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Hi all,
I'm a newbie to this site and to website building so, ignoring all the rules - such as looking at all the threads posted on the entire site - I have some questions to ask in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
Does Freeola provide the script for a site search? I would like my customers to be able to search my own site for the relevant item; not all of google.
Does Freeola provide a shopping basket or recommend one?
Also, in a more general vein, do people have more than one site?
I will explain what I am doing so that I can get the right feedback.
I already have a site up and running but it is costing me a fortune - fifty uk pounds a month - and I saw freeola and thought I would try to build a site with them and run it alonside the other one and compare the results. I have my own domain name which I can transfer but for the moment I am just using the freeware from Freeola.
My biggest problem that I have is trying to understand how to copy all the information on my original site and place it on the Freeola site without having write it all out again. I can cut and paste the text but when I try to copy the html my comp just freezes and then crashes.
I would like the knowledge to be able to copy a whole group of items with their links which is on a different server but I don't know where to begin.
I am purposfully not giving my website address because I don't want to be accused of spamming which I know from years of experience is a delicate subject so I am hoping that someone on this site has transferred all their information from somewhere else to Freeola and can give me some tips
I will leave it at that for the moment and will continue to browse the site and look forward to any replies I may recieve
jobel
I'm a newbie to this site and to website building so, ignoring all the rules - such as looking at all the threads posted on the entire site - I have some questions to ask in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
Does Freeola provide the script for a site search? I would like my customers to be able to search my own site for the relevant item; not all of google.
Does Freeola provide a shopping basket or recommend one?
Also, in a more general vein, do people have more than one site?
I will explain what I am doing so that I can get the right feedback.
I already have a site up and running but it is costing me a fortune - fifty uk pounds a month - and I saw freeola and thought I would try to build a site with them and run it alonside the other one and compare the results. I have my own domain name which I can transfer but for the moment I am just using the freeware from Freeola.
My biggest problem that I have is trying to understand how to copy all the information on my original site and place it on the Freeola site without having write it all out again. I can cut and paste the text but when I try to copy the html my comp just freezes and then crashes.
I would like the knowledge to be able to copy a whole group of items with their links which is on a different server but I don't know where to begin.
I am purposfully not giving my website address because I don't want to be accused of spamming which I know from years of experience is a delicate subject so I am hoping that someone on this site has transferred all their information from somewhere else to Freeola and can give me some tips
I will leave it at that for the moment and will continue to browse the site and look forward to any replies I may recieve
jobel
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Hi all,
I'm a newbie to this site and to website building so, ignoring all the rules - such as looking at all the threads posted on the entire site - I have some questions to ask in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
Does Freeola provide the script for a site search? I would like my customers to be able to search my own site for the relevant item; not all of google.
Does Freeola provide a shopping basket or recommend one?
Also, in a more general vein, do people have more than one site?
I will explain what I am doing so that I can get the right feedback.
I already have a site up and running but it is costing me a fortune - fifty uk pounds a month - and I saw freeola and thought I would try to build a site with them and run it alonside the other one and compare the results. I have my own domain name which I can transfer but for the moment I am just using the freeware from Freeola.
My biggest problem that I have is trying to understand how to copy all the information on my original site and place it on the Freeola site without having write it all out again. I can cut and paste the text but when I try to copy the html my comp just freezes and then crashes.
I would like the knowledge to be able to copy a whole group of items with their links which is on a different server but I don't know where to begin.
I am purposfully not giving my website address because I don't want to be accused of spamming which I know from years of experience is a delicate subject so I am hoping that someone on this site has transferred all their information from somewhere else to Freeola and can give me some tips
I will leave it at that for the moment and will continue to browse the site and look forward to any replies I may recieve
jobel
I'm a newbie to this site and to website building so, ignoring all the rules - such as looking at all the threads posted on the entire site - I have some questions to ask in the hope that someone can point me in the right direction.
Does Freeola provide the script for a site search? I would like my customers to be able to search my own site for the relevant item; not all of google.
