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Awww, you beat me to it! I JUST NOW, through process of elimination, determined the same thing. I am thankful for your post though because I had no clue why. What you said makes sense though! I was trying to get the box to be 100% of the width of the page no matter how wide the text was, and due to that misinterpretation of how CSS works it blew up. Dreamweaver didn't help much by making it easy to use without understanding. One problem with UIs and making things easy I guess.

Don't apologize! This is, afterall, the script forum and the question of how has been answered - now it should probably move to the SEO forum to discuss the effect it has on the SEs.

Mine is Opera 7.11 Build 2880 Maybe it's a new functionality of the latest builds of Opera. Hmmm, thanks for the lead - I'll see if I can find anything.

Thanks for checking on it guys. It's still wide in mine so I'll focus on something particular to my Opera install. I'll repost here if I find it.

I wonder if it is a program that runs on people's computers that intercepts the search engine clicks. You could probably do that kind of thing with a virus if you wanted to.

Perfect! Thanks Rick! Surefire, would a php function such as that make it look like the date-last-modified is today to the web crawlers since it is a dynamic part of a static 3-month-old page? I'm still not sure how these things work but with the help here it's great learning about it!

Can someone please take a look at my page at Covenant Word Church and see if they can tell me why Opera freaks out on the page width. From work and home, when I view it in opera it ends up something like 2400 pixels wide. I view it fine in IE6, Firebird 0.6 and Netscape 7.0 and have gone over the sources so it really has me baffled. I even tried the standard skin in Opera just in case it was something screwey with that. If you need to know anything behind the scenes please ask - this is an interesting one indeed.

This is a two part question: 1. Is there an easy and safe (for TCH) script I can use to do a Un*x "touch" on my website files so they have a recent date? I'd like to do it about once per week, not all the time or even every day. 2. Is there a reason this is not a good idea? I know crawlers at one time devaluate pages that haven't recently changed and I suspect they still do. Parts of my site are historical and don't have need to change so should I do this? I know, I could use DW to add an extra space on my template and let it update everything but that's inefficient and I may start using alternative methods of web development thanks to the PHP gang and some of their ideas. Thanks

They may also gimick it by saying something like this: "Thanks for joining us and bidding on the keyword extreme. All you have to do to start getting a billion hits per day is add these meta words to your site "XYZZY-EXTREME" and anyone looking for XYZZY-EXTREME will find you. Of course, the billions of folks just putting in "EXTREME" will never find your site, but we already have your money, so hey, what's the big deal!" You never can tell from these scammers... if they would put their creativity to good use they'd probably cure cancer, reseal the hole in the ozone, find Saddam and Bin Laden and rid us of bad drivers in Florida all within a week!

Great splash screen! The colors and graphics are perfect. Let us know when you get it more filled in!

All time fav: Highlander (the others were junk, only the first counts!) More Recently: The One, XMen 1&2, The Crow, The Tuxedo, Anything with Bruce Lee and almost anything with Jackie Chan. I'm an action addict, what can I say?!

You got it - the change has been made. Thanks for the link! The plug is my pleasure as it is a small way I can say thank you for being a most excellent experience. Not to get mushy or anything, but the fun I've had setting up and exploring the things here at TCH, and the way-cool tools like stats and php and mysql that is not a nightmare to set up has actually given me a new fire for doing web sites - updating, looking for new technology, etc. It was getting to be a real drag but TCH has made it oh so much more fun! As always - Rock Sign

Dogs have Dog Chow Puppies have Puppy Chow Programmers have Programmer Chow which amazingly enough look exactly not unlike Nilla Wafers (And no, not Vanilla Wafers - they are tripe in comparison!) Our whole company was downing them at one time (in a previous job).

Thanks! I didn't know that about MX. I'll have to check on the upgrade price because I do (obviously) own the previous version of DW, Fireworks and Flash.

Yet another reason that Rock Sign is that we have the servers set up properly AND we have the freedom to dink with our .htaccess files if we want to. I was just marvelling at this yesterday setting up mysql's and things at the click of a button. My last host said "Tell me the password you want on mysql and I'll set it up. Then you can download anything you want to use it, I recommend PHPAdmin" (I think that's the name.) To think, here it is just click-name it- click and all that other stuff is done for us by the gang! I can't possibly say enough about TCH, but I'll start with, again, "THANKS!"

This is where Dreamweaver templates actually help to do the PHP header/footer. In a normal DW page created from a template there are web page things, then a comment "Begin Editable" and another "End Editable". These make real good markers of where to cut a header/footer or content... content is just everything in between. The only other case is when you have several editable regions - then you have to decide how to represent it. I guess it just comes down to two things: The disk space used by the header/footer being repeated on every page without PGP. and The amount of upload time sending just a header vs. every page. <sigh> decisions, decisions.

