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

Merchant of Redemption

It’s 3 a.m. on June 8 at the city’s epicenter of poverty and despair: Sixth Street between Mission and Market, where hard-core drugs, booze, poverty, and mental illness guide the rhythms of life. Where beating back the insanity of the street is a full-time occupation. Where Tom McKnight has been doing business for the better … 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

Engine Upgrade

We have taken out the factory-installed engine that runs your website and are replacing it with the equivilent of a turbo v-10 Hemi. And while we’re at it we’re bolting on some 25-inch wheels too. What does this mean for your website? It means is using some of the same code that runs the biggest, … Read more

YVOD Example Page 12-15-05

YVOD has standardized on a single XHTML “YVOD Example Page 12-15-05”. The CSS file can be viewed here. A few things of note: top-2 and middle-2 are fluid and will expand to fill with the window min-width is set to stop static elements from colliding left-2 has position: relative and bottom: 0 to park it … Read more

Pages on your websites

Every website we build has two types of pages: 1) Home page 2) Main content page (static content) Additionally, our e-commerce sites have additional e-commerce types of pages: 3) Shopping page (multiple items displayed on a single page) 4) Catalog page (singe item displayed on page) 5) Secure ordering page 6) Search results page 7) … Read more