Does Freeola provide a shopping basket or recommend one?
Also, in a more general vein, do people have more than one site?
I will explain what I am doing so that I can get the right feedback.
I already have a site up and running but it is costing me a fortune - fifty uk pounds a month - and I saw freeola and thought I would try to build a site with them and run it alonside the other one and compare the results. I have my own domain name which I can transfer but for the moment I am just using the freeware from Freeola.
My biggest problem that I have is trying to understand how to copy all the information on my original site and place it on the Freeola site without having write it all out again. I can cut and paste the text but when I try to copy the html my comp just freezes and then crashes.
I would like the knowledge to be able to copy a whole group of items with their links which is on a different server but I don't know where to begin.
I am purposfully not giving my website address because I don't want to be accused of spamming which I know from years of experience is a delicate subject so I am hoping that someone on this site has transferred all their information from somewhere else to Freeola and can give me some tips
I will leave it at that for the moment and will continue to browse the site and look forward to any replies I may recieve
jobel
Hi and welcome to the forums.
I'll try to answer some of your questions :¬)
No Freeola doesn't provide a site search script.
There a quite a few different types of scripts freely available though - some require MySQL other more basic ones don't.
I've played around with Google's CSE and find it quite useful: www.google.com/coop/cse. I set up a version to search these very chat forums - see link below.
No again to the Freeola supplied eCommerce query I'm afraid.
Yes I have many sites (120ish domains) with Freeola and highly recommend them! I moved a new client to Freeola/Getdotted only on Friday - but this was only basic static pages which were easy to save and then upload to Freeola.
To move your website content you will have to use FTP to 'propagate' your new web space. I use and recommend FileZilla a free FTP application.
If you keep copies of the site on your PC you will need to FTP them to Freeola. It sounds as if your site may be more complicated than that though perhaps with dynamically generated content? I'm guessing you will still need to use FTP to download the existing site and then upload it to the new hosts. You could use a website copier like HTTrack to capture the data - and then FTP to upload it again. Static content is easy to manage but it will be trickier if you have many scripts and lots of added functionality etc.
You're right people who arrive once, post an idiotic sentence followed by a website address and then are never to be seen again are a pain. But your post all sounds genuine to me, so feel free to post the address of the site in question. Seeing the type of site and the scale of it could help to answer your questions.
Search Freeola Chat this is my Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) hosted on free web space from Freeola and set up to search these chat forums.
I'll try to answer some of your questions :¬)
No Freeola doesn't provide a site search script.
There a quite a few different types of scripts freely available though - some require MySQL other more basic ones don't.
I've played around with Google's CSE and find it quite useful: www.google.com/coop/cse. I set up a version to search these very chat forums - see link below.
No again to the Freeola supplied eCommerce query I'm afraid.
Yes I have many sites (120ish domains) with Freeola and highly recommend them! I moved a new client to Freeola/Getdotted only on Friday - but this was only basic static pages which were easy to save and then upload to Freeola.
To move your website content you will have to use FTP to 'propagate' your new web space. I use and recommend FileZilla a free FTP application.
If you keep copies of the site on your PC you will need to FTP them to Freeola. It sounds as if your site may be more complicated than that though perhaps with dynamically generated content? I'm guessing you will still need to use FTP to download the existing site and then upload it to the new hosts. You could use a website copier like HTTrack to capture the data - and then FTP to upload it again. Static content is easy to manage but it will be trickier if you have many scripts and lots of added functionality etc.
You're right people who arrive once, post an idiotic sentence followed by a website address and then are never to be seen again are a pain. But your post all sounds genuine to me, so feel free to post the address of the site in question. Seeing the type of site and the scale of it could help to answer your questions.
Search Freeola Chat this is my Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) hosted on free web space from Freeola and set up to search these chat forums.
