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Nat, I'm not seeing it here with IE 6.0 either. Can you give us a screenshot so we can see what you are seeing? Maybe you are calling it funny spacing and we just don't know any better than to think you did it on purpose. Also, if you use some of the validators such as validator.w3.org you can let it find unclosed tags and such for you. Any time I have something totally goofy I go there and let it find the things it can and it often gets the culprit. Just ignore the "Required attribute ALT not specified." and such unless you just want to be in compliance. On your page at www.indiemanagers.com/ it has the following abbreviated problems: Line 337, column 106: end tag for element "DIV" which is not open Line 340, column 44: an attribute value must be a literal unless it contains only name characters ... <ilayer id="tickernsmain" width=&{tickerwidth}; bgcolor=&{tickerbgcolor} ^ the & sign is what's causing the error. I would guess that both of these could cause problems with spacing. There's also a CSS validator that can help with any problems in your stylesheets at jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ I don't know why you see it and we don't though. Keep plugging at it and you'll find it!

I'm not a CSB user but in Fireworks if you set it to make an image darker by 10 and then later go into another image and select the brightness it will assume the same amount. Is there anything in CSB or Ifranview that could be remembering a previous modification and reapplying that to the new photo?

Thomas, I just returned from vacation so I'm a bit behind on the news. I'm so sorry for your loss of a dear friend. It's not much consolation but if she was in pain and suffering then that has ended. It's always preferred that our sick friends get better, of course, and I'm saddened that Ginny was not able to be healthy and with you for a longer time.

I'm moving this to Web Site Promotion for better organization and visibility in the topic at hand.

The short answer is that you'll have to design or modify your site so that the search engines know you will be a valuable site to refer people to for those particular topics and that you are important by having other sites link to you. Here are some topics here at TCH that may be helpful to get you going. Website Promotion Tutorials How Do I Pick My Keywords? How Is Your Rank? What Is The Importance Of Inbound Links? What Is Search Engine Optimization? Keyword Basics Google's not the only game in town If you have any specific questions, don't hesitate to come back and ask away!

Amazing that someone actually got famous by never leaving their home. The best thing is the "Help Martha Stuart" link. "If you get bored, MarthaStewart.com has some great craft ideas to help pass the time" Precious. 100K for that domain name is insane though - he won't get it.

Come on guys, it's an AI, not a psychic!

And then how long to patch the three other security holes that fix opened up.

By "the same" Mike doesn't mean the same content but rather the exact same files. It's like looking into your house through 2 different windows - it may look like two sofas in there but it's just two ways to look at the same sofa. What this means is that your files only physically exist one time and they only count against your disk space quotas one time.

Man, I know cluttered - I live there most of my life - but that's just plain lazy. How do people live in that kind of mess. It's not the clutter caused by too much junk that bothers me but the papers strewn on the floor and crammed in here and there, the plastic bags, empty boxes, soda bottles (no doubt drawing ants), and everything that won't fit above shoved in the bottom of the desk. Yuck! That's not geek - like they probably think it is - that's just plain faineant. Note: faineant - An irresponsible idler; a sluggard. "Lazy" just didn't seem powerful enough to express what I meant so I found another word that sounded worse.

For a bit of variety, here's another one called Darn! Passwords! It's $15 or $25 for the pro and works well. Try the free trial if interested. It is owned by a company named Thornsoft which makes Clipmate that I use ALL the time. One nice thing is that you can drag and drop passwords to the programs that ask for them. It also will make up passwords and other nice things and is fully encrypted.

You should probably submit another ticket and reference the number of the first one. The techs that handle that stuff usually don't hang out here in the forums.

You are one to talk about copycats! Your site is obviously a feeble attempt to capture users based on the fame of the company I used to work for. It was at www.mpgn.com and was named "MultiPlayer Games Network". It since has been absorbed by Interactive Magic and evolved (died?) from there. The one remaining feature, that I know of, is at www.kingdomofdrakkar.com and is an excellent massively multiplayer game that my best friend wrote. If you like RPGs then check it out. (I was joking about the copycat part but the rest is true. MPGN was around in the late 80's through mid 90's)

Remember to make sure that none of your web pages use the full URL when linking to each other. If you have ><a href="/images/boo.gif"> then that's fine. If you have the www.**** anywhere in your site those pages will break when you change.

