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In most web-work-for-hire situations I have see (always as a 3rd party, not a participant) it was normal to do either half-now and half-when-done or 1/3 now, 1/3 at same milestone (usually the final sign off from the customer on the designs) and 1/3 at completion. As Lianna said, 70% is a bit much for up-front fees.

They are only features after they are documented!

Thanks gang, You guys (and gals) are the best! :hug:

I didn't see your original post but please remember, posting links to other webhosting companies in these forums is like going into your local Chevron gas station and posting flyers for Shell, BP Oil, and Exxon. Add in the search engines into the equasion and it's like putting signs over the outside of the building for everyone to see. TCH does not need to validate itself as a value choice. The front page with prices versus features and the customer comments in these forums do that. What questions do you have about hosting features? I'm sure that the TCH staff, myself and the other customers could help you. Remember, we don't need to know which hosting company is offering these features you question so just ask about the features themselves. Hope to help soon.

Welcome to the Family Forums Nikki and soon to the Family proper! If you need anything just yell!

Rats! Scott, I'm sorry you had to edit that. I intended to not make them links but obviously forgot it before hitting Add Reply. Mea culpa, sorry.

So I guess the opposite is true: Votes cast by pages that are themselves not important weigh less heavily. And also: Votes cast by pages on important sites that are not themselves important weigh less heavily. It really matters little anyway because as I said, if they get 50k visitors per day and we can be prominently listed in our geographical area it really doesn't matter what the PageRank is. I just wonder these things when I see them... thanks for the help now and always, guys.

And another good thing is that if you later get the customers to go with a reseller plan you can just submit a help desk ticket and they can combine them "under one roof" for you. You would still have several accounts and domains but only one bill so if you think you may go that way don't fear... it's easy!

Thanks for the followup Ted. I wasn't sure what they were using.

I did a quick search and found these two sites: www.pwqsoft.com/website-position/index.htm www.top25web.com/index.html] USE THEM AT YOUR OWN RISK! There is no guarantee they are playing nice so they may trash your rankings. You have been warned, it's not my fault you got banned! (They are pretty cool though.) I'd be happy to have a TCHer write something we could trust. If anyone does make sure you tell us! [edited by D. Scott Demmin, removed direct links]

Bad Belkin, bad! Evil! As if the "conventional spam" isn't bad enough! What's next, spamming keyboards? Sheesh! (dancing on their dead carcass when they fold!) Belkin

Great idea Mitch! Got anything on how to build a cold fusion device?

Ok, here's a new question. I am considering hooking my Charter Fishing guy up with a fishing megasite. The main page of that site gets a 6/10 PageRank(PR). The page on which they would link to my guy, however, is not-ranked. I've heard it said that Google only looks at pages and not sites so it sounds like the link from these guys would be worthless in PR terms. Of course, they can pass traffic to me whether they have 0 or 10 PR and I am considering them for that reason alone. They say they get 50K hits per day so it's nothing to dismiss without considering. I just wanted to clear up the PR issue because that's one of their bragging points. Thanks.

Another great interview Mitch! Nice site Jim. I'm not a Buffett fan but the next time you're in town for a Parrothead meeting give me a yell and we'll have a Coca-Cola or something. (Why is there a 'K' in Coke but not in the name Coca Cola? ) I was going to say have a coke but considering the island's past I thought I'd better be more specific!

Another big thing is the speed of the servers. If the server can whip out page compilations quickly it becomes less of a problem. Here is what TCH uses (from the main page) to compare with your current host: Only Server Class Hardware! Dell Dual/Quad CPU 2.4GHz Intel Xeon Servers Dell Dual CPU Intel Pentium III Servers Red Hat Linux 7.3, 8.0 and 9.0 Servers 512 to 2048 MB of RAM Multiple Tier 1 Bandwidth Providers Premium World Class Data Centers Cisco Routers and Switches APC UPS Systms Powerware UPS Systems Diesel Generator System (For Power Backup)

Oh boy, there goes the idea of HG getting any sleep for the next week!

