How do I add text to my site?

Adding text is often the starting point to getting your website up and running.

You can read how to here, or watch it on Yola.tv:

You can write about almost anything and adding text to your site is a vital step to building your site. Before you can type anything on your page you need to add a text box (widget) to type into.

Here is how to add text to your page:

1. Drag and drop a text widget from the "Content" sidebar on the right of your screen onto your page (it looks like a piece of writing paper and a pen).

2. Click inside the green text box and start typing or paste your text.

3. Use the text editing toolbar to format your text.  This toolbar looks like a toolbar you will have seen in any word processor you might have used and it displays across the top of your page whenever you click on a text widget.

Please note that if you copy and paste directly from a program like MS Word the formatting of the text is very likely to affect or break your page.  The best way to avoid this is to first copy and paste into a program like Notepad (you should find it in the accessories folder of your computer).  This will strip out any unwanted formatting and you can then safely paste into the text widget.  You can also use the tool on our HTML 101 site to strip the MS Word tags.