! Add your Website ideas here!

http://fuzzylizzie.com/

Just getting started, but how exciting it is to get this project underway! I love Lin's so much that I had to do it.

I'll be adapting my newsletters, and doing articles to complement the items in my Babylon Mall store. I also plan to do reviews of fashion exhibits and museums.

I'm using bravenet.com, and it has been fairly easy figuring out how to build the site.

Lizzie
 
:clapping::clapping::clapping:

Looking great!

:booze: (take that as smashing the bottle against the ship's side).

I do like the way the site allows you to fiddle and develop it gradually.

One word of caution: watch out for the incompatability between the template (webpage wizard) editing and the full File Manager visual editor. Revisions entered in the latter will not show up in pages constructed using the former, since they are governed by an attached, unalterable style sheet.

However, I'm actually finding that this balances out into a fairly easily revised home page interface (using the wizard) and separate, dedicated preview/feature pages (using the visual-editor-from-scratch - just save 'em as html in the right place, link 'em, and there they are...).

Looking forward to reading your features!

L

:headbang:
 
excellent! i am so technologically challenged that i am in awe of everyone that creates this kind of thing without help - it looks like it's going to be great and i look forward to reading your reviews!
 
Lizzie, how wonderful! You're well on your way ~

:bouncy:

(That looks just like me, doesn't it? :hysterical: )



Carolyn
 
Great Lizzie!

My site is going to sort of be a "hub" as well. The shopping link will be to my mall store, and it will give me more chance to add all the other stuff i want to talk about and direct traffic where i need it to go.

I started looking at the software Godaddy has as his site is through that and he hates the templates. my domains are on yahoo and i couldn't download that editor so may move my domains anyways. And then i am now looking to buy the html program that i am used to.

I guess i am just all mixed up!
 
<i>and it will give me more chance to add all the other stuff i want to talk about and direct traffic where i need it to go.</i>

Yep, it just gives you an amazing flexibility and an opportunity to really indulge your own preoccupations.

Sharing my new marketing wheeze:
Have opened up a Live Journal as 'Noir_boudoir' (http://www.livejournal/users/noir_boudoir/ - you can reach it thru my links page) and joined a variety of goth and vintage clothing groups. I'm thinking of unilaterally adding a 'Vintage Fashion Guild' interest category, that could also potentially turn into a supervised (ie filtered membership) 'community'.

Traffic may not be huge, but it could be the right traffic - have already had a few visits through that and my second mirror journal (that took me about 20 minutes to fling up) at Journal Space.

Nothing complex, I just preview pics there. Free advertising with a personal twist - a bit scarey because you're 'out there' but kind of nice... One of these days I'll be able to be a bit less slapdash about the design/formatting, but right now if it doesn't happen in 30 minutes in my life, it can't happen at all...

Chris, does it matter where your domains are registered for now? You could always have them pointing to a substitute site hosted elsewhere. I'm sure bravenet is like others in registering you a free domain when you buy their hosting package. And if you have your addresses already, you can pick a slight variant for the time being for hosting...?


Sorry for the rambling hijack...
L
 
Yes, you could have them pointing to a substitute site but it is best to transfer your domains to where your site is hosted. Reason being, is that search engines, and even folk's spyware programs detect that they are being "redirected" when you type it in whether you opt to have the person "know" they are being redirected or the typed in domain stays in the browser and is "masked". I have one of my domains that points to my mall store if someone happens to type it in trying variations of my name for now.
 
Hatty,

It really is quite simple. If I can figure it out, then anyone can!

Now I'm adding links. So many possibilities...

Please, anyone feel free to share their ideas for websites. It really helps to hear what others are doing.

Lizzie

(Yes, Carolyn, it DOES look like you!:hysterical: )
 
(I just got tempted into spending some time adding a new page that I thought up on getting up this morning!)
<a href="http://noirboudoir.com/index.html" target=_blank>
<img src="http://archive.noirboudoir.com/pagepics/ghostsofmayfair.jpg" height=200></a>

You need to scroll down to click thru at 'New in Dispatches'.

It's more of a speculative skeleton, but hopefully you get the idea!

L
 
Lin, are you doing your own tables and pasting it into the template at Bravenet?

