Links/URLs in blog posts

It is very easy to put a link if your blog post. The format is like this: <a href=”URL”>Title of URL</a> NOTE: If people click on your link they will be taken away from your site (Not Good™) Change your link to include target=”_blank” and when they click on the link they will open up … Read more

Link to YVOD =)

Want to make us happy? Copy the following code onto one or more of your pages. Give us credit for the hosting job you love =) <a href=”http://yvod.com” target=”_blank”>   <img src=”http://yvod.com/media/yvod-120.gif”   alt=”YVOD.com: Websites for businesses, nonprofits and individuals” /><br />   Hosting provided by YVOD </a> If it works correctly, your page should … Read more

YVOD Shopping Spreadsheet

YVOD has developed a very easy method to keep track of your inventory. We have created a way for you to simply upload a regular Excel spreadsheet (click to download a copy) to instantly organize your data. Below is a short description of the columns in this spreadsheet. Catalog # This is the key to … Read more

Eventcalendar 3.0 Configuration

Here are the steps used to install and configure Event Calendar 3.0 1. Install eventcalendar 3.0 plugin [YVOD installs the plugin with all WordPress builds] 2. Activate plugin in plugins screen [Plugin activated by default for all YVOD WordPress builds] 3. Change plugin options A) Show number of months [Default 3] B) set the correct … Read more

LAMP – The Basics

Let’s start with the basics. YVOD runs on LAMP What is LAMP? LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Phython. What does that mean? Linux is the web server. Everything you see on the internet is sent to you by a webserver. Apache is by far the most popular and stable web server on the internet. … Read more