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Don't you think that this is a slippery slope though? (On either side of the argument.) On the one hand we could censor nothing and instead of singing "I want to hold your hand" the middle school kids are singing "I want to..." uhm, nevermind... you know what I mean... and by hearing it is it not encouraging it as "normal behaviour"? On the other hand, we could censor almost everything and not have the luxuries we have in the US to worship, express, or live the way we want to. Either way it's bad. Personally, I'd like to see us at least keep "moral decay" where it is or reverse it but at the same time understand where that can lead. I just don't like hearing 4 year olds singing "That's not my husband, that just my babby daddy." or see a whole generation of kids that think "it's no big deal" to be pregnant at 14 or sleep with 15 girls before you're 15 or just start shooting because you're having some kind of crisis and kill your classmates. It makes me wonder what's next. Granted our parents saw what we did and said "We're going to hell in a handbasket", but at least to a degree I'd say they were right in many ways. As far as the radio goes... I can see some folks saying "I don't want my daughter to grow up with guys that grew up listening to Howard Sterns" I apologize for the narrow scope of this message to our non-American friends. I must admit I don't know where many of you stand on freedoms that we take for granted. I can only speak from my own unique experiences as having grown up in the best country in the world! (You may feel free to think that about your own country too - it's called patriotism and it's a Good Thing.)

That's a tough one. Remind the powers that are asking for this that if they hook up and leave in 30 mins the backup won't be complete and if they are all in there at one time it will take longer and the million other problems with this scenario. But best wishes on finding something! I can't say I've heard of anything that triggers on network connection but if the little box at the bottom of XP can say "network connection found" then I'm sure it could be done!

I read in an SEO forum a question about whether they should slam the jerk to make a point or let him off with a scare because he's a kid. First, he's 18 so he's no kid. Even if he was 16, though, I am reminded of the RIAA lawsuits against college kids for downloading a couple dozen songs to "make a point". If they do that, and the courts support them, then compare the damage Billy does to Aerosmith by downloading their Greatest Hits album versus what this one worm has done and tell me with a straight face he should be let off because he's "learned his lesson!" Many things need to be done, but I say that one is to send the message we as a society dependant upon our computers won't accept this sort of nonsense... especially considering the hard cost of the disruptions!

It depends on what the partition is used for. If it is log files then they may just stop filling or rotate out the old stuff. If it is a system partition the thing may crash. If it is a website partition nothing can be written to the drive so no updates and dynamics should go flakey. I'm glad you're moving out of there and to TCH - it doesn't sound like they have a very safe place to be.

Woooooohooooo!!!!!! Where do we sign up for the wet-noodle lashing squad?

Make sure you stop by to say hi to me when your cruise ship makes that stop-off here in Key West! Welcome to the family Annie!

Someone went to some trouble to do that. They even have the Spam Assassin stuff: But it's wrong! I just checked against one of mine and our true email headers are different. This is the kind of thing Magic was talking about - if the recipient reports it as spam and their admins aren't too knowledgable then they will just block TCH server 23 as a spammer which would be wrong at best.

Not that I'm a shining example or anything but I have a few clients and make enough bucks a month to pay for my DSL, hosting and Coke & Pizza so I'm doing ok. The only things I use on a regular basis for my websites are Firefox browser for research and the Multimedia MX2004 suite. For normal web pages I think you'll do just fine. If you ever want to get into the more advanced stuff like user-updated-content you may need Contribute or if you want to make the next mega store you may need some credit card processing storefront management thing or another, but even that is provided free, at a basic level, from Paypal and Oscommerce. Make sure that you want to go Multimedia versus the other packages out there (take advantage of trial downloads!) but when you do, if you choose that one you'll get all you need. I'm not affiliated with MM, by the way, just happy with the product. I wish it was cheaper, but the educational discount you quoted is AWESOME!

Hi Thomas, I vaguely remember a discussion like this and the testing that some did, if I remember right, showed that if you just close your browser you won't get notified but if you click the Log Out button it will send the notice. It's something to try. Hope it works!

