how can i remove sitecube.com advertisment on the bottom of my page - HTML Forums

Mikeizquierdo · 06-28-2009, 04:14 PM

i have a sitecube.com website...

i am not as educated as you others so i could not build my own site, and i could not afford a better site.

here is the scenario, i have access to change add html code in the meta information?

if you visit my site.

pasadenawealth.com

you can see i added a twiiter widget, a mortgage calculator and a wiki widget.

below those widgets you can see the
designer websites by sitecube.com 2005-2007.html site

i want to remove that, as i feel it lowers the overall look of my site, customer service refuses to remove it....

BUT while i was adding in other html codes in my meta information i once incorrectly entered some html code and i believed it removed it. but after i fixed it, it came back.

anyone have any ideas?

maybe adding some sort of end code, or do not display anything below code. i am very html illiterate and any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!

ringsoft · 06-28-2009, 05:05 PM

I can't say for sure, but usually these hosted services make it a condition of use that their logo or branding is included somewhere on the site... I'd suggest checking the terms and conditions in detail to see of this is the case.

silent viper · 06-28-2009, 05:26 PM

I think thats just more of a copyright thing. Sometimes companies ask you to pay to remove those but im not 100%.

Mikeizquierdo · 06-28-2009, 07:05 PM

i spoke with customer service they refuse to, you cant even pay with this site to remove it.

but im telling you while i was editing the pages meta tags...i accidently once entered some html code incorrectly and it removed it.

im wondering if there is some way to at least make it invisible.

maybe a code that will remove all links or a code that ends teh html so nothing below it appears, or something along those lines?

any ideas?

Mikeizquierdo · 06-30-2009, 03:51 AM

anyone? ??????

bump

Pegasus · 06-30-2009, 05:51 AM

If Customer Service says you can't remove it, it's probably part of your contract with them. Violating your terms of service can get your site pulled without notice.

You may just have to put up with the ad until you can afford better.

Mikeizquierdo · 07-03-2009, 08:49 PM

bumpity? bump?

Pegasus · 07-03-2009, 09:14 PM

You miss the point, Mike. You're asking us to help you do something that's, at the very least, unethical. That's not what we promote.

If you don't like the ads being there, pay for hosting.

chuckymong · 07-04-2009, 07:33 AM

Think about it from the other point of view. If you had a website like sitecube.com how would you feel if someone took the ad off their website without permission to do so. If customer services told you they can't. then that usually means they wont and your not alowwed too.

Mikeizquierdo · 07-04-2009, 04:55 PM

ouch, i understand that....i dont think its much to ask that they remove their ad. ...its not like their service is free....im paying several hundred dollars a year for my site...almost every other site allows you to pay to remove the ad...site cube does not. of course i should have realized this before...but its not like if i removed the ad that their business would crumble...

this is hardly that serious of a ethical issue...i was just thinking someone on this site could help me out with this...as they made me pay for the entire year...and now im stuck with a site that looks unprofessional because of a ad at the footer...

thanks anyways

Sawtooth500 · 07-04-2009, 06:41 PM

Do you have ftp access to your site? If so, download the thing. If not, then you can always view source and save the source individually for each page, along with any images you used in your site (you'll have to save these manually) and then you have all the source directly for your site then you can move it elsewhere and do whatever you want.

But before you do that be careful as even though sitecube may be a raw deal, doing that may be against their terms of service, so check beforehand (but hey, on the other hand, the terms may not say anything about a thing like this!)

Also, depending on how much you spent/how much you want this, you could perhaps talk to an attorney about getting your site source. Technically whoever writes the source code to a site has copyright to it.

In this case, your site was built with a site builder program (site cube), but then again it's you who did the building, so I'm not sure legally who would own the copyright in this case...