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Glad it helped! Of course, a corrupt file is always a possibility. I hope you get it figured out soon - you got music to make, gyrl!

Almost 6000 different people going to your site the first month it's active is great unless you have a captive audience in which case it's pretty good. By captive audience I mean, for instance, you sell a product that's awesomely popular and to get support they have to come to your site... that's kind of cheating. If your site is just "out there" for people to find then 6k is awesome in 1 month - congrats either way!

Welcome Cherry! As others have said, it all depends on the laws where you live. There are several potential issues including DBA (doing business as), corporation papers (good to limit your liability in some cases), taxes (always gotta pay the piper), zoning laws, etc. For the zoning, even running your business out of your home would require checking into zoning laws where I live because, just for an example, to run a business from my home requires the county to approve it. That requires me to pay a fee, post notices on my property that I'm planning to do this so all the neighbors can say "We don't want that", go to a hearing which hopefully none of those neighbors show up to, take an ad out in the paper expressing my intentions, and paying fees and taxes. I don't want to scare you away and most of it is formality but you really need to go to the government and get their opinion (law) on it instead of listening to friends - they always get me in trouble because as good as they intend the information to be and as much as they want to help me, they always end up getting it wrong.

Welcome Greywolf! Don't worry about it - some of us have a couple thousand posts and still sound pathetic.

Thanks a lot Don... the heat index here was over 100 yesterday. Sheesh, some people.

Welcome to the forum. Sorry about the commercial status of IPB - there are so many good products that have gone that way in the past it makes people leary of "free" software - which is a shame because there is good free-and-will-always-be-free stuff out there.

Welcome to your new home, Army! Sorry, I don't use FP so I'm not sure how to help but these other guys here will be able to work it out with ya.

Welcome to the forums Squ.

Hi Nat! I personally don't know anything about those formats but the FAQ I found online should answer your questions or at least lead you in the right direction.

Welcome Kevin!

Thanks for the link Steve! I think now that web browsers are getting "modernized" and they almost all support png it has become the standard of sorts. And as David said, JPG is lossy - save a jpg, open it and save it again - do that about 3 times and you have a mess instead of a graphic.

Welcome to the forum Arne. It's strange that Bravenet sent you here for answers on their site. Anyway, as Andy said, the file you need is .htaccess (note the dot at the beginning) and is in the main directory along side your index.htm file.

Rumors that I am hearing are that Google's working on rolling out a new algorithm. If that's the case then all bets are off until the dust settles - even our placement in the results pages.

Welcome home Lorraine! Raul has good points about Publisher not being a web-type program. As a result it creates pretty poor websites (lots of extra junk, etc). Nothing wrong with it but it's probably not the best tool to start off with. You'll hear about Frontpage, Dreamweaver, hand-coding but don't worry too much about it. Pick something cheap/free and fun to start with and when you get to where you need the power of Dreamweaver (DW) or FrontPage (FP) or some of the others you'll know it. For now just enjoy creating websites and don't be a stranger to the Family Forums - there are lots of helpful folks here!

Welcome to the forums and your new home, KL21!

Welcome to your new home, Chris. I'm glad you are happy with the service TCH provides us. It sure makes life a little less stressed (for me anyway.) Like Rob said, we're glad your part of the family!

You can request a backup restore from the Help Desk techs. It may not be from today but it shouldn't be too old either. At all times, but especially when converting/upgrading your website, a backup is highly recommended. You can find the backup option in your Cpanel which will make a file on your account with everything in it. They are like American Express - don't leave home without them.

I'm not deeply enough into the technical details at TCH to know what it takes to do that so I'll defer to others. I just figure that none of my stuff is worth securing during transmit and that the time I put it on the server is the basis Dreamweaver uses to synchronize so it's good for me as it is. I'm sure someone will answer your question soon about the logistics of doing it on TCH.

The last time I tried that was pre-TCH, but at that time with FP2000 it did not. The good thing was the folders to delete were pretty obvious - they were the ones I didn't create (Someone please tell me they have updated this since then?)

Hi gang, I just wanted to share an experience I just had, and hope to continue having for some time. I was e-chatting with my best friend who is in NC and he said he may have some contract programming (I'm a programmer) for me in Linux. Well, when he was here in Key West we both worked for a company using FreeBSD so he knows I know Unix and have played with Linux. The problem is, I've not touched Linux in some years. I decided to do something proactive in my life and get this contract work he was talking about. What do I do, I thought. My situation is that I HAVE to use XP on my main PC. I have an old PC but I plugged it in and it's shot... dead... kaput. I can't really afford a new one right now so I thought about a dual boot --- but which distro? That was easy, I just jumped on here and found the recent discussion which had several people talking about Ubuntu (thanks guys!!!). I went to the site and found out that they have a Live-CD version which means you boot off the CD and try it out. You can't really save anything but it's a great test and it doesn't touch the OS that's on the computer! I loaded the live CD and found that everything works - DSL, etc. So I thought about partitioning - what a scary thought on a populated hard drive. Then I had a brain storm. After all the snow and sleet cleared from that I realized I have 2 HD's in this computer and only use one of them so I cleared out the cobwebs and got the install-the-real-version CD. I did about 10 minutes of reading on the internet about the dual-booter program and any precautions to take and I was off. Literally, in under an hour and a half I now have a Win XP/Linux dual-booting machine! The prompts were obvious for me (a computer pro) and would be pretty easy for even the newest computer user to follow. The hardest thing was telling it which drive to use and I was terrified I'd give it the wrong one so I went back to XP, aborting the install) and checked the make on C: and D: so I'd get the right one - yep, format the Maxtor! - so then I had to re-cover the ground I lost for that but the rest was easy! When it finally booted the last time and everything was set up I was delighted with the packages that are already pre-installed too. Again, thanks to all of you who educated me that Ubuntu even existed and encouragement to anyone thinking of trying Linux. So far the only thing I miss is button 4 on my mouse going back a page - but there's probably a setting for that too! This review brought to you by the letter U and the number 2. Oh yeah, one more thing - you probably won't need them but as always MAKE BACKUPS FIRST!!!

