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I know Google is notorious for its "Google Dance" and such, but I just did a link check on one of my sites and Google says there are no links and I own at least 3 other sites listed in Google that link to it, all of which are on the first page of links for their particular keyword specialties! Also, Altavista says there are 7 sites (not all of mine are in that count) that linkback. I shouldn't complain because "Key West daycare" gives me #1 and #2 at Google and the next 3 entries are my sites as well so it's not terrible. I just don't understand all this I guess. For instance, my pagerank is 3/10 on the home page. Most links are to deeper pages within that site - does that detract from the pagerank? How can I get it better without having to pay, beg or bribe folks to link to us? How would I go about doing that tactfully and efficiently if it is the only way? I guess I'm just frustrated - you try to make it come out good and then it seems like all your efforts are for nothing or the guys with the cash stomp you or the search engines are just stupid. <sigh> I'm going to go take another look at my code... maybe I'll see something there. Thanks for letting me vent and for any answers you may have. By the way, the website in question is http://www.lcachildcare.com

Particulars: Title: The Semware Editor Purpose: Text editor Category: Utility Rightful Owner: The Semware Corporation @ www.semware.com Cost: Free trial / $99.00 for complete version. I have been using this editor for over 8 years and think it is the absolute best at what it does. It is a text editor which means that it doesn't do fancy underlines and a bazillion fonts, but what it does is edit text well. The editor has a HUGE and very complete macro programming language that makes it easy for you to program it to behave any way you want it to. There are many pre-made macros that the editor uses that you can modify if you don't like them and the users have contributed hundreds of their own macros to an archive maintained at the site. This editor is great for doing HTML code too. It has syntax hiliting for most languages and produces clean code without adding any junk to your web site pages too. I personally love it and I think you will to if you need a text editor.

Go to us.pandasoftware.com and follow the links down. They have some really good antivirus software and even a free sobig.f removal tool. Also google for "stinger.exe" as it has been updated for this latest variant also. Geez I just used "google" as a verb! I gotta go on a vacation for awhile!

Hey gang, I have been fighting a flood of emails at work this week (I'm part of the IT team at our company) and wondered the impact of these latest worms (Blaster and SoBig mostly) on the rest of the family. We have content filters and anti-virus in place and don't allow the .scr and .pif attachments that SoBig uses to get in so it is not infection we face, but we have had over 9000 messages blocked that had it in them! We aren't a huge company like Microsoft or anything and we got this many in 3 days. (www.historictours.com is the site of my workplace if you are interested.) From the news sites it seems that lots of big names are getting hindered by this even if it doesn't "get in". Anyway, how has this latest worm release affected you folks? Also, Sobig.F came out the day after SoBig.E expired, as I understand it... they say SoBig.F expries on 9/10... do you think there is any correlation to that and is SoBig.G going to be a big-nasty, nothing special or just some kind of a memorial of 9/11/01? By the way, I have several addresses on web pages hosted at TCH and have not received even one infected email so if you are looking for a new host and stumble on this take it for what it's worth! Rock Sign

Hiya Mike! Welcome to the family! Thumbs Up

Eric, First of all, never open attachments of things you are not expecting from people you don't know. Even though it looks as though nothing happened, chances are it did. Remember, when you open an attachment or click on a file in email you are giving it permission to run on your computer and if it happens to say, oh, I dunno, DELETE EVERYTHING then you've a real problem. I would recommend updating your virus definitions if you have a virus blocker. If you don't you can go to antivirus.com and have HouseCall from Trend Micro check out your system for virus infestations for free. I've had a great deal of success from them. If these emails are being generated on a computer other than yours then there is little you can do to stop them other than set up mail filters. It could be that they are being generated on your own computer and dumped into email. It's hard to say. Best wishes! Let's line up the virus authors along a wall!

I'd like to see some good solid examples of how to access mysql and cookies for something like "Hi Joe, the last time you were here was 8/3/03 at 4:00 pm and you clicked on 'widget' as your favorite item" Yes, it's contrived but the point would be to store something in a mysql db and an id as a cookie and access that info for whatever purpose. If I remember right the cookie part is pretty simple but I'd like to see the mysql stuff in plain english with examples as you have done so well before. By the way - thanks for asking!

Thanks for the help. The margins evolved from margin 0 0 0 0; which needs no px/em into 10's but I forgot the px. I added px and even removed the line but it's still splitting lines. I may have to go to a smaller div as you suggested. Too bad the browsers are so non-compliant to the established standards! If the "90% used" browser did it right then we'd be better off but obviously IE doesn't. Again, thanks!

I have one page on my site that I'd like to make easy to print. I have set up a new stylesheet for media type print, set the banner and navbar to not display, reset font style and size, etc. The problem I am having is that it is one long screen as a web page and either because of that or bugs in browsers or something I am missing the thing is cutting off lines. In IE it cuts a line in the middle - the top half of the letters is on page 1 and the bottom half at the top of page 2. The whole thing is 4 pages. Firebird prints what it can for page 1 and stops. Opera seems to interpret it properly and keeps entire lines together and breaks across all 4 pages. Is there something I can do to stop this? Page: http://covenantwordchurch.org/Web_Manual.php print.css Contents. body{ color : #000000; background : #ffffff; font-family : "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size : 12pt; } #Header{ display:none; } #NavBar{ display:none; } #MainBody { position:absolute; left:0px; top:0px; margin:10 10 10 10; width:555px; } Thanks!

Great response gang - thanks! I am going to learn the better features of Firebird and probably will not need the others after that! I also downloaded Thunderbird and am impressed with it as well. Besides, the price is right and the support (community) is great.

Other than the "Microsoft is an evil monopoly and we should stand against them," which is a valid point of view , what about Mozilla/Firebird do you find worthwhile or compelling to switch to it? Just curious.

