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Jim... Thanks for the nice write-up. I am in the middle of somthing similar myself. My site has grown much larger than I initially expected, and now it's time to reorganize from the foundation up. I cannot agree more with your statement To borrow an overrused cliche, you cannot build a solid house (or website) without a solid foundation. Since most newbies have no idea which way their site will eventually go (me included!), it makes sense to lay a foundation that can accomodate any growth, new direction, or reorganization that may come down the road. But no one (well, almost no one) does it that way from the start. Just take the lessons learned during the site's infant stage and do it better for the next iteration. The pleasurable time (NOT!) spent reorganizing an entire site will convince one to structure things so as not to require such activities in the future. Now for a technical question: Since you seem to be renaming virtually every page, are you adding gobs of redirects to your .htaccess file or how do you accommodate all the orphaned links? ...Dave

Wow! Borfast has always been very helpful and right on target. Congrats Borfast! ...Dave

Pretty common question, so (if I recall correctly): A parked domain is an additional domain name that points directly to your main directory, same as your main domain name. If your main domain is maindomain.com and you park parkdomain.com onto that account, whenever a browser points to parkdomain.com they get the same page as maindomain.com. It is commonly used when you have a "block" of domain names that you want to all point to a main site. An example might be ****, mydomain.org, mydomain.net and maybe my-domain.com. An addon domain is a domain name that points to a subdirectory and/or subdomain in your account. For example, if you set up a "family" folder in **** and make it a family.**** subdomain, then an addondomain (like myfamily.com) would point to that folder. Is all that clear? It seems I don't know when to stop typing! Also, see this thread. ...Dave

I tried this a long time ago and it didn't work. But maybe a help desk ticket will get you what you want. It's worth a shot. ...Dave

Is it possible to use CPanel to create links (unix-type, not hypertext) that would point to another directory or file (like "www" is a link to "public_html")? I am reorganizing some things and it would be much more convenient to simply use a few well-placed links than to really go to town on my .htaccess file(s). TIA, Dave

Just got another domain/account. (One more and it's time to trade up to reseller!) My first account is on Server 11, and when I log in to CPanel, sure enough it says "Welcome to Server 11" right near the top. On the Cpanel for my new account, it is blank below the "Last login from..." line. Anyway, since help desk tickets always want to know which server you are on, it would be a good idea to identify the server number on the Cpanels of the new machines. Probably just an oversight (things sure have been busy around here lately!), but I thought I would bring it up. ...Dave Rock Sign P.S. When did they change this smilie --> to "Dance"? Didn't it used to be "Kick me"?

http://www.google.com/contact/spamreport.html ...Dave

shadyDW, I use a modified PHP script for slideshows found at http://www.zinkwazi.com/pages.php?page_name=scripts. For its simplest use, you simply put the script in a folder with the photos you want displayed and just use the phpslideshow.php as the link and voila, instant slideshow. You can cutomize it pretty easily with just a few edits. You can add descriptions pretty easily as well. HTH, Dave P.S. It's free.

Thanks for the info, Rick. Total time between ticket open and the response to close it: 7 minutes!!!!! Rock Sign Rock Sign Rock Sign I love this place! ...Dave

I got the same kind of emails and have submitted a help desk ticket too. Just so you know that you are not the only one, soundweaver! ...Dave

Hi Sandi... I don't work for TCH, but yours seems to be a common enough question that I think I can give you at least a preliminary answer until one of the official staff chimes in: On regular accounts: As long as all domain names point to the same spot (identical pages) there is no additional charge. See http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...hl=domain+names On reseller accounts: It's up to you where the domain names point (they don't all have to point to the same pages), but still there is no additional charge. HTH, Dave Staffers: If I got something wrong, please forgive me. Maybe this would be a good subject for a "pinned" topic, since it keeps coming up.

I am a little confused by your question, but can offer the following: When I send an email with SquirellMail, it saves a copy in my Inbox.Sent folder showing the recipients. There are checkboxes for READ and DELIVERY receipts on the compose page. Is it something else that you are trying to do? ...Dave

Although the content looks OK, I see this message at the bottom of my Netscape window: exception: java.security.AccessControlException access denied: (java.lang.RuntimePermission modifyThread) Looks like a java applet problem maybe? ...Dave

I just checked your main page and, while it locked up my computer a minute or so while loading , it looks OK to me once it loaded. I am on a very fast connection using Netscape 7.1 for Windows. Do you have a specific page or something that you want us to check? ...Dave

Thanks very much for the replies. I have left the tags in my site becauise I always follow TCH advice first. The time and care that the TCH family give to one another is truly amazing. I wish the rest of the internet was as informed and helpful. Rock Sign ...Dave

I was reading on another (google-oriented) site that you should not use META keyword and description tags. The poster put forth the point that google will penalize you a bit for having them and that they just "weigh your pages down". This contradicts the advice here at TCH Rock Sign . Any other opinions? ...Dave

Here is the thread: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...hl=awstats&st=0 Basically, you edit the SkipHosts parameter in the /tmp/awstats/awstats.yourdomainname.com.conf file. Please note that the tmp directory is just outside your public_html directory. Hope this helps. Regards, Dave

It has happened to me a couple of times and I agree, it is VERY rude! Mad!!! Mad!!! I think once I inadvertently said "OK" in a dialog box, but the other time I had no indication at all. I don't know what these people hope to accomplish. No one wants to visit their $&^&*% sites anyway. Sympathetically, Dave

Yep, the old binary debugging technique usually works. One more thing, Jim: Most of your periods (dots) are followed by *, which is a good wild-card way of finding a bunch of things, but some of them look like "real" dots and so should be escaped: sitecheck.internetseer.com should be sitecheck\.internetseer\.com same for microsoft.url, yahoo.com and the rest. ...Dave

Do you need to escape the bangs(!)? Like \! Just a thought. Otherwise it looks pretty good from a human point of view! BTW, Did you set RewriteLogLevel to 0 or are you keeping track of all those bots? Good Luck, Dave

I get the success page when typing in the URL directly. But I too get the standard plain-jane success page when I sent in a sample registration. The "success" <input> tag should go right next to the rest of the fields that you fill in. It sounds as if you already knew that, though. Make sure to double-check the script for the spelling of "success". Maybe it was misspelled in the script. Looking at the source of your register.htm file, though, I cannot find the ><INPUT TYPE="hidden" NAME="success" VALUE="http://www.springbreakrun.com/success.htm"> tag anywhere. Did you take it out? Good luck, Dave BTW, "Information" is misspelled on your register.htm page.

It looks the same both ways to me. I see lotsa dots on both urls. It's the "Choose a flavor" page we are talking about, right? I tried IE 6 and Netscape 7. Did you fix it? ...Dave

If you have enough disk space in your account to handle both the fully-loaded DB and the text source file at the same time, you might want to FTP the source file up to your account, then just use plain mysql commands (if you are comfortable using them) from the shell to load it in. Then there shouldn't be any timeout problems. I am assuming that your text file looks like: >CREATE TABLE mytable blah blah blah; INSERT into mytable values(x,y,z); INSERT into mytable values(a,b,c); If you don't have shell access, then submit a help ticket. The support folks may be able to set you up with jailshell. It sounds like you have a pretty good case to me. Here's the policy: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/help/sshpage.htm Hope this helps, Dave Rock Sign

Some questions: 1. How large is "really large"? 2. What error does PHPMyAdmin give you when you try to upload the file from your computer? 3. Are they text-only DBs or are you using blobs? The more we know, the better help the TCH family can give. Thumbs Up ...Dave

It loads fine for me (8:37 a.m. Pacific Time). ...Dave