Newbie Who Doesn't understand

[pattyben]

Help, Help, Help.

I must be pretty dumb on using html.

I set up a Yahoo Store (Has taken 3 months to finally get it up). I was under the assumption that using Sitebuilder that I did not need to put html coding in. Well my site has none. Now I know.

It isn't how to do it and is just where do you put it. I spoke to a Yahoo rep and I was pointed to all kinds of ducuments to read. Don't mind doing that and have read but it doesn't tell you what you are suppose to do with the coding once you enter it. I'm getting the point that all I do is entering wording in title, head.....whatever and just point and paste.

At first I thought do you have to do all the working on your pages. (That is a lot of input)

Would someone please help me?
Keep wanting to give up but I will not.

Thank you,
Georgia Girl

[The Old Sarge]

Patty,

I am not familiar with Yahoo Store but html coding is usually completely searate from the WYSIWYG (cut and paste) method. Maybe you should ask if the html code needs to be loaded to your server thru other means.

Hope that helps.

[JPnyc]

A site with no HTML wouldn't display at all, so your site has it. What site building software does is spit out the HTML code on the back end, without making you code it yourself.

[The Old Sarge]

Very well put, JP. It never occured to me to mention that.

Also, Patty, with a lot of WYSIWYG builders, the resulting code is atrociously cluttered and messy. Not that it will not serve, just that it does not lend itself to very good search engine opimization, page load, etc.

[pattyben]

Thank you for your reply. Website Pros did a Search Engine Optimization of my site. Just signed up. 15 points were checked. Most of the results was 0. The only item that was good was the load time and page size. I flunked.
I think maybe what it says and what I gather from your comments is that when I set it up I didn't know about optimization and just wrote down information that was not search engine words. Maybe I need to go through my site and revise wording to include key words?
I used Sitebuilder down loaded from Yahoo.
What I gather from one of the posts is that even though their program says it sets it up is that I need to go in and do some html coding and mega tag coding myself.
If someone wants to look at my site (www.cottageandetc.com) you are welcome even though I am not happy about the site myself right now. I do have some ideas how I want to change it. However, I can't seem to get off second base.
Just learning now and sometimes I make things to hard.
Thank you
Patty

[JPnyc]

Honestly Patty, the best thing you can do with the site is hire a designer and start from scratch. There's not much there worth saving with the possible exception of the buttons. I don't mean to seem harsh but I don't wanna lie to you either.

[pattyben]

Thank you for your advice. I would rather you be honest and I don't consider you harsh.

I will think about either getting a webb disigner or just canceling the Yahoo Store.

At least I've learned about building a store and what go into it.
I have learned a lot.

Patty

[JPnyc]

Feel free to ask any questions here that you wish. If you decide to try and learn the coding and do it yourself, I can be of some assistance in that area as well.

[the_host]

Thank you for your advice. I would rather you be honest and I don't consider you harsh.

I will think about either getting a webb disigner or just canceling the Yahoo Store.

At least I've learned about building a store and what go into it.
I have learned a lot.

Patty

I still think OsCommerce or Zen Cart is better than a Yahoo store.
IT may take longer to set up, but it looks more professional.

[Corey Bryant]

I have not messed with Yahoo stores all that much - although a few merchant clients use them and seem to like them.

But the last time I rwad up on Yahoo - didn't they create their own HTML, calling it RTML or something like that?

I looked at your URL and a lot of the issues lied with the <font> tag (http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_font.asp) is is deprecated. Browsers will still support it of course, but if you are trying to be (X)HTML compliant, it is usually better to handcode since WYSIWYG editors will sometime create deprecated or proprietary code.