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Thanks for the advice, Mandmanmcp. Here is what is weird, though. When the laptop is conencted to the linksys wireless network, when I try to print to my network printer, the printer starts to warm up, and the lights on the printer start to flash. Then the printer lights stop flashing, and I get an error message on the laptop. This indicates to me that they are connecting to some degree. And when I go to the second laptop, I refresh the connections, but my "port" network doesn't show up at all on the one laptop -- even when the two laptops are side-by-side, 3 feet from the wireless router. One laptop shows the "port" network and the other one doesn't. I think it is secure. It requries a ten-character password in order to connect to it. Is this what you mean? Can my router be working on two different wireless networks at the same time? Because I know the "port" network is working for the wireless laptop, and the wired computer and wired printer. But the "linksys" network is the one that tries to make a connection to the printer (the printer starts to make funny noises), but then doesn't work. I think this is really weird. I wonder if it has anything to do with the house getting struck by lightning on Sunday. That is about when the troubles were first noticed. Thanks for your advice! I may have to call in somebody who knows what they are doing. I'm just a tinkerer, and usually I can tinker my way to success. Maybe not today!

Thanks, Steve. Yes, the problem is only in one laptop. Everything that wires directly into the router works correctly, and the problem is only with one (of two) laptops. The other laptop functions normally. And it is an encrypted connection. You have to have a 10-character key to connect to the intranet. Is that what you mean about not having it set wide open?

And thanks Groovyfish for the sympathy!! I appreciate it!

Update: (if this helps give direction to my problem) The wireless router is a Linksys router. Computer 2 can connect to the linksys wireless network, and can connect to the internet (but can't print or share files). Here is what is weird, though: when lappy2 is connected to linksys, and I try to print, the green light on my network printer starts to blink, but then it stops, and a dialog box says that the document failed to print because it couldn't find a network connection. At that point, the wirless connection to linksys is lost. But my printer is connected to the wirless network "port" --which is a secure wireless network. It should also be noted that "linksys" and "actiontec" networks are not secure. I'm going to bed now, but I'll check back tomorrow and see if anybody was able to give me some advice. Thanks,

I am trying to help my parents with their home-office wireless network. Here is my setup: Cable modem connected to 4-port wireless router Printer connected via ethernet to 4-port wireless router Desktop connected via ethernet to 4-port wireless router Laptop 1 connected via wireless (PCMCIA wireless card) Laptop 2 connected via wireless (built-in wireless) All of a sudden, on Sunday, one of the laptops (laptop 2) has stoped playing with the network. Laptop 1 (and the desktop, for that matter) is able to share files, connect to the internet, and print, but laptop 2 acts like the connection doesn't exist. In fact, when I view the wireless networks available (right now I have both laptops side-by-side), I'm seeing different wireless networks. Laptop 1 shows the home network (a secure network called "port"), and one additional network (called "linksys"). Laptop 2 shows two networks, "linksys" and "actiontec". But these two computers are side-by-side. Why wouldn't they show the same networks? So, if you were troubleshooting this problem, what would you to do make laptop 2 play with the network again? I've tried the network setup wizzard (but it was already set with the correct settings). I tried the wireless setup wizzard, but it can't find the network I want to use. Anybody have any advice??

Upon further review, I've found that Open Workbench can't open MS Project files directly. You have to export them to XML from MS Project, then you can open them in Open Workbench. That may not meet your needs.

35,000 people have downloaded Open Workbench, which bills itself as the free replacement to MS Project. I haven't used it myself (yet), but from what I read, it seems promising. I think I'll install it and see how it works with my office's Project files.

Glad my response was helpful! You're certainly welcome. Glad I can pay back a little bit for all the help others have given me in these awesome forums!

For those of you who are interested, here are two screen shots of the Gmail account settings interface. The first is in English, the second is in Portuguse. This shows that these are two separate applications, not just "language packs" installed on the same application. (sensitive information has been blurred) English version: Portuguese version:

I don't speak Swedish, so I can't try it in Swedish, but I do speak Portuguese, and I switched my Gmail interface to Portuguese to check this out. The option to create "from" addresses is NOT available in the Portuguese version of Gmail, but the addresses that I've created in the English version of the program are still available as drop-down items on my "Escrever Email" (Compose Message) screen. So, it appears that they aren't simply "language packs" but are separate interfaces. And it seems that the Portuguese version hasn't been updated with the latest features yet. But carbonize is right: you can switch to English, add the new 'From' addresses, and then switch back to another language. At least it works for Portuguese. No promises for other language "packs"...