Any hard-core (read Professional) graphics artist would say yes to Photoshop. Unless you are planning to make a living and/or carreer of doing graphics then Fireworks will be just fine. When I say "doing graphics" I mean more of the draw-your-own stuff than cropping, coloring, brightening, thumbnailing, etc. All the stuff you do to pictures to put them on the web can be done just fine with Fireworks. The studio flavor of Macromedia has Freehand which does some way-cool vector stuff that adds to the package.

One possibility is that Yahoo may be seeing it as a non-page. This could be either as a doorway page or just a useless page. No, I'm not saying your site is useless, but take a look at what Yahoo sees when it hits the site: ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="This is the Home Page of Boy Scout Troop 98 in Columbus, Georgia. Includes information about our programs, trips & outings, Eagles, troop members and more!"> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="BSA, Boy Scout, Troop, 98, Scouting, camping, hiking, cycling, Merit Badges, Scout, Tenderfoot, Second Class, First Class, Star, Life, Eagle, Cub Scout, Webelos, Cub Pack, Pack, Explorer, Exploring"> <META NAME="REVISIT-AFTER" CONTENT="30 days"> <TITLE>Boy Scout Troop 98 Columbus, GA Homepage</TITLE> </HEAD> <FRAMESET cols="19%,81%"> <FRAME SRC="menu.htm" FRAME NAME="menu" BORDER=NO scrolling="auto" target="intro"> <FRAME SRC="home.htm" FRAME NAME="intro" BORDER=NO SCROLL=NO scrolling="auto" target="_self"> <noframes> <BODY> </BODY> </noframes> </FRAMESET> </HTML> Othere than the meta tags there is no content. This is one of the reasons SEO folks warn that it's quite the challenge to have a frames site do well. In addition, if Yahoo saw the page at the other site it may consider this one as a duplicate site and not bother to list it. What you need to do, if you can, is to put up a 301 - permanent redirect page at the old site telling the SE's and everyone else that "it ain't thare no more". Hope it helps!

The time you looked at it and it showed up as Times Roman, were you using the same computer? If the computer did not have the American Classic font loaded it could have defaulted to the other font.

Sorry I missed this thread guys... it fell through the "view new posts" crack. Indeed, the higher pagerank is the better pagerank. The scale claims to be 0-10 with 0 being generally a penalized site and no-score being one that's not been ranked yet. There are others, such as the guy at www.searchnerd.com/pagerank/ , that say Google must have a PR of 11. Not that any of us will ever see that but it's fun to know anyway. Pagerank is really bouncing lately. I don't know if Google is doing new algorithms or maybe they added in a new batch of websites that causes things to fluxuate. The way PR is calculated depends on other pages and it's one of those things that don't exist as a single point in time, but rather a moving target we "try" to hit.

I'm sure there's something that can be done but there shouldn't need to be. The whole idea of CSS is to be usable. I vaguely remember something about one browser putting a top/side border around the whole page and the other didn't and there was a way to turn it off. Look at both browsers and see if this is possible and look for the HTML/CSS settings that would do that if it is. Sorry I don't have anything better for ya.

There's a new updated version of Thunderbird - the free email program many of us here use that's under the Mozilla umbrella along with FireFox. If you're looking for an email program check it out. If you have Thunderbird 0.5 get the upgrade. The main site and link to the upgraded version is at www.mozilla.org NOTE: Be careful of the junkmail settings. I upgraded and got a false hit or two so keep an eye on it until you feel comfortable it has retrained itself to your preferences. The false hit I got was a new email that I had never received before so even the older version may have pegged it as spam - I don't know. It has several bug fixes and: a Windows installer a New Default Theme on Mac OS X new Improved Junk Mail Controls to learn faster and catch more spam. a new logo and artwork IMAP changes which allows the mail server to push notifications such as new mail arriving as soon as it arrives. server-wide news filters that apply to all newsgroups on a server. Mail filters can now mark messages as junk. Offline support is an optional download component in the Windows installer and is no longer a separately-downloaded extension. Mac OS X users now get new mail notification in the system dock. and more!

The only problem I have with Firefox is on some of the Microsoft pages it won't display and I'm convinced it's on-purpose censoring of browsers by MS. Other than that it's been great!

All the best, Alan! Thanks for being around when you could and hopefully you can again some day. Take care!