Not at all, Pat. This stuff is strange until you get used to it. The .htaccess probably won't show up in an ftp program because it starts with a period. Additionally, there may not even be one. Go to your Cpanel. Find File Manager and click that. Click the folder icon next to public_html and it should open that folder for you. If you don't see a .htaccess file then you can create a new file and put the lines in you need. Then save and exit. Go to your site and see if it works. Remember if you have the page open to use Ctrl-Refresh to make sure the browser gets a brand new copy of your page. If it doesn't work then go to View Source from your browser. If you see the lines of PHP instruction then the .htaccess isn't working. If you don't see that but it doesn't put up the date modified then it may be a problem with the php part.

Here is some PHP code that should do it: <? $file_last_modified = filemtime("$DOCUMENT_ROOT$PHP_SELF"); print("Last Modified "); print(date("m/j/y h:i", $file_last_modified)); ?> Just insert this into your page where you want it to say "Last Modified ...". If you want to keep your pages .htm or .html then you'll need to modify your .htaccess file to tell it to look for PHP code in .htm files. To do that edit the .htaccess file and add the following lines: AddType application/x-httpd-php .htm AddType application/x-httpd-php .html Hope it helps!

If you put a bunch of regular spaces a browser is at liberty to deal with them as it chooses. If you need to have a space there use the tag which is a Non-Breakable SPace. Often Ctrl-Space will insert that for you in many web editing programs.

Not without being rude to them I guess. They said one reason to sign up was community that was needed. Too bad they don't know about TCH - we have a mighty fine community right here.

I find myself asking the question, "Why would I pay $150/year for Webmaster World when we have awesome people at TCH for free?" Is that site really, in y'all's opinion, worth the fee? Does it have that much that's not searchable on the free-internet? Just wondering and budgeting.

A forum reader asked me in email: Here's what I replied (slightly edited): The locations of various website files is entirely up to you except the entire site must live under the public_html folder. If you choose to use an images folder then you are free to do so... many web designers do that to keep their sites neat and tidy. Here's a simple example to do it this way: ><HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> test page </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Here's my picture of my dog Toto.<br> <img src="/images/toto.gif"> </BODY> </HTML> Assume this file above is called index.htm you put it under /public_html when you upload it and you put the toto.gif file under /public_html/images folder. When someone goes to your site they will see the sentence "Here's my picture of my dog Toto." and your little dog Toto's picture. If you wanted to dump all of the files into one folder (I'd recommend against it) you would replace the next-to-last line with: <img src="toto.gif"> The file path you put after src= would be in relation to the htm file being edited. I have a church site with many folders - one for ministries, one for images, one for mission trips, etc. In all of my sites I try to remain consistent. I have folders for images, styles which include CSS stylesheets, Templates which are where my Dreamweaver templates are, and major categories if the site is going to be very large. Hope this helps - if you have any questions just post to the forums in the appropriate category. Family members are standing by to answer your questions. Seriously, there are a lot of smart folks here and they love to help out!

Or don't even involve the registrar. My subdomain was handled by TCH completely - when I created it I suppose they entered the proper settings to resolve it for me... I never had to tell my registrar anything about it. Best wishes!

I just had a chance to look at the two sites. Boy, this guy is totally without scruples! They are identical! Sheesh, guys like this give us all a bad reputation. If you need help establishing that the design is yours for a lawyer use the Internet Archive at web.archive.org which takes snapshots of "all the 'net". You can see that you had that design up on Sept 23, 2002 and the "loser's domain" was only created on Aug 5, 2003 according to the whois at netsol.com so it's clear who was first. It's a real shame because that's a great site design!

techcircle, Here is a thread where this was discussed recently: http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...hl=copy+protect Basically if a viewer can see your site they can steal your site. You can make it harder but never stop it.