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Author Topic: Working with Blocks: Adding content to the header and other locations  (Read 5196 times)
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« Reply #20 on: April 25, 2008, 08:17:55 PM »

Hi Gerald,

Im away from the computer for a few hours (can you believe it?!) at my grandmothers birthday. Im just on my phone right now. Ill check it when I get home in a few hours.
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« Reply #21 on: April 25, 2008, 08:38:47 PM »

Found a computer. Fixed. You had too much extra space added to the top left block.
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« Reply #22 on: April 25, 2008, 09:01:57 PM »

Dominic you are too cool! Thanks for the great customer service!
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Gerald Wilcox
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PS Thanks for changing the font color on my edit pages to contrast with the white background. That helped alot.
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« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2008, 12:24:12 AM »

No problem. If you or anyone else notices things like fonts colors on Admin pages that don't look right, let me know. I've been working on 25 themes and I'm sure I missed some things here and there to make things more appealing. I saw the color issue with theme 10 a few days ago when working on another site and fixed it.
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« Reply #24 on: July 07, 2008, 11:31:47 AM »

Dominic,
I have "Active Rain" saved as a block but I cant get it to show on my front page. I wanted to put it on the bottome left of my front page or home page, because they said I get more points if its on the front page but I dont want it to be distracting to a potential client, (so thats way I would want it on the bottom.
What am I doing wrong?  I read your instructions but cant seem to get it there.
Am I correct in thinking "Active Rain" improves my SEO?
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« Reply #25 on: July 07, 2008, 12:41:01 PM »

Having active rain linking to your site helps your SEO, linking to them does not. It does help your score over there, not exactly sure how that helps you though (haven't figured that part of AR out yet). I think you get more exposure.

I see Active Rain in your footer right now. If you just want it on your home page within the body itself, then edit your home page, click source, go to the very bottom and paste the code. Then click source again, click on the AR button and click left align.
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« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2008, 07:27:21 PM »

I inserted what I'll call a "linkable logo"  on my homepage. I did it by adding a block, then copying the code supplied to me from the site I linked to into the "SOURCE" in the "BODY", saving the block. It works fine.

When I try inserting the HIPro Logo, the same way, it appears in the source and in the body, but does not show up on the page. What am I doing wrong?
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« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2008, 01:25:59 PM »

Which code are you inserting? Where are you trying to put it? In a block or in a page?
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« Reply #28 on: July 10, 2008, 09:00:31 PM »

In the HIPro "find an inspector" there are three links to copy and paste. There is one with the HIPro image. I think it says "it will look like this"
I copy the code, and paste it into the "source" in the 'body" in a block I created in the left sidebar.
If you look at my menu, there is a link to "Staten Island Business List", I did that on the same way and it works fine.
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« Reply #29 on: July 10, 2008, 09:04:46 PM »

This is the code:

<a href="http://www.HomeInspectorPro.com"><img src="http://www.HomeInspectorPro.com/banners/Home-Inspector-Pro.gif" alt="Home Inspector Pro Inspection Software"/></a>

below it is says: "will look like this" and there is a picture logo.
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« Reply #30 on: July 11, 2008, 12:07:53 AM »

That should work just fine. What did you name the block, I'll take a look at it.
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« Reply #31 on: July 11, 2008, 05:43:05 AM »

"clickable logos" please let me know what I did wrong.
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« Reply #32 on: July 11, 2008, 12:43:30 PM »

The problem was your input filter was set to Filtered HTML rather than Full HTML (drop down box right under the block body). I'm not sure if you changed it or it did it automatically. I'm looking into it.
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« Reply #33 on: July 11, 2008, 09:23:54 PM »

Now my question is:

I know that when we link to each other it helps our SEO.
I believe that it helps even more if someone links to us.
Does it help my SEO if I link to a site like HIPro or TIJ, etc.
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« Reply #34 on: July 11, 2008, 11:56:36 PM »

Linking to another site never helps your SEO. It's the link to you that helps. The reason you would link to other sites is to get them to link to you, or because you really like their product and just want to share Cheesy
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2008, 02:22:02 PM »

I can't get my blocks to be visible on the page.  I have added blocks and they are in the list of blocks for the right and left sidebars.  I click on the box "save blocks" but nothing appears on my homepage.
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2008, 02:33:57 PM »

I got it!  Don't know what I was doing wrong, but it is working now.  Thanks.
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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2008, 02:37:02 PM »

Hi Ron,

I see your Excellence! block on the left side fine. The Thermographer block is not appearing because the input format. Click on Input Format directly below the block and change it to full HTML and it will appear correctly.
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« Reply #38 on: July 15, 2008, 11:47:54 PM »

I have had to log out to have the blocks appear sometimes, or maybe a page refresh whould work.
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« Reply #39 on: July 16, 2008, 09:12:49 PM »

Yup, that's common. Your computer will store copies of a page on its hard drive so the next time you want the same page it pulls it locally rather than live from the internet. Logging out or doing a shift-refresh will force the browser to grab a new copy of the file online.
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