Another way is to put a space in there so it will wrap it for you automatically, but that would mess up URL's and such.

I'm at my day job right now so I can't get into details but my biggest stick-point right now is that I have, in simple terms, 3 divs. One is a container for the other two. The one on the left is a navbar type and on the right is the content. My content is longer than my navbar on the index page so that side extends far below the other side which looks bad. I scrapped and restarted the design when it got too muddled in my mind and on paper so my latest is still on my home PC, but for an idea of what I mean see http://www.covenantwordchurch.org/index6.php (don't waste a lot of time looking through the source because it has evolved a bit since then.) I'll check the links and see what I can figure out and if it's getting to be too much I'll followup here with specifics. It may be a few days though because of a pretty hectic schedule the first part of this week. The links are great and y'all's (I'm from Kentucky, ok!) help is terrific! Thanks!

When or if you get ready for books check out an author named Robin Williams (not the comedian). She is an artist that understands web pages well and takes a "everyman" approach to it. In fact, one book I have of hers is "The Non-Designer's Web Book". Another I have is "Web Design Workshop" which is equally useful for this media. Truth is that it takes a marriage of artist and code hack to create a great site usually. Either can be learned but the real experts at it are born with the talent, IMO. Roadmap is right that good design is in the eye of the beholder, but there are certain things that are universally unappealing and should be avoided. Sorry I don't know anything online but whatever you look at, make sure they have background in both art and web design or they'll have to be extraordinary to do a good job.

Again, thanks to the family for some great links! I'm about to pull the rest of my hair out! I went through a couple of sites and got my index page looking perfect (after almost all day) and then went to Opera and Firebird and it looked not only like crap on both but it also looked different in each! Is this CSS-P stuff too new or did I just hook up with the wrong tutorials that perhaps focused on IE? Arrrggghhh!

First, I'd set different keywords on different pages. On the shooting page focus on shooting and on action focus on action. You want to try to catch anyone looking for shooting games as well as those looking for your overall arcade site so maximize your chances of that by customizing the keywords for each section. Also, try to use some of the tools to see what keywords are being searched for versus which keywords are overly used. For instance, if "shockwave shooting game" is searched for pretty often and there are only a very few sites with that as their keywords then you are set. You can use words like "game" but you'd probably be so far down the list it wouldn't be pretty. I face the same thing with charterboats here in Key West - there are a bazillion of them. Find your niche. Also check the stuff here in this forum. There are some great pinned articles as well as other useful tidbits. Remember, think like a user - go to google and pretend you're looking for some fun small flash games like yours and put in the search. There will be a bunch so again, think like a user and imagine how to narrow the search down to exactly the kinds of games you have and go for those keywords. Best wishes! (Love the site by the way!)

Jeez, I wish I knew this when I switched! I never expected a host to go to the trouble of going to my old site and pulling out my site for me... I always just figured it was my headache. Once again, you guys far exceed expectations. TCH Rules!

Great, thanks for the hints and links. There is so much out there about CSS and CSS-P that it's hard to home in on the good stuff so I appreciate the leads!

Hi folks. Due to me finding a new "thing" I have been trying to convert my main page to a tableless page using CSS just to see how it works in real life. I have run into a couple of questions. My latest version is www.covenantwordchurch.org/index6.php if that helps see what I mean. 1. My nav section on the left is not as long as the content section in the middle. Should I somehow nest the two divs or is there another way to keep them the same? 2. I have the whole thing in a div align="center set of tags but it's not centered (as index.php is). What is the "right" way to center my whole page for those with high resolutions set? 3. The words in the center content section all flush up against the left edge of the div. With a table there are padding and spacing settings to control this sort of thing. Is there a div setting I can use to put some breathing room in there to get the words off the border? Thanks!

Anyone want to build a tower that will reach to the heavens?

Great looking site. I really like what you did with the text! I have not before seen a site that did this (or simply didn't notice it.) It's a great step toward true "works with any browser" and accessibility while not sacrificing design.

And as such it has the support of the development community. The programs that were Apple's strength in the old days are now identical in functionality and ability to the PC version... often even down to the code base. New program developers look at the difference in audience size and know they need to go PC to make the "big bucks" as well. I really like Linux and used to work in a company that ran FreeBSD with HUGE success, but the company I am with now uses PC/MS/Windows and as such I need to do Visual Studio programming. Also, my side business does a lot of web designs and things like DreamWeaver, I've heard, work only marginally in emulators so I'm resigned to using Win XP as my home operating system. It's really a shame because I think in the mid 80's Apple really had a chance and a great start on a good thing but they fell behind and MS took the initiative, spent the money, stole the technology (uhem) and made it happen for them. Call Microsoft what you will, they are nothing less than successful. [immoral? That's another discussion! ]

They don't let me play with the cool stuff at work (even though I have my own business doing it... Mad!!! ) but there they use a program called Serv-U at www.serv-u.com which allows my coworker to set up automated downloads every night. I don't know if it is what you want or need but give it a look - it can't hurt!

It sounds to me like you need the entry level reseller account for that. In fact, that's what I have done. I take care of 2 church ministries in addition to the main website. For that I got the reseller account which allows me to have different domain names under the same "umbrella" account... and for the cost it is certainly well worth it! My reseller here is less than just the 3 sites would be elsewhere AND on top of that I get to host a couple of other sites on the side to help fund my playing on the internet - uhem, I mean to bring additional funds into my small web development business. Take a look at the reseller packages and I think you'll find them most generous on the benefits versus cost. Hope it helps!

In general, too many submissions may seem like spamming the engines so be careful you don't overdo it. I just got a site there and it took about 4 months.