• 5 GB storage space
  • Unlimited mailboxes
  • Unlimited bandwidth

  • 10 GB storage space
  • Include Shopping Cart
  • Unlimited mailboxes
  • Unlimited bandwidth
  • Free hosting
  • Free designing
  • Tax ID Required

vdap.com FAQ

General Questions

We hope that you can find what you need. If you cannot find what you are concerned about or you need futher information please contact us.

Am I offered an absolute free website?
Yes, if your webspace is less than or equal 1 Gigabytes. We do not collect your payment information during the signing up process so we do not automatically charge against your credit card when your space exceeds the limitation. Actually, you will be notified if your space is over the limitation so you can pay to order more space or clean up to vacant you storage.

Do I need to know HTLM to create my website?
No. The Page Wizard Feature will help you create pages you want. However, if you know HTML you can use the the Custom Edit Feature to modify your pages with more control. The Page Wizard Feature is designed for those who have no knowledge of HTML, whereas the Custom Edit feature is design for those who know HTML.

Do I have to have an ftp account to transfer files such as image, html, and text files?
No. All uploading downloading, deleting files can be completed via web interface.

Do I have to stay with one of the template collection?
No. We provide template collection for fast and convenience to created websites. It is very helpful for those who have no skill in web designing. However, if you are a webmasters/ web designer, you can totally replace your current template with your own design.

Do I have to buy my own domain name for my website?
No. We offer free subdomain name for everyone. There are some restriction will be applied if you use our sub domain name. We reserve right to revoke the domain from your website at anytime for any reason. If your website's content is not classified in sensitive information such as pornography, racial discrimination etc. you are OK.

What do I need to do to selling products online?
You need a credit card gateway to process credit card online. Our service can cooperate with several gateway services such as Link Point, Echo online ,paypal etc. in both HTML redirect method, and API combination method. Currently with our website interface in admin site, you, as a website owner, can logon and set up for your Paypal's Website Standard Payment account only. If you have a credit card gateway account other than Paypal's Website Standard Payment, you need to contact us for manual set up. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you have not had a credit card gateway account yet, we recommend you to register a Website Standard Payment account with Paypal. It is free and easy to setup. It is very good for beginner.

You also need an UPS account to processing shipping. Whenever your customers checkout their shopping carts, your website use your account information to connect to UPS and send package information, shipping addresses (package's weight, from address, to address) to query possible shipping methods and present them to your customers to make a selection of their choice.

In the admin site, when you ( or your employee) process shipping, your UPS account is used to get shipping labels and tracking number for you to shipping the package to your customers. Registering an account with UPS is easy and free. If your website just provide services without physical shipping, you do not need to register an account with UPS.

Can I set my resources such as images and videos become restricted access to our members only?
Yes. In addition, you can create member register page so that anyone who is interested in your restricted resources can register to become your member. Member registering can be configured in three different modes.
A) Paid membership: you need to specify

  • Membership cost price
  • Membership duration. The shortest is 1 month; the longest is 1 year.
We do not keep your members credit card information in files for security purposes so the membership accounts will not be renew automatically.
B) Manual membership approval: when you turn this feature on, the registering process will not collect payment information. However, after registering, the membership account is in passive mode and users cannot logon until you, the owner of the website, set the new registered account to active mode manually. This feature is design to help website owners who cannot accept credit card online due to geography limitation or personal purpose have a change to collect membership fee in their own manners.
C) Free membership: no payment information is required during the registering process and the new register account will be active right after the registering process completed.

Technical Questions

How can I know a variable or a predined controls?
Vdap.com uses xxx as a variable in your htm page. A variables will be replaced by its value. For instance, vdap.com will be replace by your domain name.
To display @ character, use \ as an escape character

Variable List:
  1. vdap.com = domain name
  2. vdap.com = domain name
  3. 2010 = current year


Vdap.com uses $xxxxx(param1=value1,param2=value2)^ where xxxxx is control name and param1 and param2 are pramaters that you can pass initial values to them. For instance, $ContactusForm()^
Note: parameter can be obmitted. If a parameter is not presented, the default value is going to be used. To display $ character, use \ as an escape character

How can I change my logo and my footer information?
Your logo is "header.htm" and your footer is in "footer.htm". These files are included in all your htm pages with syntax <!--#include virtual="header.htm" --> and <!--#include virtual="header.htm" -->
You can logon and click on PageWizard

How can I change my modify my menus?
All menus are in in menus.xml file under "templateResource" and "menus.xlt" is its html transform description. You can logon and click on Menus Edit to mofify your menus.
If you use Custom Edit to directly edit menus.xml, do not forget to download the file save a backup copy in your computer before editing it

How can I replace my template images by my own ones?
Click on Custom Edit and go to "image" folder and upload your own images. You need to delete the existing images and upload your images with the original name. Be sure that your images have the same sizes with the original image.