Just thought I'd let you know about some changes I discovered today in Gmail. First, Gmail is now allowing any user to sign up who has a text-enabled mobile phone. You enter your 9-digit phone number in the box, and Gmail sends you a confirmation code. You enter the confirmation code in the signup box, and viola--you can create a new Gmail account. This option is available on the Gmail signin page. Second, Gmail is now allowing you to modify your 'from' address to any address you want (but it requires you to confirm that you own it first). So now you can use Gmail to send messages as if they are from your TCH domain. You can even set your TCH domain as your default address. You can add as many addresses as you want, and then when you are on the Compose screen, you are able to use a drop-down to select which address you want as your "from" address. So if you use the cPanel forwarders to send incoming messages to your Gmail account, and if you modfiy your Gmail "from" name to be your TCH account, you can use Gmail as your primary email client with your TCH domain. Pretty cool, I think!

Hi Pelepele, Welcome to the TCH forums. If you are a TCH member, and you are copying to a TCH server, the TCH help desk should be able to help you. I don't know if this will help, but the first thing that I think of is that the database name will probably be different because you will have a different acocunt name on your new server. So you have to change your config files in Coppermine to your new database name and database username. If you have already tried that, then I'm not sure what to tell you. But somebody else will come along soon with more ideas.

If you are willing to live with losing the money, then I'd also say "procede with caution." If you aren't willing to live with losing the money, then I'd say "stay away." As my mother in law has cross-stitched on her wall, "There aint no free lunch."

So, is this problem now solved? From the update later in the thread, it sounds like you may have solved this problem. (And when I went to your site, I was able to view the contact page at the above address.) I understand what you are saying, but this is exactly how "posts" are different from "pages." A "post" is considered to be more of a journal entry--it is specific to a particular date. A "page" is considered to be more permanent, and is not tied to a particular date. Thus, in the WP file structure, posts use a date format (like $blogLocation$/2005/09/02/<post-slug>/ -- because the post is tied to that date. However, a terms-of-service or a contact page aren't linked to a particular date, so they are created as pages. In the WP file structure, pages don't use a date, they just link of the blog root location; a page with the slug name: "contact" would be found at: $blogLocation$/contact/ So, yes, Pages and Posts are similar in basically every way except how WP stores them or accesses them in the file structure. And because of this, pages don't show up in the archive or in category views. Posts are stored in the database, and the pages are created dynamically every time a request is sent for a URL. Basically, as I understand it (and I'm still new to this too, so I may be wrong here), when Permalinks are enabled, the .htaccess file is rewritten so that when users try to access a URL (like $blogLocation$/2005/09/05/wow ), the .htaccess file queries the database for the requested post, and the resulting file is displayed browser, with the URL in the address bar as requested. So, even though there is no 2005/90/05 directory in your $blogLocation$ directory, the .htaccess file makes it LOOK like there is. But, yes, the pages are created dynamically, and the Permalinks are basically a smoke screen that hides whats going on behind the scenes. If you are creating a "page" using the "Write Page" tab, you shouldn't be able to categorize it. If you view this attachment that I used earlier: You will see that there isn't a place to categorize posts. If you are able to assign it to a category, then I think you must be on the Write Post tab, not the Write Page tab. (Click back and forth between those two tabs to see the difference). Maybe you could write back (and maybe include a screen shot) if you are still having this problem--but as far as I can tell, if you use the Create Page tab, you won't be able to assign a category to the page. I hope this is being helpful. Let me know if I need to explain it better, or if I can help further.

Ok, So I'm installing Website Baker in a public_html/wb/ directory. I'm going to create a redirect so that users who hit the root directory of my website are taken to the /wb/ directory. I have two parked pages that I also want to redirect to this page. Do I have to create redirects for all three domains, or will one redirect take care of all three?

