Boojum

Incidentally, what sort of filename should I be using? Should it be, e.g., "...index.php?", "...index.php?>", or what? (And I suppose that'll have to be used for all the links to those pages as well?)

Wonderful. Now I get a 404 page instead.

Hmm. Well, I didn't precisely forget; I never knew I had to add a question mark. I'll try that now. Thanks.

I just tried to upload the new version (at long last) of my site. I began by deleting the old pages, so there'd be no confusion. Then I uploaded the pages in my FTP client, making sure that all the files were in place. BUT: When I tried to access my index page, I got this: "Parse error: parse error in /home/squortc/public_html/index.php on line 313." Does anyone know what's going on here ... and, more importantly, how I can correct it? As it stands, my site does not effectively exist at all.

Merci beaucoup, Rob. Saves me a lot of work I greatly prefer to avoid.

Greetings (to all who remember me) and apologies for the protracted absence (a busy time it's been). My question: I noticed, in setting up my subdomains in CPanel, that there was some language about setting up separate usernames and passwords for the various subdomains. This leads me to wonder: Do I need to use them, or are they just an option for added security, or to allow different people to upload to specified subdomains? (I would prefer, if possible, to keep it simple for now and just upload everything into the primary domain [in public_html] and the subdomain folders at one fell swoop. I have no one else working on the site to date, so would hope this procedure would suffice. But will it?)

Tarquin. (Tarquinius Superbus, one of the last kings of Rome [pre-republican era].)

Alexandria, Virginia. {Note: EricHamilton remains disqualified for repeating entries used by others; davejenbarnes, on the other hand, is disqualified for repeating one of EricHamilton's entries.}

Osteocephalic (adj.): bone-headed; also (n.): bonehead. (From Greek osteon: bone + Greek cephalos: head.)

Ansonia (Connecticut). {Note: brich is disqualified for repeating "Accra," previously used on page 2 by Jikrantz; EricHamilton is disqualified for repeating "Ethiopia" and "Albania"—both previously used by yours truly on pages 2 and 1 respectively.} We are rapidly running out of players. Shall we halt this game and start over? It's up to you, my fellow players.

Ah. Perhaps this would explain some of the strange-looking forum pages I encountered. (I had one come up with an apparent HTML tag in the upper right corner; then two others appeared with double banners.) And I thought my browser was acting up again!

Down. (EricHamilton: "Osculation" means "kissing." Used for its similarity to "oscillation.")

Alameda. {Helpful hint: If you're not sure whether a candidate placename has been used before in this game, you needn't read all the posts to check. Just use the forum search feature, with "Fun and Games" as the selected forum, and the name in question as your search term. Saves a lot of work. }

Er, Bruce: Your maternal grandfather is your mother's father. That would seem to qualify.

South America.

You're quite welcome, Mike. Actually, the only reason I happened to think of using the absolute path was that I recently went through some of the same questions regarding coding hrefs to files in six separate subdomains ... and was lucky enough to be surrounded by folks who in fact know what they're doing in web design—unlike myself. As you said: Rock Sign (I just wonder how long it'll take someone to produce a version of that image in which the "C" and the "H" are transposed.)

Santa Ana (California). {Either way, It's an "A."}

Unfortunate and unfair. But it's just one of our culture's many double standards. Who knows, though? Perhaps one day, gray hair on a woman will also be considered "distinguished." All it'll take is a complete alteration in our perception of sex roles vis a vis aging—or at least signs of aging. (By the way, Don, I don't think premature graying is as much a matter of stress as of genetic predisposition. Even if your father didn't gray early, I'm betting someone in your family tree did—maybe the infamous maternal grandfather who seems to be the source of most male genetic disorders. One thing I have noticed, though: If you gray early, chances are you won't go bald any time soon. I'm not sure why that is, but I have observed it.)

Nauta (Peru). {"A" again.}

Osculation.

Al Qurna (Iraq). {Note: Since "Iraq" is in parentheses, this counts as an "a"-ending entry.}

Now that I've got my new site version organized just about the way I want it, I have realized that I could save a lot of time and effort, as I add more pages to it (and more corresponding menu buttons), if I used php "include" files for the common elements, such as the navigation menu. My concern: If I do this, will I be able to view the pages from my hard drive?

Variable. ("The spinnnnnnnnn never stops here!" — Rush Limbaugh's Oxycontin-addled encephalon.)

Ashland, Oregon. (Ever attended their Shakespeare Festival? When I was seven, I lived there for a year with my grandparents—and my grandfather was a dyed-in-the-wool Shakespeare scholar. That's how it came about that, when my classmates were singing the Pepsodent jingle, I was chanting the verse from the Weird Sisters: Double, double, toil and trouble! Fire burn and cauldron bubble!)

I'm way ahead of you, Bonnie ... way ahead. And I'm still a month shy of my fortieth birthday. (Of course, my hair started showing gray when I was seventeen.)