Thanks Eccles.... I think the instant site editor is brilliant.  I have a little knowledge but not enough to do the things the editor can do for me and for people like me who have little time to playabout with designs themself but can edit a bit of HTML its amazing..  Any improvements will only make it better and I look forward to them.  Also thanks for the support from the team - its great to have someone knowledgable to ask when you are stuck!

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> ... Many thanks again for your help


Glad I could help ;¬)






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Regarding the editor, we know there are a few niggles with it but for what it is able to do it is the best there is (trust me, I tried loads of WYSIWYG editors!). Anyway we are hoping to introduce a whole raft of changes/improvements to it. As this will require lengthy testing the the changes won't be instant so bear with us. In the mean time I have no problems trying to assist with possible workarounds.
The main tip is that if a feature of the editor doesn't seem to work the way you expect it to the try it again in another browser. For instance, drag resizing of images doesn't work too well in IE but works fine in Firefox.

Hmmm...   - your a star!!

I sorted the page out in notepad and as you can see although I haven't finished refining it yet the PAYPAL seems to be working brilliantly!!
http://www.crystalbluefairy.co.uk/necklace__earring_sets.html

Sometimes its just good to have some chat with an expert to make sure we aren't totally on the wrong road and the team at Freeola are just brilliant!

I'm no expert... although I can write HTML and make a basic page myself... I wouldnt have a clue how to add the skyscrapers and Java and CGI etc . 
I've saved this page on my computer now so that when I want to update it I can just go through the same process... without having to add in all the bgcolors and text colors as well. 

Many thanks again for your help

"Do you think it would be worth me coding this table in notepad to make sure the code is right and then just pasting it back into the editor? ..."

I would be inclined to create a normal website using Freeola hosting if you are able to do that. I think Instant Sites are aimed at people with little website design experience - if you are happy coding your own table and pasting PayPal FORM code etc. I'm sure you would get on fine with a non-Instant Freeola site ;¬)


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Many thanks for that info... I thought I was having a really 'dim' day or something.... at least I know now its not entirely me thats at fault.  I'll have a go at pasting the code into notepad and let you know how I get on.  I did do it in the text editor ... but in the process I lost a cell from the table.... thats the point I almost lost the will to live as I couldn't find the gap in the code to put it back and had to start again!!!  It would be a help if there was some way of saving the text you tidy up yourself in the editor - but having waded through it all and put in some sort of order as soon as you go back to your page it all melts down again.

Do you think it would be worth me coding this table in notepad to make sure the code is right and then just pasting it back into the editor?  (sorry I'm thinking to myself now!!)

Yes it does look as if your PayPal 'FORM' code has been messed up!

Some of the <form action=..." statements are missing in some of the forms, but the rest of the PayPal code is left.

Where I've been playing with my Instant Site it does seem the HTML editor is rather hard work! I've mentioned in one of my other posts about the way the editor 'formats' things, which makes it's use rather tricky.

If you go back in to edit your HTML you can wade through the 'compressed' code to find all your PayPal entries and try repairing the stripped out bits. It may be easier to copy/paste everything into a normal text editor like notepad (or Notepad++) correct things then paste it all back - but it's not ideal.

NB. It doesn't matter what file format your buttons are in as long as the code is correct.

NB2. One good effect of the Instant Site with PayPal is that your header logo within PayPal is hosted on Freeola's secure site (https) which means users don't get a security warning on PayPal :¬) Normally you have to find a specialist SSL host to get around this.

I believe Eccles is currently working on some Instant Site updates so the 'editor' may improve for PayPal and JavaScript etc. in the future.

I've also been working on PayPal today - apart from the frustrations you've seen here, I've nearly had a nose bleed going round and round in circles trying to get to the bit I want on the PayPal sites!

Are you aware of the PayPal developer 'Sandbox'?
This lets you try out your shopping cart etc. in a test environment. Unfortunately this has been running slow the last few weeks (or more) but it's worth persevering with: https://developer.paypal.com/

Good luck...

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Thanks Hmmm...

This is a link to the page I'm having trouble with

http://www.crystalbluefairy.co.uk/necklace__earring_sets.html

as you can see some of the PAYPAL buttons work and some don't.

I've tried a few times to re-do them but its just the same.  I'd love to be able to get it right and with using my own buttons too.  (just a thought on that one... should I be saving my buttons as gifs or jpg? - I don't think this is the problem anyway though as PAYPALs own buttons won't work either.)

Regarding checking the HTML  I tried looking at this but its a bit of a mess in the editor  - I did think that maybe some code was missing but I copied and pasted the whole chunks as it came from PAYPAL.

It would help if you could give us a link to the page in question...

After you have pasted the PayPal FORM code into your site are you then able to save things, then view the HTML again to see if the code is still in place?



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Can anyone give me an idea where I'm going wrong.  I've added a PAYPAL shopping cart to my site but only some of the buttons work. I thought that this was first of all because I used my own buttons.. but I have the same problem using PAYPAL's standard buttons.    I have tried this a good number of times and looked at the HTML and can't find anything wrong.  I'm at the point of throwing the computer out of the window!!!!!!!!  Any advice would be great.