buddingchef

Thank you all for your help. Lianna, I'll try to mail you privately before I go offline Deb

I've been trying to contact the help desk, have written to sales@totalchoice, and am not getting anywhere at all so was hoping someone could help me in here. I want to cancel my total choice hosting account as I am shutting down my site, due to personal reasons. The service was great, everything is fine in that regard but I do need to do this, as I won't have internet access after I move on Friday for awhile. I submitted this request to support three days ago and haven't heard back and I wrote to sales over a week ago and same thing. Can anyone give me an email address or whatever to get this done? Thanks

Thanks for the advice. I have spent the last week getting backlinks, as I know from my graphics site this is a good way. You're correct, my site only opened on May 27 so I'm not indexed by any of the Search Engines yet. I did find a site today which allows free submission to 110 engines. Of course you get the odd dud page, 404 error or some wanting money (in fine print), but I've gone through 1-40 (tedious as hell but .......) and plan to do the rest tomorrow. Here's that link in case anyone wants to sit at their computer for hours as I have adding themselves to these search engines... http://www.submitplus.com/freeprograms.php?b=best100 There's also some site testing tools available at this link. I'm also writing emails to food/cooking related sites asking for partnering or reciprocal linking. I haven't got the 499.00 to spend for "top ranking", specially since that's plus 58% or better Canadian dollars ...but have read the SEO pages briefly and will do so more in depth tomorrow. Oh! And I put meta tags on my main page yesterday too....duh...completely forgot about that at first. Have also changed all TCH links to graphical at your request. Also, I found that with Google, the more hits I got to my midi site the higher I ranked in the Google directory with ALL my key words. I had the top position with country midis on that page as well as a couple others I don't recall. The phenomenal numbers (that trashed my bandwidth every freakin' month!) were due to a "back link" from Crescendo where I was awarded the midi site of the month. I ended up taking the site down for about six months, and it's been back up now another six, but I just checked Google and I'm not even listed on the first 8 pages....didn't look harder than that. So is it fair to say major hits increase your ranking on the search engines? That's my guess. Thanks again! Deb

Thanks. I did read the page at the first URL. I know what to put on the page, just don't know how to create it from CPanel This link http://www.cpanel.net/docs/cp/errorPages.htm gets a 404~!! The requested URL /docs/cp/generalJS.js was not found on this server. LOL! But thanks NEway, I'll try and muddle thru it Deb

Can anyone help me create a custom error page.....period? lol I go to it on my CPanel, but what are all those buttons for? TIA Deb

Site Name: A Budding Chef - Online Cooking School URL: http://www.abuddingchef.com Despcription: Membership required. Weekly lessons, 100's of recipes, message board, monthly challenges & more! Link to TCH: on above URL, next page and most of my member area pages. Rank eval please. Deb

No problem Lianna! Golfing, eh? lol Well I don't golf but do appreciate a pretty day! It's raining cats and dogs here in Nova Scotia this morning, but what can you do? I found the newer aMember manual and started looking through the files in my folder. I'm always scared to get nosing around in stuff I don't understand in case I mess something up. But lo and behold there was a join and member php file, and I found the urls to link them from my site etc. The only thing I would change is to be able to customize those two pages to match my site, which the features page says you can do, but I'll have to go snoopin' some more. I use Composer for all my pages, tho' I do have Frontpage, but Composer won't open a PHP file in it's editor for me. So... Anyway, all's well and I appreciate your helping with the main stuff. Have a good day! Deb

Just wanted to let you know I figured it all out.

Just wanted to say thank you again Lianna! You were a huge help yesterday, walking me through my aMember install. I do have another question. 1. Do I make a join form page, as I had planned before and have it linked to a payment page on my domain or...do I have to do something more with aMember to have them populate my member database and accept my Paypal payments? Was wondering how aMember will know when someone joins. hehe.....told you I was a total dolt at this stuff! The username and password I signed up to aMember with won't let me in. I wrote it down the other day but it won't work.