Shriram, Ok, I should have completley read your question before I went out and wrote my reply. Sorry about that. I skimmed your post and didn't realize that you had found the "Write Page" functionality in WordPress. Now I'm going to share with you my understanding of how Permalinks work in WordPress. I may be wrong. If I am, I hope somebody will correct me. I'm still quite new to the Permalink thing myself (only using it for a month or so). With that disclaimer, here we go: Also, let me define some terms before we get started, so that when you read what I write, you know that we are on the same page. When I say "create a Page" I will be referring to using the Write Page functionality in WordPress, unless otherwise noted. Also, I'm going to refer to your blog location with a variable: $blogLocation$ to make it easier. This variable $blogLocation$ refers to wherever you have your blog installed. So if I say $blogLocation$/wp-admin, then you would go to the wp-admin directory at your blog's root level. If your blog were installed in blog.example.com, then every time you saw $blogLocation$ you would replace it with blog.example.com. If your blog were located at www.example.com/users/blog, then every time you saw $blogLocation$, you would replace it with www.example.com/users/blog. Permalinks only work if there isn't content already existing in a folder on your site. So if you create a Page with the page slug "contact", and with Permalinks enabled as we described earlier in this thread, that page will be referenced in the following location: $blogLocation$/contact. WordPress doesn't actually create a folder named "contact" at that location, but the .htaccess file knows that when you try to access $blogLocation$/contact, then you should be redirected to $blogLocation$/?page_id=x (where x is the page ID number for the page you are looking at). There is a problem then if you have a directory called "contact" at $blogLocation$ (meaning that if you were to go to your blog's directory in your File Manager, you aren't allowed to create a directory called "contact") because the .htaccess file won't know when it is supposed to show the files you've uploaded to the "contact" directory, or when it is supposed to show the page you created in WordPress with the page slug "contact". Does that make sense? For this reason, you SHOULD NEVER create a page with the page slug of "wp-admin" or you will never be able to access your admin panel. This would be what we call A Bad Thing. Also, when you are naming page slugs (and post slugs, for that matter), I recommend that you only use numbers, lower-case letters, and hyphens. (There are probably more characters that would be allowed, but if you stick to these ones, I guarantee you'll be safe.) (Wow. I'm feeling long winded today. This should count as two posts...) Ok. So back to what you said. For all of this to work, yes, you do need to delete the "contact" directory and all of its contents. Then you should make sure your Page has the Page slug "contacts". Then you should be set. I have more advice about creating Pages that don't show up in the menu bar, but I've already said too much today, so if you want more info on that later, let me know. I hope this has been helpful, or I will have wasted a whole bunch of time!! But if it helps, it will have been worth it. If you are still unclear on anything Bruce or I have said, please post back, and we'll try to un-mud-ify our responses!! Best wishes,

I think we are confusing you here by accident, and I think that the reason is because when we say "create a page", we don't mean "create a blank php document on your computer, add <!--contact form-->, save it, and upload it to your server." What we DO mean, is use the function within WordPress to create a page. If you log into WordPress, and in the admin module, click on Write, you will see a row of sub tabs. On that row of subtabs, select the second tab, which is "Page". In fact, here is a screen shot to show you better what I'm talking about... Ok, so now look at the top red arrow. That is the page you should be on. Notice how there is now a button on your post toolbar (second red arrow). Anywhere you click this button you will have a contact form that uses the parameters you set in your options module. When you click the button the text <!--contact form--> is displayed in the text box. That is the precice location where the contact form will be displayed on the rendered page. Now, you go down further on the page (third arrow), and give the page a slug. If you don't do this manually, then the page will be a hyphenated version of the title that you created. But you want this file to be located at something like "blog/contact" NOT "blog/contact-me", so you manually type "contact" in the box. This will give you the easier to type name (and it should then work with the button on your blog's main page). Does that help better explain what we mean when we say "create a page"? Best wishes.

I downloaded Opera (thanks to this thread), but I'm kind of dissappointed to find that it doesn't seem to play well with my Gmail. So I guess I'm not goint to switch from FireFox. I'll just use Opera, as others have said, to make sure my sites work in different browsers. Too bad. Opera has a nice clean interface.

On my WordPress blog, I actually have two ways to put a contact form. The first, is what Bruce Suggested. I have the WPContact Form plugin (can be found here), which was very easy to install, allows you to set the options in the WordPress admin module, and allows you to insert a form on any page or post. Very sleek, and works exactly as advertised. The second is the basic dodosmail script (can be found here) that I inserted into the body of a Page. This one requires a little bit more configuration in the php files, but it is much more versitile, and allows you to collect as much (or as little) information as you want. Now, if you want your contact pages to be located at blog/contact then you should turn on permalinks. Under Options | Permalinks you put the following code in the first box: >/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ and leave the second box blank. This will modify your .htaccess file so that the URLs look like they are based on date. The happy side effect is that your pages will all be referenced by /[slug-title]. For example, my blog is located at blog.paulpehrson.com and I have the permalinks enabled like I described above. I have a Page with the slug "contact", so if you go to http://blog.paulpehrson.com/contact you will be directed to my contact page. I have another page with the slug "terms-of-service", so if you go to http://blog.paulpehrson.com/terms-of-service you will be redirected to my TOS page. When you click the Update Permalink Structure button, WordPress will attempt to modify the .htaccess file byitself. For this to work, the .htaccess file must be writable. In any case, I didn't get it to work such that WordPress could actually modify the .htaccess file, so here is what happens in that case: When WordPress can't automatically update your .htaccess file, then it spits out a list of code, and tells you that you need to copy and paste that code into your .htaccess file. It is easy enough, and you can do it in your cPanel File Manager. Once you have done that, your link structure will have changed, and your Word-Press created Pages will be referenced in the URL as being in the root directory of your WordPress installation, with their page slug as the filename (but with no file extension). I hope that information is helpful. Keep asking if we haven't been clear!

