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One more question, actually: I'm planning fairly soon to implement CSS. Will that lead to any conflict with the .php designation?

TCH-Jim: It's my intent, when I upload the new version of the site, to name all the pages ".../index.php", etc., and remove all the old .html versions. Will your added .htaccess code still be needed?

Once again it appears that I won't be able to set up my site precisely as I want it. I do want to confirm, though: If my subdomain folders appear (via FTP) with such names as "santa-cruz"--as distinguished from "santa-cruz.squort.com"--is it in fact still correct to code a link to the default page in such a folder as, e.g., "http://santa-cruz.squort.com/index.html"?

Good grief, Don! You've been here just about exactly a year longer than I--and posted 1,900 more messages. Do you ever sleep?

TCH-Don: Thanks. That sounds much simpler than I'd feared it might be.

I recently downloaded a PHP script from one of the tutorials elsewhere in this forum which is supposed to detect Googlebot spidering of one's pages and e-mail notification thereof. However, in the description above the script, there was some mention of having to use the latter on a page "capable of understanding PHP." I'm not sure what that actually means. Would I need, for example, to change the names of the pages in question from, e.g., "index.html" to "index.php"? And would that in turn necessitate other changes in my code?

Madmanmcp: Thanks for the suggestion. If no more condign alternative offers itself, I may well have to adopt it. The fact is, though, that I really would like if at all possible (short of duplicating all my files in each subdomain folder) to continue having the site behave the same way on the internet and on my hard drive; it makes preflighting much easier. Any further suggestions, from you or anyone else who may happen to know or discover a better way to handle this, would be welcome.

TCH-Dick: I did try your idea of using absolute URLs--and got another kind of error. Yuck! The browser looked on the internet for the file--as I suppose is logical--and returned an error for the good and simple reason that no files had yet been uploaded to that directory. It appears so far as though the best practical workaround is to duplicate all my files into each subdomain folder as advised by Madmanmcp. But for obvious reasons I would prefer a less drastic solution if such exists.

Regarding this bug Madmanmcp referred to: I was also confounded by this. I received an e-mail notification that TCH-Dick had replied, and indeed I found it there on my first subsequent visit to the forum. I then went into BBEdit to check the coding in question and immediately returned to the forum. Imagine my surprise when I found TCH-Dick's post no longer there. At the time, I assumed he'd simply removed it. Only later, upon reading Madmanmcp's post, did I find that Dick's still did exist; it had, however, vanished from the actual post section, and appears only in the "Last 10 posts" area. Eldritch.

Madmanmcp: Thanks for taking the time to look over my code; you've been doing yeoman's work helping me try to solve this problem, and it is appreciated. But before I go to the work of duplicating all my files in each subdomain, I really would like to confirm that this is the best solution. Specifically, I wonder if there's some way to code the tabs via CSS or some other method, such as a Javascript. If you or anyone else can advise me on this--preferably in some more elegant and less clunky manner than by duplicating everything, which seems as though it could lead to problems of its own--I would be most thankful. This issue has cost me many hours of work and more of sleep, and I really would like to put it behind me.

Madmanmcp et al.: Herewith included are the HTML source pages for my homepage and one representative subdomain page. Please note that I have not yet changed "downloads.squort.com/kaleidoscope.html" (and so forth) in the URLs for the tabs to "downloads/kaleidoscope.html" (and so on)--nor am I quite sure if I should. Hope this will give clearer "picture." P.S.: Merda. It appears I can upload only one file per message. I picked the subdomain page; if you need to compare it with the homepage, I can upload that with a second message. kaleidoscope.html

Hmmm.... Do video-game characters qualify? If so, other than the far-too-obvious Lara Croft, my pick would be Chun Li Naughty from Street Fighter II.

Madmanmcp: Thanks, and I will now confirm that this works in my browser as well, as I would expect it would. But I still think there's an annoying, albeit minor, glitch here; one ought, I think, to be able to use the code buttons with any current browser.

Don: Hmmm. I assume, however, that your browsers don't include Internet Explorer for the Macintosh (OS9). Arrgh! Just yet another problem with Microsplortch and its famed Mac hostility, I suppose. (Bad enough that the browser chokes on images and crashes after a certain amount of use unless one pre-empts that behavior by clearing the cache and the quitting and restarting the program. Mad!!! )

Don, 1. Thanks for the suggestion regarding first highlighting the word and then applying italics. Unfortunately, that also does not appear to work, on my browser, at least; the "" appears after the last word typed so far, and the "" appears not at all. And the page still jumps. 2. I'm using Internet Explorer 5.16 for the Macintosh. And sadly I can't upgrade: According to Microsoft, this will be the last version of IE for OS9. I suppose this means I'll just have to live with it(?).

