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Have you tried doing a search in your favorite search engine? Just type in the manufacturer's name and the model number, and you're bound to find either something directly from the manufacturer or something from someone else who's already used the device. You might also find drivers that you can download. When I had my old 100MHz computer with a whopping 1.2GB of hard drive space (back in '96), I lost the driver disk for my scanner but was able to download it from the internet quite easily.

Glad I could be of some assistance. Please let me know if you need help setting up the form or the script for your own application.

Will, Just be aware that Obfuscator encodes each letter of your email address into a 4 (or sometimes 3) character ISO-coded value. For example, my name, kasey, would be encoded as: (k)#107; (a)#97; (s)#115; (e)#101; (y)#121; Note that I've removed the ampersand "&" from the front of each character so that you'd see the actual code value and not the translated HTML character. While I don't know of too many spambots that can currently "decode" these characters, I wouldn't be too surprised if sometime in the near future they become more prevalent. I've seen a number of HTML encoders that are supposed to encode your source code so that others can't read it. Many of them just translate each character into it's ISO-encoded brother. By typing a simple JavaScript command into my web browser's URL window, I can completely decode their "encoded" source code. I see this type of technology, if not already widely in use by email harvesters and spambots, to become SOP in the near future. For what it's worth, there's some fat to chew on!!

Thanks, Alan. It worked for me!

I'd like to use those nifty little images that indicate whether you're online or offline for the instant messenging program of your choice. I went to this page (http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/) and entered information about which messenger program and my online user id. However, I left the fields for "Address to online icon" and "Address to offline icon" blank because it says you should leave the fields blank to use the default icon. I then took the code that was given to me: Forum code to put in your signature in a discussion forum: (URL=http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/message/msn/kasey@slac.stanford.edu")(IMG)http://www.tchstatus.com:8080/msn/kasey@slac.stanford.edu(/IMG)(/URL) and tried to put it in my signature line. Please note that I swapped "[" and "]" for "(" and ")", respectively, because it wouldn't let me post that code without changing it. Anyway, when I clicked "update signature", I received an error message telling me the new content wasn't properly formatted. In fact, here's the exact text of the error message I received: You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board. A valid format is: http://www.domain.com/picture.gif, an invalid format is: http://www.domain.com/picture.one.gif Will someone please share their insight with me? How did you get the little instant messenger status icons to work for you? Thanks y'all!!!

Nat, Here's another page where I've customized the form to send mail to more than one person by selecting a radio button.... www.kaseyscreations.com/travisandkaseywedding/mailpage.htm This page can easily be adapted to accomodate a large email contact directory.

Nat, I use forms for all email submissions. The email message is then processed through a PHP script. The email address is only known by the PHP script and is posted no where on the web page. If you look here, you'll see what I'm talking about. www.kaseyscreations.com/villagepantry/test-contactus.htm Note that this page is not complete because the submit button will not actually send mail. But all I need to do is add an action to my form tag, such as <form action="mailscript.php"> I use a PHP mail script called Jack's FormMail. You can read about it here -- www.dtheatre.com/scripts. This script is very easy to set up. If you want to use it and need any help, please feel free to ask. I'll help you set up the script and customize it for your web site. Also, please feel free to copy the form coding I've used on the sample web page to create your own email form. Have fun!