Holy cow, now that's scary stuff!!! I guess the only truly safe one is the form in which the end user never knows your email address - the server handles it and never tells anyone where the post is going. Sheesh, now if the spammers would just focus on curing cancer or something!

Another thing to try while waiting for an answer from the help desk is to clear your cache of files and cookies. That makes a big difference for me when things stop working or act weird like double-logins.

Hey, sorry I missed that you were new to the forums... welcome!

Spam is a problem for everyone. Some have more than others but it affects everyone. Here are some things to help with spam. Visibility: If you are visible, they will spam you hard. By visible I mean that the spammers who scan the internet looking for victims can see you. The best and most reliable way to get flooded with spam is to post your email address in plain text on your website. The search engines have programs called spiders that search for information on the Internet. The spammers have similar programs that are out there looking for email addresses. Of course, there are other places you can get your email address "scraped" up from including: Dishonorable websites - "Sign up for a free newsletter." and if the host is dishonest he could sell your email address to a spammer. Emails - If you send email to someone who posts it on the internet then you're sunk. (see next) Discussion groups - There are many discussion groups that post messages on websites. If the group is an email group then you will surely get your email listed. Even if it is a website group, be careful that you nor anyone you know ever put your email "out in the open." Solution: There is none. Seriously, there is no solution to spam. I can, however, give you some help on keeping it from being the biggest problemin your life. 1. Never put your email address where it will end up on the internet. 2. Have a reserved email address you never use to sign up for things or give to websites. I may have Jim@MyTCHDomain.com that I only give to my close personal friends, for instance. This is your last line of defense, guard it like you would your credit card number. 3. Set your "Default Address" in Cpanel to ":fail: no such address here." This will block a LOT of spam. Spammers can see a domain and they will start guessing at names to spam - webmaster, web, administrator, etc. If you set the Default Address to your reserved address then you will get all of these garbage address emails. I recommend not using webmaster as an address, even though it's a commonly used one. At the church and at the daycare websites I maintain I have created addresses of office@theirTCHdomain.com for folks to email and webmaster goes straight into the trash. If you develop for other people consider webdesign@ or designer@ or some other non-typical email address for people to contact you. 4. Create other email accounts for everyday use. It's easy to do at TCH because of the way our domains are set up. Just go into your Cpanel by following the instructions in your sign-up email, find the Email section and look for Forwarders. When you click that you can Add a new forwarder. Let's say I'm going to sign up for automatic billing notices from my phone company. Before I sign up with them I can go to my Cpanel and add "BellSouth@MyTCHDomain.com" and have it forward to my reserved address - Jim. When I sign up I tell them my email address is BellSouth@MyTCHDomain.com and I'll get all the messages but they won't have my secret/reserved address. If I decide later to not do the online thing I just simply go back into my Cpanel and tell it to stop forwarding BellSouth@MyTCHDomain.com and it disappears. If you go to a "Free music" site or something less legit than the phone company (I don't believe I just said that!) then you can delete the forwarder when they start spamming you. Remember, if you never give out your reserved address to anyone but your closest and most trusted friends you can cut the spam down to .0001% in a few minutes by killing all the forwarders. Why not to 0%? Someone will always guess it eventually by trying a, aa, aaa,ab, aba, abb, etc - eventually they'll get your real address but these are so few that you'll probably never notice. 5. Create a spam-magnet account. I have spam@MyTCHDomain.com that I use for any site that I sign up on that has to send me an activation password or link. An example is a game forum I recently joined. Before going to the game site I went to Cpanel and set my spam account to forward to the reserved address. I then went to the forum, signed up, read the activation email and then reset the spam address to not forward. 6. Hide your email addresses that have to be put on your websites. There are ways to cloak yourself from these scanning programs. One is to put your email on the page as a graphic file. This is unreadable by the scanners but it also requires that someone wanting to contact you has to retype your address. They may even type it wrong so you'll never get the email. You can also use a javascript piece of code like this one: <script language="JavaScript"> <!-- Begin user = "name"; domain = "YourTCHDomain.com"; document.write('<a href=\"mailto:' + user + '@' + domain + '\">'); document.write(user + '@' + domain + '</a>'); // End --> </script> The advantage of this is that it is not compiled into the full address of name@YourTCHDomain.com until it gets into your browser and most of these scanners are not smart enough to read Javascript yet. I suspect it's only a matter of time though. A final way to get email feedback that is 99% safe from spammers is the Feedback Form. Using PHP or some other scripting language and HTML forms you can give the visitor boxes to enter information into and the web site server will compile it into an email to you - the visitor never sees your email address, nor does the spammer. Added 6/21 after suggestion by Surefire: Once an account gets flooded with emails is there anything you can do? Early on I saw that when you remove an email address from public view then it takes a few weeks but the spam drops off. Today, however, with so much selling and reselling of address lists it is pretty much impossible to salvage that address as a usable one... thus the reason of having a "cloaked" address that public ones forward to. You can throw away a compromised account and still have your main one. It does get complicated, however, when your email is part of your corporate branding - you almost have to rely on filters at that point.

Presently, the search engines don't pay much attention to punctuation. For your keyword example I'd just put the three words with a space between them.