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Can I just say that those forum threads make it sound really complicated and difficult. (I haven't done this yet because it just sounds so hard.) I'd love it if somebody wanted to write a tutorial on this. I imagine it would be widely used. I'd be willing to lend a hand. But I'm not exactly sure how to get started...

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Oh, and I've seen Raul's site, and he did a good job with it, so like GroovyFish said, if you have specific questions, I'm sure he'd be happy to help.

Yes, and its probably easier than you think. Depending on if you are using javascript or php or whatever, you basically just have the script check for which browser the user is using, and then you have a simple If/else check. If the browser is IE, show warning. Else show the normal page to everybody else. You should be able to find a quick script that will get the browser name (depending on your scripting language), and then you can write the if/else test.

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Too funny!! Thanks for setting us straight, GroovyFish

I think updating was a good idea. I think *I* may have been the one who first suggested changing the file name for the dodosmail script. However, that doesn't make the form any more secure. I mean, its not like the spammers were looking for dodosmail.php; they were looking for contact.php etc. If the spammers had found your form, regardless of the renamed dodosmail.php file, you could still have been compromised. So its is good you updated Best wishes.

Be warned, if you use SMF there is NO utility to hide users e-mail addresses while still allowing users to send e-mail to each other. phpBB allows this by hiding users email addresses in the database, and then using a web form to allow you to send messages to other users' email accounts. If you show e-mail addresses in SMF, the e-mail addresses are stored on your pages in clear text--just waiting for SPAM harvesters to come in and get valid e-mail addresses for all of your users. I've gone back and forth in the SMF forums trying to get somebody on that side to see how frusterating this decision is, but the only people I can rally to my side are other USERS. (Funny, huh? The users want a feature, but the programmers don't agree with it so they just ignore the users' requests.) Anyway, that is the main reason I didn't switch to SMF. I care about my forum users privacy. Best wishes.

YAY! Congratulations on getting it to work. I think that the problem may have been that you didn't want the same info in both .htaccess files. I mean, it sounded like you took the .htaccess file from your public_html directory and ADDED to it the info from your WordPress output. What you did by creating a new one is you didn't keep the irrelevant stuff that applied only to the public_html directory. Now you're just getting the .htaccess info that applies to the WordPress directory. Anyway, I'm glad for you that it is working.

Internet Explorer lets you FTP directly through the client. That seems to work for most simple FTP requirements. So, assuming your clients use IE, then I imagine that they could use their browser just fine.

At one of my jobs we had to submit a large book file for printing, and that was how that publisher accepted files as well: FTP. You could create an uploads directory, and then create subdirectories under the uploads directory for each client. Then you would create FTP accounts for each client, but you would restrict them to their upload folder. This would prevent them from being able to access other information on the server, including the project files for other clients. It worked well for the printer we were using at the time. Best wishes,

I think Bruce is right. When you add new Pages (using the Write Page fuction in WP), WordPress has to modify the .htaccess file again so that the permalink files are working properly. I think you have a couple of options. (1) Before you create new pages you can chmod the .htaccess file to 666, create your page(s), and then chmod the .htaccess file back to what it was (you probably don't want to leave it at .666 or you are vulnerable to attacks). (2) When you have created new pages, you can regenerate the .htaccess file output in WordPress, and copy and paste it into the .htaccess file, replacing all the previous content. These aren't great solutions, but its what I've had to do to make it work for me too. Good luck....

Hi Sarah, I don't have an answer for your question, but I thought I would let you know that I find your title offensive, even though you used asterisks to replace some of the letters. Remember, these are FAMILY forums....

When all the concerns regarding heading injection into forms were discussed last week, I wrote to the author of DodosMail to see if in her opinion it was safe from header injection. Well, a new version of Dodo's Mail has been released today that has been secured against header injection. You can read more about it on the Dodo's Script Collection website at: h*tp://regretless.com/scripts/scripts.php#dodosmail If you have been using Dodos Mail, you should upgrade to the newest version immediately. (I was changing all my forms to UFM; I'll probably leave the UFM ones I've converted, and update the Dodo's Mail ones that I hadn't yet converted).

Posted an outstanding review again. Posted a separate review for each of my hosting accounts. Thanks Bill K for another fantastic year of hosting at TCH. I've got nothing but great things to say about you, your team, and your company. Always happy to help spread the word.

funny. Were there more than 3 levels? Because I got some certificate after 3 levels, but that was it.

Rob is right. Mine has that too. I just didn't see that setting when I was looking. And even if you set comments "OFF" by default using that setting, you can still enable them for a specific post or page. Good to know. Thanks, Rob!

I don't think there is a function within the WordPress interface that allows you to totally turn off comments (but I suppose you could check over in the WordPress forums to be sure). I looked through my interface, but I couldn't find a way to always not allow comments. I know that on a post-by-post basis you can disallow comments, but I don't see a setting that allows you to turn them off for the whole site. You could, however, make it so users had to be registered to post comments, and then you can moderate your users, and never approve new users. That would keep people from commenting... Maybe somebody else knows an easier way.

oh. amazing how something so silly can cause so many problems. I never considered hotlink protection.... Duh!! Thanks, Dick.

For my wife's thesis site, I'm getting some weird trouble... When I view the site at the subdomain location: http://thesis.pehrsonfamily.net none of the graphics show up; but when I view the site at the folder location: http://pehrsonfamily.net/thesis the graphics are fine. I can't figure out what is happening in the code to cause the problem. Any suggestions??

.... and another link which is slightly less biased, and in which css wins: ht*p://www.sitepoint.com/article/tables-vs-css

Funny. Just yesterday I was thinking this very thing, and I did a google search on something like CSS vs Tables. Here is an interseting article that I read refuting the trend to switch to use css-strict. (I don't agree with everything said in the following article, however it was an interesting read, and presented a different perspective, so use it for what its worth to you... ) h*tp://www.decloak.com/Dev/CSSTables/CSS_Tables_01.aspx

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Thanks, Raul. I've updated. Unfortunatley some of my extensions don't work in the new release. I wish there was a way to know in advance if my extensions are going to break with a new release. But oh well.