Hi Hmmmm,
thanks for the welcome. It was only after I posted that I bothered to read the chat rules - I thought I was pretty conversant with any rules for chatrooms - then I saw the pinned rule stating that there were to be no links to competitors and my site is with a competitor but I don't know if giving my website address is the same as giving a link but I will put it into here and risk the banning - I've been banned from worse sites than this (lol).www.theemporiumredruth.co.uk
I am now struggling to get to grips with freeola but having an account with another wysiwyg site it is not too daunting and hopefully I can get something online soon.
As you have pointed out you do need to see my site to understand the complexities of it and how much work there is to do so hopefully you can look at it and then give me some pointers, not on the design aspect but on how to transfer the content to freeola if I do decide to change over.
I am now going through the links you have kindly provided and will look for any further advice. Thanks
thanks for the welcome. It was only after I posted that I bothered to read the chat rules - I thought I was pretty conversant with any rules for chatrooms - then I saw the pinned rule stating that there were to be no links to competitors and my site is with a competitor but I don't know if giving my website address is the same as giving a link but I will put it into here and risk the banning - I've been banned from worse sites than this (lol).www.theemporiumredruth.co.uk
I am now struggling to get to grips with freeola but having an account with another wysiwyg site it is not too daunting and hopefully I can get something online soon.
As you have pointed out you do need to see my site to understand the complexities of it and how much work there is to do so hopefully you can look at it and then give me some pointers, not on the design aspect but on how to transfer the content to freeola if I do decide to change over.
I am now going through the links you have kindly provided and will look for any further advice. Thanks
Not being daft here, but if you're thinking of migrating to Freeola..why not do it and then redirect your site from your new Freeola address whilest you transfer your existing site's content to the Freeola servers at your leisure. :-)
Dragonlance wrote:
> Not being daft here, but if you're thinking of migrating to
> Freeola..why not do it and then redirect your site from your new
> Freeola address whilest you transfer your existing site's content
> to the Freeola servers at your leisure. :-)
Not sure I completely get your idea DL, but maintaining data/content in two different places could be quite an overhead.
I would rather move it all in one go if it was me.
You could always keep the original site up and running until all the data has been moved and tested.
I sometimes get sites running under a /new directory then when I'm happy thing things promote it to 'live' etc.
Search Freeola Chat
> Not being daft here, but if you're thinking of migrating to
> Freeola..why not do it and then redirect your site from your new
> Freeola address whilest you transfer your existing site's content
> to the Freeola servers at your leisure. :-)
Not sure I completely get your idea DL, but maintaining data/content in two different places could be quite an overhead.
I would rather move it all in one go if it was me.
You could always keep the original site up and running until all the data has been moved and tested.
I sometimes get sites running under a /new directory then when I'm happy thing things promote it to 'live' etc.
Search Freeola Chat
Hi jobel602,
Just to update things while you look at my previous ideas.
Having had a quick look at your site now, I think perhaps one of your biggest problems could be that your pages are .cfm (Cold Fusion?) and I don't believe Freeola support that format!
Might be worth you looking in to this a bit more?
Search Freeola Chat
Just to update things while you look at my previous ideas.
Having had a quick look at your site now, I think perhaps one of your biggest problems could be that your pages are .cfm (Cold Fusion?) and I don't believe Freeola support that format!
Might be worth you looking in to this a bit more?
Search Freeola Chat
Hi can you help me?
We have an old stock system that outputs a CSV file, we then have a CSV convertor than can create a file from this CSV that MS Access can read as a database file and display into a table, my question is how can i get this database to be visible ie intergrate with mysql @ freeola?
Thanks 4x4man
We have an old stock system that outputs a CSV file, we then have a CSV convertor than can create a file from this CSV that MS Access can read as a database file and display into a table, my question is how can i get this database to be visible ie intergrate with mysql @ freeola?
Thanks 4x4man
4x4man wrote:
> Hi can you help me? ...
> Thanks 4x4man
Hi 4x4man and welcome to the forums!
NB. Best to start a new thread next time, rather than hijack an existing one ;¬)
This previous thread might answer some of your database query: chat.freeola.com/.../Add-a-Database-to-my-Website
'JimTheDog' seems to know his DBases!