Hey Steve, You are right in that it is very complex and no one knows the whole story - if they say they do then don't listen to them! A backlink is like a vote for your site. If I place a link to you from my charterboat fishing captain's page and the PageRank there is a 4 then it's not worth as much to you as a link from the Australian Alternative Medicine page if their pagerank is 4 also. Since they (my made up AAM site ) are in a related field then a vote from them is more impressive than a vote from some fishing guy in the States. Also, the higher the page voting for you with a link is the better it is for you. Remember, in the world of search engines there is very rarely even such a thing as a web site... each page pretty much stands on its own. This can explain why an internal page ranks higher than the index page. Perhaps someone linked to the internal page or the words on that page fall such that they get a higher rank by the Google algorithm. Since most sites focus on their front page for building business most of the time a link from the front page would be best for you. If, however, the front page of Sears has a pagerank (PR) of 5 and the Home-Health department has a PR of 8 then a link from the inner Home-Health page would be better for you. Again, Google doesn't care that this page is front page and that one is not - it just sees pages out there all mixed together and stacked up. Hope it helps - always feel free to ask - these are not dumb questions at all!

Keep in mind, Eric, that the WebDAV stuff they are talking about, in the context they mention it, is FORMS not FORUMS. If you want to have a forum then there is at least one here at TCH that you can one-click install and then format to your taste. The forUms are not generally functions of the web creation software but rather a whole heap of programming on the back end. It's like Forms. You can use FP's built-in form thingy and it will only work on some of the servers, or you can use Jack's Ultimate Form program and it will work anywhere that has PHP. Any features you can't use can be done other ways. It's just a matter of which product you prefer to use to do the rest of the site with. By all means, get your hands on every trial version you can and see what it's like. You'll have to give the beefier versions a fair shake though - you can't fully eval Dreamweaver in an hour for instance. Hope it helps!

Right click on the headers over the columns (From, Date, Subject, etc.) and then go to the Field Chooser and add the TO: field. That way you can immediately see the TO address. Just be careful that you don't kill a legit email that was sent to your buddy and CC'd to you. If you sort on that field it may help breeze through the spams - that's what I do.

The short answer is that the line: ><form action=--WEBBOT-SELF-- method=post> tells the form what to do when you hit submit. I use the following on one of my pages: ><form name="form1" method="post" action="/cgi-bin/sendmail.php"> but I just realized it is broken because I've not accounted for the way we do e-mail here on TCH. Phooey! Anyway, sendmail.php is a piece of code that handles the email, in my case it's supposed to email it to me. You could do anything you like with the code you put in the file that action points to such as build a log file or do database entries... but that's probably well beyond the scope of Publisher. Hopefully someone else has experience with that program and can help. I'm going to look at my form and see if I can make it work.

I don't know about NetObjects Fusion - sorry. I posted the Homesite link because it was mentioned that it was out there "somewhere". It is definitely not wysiwyg The problem with MS Publisher or MS Word is that they flood you with tons of garbage! It even seems CuteSiteBuilder does too. Just go to the meowweb site and view the source code. It, like FP2000 (the latest I used) by default puts Font and other tags on every line of your site... even if the font doesn't change from line to line. Look also at the TCH help site - as much love and care as KW puts into it there is still a lot of wasted effort placed there by CSB. Just look at how many times it sets (FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Verdana") on the same page. The low-end WYSIWYGs are well known for that kind of redundancy. The Publisher and Word sites are even worse because they try to put in things that only those programs use to get back to the original version so it is way more than needed. There are no totally clean WYSIWYG and you should be prepared to do some work on them to make them the most efficient, but some are way better than others. For an example, go to www.grandslamkw.com for an example of Dreamweaver MX2004. I have not stripped the "extra" stuff DW's WYSIWYG puts in and it is using 3-column CSS and even a flash movie at the bottom. It's not as clean as you can make by hand but it is pretty doggone clean. My bottom line is to use whatever tool works for you, but if you want clean code and a better shot at high rankings on the search engines you should choose carefully (or hand code if it is ultimately important to you.) Realize that I believe all of these products are good for certain people in certain situations and I'm not saying they are worthless.

Homesite is at macromedia.com/software/homesite/ and costs $99. They also have a demo version so it's free to see if you like it or not.

You could try creating a new username/password since your first choice is messed up.

Great news MikeJ! Thumbs Up