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Thanks Lise and Jim. I guess my question was - who to believe? I have been looking through highrankings.com/forum and Lise confirmed it was a good site so I will continue studying there assuming that the big things so far are links and content.

I have been reading up on SEO and search engine optimization. Hmmm. I'm am seeing articles that say "links" aren't so important anymore. Also that "Meta tags" aren't even looked at by search engines. I read that the "revisit" tag means nothing because it was originally designed for some site, I believe, in Vancouver? One person says that you should never set "Revisit after" to less than 31 days . Another says that spiders ignore the revisit tag. then I notice the top result on a certain search has "revisit after 7 days" and remains at the top. Do this. No don't do that. Do this. No, don't do that either. That's changed, don't do that now. It gets a bit tough to tell who to believe and you can't always tell how old the info is either.

HEH HEH. I saw those too. What a hoot! I think the mainstream media is having brain problems lately.

So, Jim - my site looks ok on IE but in firefox the two side columns stop and the center column goes all the way down and covers the footer. any tips on that?

Well, I actually put all my votes against AOHELL. ( No to AOL ) But the ol' timer's running again and the ol' boy that runs it is smiling again. That's what its all about. Thanks.

Now if you get this msg on validation: This page is not Valid HTML 4.01 Transitional! how do you fix that? Nevermind - I fixed the other stuff and it validated.

Ok, with the help of "ya'll" and AVG, CWSHREDDER, SPYBOT S&D, ADAWARE SE, the ol' win 98 pc now has a clean bill of health. spyware and adware alone infected 1,067 files.

..and then there are pages that look good on 3 different home computers but look different on another computer down the road. Depends, I guess, on how different folks said the font sizes on their computers. So it seems to me that validated or not there will be some folks seeing things differently anyway.

You're right, Jim. It could get real interesting. When I got one of pages to validate it gave me a congratulations type page with the code for their logo. They also gave me the option to copy the gif file for the logo and just load it from my own pages rather than their site , which the code leads to . I believe I will be gradually, sooner the better but as time allows, be validating ALL of my pages from the different sites. The ones I checked don't really have a lot of errors. Just a few, and fixing them will undoubtedly be good OJT as far as coding , better understanding etc.

Consider these stats from today: Validation check results: AOL - 269 errors Frontiernet.net - 588 Netscape - 105 Totalchoicehosting - 0 errors Microsoft.com - 0 errors yahoo.com - 284 google - 51 I LOVE 'PUTERS ! Really. It's nice to know that someone out there has more errors than I do. heh heh

Ok thanks everyone. I have to work downtown this morning and will continue after dinner and keep you posted. thanks again. I think I have cwshredder in my utilities folder now that I think of it.

Madman, I found nothing in the startup under programs. I DID find a bunch of trojans that I am trying to get rid of now. Know of any good trojan removers?

Hey TCH 'ERS, I have a dell ( older ) with win 98 on it. Every time you reboot it will run configure windows installer when windows loads. Anyone know why that is or how to stop it?

Personally, I think I would rather stay away from frames for now. Glad to see you get in on this , Jim. I think you are right about the validation. However, I went in there last nite and ran one of my other sites through the validator. I now get to display the WC3 tag. BUT, in defense of Jayson................. After it validated my page and I was putting in there logo tag, trophy, whatever it is, I noticed this tag... </center> and it was a standalone. So, I thought, how could this be validated with a naked end tag sitting there. So , I took it out, and ran the validator again, and it still said I was valid. What's up with that? How could it have been valid in the first place with a closing center tag and no beginning center tag.

It looks like I need some serious help. A lot of the code is code that came from css templates I got from the web. So now it looks like I have mixed things up and am at a confused state. The one section with dropdown menu I tried to just comment out because I am not using it at this point but didn't know if I might later. I think I need some help, Jayson. Andy - thanks. I went to the Wc3 validation page but it doesn't like the code.

so what does it mean if the page won't validate? (other than faulty code that needs changing.)

ok, thanks, Jayson. Do I leave the smiley face in

Jayson, so if I do that then do leave the link rel pages in there or take them out

Jayson maybe I need a definition for "external css page". I now have <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="3c-hd-ft-flex-layout.css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="3c-hd-ft-flex-presentation.css" />

HAPPY NEW YEAR TCH FAMILY!!!! Ok, so I am getting a fairly good handle on this CSS stuff and I like it. So I have a site that looks good in IE 6 but half of the header is hidden in Firefox. What's the trick for fixing that and still keep it good in IE? You can see it , assuming you have both browsers, at bestchildrensbooks.org thanks in advance for any help. Hope ya'll had a great CHRISTMAS.

Yep, I did all that. ( except for the host file thing ). But I bought I couple new pc's for the wife and I so all is well. ( although I still don't know what problem was ) I reinstalled xp on the older systems and one is already sold. Thanks for all the help.

All systems are go, men. ( heh heh ) Thanks for your help, as always. Love this TCH family.

and for the default addresses of subdomains?

Should I , or should I NOT be putting the :fail: command on each email recipient?

Yes, Jim, I have minimum of 3 on each domain and several on my own. I removed the :fail: from my own this morning and I just got home, so I am testing a couple things. Happy Holidays to all.