Search Freeola Chat
> Hi can you help me? ...
> Thanks 4x4man
Hi 4x4man and welcome to the forums!
NB. Best to start a new thread next time, rather than hijack an existing one ;¬)
This previous thread might answer some of your database query: chat.freeola.com/.../Add-a-Database-to-my-Website
'JimTheDog' seems to know his DBases!
Search Freeola Chat
Hi Hmmm and FL,
thanks for the input so far. To answer Fl's comments I will add a bit more clarity to what I am doing; sometimes I write a lot but never seem to explain myself properly.
I have the website you have visited up and running but I am finding it to be very restricted for what I want to do and also find the cost to be prohibitive.
My intentions are this: I need to have something up and running and I have spent a lot of time and money on my site so far so the last thing I want to do at the moment is to close that account down and put it into Freeola when I am not sure if I would be better served or find it easier to do at present.
What I am aiming to do is to create a new website with Freeola and have that up and running. I need to see if it would be more expansive and cost effective than my site at present.
My reasoning is this: for 3 pounds a month I can afford to create a website on Freeola and if it is easy to upload my files and optimise my new site then I can move everything over. If I find Freeola to be as restrictive then I have lost only 10 pounds.
To be fair to Freeola I have not put a lot of effort into my new website yet - I think I am finding the task to be quite daunting -
so I am continuing to explore Freeola and will try out all the software and create a site that I am happy with offline. What I am trying to say is the old addige; never put all your eggs in one basket at one time.
I am already finding the help and support here to be better so I am encouraged to contine for the present.
I will post back with my progress. Thanks for all your help so far.
jobel
p.s. if you ever wonder why I describe the money aspect without using the UK pound symbol it is becase of this dopy keyboard. When I press the pound symbol I get ##### and I cannot find which key is being used by the board for the correct symbol; it isn't the # key and I just can't be bothered to change my keyboard.
thanks for the input so far. To answer Fl's comments I will add a bit more clarity to what I am doing; sometimes I write a lot but never seem to explain myself properly.
I have the website you have visited up and running but I am finding it to be very restricted for what I want to do and also find the cost to be prohibitive.
My intentions are this: I need to have something up and running and I have spent a lot of time and money on my site so far so the last thing I want to do at the moment is to close that account down and put it into Freeola when I am not sure if I would be better served or find it easier to do at present.
What I am aiming to do is to create a new website with Freeola and have that up and running. I need to see if it would be more expansive and cost effective than my site at present.
My reasoning is this: for 3 pounds a month I can afford to create a website on Freeola and if it is easy to upload my files and optimise my new site then I can move everything over. If I find Freeola to be as restrictive then I have lost only 10 pounds.
To be fair to Freeola I have not put a lot of effort into my new website yet - I think I am finding the task to be quite daunting -
so I am continuing to explore Freeola and will try out all the software and create a site that I am happy with offline. What I am trying to say is the old addige; never put all your eggs in one basket at one time.
I am already finding the help and support here to be better so I am encouraged to contine for the present.
I will post back with my progress. Thanks for all your help so far.
jobel
p.s. if you ever wonder why I describe the money aspect without using the UK pound symbol it is becase of this dopy keyboard. When I press the pound symbol I get ##### and I cannot find which key is being used by the board for the correct symbol; it isn't the # key and I just can't be bothered to change my keyboard.
jobel602 wrote:
> ...I just can't be bothered to change my keyboard.
You don't only get website advice here at Freeola! :¬)
Sounds like you might have the wrong language selected.
Go to CONTROL PANEL and open "Regional and Language Options". Make sure you have "English UK" selected...
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> ...I just can't be bothered to change my keyboard.
You don't only get website advice here at Freeola! :¬)
Sounds like you might have the wrong language selected.
Go to CONTROL PANEL and open "Regional and Language Options". Make sure you have "English UK" selected...
Search Freeola Chat
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