Scott, it's better to be looked over than to be over looked. I'm sure Lisa will get you fixed up soon... she's pretty enthusiastic like that.

Aha! Thanks for clearing that up and giving the sqmail suggestion. I forward everything to another webmail service I have had a long time and don't want to give up because I'd have to give everyone yet another address. I get annoyed at others who send me messages about once per month saying "I have a new email at xyzzy1234@hotmail.com" and I have to wonder "Yeah, for how long!" Anyway, I hope it works out for ya Gary.

Can't you use ******/webmail to read and send email via your domain on TCH?

Sounds like Gmail may be an answer for many if they get all the kinks worked out. Gmail is basic but I'm sure it will add features as they go. If they get everything working like it should and address people's concerns about security, etc, then they may have a real contender.

How many files do you have? If it's a few I'm sure someone here could help out.

I have some trounble with Firefox on Microsoft's site (go figure). Especially the knowledge base. On the page support.microsoft.com/default.aspx if I click "Search the Knowledge base" at the top it reads then stops and it's still where it was - nothing changes. I saw one other sign-up or pay-online page that did that too recently but those are almost non-existant. I use Firefox when I can, IE when I have to and it's pretty rare. One good thing about Firefox is that with it being open source any holes are (will be) found patched in record time. How many times have you read "I told Microsoft about this problem 20 weeks ago and they never did anything. Now someone is exploiting it and they are scrambling to patch it?" I have - many times. Now for my soapbox that I've not been on here yet. I am a programmer above all other professional titles I may go by. I fully understand programming concepts and have been doing programming since 1977 with a degree in 87 and have been doing it professionally ever since. With that said, the kinds of problems that Microsoft says they have are inexcusable! I'm sure you've heard several times that exploits take advantage of buffer overruns. I'll not bore you with details but if you program you probably know that there is no excuse for that. If you have a buffer that's 255 bytes long and someone feeds you more than that and you don't handle it then you're an idiot! One fairly recent problem was if you rename an exe to an audio file then Windows Media Player will launch, see it's an exe and just for your convenience will run it as an exe. What idiots! This is one reason that open source doesn't have as many problems - if one guy writes something stupid like that and the source is available, another person will see it, call him a moron and fix it. Microsoft with their "be everything to everyone" attitude has so many lines of code and so much pressure on the programmers to produce that they don't have the time to be careful and do it right. No one is going to tell someone that he's fired if Firefox comes out a week late with a bunch more security in place. Rob's right that it's also about popularity, use and bragging rights. I would be totally surprised if Firefox took over dominance and had nearly as many problems as IE for the reasons I state here. Too bad so many businesses are lemmings and just follow the Microsoft leader.

I'd contact MammothData.com and see if they could help me. How could dotregister transfer it if it's suspended? It sounds weird to me at best. Email the support folks at MammothData.com and see if they can give you an answer you are comfortable with.

Not exactly. A bunch of relevant PR4's will help with Google more than a couple of unrelated PR6's would in most cases. Absolutely nothing wrong with this... but they were the only links I could find so your "Search Engine credibility" is a little low. That is to say, if the SE wants to recommend saunas to someone, your site may not be at the top of their list because of the unrelated links. (This is not an official measure - just a term I made up.) The correct way to do it would be to put a Permanent Redirect link on the old server but since you are with Geocities you won't be able to do that. If you get all your linkers to change their links to your domain here then it would only be a few weeks before you got back to where you are now in most cases.

I have seen a huge increase in the amount of spam sent to my domains recently too. It looks like another major player has come to town or a whole bunch of little ones. I had to set my Spam Assassin down to 2.5 just for peace of mind. NOTE: Be sure you are very careful when changing your settings. Such an aggressive setting may cause you to miss important emails depending on the types of emails you get.

One I like for a quick idea is color.twysted.net - not the best but it gave me a couple of ideas a time or two.

The only "broken" back buttons I don't like is when I go from page to page to page and then land on another page, in my main browser, and the back button just leads me back to the same page. There is a trail and I can hit the arrow on the back button and see my trail of webs but they are trapping the back button. New windows with fresh info are more in the "I appreciate it" realm because I don't have to navigate back to where I was when I'm done reading it. ... For what it's worth.