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Thanks for checking. I will examine the site via my FTP program, as you have suggested. This does leave me with a question, however: Why would either directory, or any of its contents, be in the wrong place or under the wrong name? All these files were correctly placed the last time I checked, and I have not moved or renamed anything since then. Is it possible that I've been hacked?

This is bizarre. Earlier, I invited someone to visit one of my pages in the Nation and World subdomain. A minute later, she informed me that she'd gotten a 404 page, and was getting them on all the pages in that subdomain except the index page. Checking, I found that this is indeed so: All the internal pages in the subdomain return 404 pages. Please have a look at this index page, and see what happens when you click on a button for, say, one of the essays. Perhaps someone can figure out what happened here, and how long it's been going on?

Andy, The login information I need is actually the billing info, for which I cannot find any other login name/password. Do I need to submit a help desk ticket? I just received my second reminder notice from Billing, and would like to resolve this matter as soon as possible.

I recently changed my credit card profile, and would like to update TotalChoice's files with the current data for billing purposes. Unfortunately, SecureServer does not recognize my username and password -- and these are the ones Michelle Barnhill specifically advised me to use, and which worked for me last time I had to log in. Since I am unlikely to be unique in encountering this apparent bug in the registration software, I think you would find it profitable to address the matter in general terms. Otherwise, you will be constantly plagued by customers like me asking how they can log onto SecureServer and update their contact/billing information. Sporadic salutations from Squort.com, in the scenic center of Jurassic Pork, the land that time is still trying to forget.

I am trying to open an account for a third site, but am balked by a persistent problem: The software TCH uses asks for a password. I unearthed the last password e-mailed to me on the opening of my previous account and entered it, whereupon the system informed me that I'd used an incorrect password and sent me back to square one, requiring me to re-enter the order. On the second attempt, I tried to send a "lost password" message, but couldn't because the software also refuses to recognize any of the usernames you have sent me. Please help me negotiate this maze of recalcitrant software and open an account. Also, please address this problem. It is very unlikely that I am unique in experiencing problems with this system, and if you haven't heard this from anyone else yet, it may be because other people who run into it don't know about the forum and simply give up.

Is there a version of Firefox for Mac OS 9 now? This would be the first I've heard of it if so.

Bruce, This is very odd, to say the least. I did not double-post. I have no idea where or how any additional posting of this topic occurred, and I hope TotalChoice will soon isolate the cause of this irritating malfunction. Otherwise, I predict a flood of apparent double-posts may be on its way. While examining this issue, please bear in mind that I'm using Internet Explorer 5.16, Outlook Express 5 and Mac OS 9.1 (in all cases the most current available software that will run on my computer). I hope this will narrow down the search a bit. It should also be mentioned that I've encountered some other errant behavior from this forum using this configuration. This includes: -- Failing to "remember" me as a registered user, requiring me to log back in after any logout; -- Sending me e-mail notifications while I am logged in--as I now find it most convenient simply to remain--but which I am informed that the forum is not supposed to do; -- Failing to send me e-mail notifications of replies to my posts/topics; and -- Sending me e-mail notifications of posts in the Server 49 forum and other posts likewise having no connection to my subscription list. These all appear to be part of a pattern of bugs in the forum software you're using that has been cropping up intermittently and appears to affect a relatively narrow array of system configurations. To which array it would appear that mine has the ill fortune to belong. ON ANOTHER MATTER ENTIRELY: My felicitations to you, Rob, Sam and my other friends on the TotalChoice forums.

I am merging my site banner and navigation tabs into one image, rather than having the tabs float as separate images just over the banner (which produced variable results in different browsers). But I'm still new to Adobe ImageReady, and not quite sure about the best way to do this. The banner/navbar will consist of one slice for the banner proper, and one each for the six attached tabs, each of which has three possible appearances: active, inactive and mouseover. Which tab is active depends on the part of the site one is in. (This design is functionally similar to the existing one, which will give an idea of the effect intended.) My concern is one of implementation. Need I make a separate banner/navbar for each subdomain, or is there some way to use slices to consolidate the images? And (either way) is there some order that must be followed in creating/assigning rollover slices other than to apply them directly above the normal-state images?

