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If you have domains parked on other domains, a person going to any of the domains will end up on the exact same page. You can not have shoes.com and shirts.com parked on each other with each of them having the appropriate content - they would both point to the same page (a storefront perhaps). To change domain names you would submit a ticket to the help desk and the techs would tell their servers that you're now called domainy.com. All accounts can be upgraded very easily and you would pay a reduced rate depending on how much you've already paid for your existing account. You won't lose money by switching.

Don't sound so pained by it.

I dunno, Robert. I take that ("content") as any data whether for public use or not. Why would anyone want to password protect data for public consumption? By that question we can assume anything password protected is not content under your interpretation. It's truly scary thought that they are even asking for passwords. Now, to effectiveness. Instead of paying Adwords $40/month I could pay you guys $5.00 per 100 votes for my site. That would be 800 votes for my site instead of a dozen impressions on the side of who-know's site. Sounds like a winner to me. If I farm it out to some poor farm family in Guilder I can get them to do it for $0.05 per 100 votes and make them rich and get 80,000 votes for my site. I really think they will be innundated with fake votes and their system will fall apart... but any competition is good!

If you design your page very strongly you might have a chance. You'll have to use the title tag, meta tags, alt attributes, etc. to their fullest. With the relevant links back to your site the search engines have a clue what your site is about. Remember that SEs don't look at the pictures so they have to have something to determine what your page is about. Sometimes sites with a splash screen or all flash use tricks to put text "way down" on the page or in invisible colors so the engines can see it. I highly recommend against this because you may be penalized and it's not worth it. Also remember that nothing says they have to get to your front page first. If you sell widgets and wickets and they do a search for "sticky wickets" and end up at your 2nd page that deals with the wickets you sell then you have won. Search engines don't read sites but rather each individual page which stands on its own merit. Make sure you optimize those pages to rank highly in the engines and if the visitor never sees your front page but buys things from you then who cares.

Nah, no monkeying. Just bad luck. It's the same reason some people love Dell (or IBM or HP or Compaq) and others hate them. All it takes is one bad experience and you'll never buy from that company again - I just wish the corporate types all understood this.

Yes, they will consider what's remaining when signing up for the new account type. If you submit a help desk ticket (link at the top of the page) to Billing they can give you all the details and tell you what you have to do to make it happen. They will move your existing accounts under the reseller account for you too so you don't have to start from scratch.

I've been living in Florida for over 11 years now. The thing is, I don't get it... what if I want to vote for the candidate from the Green party... do I use the yellow chad? There's no green space.

No, you're right, Bellringr. If you have a default address set up in cPanel which forwards email to another address then *anything* sent to your domain goes there. A lot of spammers see a domain and start sending junk in hopes it gets through. Web@bubba.com, webmaster@bubba.com, info@bubba.com, etc. The best thing to do to avoid this is to set up a forwarder from youraddress@****** to wherever you want it to be and then set the default address to :blackhole: to discard all incoming unrouted mail or :fail: no such address here to bounce it. The bounce option may make the spammers take the address off their list and maybe even the whole domain if they don't get lucky and hit your real address. On one of my sites I had to change everything. I set everything to bounce and then set up addresses like office@**** which are not commonly used. This doesn't look too weird to my visitors but it won't be guessed by 99.9% of the spammers either. If you can, I'd suggest a really uncommon address like "Jim_Sewell@myplace.com" so they can't guess it. Hope it helps!

Please take this for what it's worth - some of it is heresay. I had a Kodak camera early on. It died 1 week after the warranty ran out (on a, at the time, $400 camera). They wanted $90 just to look at it - fixing it may cost more. The thing wouldn't clear up when you turned it on so I'm guessing one of the lense moving motors broke... and this was without dropping it. I went to a camera store and asked the guys there about cameras. I asked specifically what they thought about Kodak. The sales guy (the other was a hang-back lurker type) that I talked to said "It's Kodak" about 3 times. I pulled him aside and finally got from him that Kodak makes great paper and film but their digital cameras are lousy and you couldn't give him one... which meets with my experiences. Now, remember that the camera I had was about 6 years ago and my camera store conversation was about 3 years ago. I now have an Olympus C-2040Zoom 2.1 Megapixel, as a result of that camera store conversation, and love it. About batteries: My camera can use either 4 normal AA alkaline batteries or 2 "double barrel" lithium batteries. The AA's last about 200-300 pics like Bruce gets. The lithiums probably give me 2000 or more for $18.00 a set. I never counted them but I recently used the AA's in a jam and they lasted 2 weeks of normal use. My lithiums last 6-8 months usually. It's not scientific because I use it off and on, but they definitely pay for themselves as expensive as that many AAs gets and I'll not have another camera that can't use both. The "off-the-shelf" batteries are great when you're in a fix and the camera goes dim but for durability make sure you can use the lithiums - it's night and day on how long they last. The best advice I can give is to look around, read all you can on the internet about cameras (be careful of the sites that have paid advertisements - a 1-month subscription to Consumer Reports is under $5 and they are the most impartial I have seen), talk to the salesmen at different stores, ask them hard questions, wait, look some more, wait, ask some more, wait and then go to the guy you trust and ask about extended warranties. My camera has a warranty that for 5 years I can bring back a hunk of melted plastic filled with salt-water and covered in hammer marks and they'll replace it. The only thing it doesn't cover is theft. Dontcha know it, when I buy the awesome warranty I find an awesome camera and don't need it.

Not only that, but if you like Fireworks and can get the full package from Macromedia it includes (at least when I bought it) Illustrator which is a whole other animal. It's very powerful, especially for vector stuff, even though I have only used it for raised, embossed headers. I like Fireworks a lot but never used Photoshop so I can't comment on the comparison, but Fireworks is a free working demo so it's worth looking at for sure.