Thanks Rick. I need to go back to computer school! lol Actually I found them under add-ons. Thanks again. Deb

Are we allowed to have a message board on our site(s)? I didn't see anything about it, although I know some hosts allow it and some don't Is there one that can be configured from CPanel? I don't see a link for that. Thanks Deb

Don't know if I'm supposed to post here since I'm a "newbie" but someone can delete this if that's the case. For those who aren't well-versed in html, you can configure this simple form (which works on TCH, as I tested it). It allows a name and email address, will mail the results to you and has a redirect. Also you have a choice of round radio button option(s) that will allow your users one selection, square ones that allow more than one selection, as well as a drop down selection and comments field. You can also change the colors where applicable if you want. Obviously these will all need to be customized to suit your needs, so basic html knowledge is necessary. The form is courtesy of response-o-matic.com and you can get your own template by going to their site, or customize the one below, which has their link in the code. (it's free either way) I've highlighted in red the most important changes you need to make, and when you look at the form, you can see where your other changes would need to be made. Put it into notepad or Word and just change the text values to what you need. Here's what it looks like on a page (not customized) http://www.jadedesigns.org/testform.html All you have to do if you're using a WYSIWYG editor is copy and paste the code into your page. Hope this is explained well enough for the html-challenged (like me! lol) Deb _______________________________________________________________ <!--start code--> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Your Page Title Here</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> <FORM action="http://www.response-o-matic.com/cgi-bin/rom.pl" method="POST"> <H1><CENTER> </CENTER></H1> <H1><CENTER><FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks for visiting my site!</FONT> </CENTER></H1> <H3><CENTER> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="your_email_address" VALUE="you@******"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="your_name" VALUE="Your Name"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="email_subject_line" VALUE="Subject Line Of Your Email"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="required_fields" VALUE="your_email_address"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="thank_you_title" VALUE="Thank you for joining"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="return_link_url" VALUE="URL of the page you want the form to take your visitors to"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="return_link_name" VALUE="Home"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="background_color" VALUE="#FFFFFF"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="text_color" VALUE="#000000"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="link_color" VALUE="#0000FF"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="visited_link_color" VALUE="#8000FF"> <INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="active_link_color" VALUE="#0000FF"> </CENTER></H3> <H3><CENTER>Your comments are appreciated!</CENTER></H3> <P><CENTER>Just complete this form. Click on Submit when ready to send.</CENTER></P> <H4> </H4> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0> <TR> <TD WIDTH=116> <H3>Your name:</H3> </TD><TD> <H4><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="visitor_name" VALUE="" SIZE=50> </H4> </TD></TR> <TR> <TD WIDTH=116> <H3>Email address:</H3> </TD><TD> <H4><INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="visitor_email_address" VALUE="" SIZE=50></H4> </TD></TR> </TABLE></P> <H3>Where do you want to go today?</H3> <P><INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="Where to?" VALUE="I don't know">I don't know<BR> <INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="Where to?" VALUE="Disneyland">Disneyland<BR> <INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="Where to?" VALUE="Bill Gate's house" CHECKED>Bill Gate's house<BR> <INPUT TYPE="radio" NAME="Where to?" VALUE="Back to bed">Back to bed </P> <P> </P> <H3>What kind of movies do you like?</H3> <P><INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="Movies I like" VALUE="Horror">Horror<BR> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="Movies I like" VALUE="Science Fiction">Science Fiction<BR> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="Movies I like" VALUE="Romance" CHECKED>Romance<BR> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="Movies I like" VALUE="Comedy">Comedy </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE><H3>How many salesmen does it take to change a light bulb?</H3> <P><SELECT NAME="name"> <OPTION SELECTED>Who cares? <OPTION>I hate this joke. <OPTION>One <OPTION>Two <OPTION>Three <OPTION>Only one. </SELECT></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> </P> <BLOCKQUOTE><H3>Any comments?</H3> <P><TEXTAREA NAME="Comment" ROWS=5 COLS=50></TEXTAREA></P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <H4> </H4> <BLOCKQUOTE><P><INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Submit" VALUE="Submit"><INPUT TYPE="reset" VALUE="Reset"></P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P> </P> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML> <!--end code--> ______________________________________________________________

I know that IE is the browser of choice for most and I'm starting to use it more and more. But after 6 years of using old Netscrape online it's a hard habit to break. I automatically want to click my Netscape icon first thing. Although I can access my CPanel from Netscape, when I click on Read Webmail at the bottom of it in Netscape, the page will not display. I get a Document Done at bottom of the page but it's blank. It does, of course, work in IE Just thought someone might wanna be aware of this. Deb

Thanks Ty. I don't see that file in the unzipped stuff. Even did a Search on my computer but no go. Lianna, I need help with this big time! lol No clue about SQL. I'm gathering I need to upload it to my TC space but don't want to use the payment stuff, just as a standalone password program for my site. Any help would be most appreciated. Should I email you...is there a charge, etc.? Thanks again. Boy do I feel dumb on this one! D

Lianna, I did download it, but didn't see an executable file or whatever to install it. Is it a program that you install on your system? D