It seems my description was not as clear as I'd hoped. I already have the banner and tabs included on each page via PHP. The problem is to combine them into one image. Currently, I have a tab for each of my subdomains, and, within a given subdomain, the corresponding tab is "active" and the others "inactive": To see what I mean, please compare this page with this one, noting that the "Home" tab is active on the first and the "Santa Cruz" tab on the second. Now, it seems to me superficially that in order to combine the tabs with the banner, I would have to create six separate navbar/banners--one for each subdomain, with the corresponding tab in each assuming the active appearance and the other five assuming the inactive. (I.e., the "Home" tab would have the active appearance on all pages in the Home domain, the "Santa Cruz" tab would have that appearance in the Santa Cruz subdomain, and so forth.) First, then: Is this actually correct, or is there some way to code a single navbar/banner so that the "active" appearance is correctly assigned to the corresponding tab for each subdomain? And second: If it is not, and I need six navbar/banners, should I create the mouseover appearance for each tab by simply adding the "mouseover" tab on a slice placed directly over the active/inactive tab to which it corresponds?

I am merging my site banner and navigation tabs into one image, rather than having the tabs float as separate images just over the banner (which produced variable results in different browsers). But I'm still new to Adobe ImageReady, and not quite sure about the best way to do this. The banner/navbar will consist of one slice for the banner proper, and one each for the six attached tabs, each of which has three possible appearances: active, inactive and mouseover. Which tab is active depends on the part of the site one is in. (This design is functionally similar to the existing one, which will give an idea of the effect intended.) My concern is one of implementation. Need I make a separate banner/navbar for each subdomain, or is there some way to use slices to consolidate the images? And (either way) is there some order that must be followed in creating/assigning rollover slices other than to apply them directly above the normal-state images?

Craven.

Miasma. (Something else you can find in a marsh.)

Fine.

Chile verde. (I know: two words. But I can't see "chili" in any form without thinking of my favorite kind.)

"The Pot and the Pendulum" After a night of indulgence, Edgar Allan Poe admits he did expect the Spanish Inquisition.

Diaphanous. (My definition of sexy: my wife in something pleasantly semi-transparent.) Naughty

The Jingle Book Grown up now, Mowgli must make his way in the world of advertising.

"The Mosque of the Red Death" A soon-to-be-leaked Bush administration plan to reduce the numbers of "insurgents" in Iraq.

Ave.

I use a Mac and run OS 9.1 as well. For FTP, I do use Fetch, but I should mention that it is not a free program. It does have a free trial period, but after that you must either pay the $25 shareware fee or put up with the proverbial Annoying Shareware Message and a long delay (5+ minutes) before running the application. The app works well enough once you learn some of its quirks (for example, it will let you drag and drop files from one directory to another--but not reliably; and it will disconnect you after about two minutes' inactivity), but its popularity can largely be explained through the simple mechanism of lack of choice. (Oh, yes, and the Scottish terrier icon is cute.)

Pronoun.

All's Swell that Ends Well And peachy-keen, to boot.

1) Since, as Shannon observes, the colonization of other planets as a matter for the distant future, I would imagine that we will by then have found some world more hospitable than Mars. My assumption is that, barring some discovery allowing for faster-that-light travel, this colonization will be achieved by a "generation ship": a craft designed to transfer thousands of people a great distance across interstellar space over the course of many years. 2) This "worm food" observation sounds like an echo of President Bush's reply to a question about how history would portray our actions of today: "History. We'll all be dead then." It also reminds me of another quotation, this one from one of my favorite founding fathers, Tom Paine:

Bard Times Your source for local news in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

The <server> ... </server> tags don't seem to do anything. Is this perhaps because the menu is not one Javascript, but a series of Javascript rollovers?