I need to learn everything about BV

ScotGuide · #1 02-20-2007, 08:57 PM

I've seen the videos and read alot of the tips and tricks, and My partner is a wiss at making webpages and I'm trying to learn. I'm to the point that I can build simple pages but I would like to go further. What do I need to do?

davidundalicia · #2 02-20-2007, 09:17 PM

Publish your pages and you will get lots of advice And help to improve on...

LadyEye · #3 02-20-2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by ScotGuide

I've seen the videos and read alot of the tips and tricks, and My partner is a wiss at making webpages and I'm trying to learn. I'm to the point that I can build simple pages but I would like to go further. What do I need to do?

Spend a few hours on the internet, viewing sites relative to yours, have a look, gain some tips, some creativity and come back and apply it to your pages, read "The worst websites" read "The Best websites" ... browse, think, plan ... and create your own masterpiece!!

VodaHost · #4 02-20-2007, 09:37 PM

Watch tutorials AGAIN, click the below...

http://www.vodahost.com/tut_bluevoda.htm

ScotGuide · #5 02-21-2007, 02:06 AM

ok... this is what the site looks like... Like I said my partner is a wis so when we switched to VodaHost he started tutoring me and I watched all the videos.
we redid the whole site and now I have to keep redoingit and kepp it fresh and up to date.... What doyou think? Thank you Sirs and Madam..
www.scottishdreamtours.com

LadyEye · #6 02-21-2007, 02:54 AM

You both have done a wonderful job, and what an interesting site. You have a few untitled pages, you might want to consider having your nav bar at the top of all the pages, or in the same spot on all pages. I don't even mind the fact that the some of the tours open in a new browser window, makes it real easy to go from tour to tour looking.

I think you have done excellent and you have a very detailed site, wonderful photographs, I didn't read alot of the content but I am certain that is A+ too ...

Great job! In fact, I love your site!

ScotGuide · #7 02-21-2007, 03:08 AM

thank you.. you've made my day!!!!

ScotGuide · #8 02-21-2007, 03:17 AM

onther question does it mater where I put the site map?

ScotGuide · #9 02-21-2007, 03:46 AM

Nevermind... LoL.. found the answer

ScotGuide · #10 02-21-2007, 04:58 AM

Onther major thing that I need to know is, How do I stop people from sending me spam through my inquiry form? we never had this problem untill we left our last webhosting and I think that they have something to do with it. Now we get all these spam emails basically through our form. What can I do?

Dori · #11 02-21-2007, 05:05 AM

Your site is very nice... clean and easy to read. You should be proud of the job that you both have done.

Regarding the spam emails... it is not the form that is allowing the spam. You have your contact emails as clickable links which allow you to receive email directly. This is what is allowing all the spam.

ScotGuide · #12 02-21-2007, 05:33 AM

We just added that. we started geting these emails the same day that we switched to VH. and it's coming through our inquiry email.

by the way thank you for looking at the site. I was afraid I did something wrong.

LadyEye · #13 02-21-2007, 05:46 AM

Hi again

I have found the use of the "email riddler" on line tool from dynamic drive, firstly provided to me by Navel, to be very useful. It will encrypt your email shielding your from spammers. You can read all about it and find it by clicking here (You insert the code in a html box, found under tools, advanced in your blue voda site builder). This eliminated virtually all spam for me.

Hope this helps ... there are further settings in your horde mail (if that is what you are using) as well.

Hope this helps.

ScotGuide · #14 02-21-2007, 05:53 AM

Thank you Mam. I will check it out right away.

LadyEye · #15 02-21-2007, 05:57 AM

yw

And one more thing I forgot to mention, that I should have mentioned much earlier.

Why not put your fabulous website up for review, under Customer Reviews so everyone can comment and see if they can provide further input for you ... They'll all love to see it too!!

ScotGuide · #16 02-21-2007, 06:04 AM

LOL... I don't know if I'm ready for that yet... My nerves are fragile right now... and i just got my 4 wisdom tooth pulled out so I'm ok in pain right now...LOL

LadyEye · #17 02-21-2007, 06:12 AM

lol ...... Well if your wisdom teeth are just coming out now, (you must be drinking scotch by now, lol) then you are certainly young enough to endure any more pain, and I don't think you will ... lol ....... but whenever you are ready, just wanted to be certain you were aware of the opportunity to post your site. And not to forget, search engines are always crawling around here, so more posts with your site as a link, only the better for you ... right!!

ScotGuide · #18 02-21-2007, 06:18 AM

I tried your sugestion LadyEye but it won't help. Whoever is sending these messages is not email crawling. I don't know how they do it but they use the form that we generated for tour requests to send links to their website. I don't think that they spend the time typing all the information out because we get one email from everyform on our entire site. I was thinking about adding one of those little boxes that makes you type in the letter that you see in the box inorder for the request to be sent. could that be a