Madmanmcp: That's just the point: The HTML on each page does include only one "santa-cruz". If I'd written "santa-cruz" and so forth twice, this problem would be long gone. Would it help for me to upload a copy of the HTML pages (written in BBEdit Lite) for the homepage and one of the subdomain pages? It's not quite a picture , but it's the best approximation I can offer, as the pages have not yet been uploaded to the server.

Madmanmcp et al.: I really don't know how I'd go about supplying a picture, but I can and herewith will rephrase the question and see if I can make the issue clearer. I could, if it would help, also attach a copy of the code for my home page and a subdomain page; let me know if this would be of aid. The question--clarified (I hope): My means of navigating between subdomains is a set of tabs atop each page, one tab per subdomain. On my homepage (squort.com), the subdomain URLs appear on mouseover in Internet Explorer as "santa-cruz.squort.com/index.html" and so forth. But on my subdomain pages, using the same code for the URLs, they display as "santa-cruz.santa-cruz.squort.com"--which of course results in a "File not found" error if the tab is clicked. I'm sure there's some simple way of rewriting my code to avoid this, but remember, I'm a neophyte, so I really don't know what that would require. Is that a bit clearer?

Madmanmcp: By no means did I mean to imply that you are not qualified. However, since you did say you didn't know the answer to question 2, it occurred to me that the question was perhaps fairly obscure, so I asked the assistance of those most likely to possess such abstruse knowledge. If, however, you or any other user do have an answer to question 2, I would certainly like to see it . This whole issue is driving me up any and every available vertical surface. Does anyone know how I can get my navigation tabs to work in my subdomain pages? And do I need to rephrase the question? As a newbie, I am aware that I'm probably not using the correct terminology, so bear with me.

I have noticed, when posting topics/replies, that the posting pages have a minor but irritating glitch: Upon my clicking a code button (for italics, etc.), the page jumps down to place the first line of my message at its top. This is perhaps fairly picayune, but I do find it irritating in that I am then forced to scroll back up to click on the button again (to close italics, etc.).

Although, to the best of my recollection, I have never declined this site's cookies, the "Remember me?" feature on login doesn't seem to work. Is it just me, or does this also happen to others? And does anyone know why it happens?

1. Madmanmcp: Thanks, although I should note that when I first created the subdomains, they did in fact contain the ".squort.com". Ergo, I found it odd that on re-creation they did not. However, you are very likely right. 2. Now, can some experienced webmaster or admin please help me with question 2? Else my tabs will not function as intended.

Hmmm. I begin to wonder if I made a mistake in asking two questions in one thread. Someone please advise me on this if nothing else: Ought I to rewrite the questions as two separate threads?

Note: Upon further review, I realize that neither of the preceding posts attempts to answer the original question posed by this thread--and I simply don't know the answer. I hope this issue will soon be resolved by a competent authority.

Bill, Postini is a web-based e-mail spam filtering service to which many smaller ISPs--such as my previous one--subscribe. However, it is not supposed to delete anything unless instructed to do so; it should hold suspect e-mails in "quarantine" pending the recipient's review. And it is also supposed to be possible for the user to configure the service so as not to quarantine items from specified addresses. Of course, questions do exist as to the service's actual reliability. I found it clunky and quirky, with an annoying tendency to quarantine all the mail I did want while letting spam from gobbledygook addresses, containing offers to add credit card capability to one's site and so forth slip right on through.

I have now given up for the moment on sub-subdomains, but I have encountered two more problems. 1. When I reset my subdomains in CPanel, I named them "santa-cruz.squort.com", etc., but a subsequent check of my public_html folder reveals that CPanel omitted the "...squort.com" from each--although they did include the usual empty cgi-bin folders. I'm not sure if this will be a problem or not, but since they do not match the subdomain folders on my hard drive, I am concerned. Is it possible to rename the subdomain folders in my FTP program, or do I need to go through CPanel yet again? And if the latter, how do I keep the same problem from recurring? 2. Atop each of my revised pages, there are six tabs corresponding to the main pages of the respective subdomains. This works well for pages in my root domain, but those in subdomain folders attach their own folder names in front of the correct URLs as coded on said pages. Ought my subdomain folders to reside, as they do, inside my main hard-drive "Web Pages" folder, or should I drag their folders out and place them on the same level as said folder? And if I leave them where they are, how do I code them to avoid this issue with the tabs?