If you want to use an element you've created on one page again, you can copy it to another page on your site by hovering over the divider, clicking on the little green arrow that shows up on the blue top bar, selecting the page you want it to appear. It shows up on the top of the page you selected. Just move it down to where you'd like to use it. If you'd like to move an element to another page, do the same, except select "Move to" instead. |
This works for any content area element you create in Weebly, including slideshows, image collections, custom html, etc.
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It's easy to change the color of linked text in Weebly. Select the Design tab in the Weebly editor section. Then select Design Options in the left hand column. Then select Links. Click on Link, Visited and Hover and choose your colors. If you don't like the standard colors, use a color sampling tool, like Digital Color Meter (Macs) or Eyedropper (PC) to find a hex code for a custom color. It must have a hashtag (#) followed by a code of six numbers and/or letters following it. Type in your code and select OK. For more info on choosing more subtle colors in your Weebly site, check out the Colors category in the right hand column of this blog.
_No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using WebsiteTonight templates and their server-side program(s). The "yes" part is not much, but you can copy any special html you have added, write down the color (hex) numbers of your text, and use this info to help speed your rebuild elsewhere . . ..
_No, and sort of, yes. No, in the sense that the site is built online, using Weebly templates and their server-side program(s). Yes, because you can archive your site (see Archiving Sites in right-hand column below, under Categories) and use it to get a huge head start elsewhere.
You can use the archive files to upload to a different server. The base structure should remain and all your content. However, your blog posts will not copy and custom fonts, slideshows and contact forms and the like will probably not work, as they're a part of Weebly's system. Any editing of your site from then on would need to be done traditionally with a website editor. Also, see note, below about the copyright of the weebly theme. Re-build your site at another template-based website service, your Weebly archive can still be very useful . . .. Most website builders offer swatch palettes with a rather garish selection of "web safe" colors. Weebly is no different, except, thankfully, they let you enter your own colors, too.
Since computer monitors are much more sophisticated than they were when that "web safe" distinction was made, you can choose other, more subtle colors for your site with confidence. The next challenge is finding the codes for the colors . . .. _There are three places within the Weebly interface to change text colors:
1) under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, where you decide the format of your SITE TITLE, PARAGRAPH TITLE, PARAGRAPH TEXT, and LINKS. Clicking on the color swatch will lead you to a swatch palette. Down at the bottom of the swatch palette, there's a white box where you can type in a hex code for a custom color. It must have a hashtag (#) followed by a code of six numbers and/or letters following it. For example, the hex code for black, is #000000, the coral color used on this page is #CC9933. Type in your code and select OK. 2) Select any text within a text block, and click on the capital A with an underline to select a swatch color or type in your own custom color. The method is the same as above. 3) for those familiar with CSS coding, under the DESIGN tab at the top of the page, in the left-hand editing column, under the Change Theme and Change Fonts buttons, there is an EDIT HTML/CSS button. Clicking on that will take you to a split screen editor, where you will be able to change the site's CSS and see a preview of your changes before committing them with the SAVE button. _Weebly is not great with the undos. I think it's their automatic save that is the culprit here. Usually that auto save is a very good thing — otherwise we'd be saving each little step in each little section, which could be positively crazy-fying.
Text: In the case of text, as long as you don't navigate out of the text section you are working in, you can often still press COMMAND-Z (Mac) or CONTROL-Z (PC) on your keyboard to undo what you've just done, just as if you were in a word processing program. But navigate that cursor out, and it's saved as-is. Deletes: In the case of deleting something you want back, that's where the "not great" comes in. It's deleted. The first thing I had to learn with Weebly was to slow down and try to be very present and zen-like, so I did less un-undo-able things. The other thing I learned was . . . |
SIRI WEBER FEENEY
Due to elder care issues, I am not able to respond to questions, as I am concentrating on working on existing clients' updates and further projects.
I apologize to those who wrote in and weren't posted. I kept thinking I'd be able to respond and wasn't. Please read the existing posts for answers and don't forget to check the comments. Several related issues were covered within the comments and there are good suggestions from commenters, as well. Also, with the new Weebly interface formatting, click around and you'll find what seems to be all the old features behind visually simplified icons. So, for example, when wishing to change a page type (no header, tall header, etc.), click PAGES, click the page's name in the list, and you'll get all the different types to choose from. If you're really stuck, you can also call Weebly at 1-844-493-3259, also check out Weebly's blog, Weebly tutorials on YouTube and, if you're adventuring into coding, w3schools.com is terrific. Thank you, ~ Siri Follow me:
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