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What
is ZyWeb?
What
does it include?
But why would I need a web
site?
How long does it take?
So where do I start?
But I'm not a programmer!
What happens if I need any
help?
What happens if I forget
my username or password?
What would be the address
or URL of my page?
What happens if I don't
sign on and use my account for any length
of time?
Is my data safe?
What happens if I switch
off before I've finished editing my page?
Can I remove the banner
ad on my page?
Can I add or remove a visit
counter to a page?
Can I add my own photos?
Can I link my pages?
Will the pages look good?
Who will visit my pages?
Can my page be read by
all web browsers
Can I upload and publish
my own HTML?
Can I use the HTML on,
or publish to, other web servers?
Can I use my own Domain
Name?
ZyWeb uses cookies - what
are these?
Do I have to stay connected
to the phone line while I design anything
with ZyWeb?
Can I resell ZyWeb?
I've made changes to my web page but when
I go to the page I can see the changes
I've made?
When
I visit my web page I see red crosses
instead of my images
Adding
raw HTML to your page
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What
is ZyWeb?
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ZyWeb is an award winning online web page
builder and publisher. It does away with
the need to learn HTML or other programming
languages and there's no need to be an
expert designer - ZyWeb does it all for
you. Simply choose from the professionally
designed templates and customize them
to the way you want in easy step-by-step
stages. Whatever your finished design,
the look will always be unique. With the
built in Photo Editor you can upload pictures
from your camera and add them to your
web page. You can even create and add
Banner Ads to your page in seconds. It's
so easy - anyone can do it!
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What does it include?
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ZyWeb is the most complete and
advanced graphical web page creation tool
in the world. It includes the means to
customize web graphics and edit your photo's
on your web pages. Because ZyWeb is server-based
technology, it means that it is accessible
from any Internet connected device in
the world and it includes all of the hosting
and bandwidth that you will ever need.
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But
why would I need a web site?
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Every Business should have a web site
just as you would have sales literature.
If you are not on the web, you can be
sure that your competitors are! Clubs
will want to publicise their activities
events. For personal reasons you may wish
to have a family website or promote your
hobbies and interests or just for fun.
It's up to you. If you wish to communicate
yoiur message, with the web you can have
an audience of millions.
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How
long does it take?
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There's no programming or HTML to learn
and you certainly don't need any graphic
skills - so once you're signed up you
can have a page published in minutes!
Best of all you can keep coming back to
edit it or to add more pages. With 20MB
of space in the ZyWeb Personal account
that's enough for more than 200 web pages!
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So
where do I start?
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Simply go to www.zyweb.com
and you will have the option to sign up
for ZyWeb Personal, ZyWeb Business or
the free 30 day trial. Once signed up
you can start building your web pages
in minutes.
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But I'm not a programmer!
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You don't need any technical skills to
use ZyWeb, so don't worry! Using ZyWeb
is so simple we guarantee anyone can use
it!
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What happens if I
need any help? top^
There's a HELP button in the corner of
every screen, which will give you relevant
and detailed help. Alternatively, there's
a FAQ and tutorial available from your
lobby and one that can be printed out
here.
Or simply visit the Support
Forum and ask a question.
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What
happens if I forget my username or password?
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When you sign up you will be sent an email
confirmation that contains your username
and a hint to remind you of your password.
It's important that you keep this information
in a safe place and don't give them to
anyone else! If you cannot remember your
password click the password hint button
on the sign up page and we will email
you your password hint.
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What
would be the address or URL of my page?
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The web address (also known as the URL)
of your home page is shown at the top
of your filestore. Generally, it will
be www.zyworld.com/username however you
can register your own Domain Name within
ZyWeb and have your web pages published
under that name.
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What
happens if I don't sign on and use my
account for any length of time?
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All web sites created using the ZyWeb
Personal and ZyWeb Business will remain
live for the duration of the subscription.
Those sites created using the ZyWeb Trial
will be removed once the trial period
has ended.
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Is
my data safe?
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Your files are only accessible by you
with a password and because your files
are kept on our servers and regularly
backed-up they are probably safer than
if they were kept on your PC at home.
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What happens if I
switch off before I've finished editing
my page? top^
That's fine. ZyWeb keeps your data safe
until you sign on again and will ask you
if you want to save the page you were
editing. The same applies if you lose
a connection while editing a page. ZyWeb
will remember where you left off editing
and restart the editing session for you.
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Can I remove the
banner ad on my page top^
Banner ads can be removed.
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Can
I add or remove a visit counter to a page?
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ZyWeb lets you add, remove or reset
a counter to your web page be selecting
the 'Show Info' menu option from the File
Store.
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Can
I add my own photos?
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We have included a built-in online photo
editor into which you can upload any picture
and then edit it. You can enlarge, shrink,
crop, rotate, sharpen, even color it to
the way you want and then easily add it
to your web page.
