I apologize if I could piece together answers and haven't found them in other threads, but I thought I would just put my questions together.
I own a small business and currently have my e-mail and website hosted by our internet provider, CenturyLink. I setup another website through CoffeeCup and love the amazing forms I am able to build. However, I'm running into some problems and I'm not a tech expert so I'm hoping maybe someone can point me in the right direction.
The website I started through CoffeeCup to text the software is www.iowasupport.org. I cannot seem to get the margins to fit correctly as things are either too far to the left or right on the pages, but it also depends on what device I use to access the website. Is there a way to get this unified so it looks the same on any browser, i.e. Android, Windows, etc.?
The other question I have is this - I would really love to have the employment application and service application from the above-mentioned website added to our actual website. I'm not sure of the best way of doing this as CenturyLink's web hosting isn't user-friendly to people like me. I don't understand where I would upload those forms, PHP, CGI, etc. Plus I'm not sure if it would even work through CenturyLink. I don't mind changing who hosts our "real" website, www.xist-ia.com, but I want my e-mail through that website to stay with CenturyLink because we get our Outlook for free and we utilize it all of the time. Is it possible to move the website to CoffeeCup and leave the e-mail with CenturyLink?
I really appreciate any help anyone can give me. I'm trying to run our business and everything that entails, including IT until we get a big enough budget I can pay someone else to do it.
Thank you again in advance.
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Not going to answer these in order, but I'll do the best I can ...
Yes. You have a free hosting account with S-Drive through CoffeeCup where you can install your web site. However, you will only have 1 form available unless you get a paid S-Drive account. They don't cost much and will give you several benefits besides the ability to have more forms. It's really easy to access your form data as it comes in as well as monitoring how many users look at your forms but never complete them. Check out your S-Drive options.
Question: At Centurylink, do you have access to cPanel? Or how are you setup to FTP to your host? Do not post any actual FTP details here as the forums are not secure. I just need to know if you are able to FTP to Centurylink, or if you use cPanel.
As far as your text being off center I think comes back to the size of your text box. Make it smaller and center it where you want it on the page. As I shrink my screen your text becomes more centered, but runs long on the right. I think you just need to make the box smaller. Also, use several text boxes for your text. Maybe put each paragraph in its own box and you may find which is messing with your margins.
A site created with VSD is not responsive. It will never look completely right on tablets or phones. You'll get the full size site and users will have to scroll to get where they want to go. A work around for this is to create an actual mobile site in a smaller more usable size for phones, and auto detect screen size when a user comes to your site and display either the desktop or mobile site. This is easily done and you will find much help on these forums.
We're usually a pretty nice bunch. Let us know the answers and what you find out, and what you still need help with.
Is it possible to move the website to CoffeeCup and leave the e-mail with CenturyLink?
Yes. You have a free hosting account with S-Drive through CoffeeCup where you can install your web site. However, you will only have 1 form available unless you get a paid S-Drive account. They don't cost much and will give you several benefits besides the ability to have more forms. It's really easy to access your form data as it comes in as well as monitoring how many users look at your forms but never complete them. Check out your S-Drive options.
Question: At Centurylink, do you have access to cPanel? Or how are you setup to FTP to your host? Do not post any actual FTP details here as the forums are not secure. I just need to know if you are able to FTP to Centurylink, or if you use cPanel.
As far as your text being off center I think comes back to the size of your text box. Make it smaller and center it where you want it on the page. As I shrink my screen your text becomes more centered, but runs long on the right. I think you just need to make the box smaller. Also, use several text boxes for your text. Maybe put each paragraph in its own box and you may find which is messing with your margins.
A site created with VSD is not responsive. It will never look completely right on tablets or phones. You'll get the full size site and users will have to scroll to get where they want to go. A work around for this is to create an actual mobile site in a smaller more usable size for phones, and auto detect screen size when a user comes to your site and display either the desktop or mobile site. This is easily done and you will find much help on these forums.
We're usually a pretty nice bunch. Let us know the answers and what you find out, and what you still need help with.

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Thank you very much! That is helpful and gets me started in the right direction. I do use FTP to upload my current website to CenturyLink. However, their documentation and what's accurate are two different things. The documentation shows certain folders have to be in the FTP to use it, but it's not actually right and I had to figure out how to do it myself. I still understand it though and I'm not sure if when I upload via FTP if it automatically puts things in the folders it belongs in or not.
I do have an S-Drive account actually. I love the way S-Drive works and looks - it's so EASY for me! I would love to just have my website hosted through S-Drive, but not my e-mail, but I have no idea how to make that happen. I enjoy the ease of creation for the forms and the way I can log into the S-Drive account and view statistics and all that fun stuff.
I will try changing everything into their own boxes on the website hosted here to see if that corrects the problem. I think I understand what you mean about the mobile site, but would there be a way to set it so if someone types in the website it'll be detected it's on a mobile device and then route to that website, which I assume is just as simple as adding a "m.websitename"?
I do have an S-Drive account actually. I love the way S-Drive works and looks - it's so EASY for me! I would love to just have my website hosted through S-Drive, but not my e-mail, but I have no idea how to make that happen. I enjoy the ease of creation for the forms and the way I can log into the S-Drive account and view statistics and all that fun stuff.
I will try changing everything into their own boxes on the website hosted here to see if that corrects the problem. I think I understand what you mean about the mobile site, but would there be a way to set it so if someone types in the website it'll be detected it's on a mobile device and then route to that website, which I assume is just as simple as adding a "m.websitename"?
but would there be a way to set it so if someone types in the website it'll be detected it's on a mobile device and then route to that website
Yes. It's a small addition. I'll have to look for it when I'm feeling a little better. I'm on some pretty heavy meds right now. Someone else may jump in here.
You can migrate your website to a paid S-Drive account so you can host your website and all your forms there. Then have your Domain Name redirected to your S-Drive account. There are help files to get you going in that direction, or if you open a support topic CoffeeCup gurus can help you out with that. As long as you maintain your Centurylink account your email should not be affected.
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