Aknot, I don't think I completely understand what you want to do... From what I read, it looks like you want a form with four fill-in fields in a row, similar to the following (just cut and paste into your favorite web page creator and then view it in a web browser). I've also tried to attach a screenshot of the form, but I don't know if it will come through correctly. I hope so. ><!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <title>Page Title Goes Here</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" /> <!-- Use the following meta tag instead of declaring <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> at the beginning of the document. This is because not all browsers understand the <?xml ... ?> command. --> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no" /> <meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" /> <meta http-equiv="expires" content="-1" /> <meta name="author" content="" /> <meta name="copyright" content="" /> <meta name="mytopic" content="" /> <meta name="distribution" content="global" /> <meta name="classification" content="" /> <meta name="robots" content="all" /> <meta name="keywords" content=""> <meta name="description" content="" /> <style> <!-- label{font:12px tahoma,verdana,sans-serif;} --> </style> </head> <body> <form> <strong>TEST SYSTEM 1:</strong> <label for="name1">Name 1:</label> <input type="text" id="name1" name="Name1" maxlength="30" size="8" /> <label for="date1">Date:</label> <input type="text" id="date1" name="Date1" maxlength="10" size="8" /> <strong>TEST SYSTEM 2:</strong> <label for="name2">Name 2:</label> <input type="text" id="name2" name="Name2" maxlength="30" size="8" /> <label for="date2">Date:</label> <input type="text" id="date2" name="Date2" maxlength="10" size="8" /> <br /> <input type="submit" value="Save Data" /> </form> </body> </html> However, I'm not sure what you want to do with the information once you've got people to enter it. Also, why two completely identical fields in the same row? I think that's where I'm caught up. I don't understand what the purpose of these fields is other than to allow someone to enter two names and two dates at the same time. What exactly do you want to have happen to the data once the user hits the "Save Data" button?

Very good Eric! I look forward to seeing the web site.

Hey Andy! Good to see you again. Thanks for reminding me about that nameserver thing. You did tell me to do that in the ticket, but I completely forgot about it. I'll take care of that right now. Yet again, my hat's off to you for superb customer service!!! Rock Sign

Hi everyone! I just submitted a help desk ticket to park two new domain names "on top of" my original domain that I host here. From what I understand, when a domain name is parked on top of another, it means that if they try to type in something such as www.newdomain.com, they will reach www.originaldomain.com. Is this correct? Also, how long will it take for this to propogate? Totally lacking knowledge in this area and being excited to see my domain parked at TCH, I tried to access newdomain.com after I received confirmation that the domain had been parked at TCH. It still shows up as being parked at the domain name registrar. Understand that the total amount of time between receiving confirmation that the domain was parked at TCH and attempting to access the domain name was less than 3 minutes. I don't think there are many things that can propogate that quickly, but like I said, I was excited! I'd just like to know how long this sort of thing typically takes. Thanks! Oh, yeah, by the way, have I said Rock Sign lately? 'Cause it "soitinly" (ya gotta say it with a 3 Stooges accent) does!

Don, This technique works as long as you're very careful not to nest your font sizes. For example, if you code one font size as 75% and then inadvertently set another font size to 50% within the region of the 75% font size, what you'll end up with is text that's 37.5% of standard size instead of the 50% size you intended. Although I've always just set my font sizes in pixels so that they'll be consistent in size across browsers, I do realize the shortcomings of this method because some people may want to increase or decrease their font sizes. By setting them to a specified pixel size, they can't do that. I'm currently playing around with the keyword method of controlling font sizes. It doesn't give me as much precise control, but it's far better from a usability standpoint. I guess you might say I'm a web standards and usability convert. I used to create pages that looked good to me without consideration to others. Boy, have I since changed my tune!!!

I base my choice in font size on what size monitor I think most of my users will be using. If most of them are on 800x600 monitors, I choose a smaller font size because it will end up showing up larger on the 800x600 monitor than a 1024x768 monitor just by reason of monitor resolution. Generally, I try to code my text to be in the neighborhood of 10pt. I've recently learned (see Designing with Web Standards by Eric Meyer), however, that there can be problems to setting your font size specifically to a particular point value, for example: >font: 10pt tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif; In addition, declaring specific pixel values for your font sizes, while definitely providing a standard size for each font across browsers and platforms, also poses some difficulties (again, I reference Eric Meyer's book). I found an interesting article that seems to address the size of font sizes quite nicely. It was published on the web site "A List Apart". You can find it at www.alistapart.com/articles/sizematters I hope you will find something in this article that will be helpful to you.