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Can
I link my pages?
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Yes, and you don't even need to understand
how it's done. It's simply a case of selecting
the target page or site from a list.
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Will
the pages look good?
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We guarantee you can create stunning web
pages using ZyWeb. With literally
millions of different combinations of
typeface, graphics, colors backgrounds
and templates rest assured your pages
will look great and be unique.
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Who
will visit my pages?
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Using our banner maker, you can create
those all important banner ads to promote
your pages. ZyWeb also includes a web
site submission tool so that you can choose
to submit the web pages to over 1000 Search
Engines and Link sites.
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Can
my page be read by all web browsers?
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Yes, all web pages produced by ZyWeb
use only basic HTML 3.2 and is compatible
with the vast majority of web browsers.
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Can
I upload and publish my own html?
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Yes you can create your own pages and
upload them in to your account and then
publish them.
We can simply be used as a hosting company.
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Can
I use the HTML on, or publish to, other
web servers?
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30 Day Trial customers cannot however
all ZyWeb Personal and Business customers
can choose to set ZyWeb to automatically
FTP their web pages to any other Web Server.
No special extensions or configuration
of the other server is needed - just a
standard FTP account. Even when FTP is
setup - ZyWeb maintains a published copy
of the web pages on ZyWeb servers.
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Can
I use my own Domain Name?
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30 Day Trial customers cannot however
ZyWeb Personal and ZyWeb Business let
you use your own Domain Name. ZyWeb Business
includes a FREE Domain Name.
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ZyWeb
uses cookies - what are these?
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Cookies are a technical feature of your
browser and most interactive websites
require cookies to be enabled to work.
ZyWeb is no exception. You will find a
control to enable cookies in the preferences
or Options panel of your browser - usually
under the Advanced section. You should
set it to always accept cookies. There
is no security risk associated with allowing
Cookies - they simply allow one page of
ZyWeb to communicate with another.
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Do
I have to stay connected to the phone
line while I design anything with ZyWeb?
As an Online service, to change or create
anything you must be connected via the
Internet to ZyWeb and our servers. That
doesn't stop you compiling any changes
you want to make in a word processor off-line
and then using cut and paste shortcuts
to reduce your time spent on-line.
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Can
I resell ZyWeb? top^
ZyWeb can be fully customized for genuine
resellers to offer as a service to their
customers. Whilst the editors continue
to run on ZyWebs extensive server farms,
the web pages that have been created by
the customers are transferred automatically
to the resellers web servers.
Additionally,
if you already provide an online web page
builder then we can offer you our extensive
range of graphics tools so that you can
add the graphics power of ZyWeb to your
own service. Click
Here for more info.
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I've
made changes to my web page but when I
go to the page I cant see the changes
I've made?
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A common problem if you are using Internet
Explorer is the browser's 'cache' memory.
These are the pages you have visited in
the past which are 'remembered' by your
browser. To correct this, press the SHIFT
key and then F5 on your keyboard to force
the browser to refresh its cache. You
can also try CTRL and F5 if that doesn't
fix the problem.
If
that fails then you will need to click
on VIEW (or TOOLS) in the menu bar and
select INTERNET OPTIONS. Under the 'General'
tab in the middle of the dialog you will
see a section called Temporary Internet
Files and a button marked DELETE FILES.
Click on this and close down ALL browser
windows. Open Internet Explorer again
and go back to the problem page.
You
can also reset your options to look for
changes each time you visit a page by
clicking on 'settings' in the 'Check for
newer versions of stored pages' area and
selecting 'every visit to the page'.
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When
I visit my web page I see red crosses
instead of my images
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This is most usually a simple case of
needing to republishing the page in question.
From your filestore, select the page you
are having difficulty with and 1st check
that your graphics are visible in the
'page editor'. Then click on 'finish'
and choose the 'save & publish' option
and then log out. Close down ALL browser
windows. Open your browser again and go
back to the problem page remembering to
'refresh' the page to ensure you are viewing
the latest version.
If you are still having a problem then
email priority-support@zyweb.com
with your username and we will investigate
for you
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Adding
raw HTML to your page
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When inserting raw HTML into a Paragraph
you must be VERY careful to ensure that
any SCRIPT tags are correctly formed.
For example every Scrip should start with
<SCRIPT> and end with </SCRIPT>.
If you finish with <script> by mistake
you will break the page.
This
will result in IE displaying the page
up to the faulty tag but Netscape refusing
to display anything. The real problem
however is that because you use the web
browser during the editing process you
would not see the faulty code and thus
be unable to edit and correct it in ZyWeb.
We
are adding a new feature soon to ZyWeb
that will allow you to insert HTML instead
of having to use a Paragraph. This will
have a 'safe mode' switch that will display
the actual HTML code in the page rather
than asking the browser to display the
'effects' of the code. In the meantime
please take extra care when entering raw
HTML containing Scripts in your pages.
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