Hi everyone, No one has mentioned whether these offers of help are free or not but let's remember that the TCH Family Forums are not for posting anything that is for personal gain. I'm leaving these replies here but if it starts looking like a profit thing I or one of the other moderators will close and/or edit the thread. If anyone wants to offer to help please PM neilm and you can work it out in private and neilm, if you have any questions then by all means ask away. Helping people is what the forum is best at - just as long as it doesn't get into payment-for-services-rendered. Thanks

Very interesting theory that I have heard a lot. Truth is, though, that although the anti-guys may be feeding the virus-guys now (or not), we would still have viruses without them. I remember back in the mid 80's seeing harmless virus-type programs... it would only be a matter of time until they got ugly. For fun check out catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/meaning-of-hack.html and search for the term "Motorola". Read about Robin Hood and Friar Tuck ... and this was in the 70's.

Sorry for the vague answer here, but I had this kind of thing happen and I fixed it by going to a folder (directory) and going to Tools - Folder Options - File Types and ripping out the IE references that apply. I think the main one is "URL". The one you need is for links to URLs and not just the .htm .html, etc. files. Hope it helps!

Awesome illusion. Welcome to the family!

Yeah, he can throw the Miss Steaks on the grill next to the brats and the Mr. Steaks.

To answer your question, it puts that piece of your page between the <div> and </div> into a box with a dotted-greyish border that's 1 pixel wide with the following characteristics: width: 180 pixels right side padding - 15 pixels (between text and box edge) right side margin - 15 pixels (between the box edge and everything outside the box) left-aligned text The box will break out of the normal flow of the page and float to the left side of the container item, in this case the comments-body2 item.. As to why it's not working, check the opening and closing <div>s to make sure they match. Another thing I try is a CSS Validator - they sometimes show where the syntactical errors are. Another little trick I've been using a lot lately is to add: background:#CBC; (or some other color of choice.) It recently showed me that my box was just a few pixels big and the floats had taken out the contents and allowed the container to squish down to nothing. I had to add a clear:both to make it grow back to include them. (if that makes sense I'll be surprised. ) Hope it helps!

It's just like Symantec and Sircam. We have put in calls most every update and they say "Yeah, we can detect it but we don't remove it or block it from coming back." Well, what use are they then?

Another thing is that the sites we link to from TCH reflects on TCH's reputation, both in the search engines and with visitors who see the link. I'm sure most sites are wonderful but I'm not sure Bill wants his company formally linked to them all in what is an implied show of support.

Welcome to your new home and thanks for the great review. Now to get the other 3,384,738 users on bad hosts to come over. I must say though, by the title of your thread I'd guess you don't get out much do you? Have fun and let us know if there's anything we can do to help!

Oh, it works. It cleared a bunch of stuff off of my machine after I did something known to load junk. It found things I'd never heard of and was a bit better in this case than spybot.

Duck Sam! Seriously, keep safe because it's not looking good for the folks in the Tampa/Orlando area. Fortunately the thing is moving quickly which means the damaging winds won't be there as long but they are strong now... 145 mph category 4. The dumb thing of it is that I was supposed to go with some friends to an event in Orlando today. The event was obviously cancelled but one of my friends said he was going anyway - right into the heart of the storm. Like another friend said, if the hurricane is going north - go south! To everyone in South/Central Florida, don't take this one lightly. Do what you have to to stay safe and let us know you're ok when you can.

Thanks for the well-wishes and I echo them to my neighbors to the north. I live in Key West and they thought we would get hard-hit too. Fortunately, the hurricane stayed further out to sea and we just got some pretty heavy winds. Around the place I live there is only a banging door and one tree uprooted. The tree went between trailers so it did no serious damage. I walked out to the street after securing the blown-open door and looked around. I didn't see any real damage, just garbage container doors blown open and a lot of small twigs and branches blowing around. There's almost no rain either which is very good because we were at astronomical high tide when the thing came through. We still have tornado watches (one was sighted earlier but it's gone) and some pretty gusty winds but the worst is over for us. The guys up on the mainland are the ones I'm praying for as the eye is going to hit them with the stronger winds. We had power out for about an hour and my DSL was out for an additional hour but things seem ok now.

But reading citations is not a guarantee of getting the whole story. I just don't want to see anyone "go legal" on someone for taking their work when 5 minutes with a copyright lawyer would tell them that they are wrong - or miss the case to recover damages because they 'think' they can't. I've seen folks think something is clear cut too many times to not comment about the necessity of asking someone who knows instead of just taking the advice of well-meaning folks who are not experts in the field... that's all. I've seen 100's of people say how evil GOTO is in programming but I can give examples of when it is beneficial and bordering on necessary, but that's my area of expertise - programming. I'm not going to turn this into an "I'm right-you're wrong" spitting contest so give whatever advice you wish to and I've already expressed my opinions and the readers will do whatever they choose to do. I hope you feel better about it at any rate, Ramsey, and do urge you to consider a contract to avoid future issues. In the world today you can't be too safe.

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Rob's right. If you ever want to be sure of the facts regarding law, hire a lawyer. We can say all we want but I believe for every law that can be pointed out there is an overruling law or an exception that a lay person would not know about. For instance, we all think you can't be tried twice for the same crime (double jeopardy) but if the crime falls in different jurisdictions you can be... for instance, Timothy McVeigh was found guilty in federal court for killing the government employees but he could also have been tried in state court for killing the rest of the people that weren't employees. OJ Simpson was found innocent of murder but it went to civil court and he lost. There are other examples but as you can see, blanket statements often overlook key elements of things that only a pro (lawyer in this case) would know.