To create a redirect, use the following procedure: 1. Log in to your cPanel. It is located in a subfolder of your domain. If your domain were example.com, cPanel would be located at example.com/cpanel. 2. Look for the Site Management link (or the Site Management Group; depending on your cPanel skin, this step may differ. If you have a Site Management group, you can go directly to step 3, as the Site Management group isn't a link). 3. Click on Redirects 4. Fill in the fields with the information, as requested. A.If you want to forward a subfolder to a different loation (eg forward www.example.com/paul to www.totalchoicehosting.com), then in the first box, type paul and in the second box type www.totalchoicehosting.com. B. If you want to forward your root to a different location, (eg forward example.com to example.com/paul, then leave the first field blank (this will redirect the root folder), and enter the destination in the second blank. 5. Choose "temporary" or "permanent" (this helps search engines know if they should index the new location directly, or keep indexing the old link). 6. Click the Add button. If you run into any trouble, let us know. (Edit: Rob beat me too it, but I'll leave this response here, in case somebody in the future wants a step-by-step list of instructions.)

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Don't worry if it is slow-going at first. And to be fair, the blogger code isn't really HTML. See, in HTML, the <BloggerArchives> tag isn't a valid tag. Neither is <$BlogArchiveURL$> or <$BlogURL$> or <ArchivePage> etc. Blogger has added code to the page so that the server knows what to do when it creates the page. The problem is this: pure HTML is static. That means that the exact copy of the page is stored on the server and when you go to that page with the browser, the server sends you only the code that is in the original HTML document. Blogger (we're just talking about Blogger, because that is the tool you are using) is using your templates dynamically. That means that blogger gets your template, and then looks for special codes that tell it where to insert/modify extra stuff. When you save a post in Blogger, their software goes to the template you have saved, and it looks for the <BloggerArchives> tag (and others), and it knows that when you use that tag, you are telling it that you want the system to insert some type of archive list there. It then looks for other tags like <$BlogArchiveURL$>, and adds whatever content is associated with that tag. So, when you are trying to learn HTML, don't confuse it with the templates that you use in your blog. There are a finite number of tags allowed by HTML, and they have specific uses. But remember, pure HTML only generates static pages--pages that the server doesn't change automatically. Your Blogger code includes HTML tags and dynamic programming tags, that together generate the look and feel of your page. Once you begin to understand more about HTML, it becomes easier to understand what the dynamic tags are doing. For example, in the following code: ><a href="<$BlogURL$>">Current Posts</a> I know from my HTML experience, that the <a> tag is commonly used to form links. If I want to link to TCH, I could use the following HTML code: ><a href="http://www.totalchoicehosting.com">Link to TCH</a> Since I know that the <a href="[something]"> format means a link is being created, I can look at the Blogger code, and know that the <$BlogURL$> tag will be replaced with a URL. The title of the tag makes me think that it will be the URL of some specific post. See what I mean about learning the HTML first? Once you know more about HTML, you will begin to understand what Blogger is doing to add content dynamically to your templates. But if you are new to HTML, then I recommend that first you focus on learning the basics of static HTML. That will help you greatly understand what programs are doing to make your templates work. Hope this helps. Best wishes to you.

Welcome to the forums! I know what you mean about registrars wanting to keep control of the domain for themselves! You don't need to worry about that with TCH. When you are looking at the virtual account plans, remember that you can get a hosting account for less than four dollars a month ($3.67), if you use the annual billing option. When you consider the time you would spend every month trying to keep your home server up to date, I think you'll soon realize that TCH accounts are pretty darn inexpensive! Especially with the level of service you get and the quality of the servers! So, as stated above, you aren't required to host at TCH. However, if I really cared about keeping a site up and running, I wouldn't go anywhere else--not even my own box!

Personally, I find these claims laughable, and I'm impressed that the Head Guru was able to reply with a straight face. That, in and of itself, should show how professional TCH is. As stated above, there are over 25 THOUSAND customers, who have chosen to host over 40 THOUSAND websites with TCH. That should speak as louder proof than one of the very few dissenting voices. If you are wary, try it out for a month. It only costs four dollars, and there is no setup fee. If you are as happy as the other 25000 of us, you will have your new home. If by chance you are unhappy, you're out less than five dollars. I, for one, am here to stay.

Can I get a Mango/Passion Fruit juice smoothie? And I'll take non-smoking by TCH-Ryan, please. Oh, and does this bar play any country music? Maybe some Rascal Flats? (just checking...)