Doug32, Lisa is correct. The first page to be viewed in any directory will be the file named index.xxx where .xxx can be .htm, .html, .php, .asp or .jsp depending on which type of coding you're using to create the page. So if someone types the following into their address bar -- www.yoursite.com -- they will actually be reaching the web page located at www.yoursite.com/index.xxx. (You need to be careful not to put more than one index page in each directory. The browser won't know which index file should be displayed.) Similarly, if someone types either of these URLs into their browser address bar -- www.yoursite.com/directoryname OR www.yoursite.com/directoryname/ -- they will reach the page located at www.yoursite.com/directoryname/index.xxx. OK, so about search engine placement. This is a very important topic, for obvious reasons. There are as many hypotheses about how to get the best search engine ranking possible as there are people who have thought about this issue. I know of at least one topic in the forums here that have discussed this issue at great length. You can find that topic here -- http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...?showtopic=8352 -- it's a discussion about getting listed in DMOZ. Here's another topic about meta tags -- http://www.totalchoicehosting.com/forums/i...?showtopic=8676. You might also like to check out a web site called "Search Engine Optimization Strategies" (www.searchenginestrategies.biz). It is basically a large, how-to resource completely dedicated to optimizing your web site for search engines. Basically, I think it's important ot make sure you have accurate, descriptive keywords. You should also try to use important phrases as often as you can in the index page of your web site without sounding silly. Search engines look at a variety of things, most notably the actual content of your site -- not your markup tags. So if you can do a good job of providing good, accurate, descriptive content, you'll go a long way towards helping getting listed, ranked, and indexed in Yahoo! and Google. Once you've worked up your index page properly, it's always a good idea to do the same thing to the rest of the pages in your site. After that, submit your pages directly to Google and Yahoo!. This is simply a request that they send out their spiders/bots to crawl your web site. Once their spiders have crawled your site, you should get indexed in that particular search engine no problem. To make sure that the search engine spiders can crawl your site effectively, you may wish to create a robots.txt file. Although not required, many search engine spiders will first look for the robots.txt file in the root of the domain to see where they can crawl. Here is a good source for learning about robots.txt files -- www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm This should be a fair amount of information to get you going. Have fun, and good luck getting your site indexed and crawled!!!

Wow!!! If you're a database newbie, what does that make me? I've never even heard of things like referential integrity and database normalization. But hey, I guess I'm not doing too bad. At least I know what a primary key is! I think I may know what a foreign key is, too, but I'll need to check myself on that one!

Wow, I just tried it on one of my pages and got a 66% compression! Cool

Hey !!blue, I guess I was having computer problems the day I tried to move the CSS code from the <head> of my document into my global CSS file. I tried it the other day, and it seems to be working just fine. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed for now!!! Thanks for all your help!

snipe, I thought shell access was disable for TCH users because of security reasons. We can ftp into our domain, but from what I was told, we can't telnet. Does anyone know if this has changed?

Bruce, There wasn't an option for "uncompress," but there was an option for "extract." I chose this option. As you pointed out, it didn't seem to do anything. How am I supposed to find out if this will work? Should I just go ahead and put the following code inside a web page and test it out? ><?php ob_start( 'ob_gzhandler' ); ?>

snipe, I've never used this one, but last year I looked into it when I was going to have a newsletter for my personal web site. You should check it out. It's PHP-based. By the way, I ended up not implementing a newsletter/mailing list, which is why I didn't go forward with installing this program. tincan.co.uk/phplist (not www.tincan.co.uk/phplist) Good luck!

Welcome, Lisa. We're glad to have you as one of our renowned forum moderators!

OK, please don't lash me with a wet noodle for asking such a basic question... How do I unzip a .gz file? I downloaded the mod_gzip compressed file and wanted to unzip it. I've got WinZip installed on my computer, but I don't know if it works unless the file is compressed using the proprietary .ZIP format. At the very least, it wouldn't open this file. Anybody want to tutor to a .gz newbie? Thanks!

Another TextPad user here. In fact, I liked it so much that I went ahead and forked over the $29 to purchase a full license for the product (versus the freeware license). If anyone's interested in checking it out, you can read more about TextPad at their website -- http://www.textpad.com.

Nope, you did a good job. I understood what you meant. Good point about adding an additional nav item to a pre-existing menu of choices. You're right...it would be easier to add a new row to one table than to dig deeper into a different table to find the nested <tr><td> of choice. Thanks! Thumbs Up

I've seen this one before...it blew my mind that I acutally understood the apparent jibberish nonsense!