Paintbrush, guess what, i don't use notepad (or what the heck is notepad)

Trouble with us non technical types is we use the wysiwyg and dont know any better.

And this is where i think Greg is getting in trouble, he is using VSD with little or No code knowledge and you dont need code knowledge to use VSD

Greg, anyone trying to sell you SEO help, run a mile from, and anyone once you get your site found offering reciprical back links, run a mile from as well.

Again this will be easier if someone (me, or whoever) could speak to you on phone or Skype for half hour will probably clear it all up for you.

Viv, if I can manage to set up a store for 4 products in less than 2 months I'm sure you'd be able to type a few lines in Notepad :


But I'm with you on the SEO – Don't pay for it when the info is free straight from Mr. Google himself

I do not mind using the html code from time to time. I did allot of the html code for the five years I had the site up making it with the 95 front page express, had a video snippet play with a mouse over and the workhorse painting all animal band and set up the swf file slide shows that advance with mouse click made them all using the 95 frontpg and allot of html code manipulation. developed all of that about 4 years ago with the ancient 95 frontpage express and it is kind of a blending of code and visual.
Guess that I have had the most trouble with the website font I never really had any success with that one

I think your referring to webfont 4, and VSD has its own inbuilt version of it in the form of the effect tool, styles tool, and buttoniser tool., they individually do what web font 4 tries to do in one extra program.

So if you convert your font selected with the object tool by selecting allow advanced text, then select the effect tool, you can then edit your font to do exactly what web font 4 does but you now actually have better control, and without using an outside tool to have to insert into VSD.

Buttoniser works on advanced text as well, so you can play even more !

Trying to put h1 header tag on a certain text cannot be done with the advanced text option of the VSD but you can do it with the CC website font app or by editing in some html code with the CCDirect FTP app but i understand VIV that you would rather be shot at the stake but I do not mind spending a few moments to uploat a few characters to the code of the home pg

It really was very easy to edit in the two little snippets of code Finding out what snippets and where to put them was the problem and thank you very much Inger for giving me that information

<h1><img src="files/IMG_4.1.gif" width="559px" height="70px" alt="Workhorse Painting Company" title="Workhorse Painting Company"></h1>

I think that I am having the difficulties when I am trying to do things that the VSD just does not do generally speaking which most usually can be solved with a work around. Guess that I will build my online store with the html editor application so that i can be called stupid on that one next.

I have a suspicion had you used the HTML editor to build this site, you would not have hit any of these problems as you ARE competent with code.

On the other hand ask Scott, three years ago i could not do the simplest of things even in VSD, and it would be stupid of me to even attempt the HTML editor.

Its not being stupid its called learning, and your doing better than i ever did, its just VSD puts up barriers, by doing things its own way automatically.

I am with you Viv, I tried all forms of html editors even notepad, Just recently I discovered VSD and what it cannot do I shall not worry about. I achieved top ranking without doing anything about it. Google took care of that. I must admit if I had a proper business I would be seeing what I could improve but there again build the site describe it and stand back. I have noted your comments about titles and descriptions and they make sense I will take some of those up.
Having fun at the moment discovering producing a pdf output from form data so my site will have to survive without my attention for a while.

Greg, re our Skype call, yesterday,
I think from memory it was JoAnn who explained this google yahoo bing SEO issue best

She called it search engine food :: if it can't find any it starves

I know it seems like a lot of changes but hopefully yesterday i made sense of it for you, RE CAP

Page heading :: lots of nice wording to appear at top of google search result :: get customers attention

IE Workhorse your independant painter and decorator, interior and exterior specialist based in Ontario with 20 years experience

Page ID = yourdomainname.com/interiorpainter or yourdomainname.com/decoratorontario

Wording in content :: matching ie about me page < Workhorsepainting.com, your local independent interior and exterior painter and decorator, based in Ontario near ........ postcode, providing all painting and decorating services to both private individuals, and landlords of residential properties in Ontario and towns list ............ postcode

Then in VSD EDIT :: Description and keywords put all those keywords & TOWNS & POSTCODE in ONCE (work,horse,painting,interior,exterior,painter,and,decorator,in,ontario,town1,town2,town3,town4,postcode,private,commercial,landlords,houses,housing,.............) and copy your page description into the description area and select this page only

What we are hoping for is a prospective client in Ontario (your local town) or near by will want a local tradesman, saves travelling expenses, will type into google

Interior painter & decorator Ontario Postcode

Now compare bold text

In amongst that lot somewhere, VSD will create automatically the equivalent of those H1 tags , for google to find

Good luck