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Now Jack, that's not very politically correct of you! Tsk tsk. It should say "SEO-challenged" for those who may be offended by the other wording. Seriously, thanks for that great review. It answered many questions about a product I didn't even know existed so I'm better off in several ways for reading it!

This explains everything - you people are an odd lot because most of you are clean freaks! I knew there was something "wrong" with you guys! It's fun looking at the pics guys!

Too bad TCH can't buy up their articles. I'd bet there's more to it than just money - how much do 3 staffers cost and compare that to the advertising potential (even though it is much smaller than it was originally, Webmonkey was huge in traffic I'm sure). Maybe someone will go rogue from there and release the articles on a peer-to-peer until the lawyers catch up with them.

Welcome to the family, Adnan!

Mitch! It's great to see you back! We have a lot of great new family members for you to meet and guys, Mitch is definitely the helpful kind of person we seem to attract here. Let's have a reunion party! By the way, for those who haven't met him, Mitch is the author of our series of helpful articles named Jeering Jargon. Happy times!

We are 98% sure we are not infected at my workplace but we still are getting about 30 of these per hour... enough to effect our performance. I'd like to hear any solutions anyone has on the exchange server level if you have them - PM me please.

Bill, I wouldn't pay for that but it's only because my pages are local businesses and it's not vital that I have top-shelf uptime. If I had an online business or one that depended on the sites being up I would gladly pay a couple of bucks a month for the service you mentioned. Man, is there anything you won't do for us? (Don't answer that! )

Nah, that's just Rob - we don't support him either! (We love ya Rob! Just kidding! )

Remember, just because your street was closed off for construction, the rest of the city is probably running fine. If your ISP is having severe problems then it is likely you can get to no sites at all, but the rest of the world can get around just fine to everyone but your ISP. If it's a small one then "the world may never know." (to quote an old Tootsie Pop commercial.)

Congrats Glenn - Welcome abord! Thumbs Up

Here's another that I use that uses PHP to create the thumbnail on the fly - just upload the full sizes and it will create the thumbs for you. h**p://photoframe.sourceforge.net/

My site has the following for the keywords metatag because I'm trying to focus for awhile instead of diluting my effectiveness: > <meta name="keywords" content="Key West fishing"> When I search Google for Key West fishing I'm not in the top 500 pages returned. When I search on "Key West fishing" (with the quotes) I am at position 234. What gives? More importantly, is there anything this tells me that I can take advantage of? Should my keywords be "key west, fishing" instead? I'm trying to figure this stuff out and Google has me stumped. I'm number 6 on Altavista for the same search term... I am getting more hits from MSN (where I am 23) than Google. Yet on Google I can't be found. Ideas appreciated - otherwise I'm thowing in $20.00 to the "blow up Google" fund!

Yeah, but what if the following happen? 1. AOL blocks everyone so all those with decent ISPs can't email Aunt Betty. 2. "Everyone" blocks AOL because they are idiots and Aunt Betty can't email them. (or they are afraid of being blacklisted so they say "no AOL email from here." 3. AOL gets so stupid they block "non-spam" mail so "Happy B-Day" won't get thru? We have Symantec at work and as a test I sent myself an email... the subject was "I love you" and the body was "You're the best" and the bloody program blocked it as spam - and it was to myself! Someone better get Bayesian filters going or something because as it is the spam is killing us. Today our brand new email server at work almost crashed and performance was so dismal everyone was calling in. The problem? Handling replies from postmasters at a bazillion sites that got spammed with some of our addresses faked as the return address.

I didn't know they could set up filters to do that, Mike. AOL is going to anti-spam themselves out of business if they keep this up.

I'm happy you are enjoying your stay here and I agree totally about the great people that make up the family and the very nice setup of tools and such. Thanks for posting.

No. Can't you hear it now? "I posted an innocent opinion and they deleted my post!" I think the replies will do more good than the worthlessness of the post itself does harm. Let everyone see how our family members respond to this kind of stuff.

Thunderbird and Firefox - sounds like a buddy-movie or a rival fighter pilot movie. Alan, I use Outlook at work and have a licensed copy that came with my computer but I've been using Thunderbird since I heard about it. It is full-featured and very well done. If you have any specific questions feel free to PM me or post and if I see it I'll be happy to give you anything I know. I'm looking forward to getting the new versions when I get home tonite!

None of TCH's servers are blacklisted with AOL. This is because we have a zero tolerance policy on spam here. If someone is officially accused of spam they are suspended immediately for this very reason. On a shared server one user can cause the whole server to be blocked and that will affect many members so we can not let that happen. The thread on forwarders is related to this because if you blindly forward you could get reported as spam without even knowing it. As the true originator of the emails, however, you should not have any problem with this unless your members forget they signed up and then it could get messy. Hope it helps!

Yay, I did something right! To be honest, I probably heard something "way back" when the browsers weren't as compliant and mentally filed it but the thought did occur to me as I was creating my page "Hey, with the div-tag names I don't have to put the nav first!" As for compatibility, I think they're close enough for the sites I am building to not really worry about it. Especially if Scott's doing 3 corp sites that way! (No wonder you're not around as much as before!) Thanks for the confirmation guys.

It's an over the counter painkiller for headaches and muscle pain also called paracetamol. It is also sold under the name Panadol in some countries.

Hey Mike, Give her the gift that every wife wants - an account at TotalChoice Hosting! See, there's a starter plan for the newlyweds; a silver plan for what is it? The 50th anniversary? It's perfect!

I just got the Dreamweaver MX 2004 suite and since it is so strong on CSS and has some tools to make sure I do it the right way I thought I'd play with one of my sites. Something that came to mind is that if I use traditional tables to layout my site and I have a left-side navigation then the spiders will have to wade through all that to get to my content which may make me look pretty bad if the first thing about fishing is half-way through my fishing web site! With CSS-P I can put my main content first and then use the stylesheet to place it where I want. This gives me up-front content but I can still have a left-side navigation. My questions for the pros are: Other than the browser incompatibilities with CSS-P, is there any flaw in what I'm thinking, will it help and do the spiders even look at the linked stylesheet? This is one of those things that sounds too good to be true.

It may not be about fooling you like that even. If you were an average user and followed the link and found out that you could get medicines that legally require a doctor's prescription because they are so powerful, would you be tempted to try it? I know lotsa folks that would love to be able to get Codeine-laced Tylenol. After all, the pharmacy price would be less than the street price!

Scott's right, there is still a mess on your page. Here's an example (I removed blank lines and some java script: As you can see, there are 2 html tags, 2 title tags and 2 head tags. There is no way a spider will respond to search engine optimizations while the page is like this. It is totally unpredictable what a spider will even do with it. Did you maybe clean it up and forget to upload it?

Perfect. Just the reason I needed to upgrade! I'll let y'all (I have a permit to say that word because I grew up in Kentucky! ) know how it turns out for me. Maybe I'll even write a review of sorts for others considering it... but then again, it'll probably be MX2005 before I get around to it