I love the ghost idea. Goes along so well with your overall theme!
 
I'm not using the templates at all for these individual pages linking off the main domain.
I created some extra subdomain names under my umbrella site.

Then given that the editing/template interface could be awkward, I ignored that entirely. (If you ask on the Bravenet forums, they will gently tell you to 'back away' from the template wizard, because of its inflexibility - great to start with though).

Instead, I go to the 'File Manager' (on the menu before the wizard button) and inside the file designating the relevant subdomain, I 'create a file' with an .html extension and my preferred name for whatever subject it's going to be.

Once that html file is in existence, it has a little paper and pen icon next to it on the right, indicating that you can edit. If you click on that, it comes up with a kind of dual editor, with 'visual' and 'code' tabs. It gives you a blank html document with the words 'enter content!' or something.

The visual editor gives you the options of doing simple things like adding tables, images and formatting text. Problem is, it is easier to screw it up than the template ones. You can flip between visual and code editors, but you need to save your changes before doing so.

I know a bit of (but not enough) html, and sometimes the visual editor does things with the automatic code entry that I don't want it to, or, say, I want to add a background image or colour. Then I have to go into the code editor and prune the automatically entered html code, or add my own simple commands.

So I'm learning as I go along, still, but it's a simple enough interface to make progress with.

Every time you save that html document in the File manager editor, it saves it straight to your online domain/subdomain, so there's no need to go through that fiddly palaver of 'publish' that the wizard requires you to do. It's just there straight away.

Is that....um... clearish?

L
 
Okay, Lin, Now...

How do you link these pages to the rest of it?

I have set up a page called Fashion's Finest. I have made a sub-domain page on Tammis Keefe. How do I link from Fashion's Finest to my Keef page?

In other words, how did you link from "Vintage Dispatches" To your page on Londontown?
 
OK, I just go into the website wizard, select your index page to edit, write some text where I want the link 'New! feature on whatsit!' and then (in the visual editor) select those words that I want to link. Then you select the 'add link' button and paste in the address of your separate html page. It should then automatically code in the link.

Alternatively you can go into the code editor and put the code < a href="----"> </a > around the same words.

Only annoying problem is, when you create pages outside the wizard, you can't get it to add them on that horizontal navigation bar on your templated home page.

Instead, when you have more than one page, you could start to add links in a list in one of the side bars.

There are a few other things that are a bit of a pain about the template - one I'm fiddling with at the moment is the ability to customize your own meta-tags to help your site be search-bot-crawler compatable. The wizard lets you add meta-keywords which it keeps in there, but you can't put any explicit robot instructions in their heading area. You can only add them in the body of your page and hope that the Google-bot will find them there too.

I guess it's a question of just trying to wrestle with these things as you go along. Either that or cook up a new home page. Hmmmm....

ps. It's a good idea to put a reciprocal link in your new page saying 'back home' or something. again, similar process except in the File Manager editor.

Fingers crossed and looking forward to reading more...
L
 
geez...i wish i knew what language y'all were speaking...

anyway - Lizzie, Your site Looks Fabulous, Daaahhhling!!!

I'm using (free) Bravenet, too right now. It's my 'practice getting my name out there' site.
I love GoDaddy & will likely go with their small site & a shopping cart, if I can figure out how to make it all work. Thr great thing about GoDaddy is they are Tremendously helpful. I have my domain & email thru them,so I plan to stick with 'em as they've been reeeeally good to me. Plus the price is cool.

Anyway - Congrats, {{{Lizzie}}}!

leisa :wub: you!
 
Thanks Leisa. I wish I knew the language a little better, as it would sure make this all easier.

And thanks, Lin. I finally decided to used the < a href... thing and managed to link 2 articles!

It's growing slowly but surely. I already have quite a bit of writing that I've done for my newsletter. If only I weren't stumbling around in the dark!

Lizzie
 
For more helpful tips, check the workshop forum for HTML workshop topics as well.

It's looking really great Lizzie and I love :love008: the mod feature!
 
Thanks, Chris. I wrote that ages ago for my ME page at eBay.

Allright, Mod girls, I'm open to suggestions for changes and additions to that article.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top