Hi gang! I added a link to my front page of my web design site. Please take a look at it and see if it's ok... I didn't like the tiny 3-pixel version you had so let me know if it's not to your liking. If it's ok then please add me to the Family Links page. Jim Sewell Computing Solutions (www.jimscomputing.com) Description: Custom web designs, training and custom programming are but a few of the services we offer. We serve customers from beginner to advanced and can show you the options you have to make your web site a success! Thanks! TCH is the best!

Ditto, thanks for the link. Great advice y'all, thanks! Note: The use of the word "y'all", although appropriate due to my Kentucky upbringing, is used solely in this case as not to offend any females out there who may be put-off by "Great advice guys".

Hi folks, I read the great tutorials on PHP and thought I'd try using the header/footer-php-include technique to maybe make my pages smaller and more maintainable. I created the site in question in dreamweaver with their template facility. As I was working on it with my homesite and wsftp and firebird tools these things came to mind: 1. Dreamweaver will be freaked out looking at only part of a page because it doesn't understand PHP includes. This means no more WYSIWYG. 2. To make a change I have to edit-upload-view to see a reasonable representation of what it will look like. Fast on DSL but still takes several seconds per edit. 3. There is no synchronization in WSFTP that I know of. I have to mark and upload every page I change. 4. Is this really worth the pain I am causing myself? Afterall, the header and footer are only 2k each, it doesn't affect the viewing audience because the post-server construction of the pieces is the same, and it could potentially make my life more diffecult if I want to make what would previously be a "quick change". Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing a tool or big picture type of issue here? I am a programmer (C#, VB, etc) so coding web pages by hand is not foreign or difficult but I'm not much of a graphic guy so the WYSIWYG does help me do some layout throw-it-all-on-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks development. Believe me, I'm NOT trying to start a WYSIWYG vs. hand coding conversation so please don't go there. I just want to make sure I'm not missing something that would make this method easier to use. Thanks!

That's great info, borfast, thanks!

So if I don't have an index.htm or index.html the web browsers will be served up my index.php page? If so that's cool and I didn't know that! You are right, some people get freaked out by the start button! Thanks! Jim

My question: What is the general recommendation for using PHP in most of the files on a site, say for a header/footer tool? Should I mod the .htaccess file to look for php in the .html files or just name everything page.php and let the links handle it? (Users may freak if you put jimscomputing.com/index.php on a business card!) Of course, there is the other obvious thing - there's something that I don't know about or didn't think of! So how do you guys (and gals) do it on your sites?

I have been involved in web page creation for about 9 years now both as a cool gee-whiz thing at work (cuz that's all it was 9 years ago! ) and as a web designer in a side business now. I have seen many hosts and had the personal (dis)pleasure of relying on 3 of them for all my sites which at this time is 6 full blown sites. One host was terrible from the start, down often and without any real support. The other was up most of the time but again, support was terrible and "most of the time" started becoming less and less. My last host was a one-man show and he did an awesome job - as far as a one-man show could. He had a denial of service attack that took me down the better part of three days. I feel bad for him that his provider couldn't or wouldn't do anything about it, but that shouldn't be my problem as his customer. I found TCH and saw the monitoring stats... for the past three months (that was all they showed) it was up 100% of the time! I had to find out more! I came to this site and sought out the reseller section. "WOW those prices are great!" I thought to myself as I nosed around some more. I then found some reviews of the site and they were all glowing except for the fake ID card maker and the spammer and a couple of other jerks. I saw Bill's reply to those and I knew this was the kinda guy I could get along with! He was not cruel but he was firm and most of all he was a straight shooter! Then I found the Family Forums. That cinched it! You guys are the greatest and it shows in every post on here. Never before have I felt part of an online family. Sure I was a big gamer back in the day I had freetime but even then those guys were aligning for a common good, be it to fool you into letting down your guard so they could shoot you or to get you to take the blast from the dragon so they could get the gold. Not here! You folks are real and it is very much like a family. I have since then signed up, asked a question, gotten tons of welcomes and answers to that question within a day, read a ton of stuff, been impressed with the cpanel that the previous host was too cheap to buy, set up all my accounts, transferred the DNS records to TCH and started uploading my sites. I do have a very real complaint! My DSL is way too slow when uploading gigs of web stuff!!! Too bad TCH doesn't do DSL or I am sure that problem would be fixed just as fast as the ones I've seen mentioned here and experienced on my own. And that doesn't even go into the monsters they have for servers and all the techno-geek stuff! You guys are all truly the best and I count myself truly blessed that I found this home. Great job - let's go take the Internet! Jim Sewell - Key West, FL

Archive the internet? It's been done! I love this site: http://www.archive.org/ Just go to the middle of the page where it says WAYBACK MACHINE and put in a url and click a date and see if it's there. It's hillarious to see what, say, netscape.com looked like in October 1996! It's also scary to see some of my old pages too!