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Hi there wigoweb. This page on the TCH Help Web Site has instructions for giving your clients access to their stats without letting them in to cPanel. I use this method, and I find it allows me (with a very little programming) to password protect it, individually or with one PW that everybody uses. Hope this helps. If you have any more questions, of course keep asking. Jim

On the Help Web Site pages, in the left Menu, one f the entries is Tool and Scripts. Should it not be Tools and Scripts?

This may be ridiculously simple, or maybe I'm just missing something (entirely possible), but it seems to me that you're passing the wrong variable name to the .php page. Shouldn't the arguments be the same? Either ....php?article=9 or ... cd_id=$artist My 2p. Hope it helps. Jim

Hi Ramsey. Here's a page with an example of what they call a 'Control Panel'; loading a parent window by an action in its child window. Javascript Quickstart In the second script on the page, you'll find this: I think that by substituting "opener.frameName.document.location" for "opener.document.location" you can get it to address the Frame rather than the parent window. At least it's a place to start. I hope it leads you to something useful. Jim

Hi CRO8. It looks as if you need quotes around the value that goes into the OFFER_URL field: so it gets seen as a literal value. Otherwise the parser gets confused. I've underlined them in the above, though you still have to look pretty hard to see them. Hope this helps Jim

Looks like the error is that you left off the closing paren on the mail() function.

Hi Nat. I use TopStyle, and I love it. It was written by the person who created HomeSite (before Macromedia bought it). I got used to it with the Lite version that came with HomeSite, and quickly sprang for the Pro version. Now I use it for pretty much everything: HTML, CSS, PHP, etc. The only thing I use Dreamweaver for anymore is the FTP upload and synchronization. And by the way, it will teach you hard-coding. Download the free trial version, and then if you don't like it, nothing lost. Thumbs Up Jim

Hi Nat. I believe www is a symbolic link, and you should use public_html. Jim

Hi Thomas. I believe the conventional wisdom is not to use Points for specifying web pages. Points are specifically a Print concept, and are interpreted differently by different browser/makers, so the results will not be consistent. Pixels are better, as they are consistent, and other things (like images) are specified in pixels. On another hand, Keywords allow flexibility, which pixels do not. Sadly, the bottom line is that there is no pleasing all the browsers all the time. Once again I'm going to recommend Jeffrey Zeldman's excellent Designing With Web Standards, a fount of knowledge, history and current thinking about so many things. He devotes an entire chapter to the issue of Fonts and Sizes, and covers several approaches that may help. No, I don't work for him, nor have I ever met him; it's just the best book investment I've ever made in the field of web development. There you go: my 2p. Hope it helps somewhat. Jim

If you have Adobe Photoshop, look under Monitor Calibration in the Help files. Maybe you've already done so, but it's the only thing I can think of that hasn't been mentioned so far.

Hi Kasey. Here's a place to start. I'm sure there are other great ones. Good hunting! Jim

You can create a link, style it with CSS any way you want, and use it to fire the form. Let's see if I can make a simple generic example: In the script you can do error checking, etc. and then decide whether or not to submit. Hope this helps some. If anything is not clear, just keep asking.

In my experience, PHP and MySQL together are a very clean way to build pages from dynamic content. PHP itself I find fairly intuitive once you learn a few basic concepts, and it has built-in functions for working with MySQL. Here are a couple of resources I have found very helpful, in addition to the ones HC mentioned. PHP/MySQL Book from Sitepoint SQL Queries for Mere Mortals And of course, keep asking questions; we love to share.

If you're concerned about the decimal, you can use the MySQL ROUND(). Check out the Mathematical functions.

Hi Kasey. I think I've found your problems: 1) Centering the 'Our Customers' gif In the bottom of test-headers.css is If you change it to background-position: center; the gif moves over. 2) Thumbnail captions In the style block at the top of test-customers.htm, notice the extra right brace after 'padding:15px;' in div.float. The Gecko-based browsers must think the declaration is over, then see the second brace after the border rule, choke, and throw away the rest of the block. IE gets it wrong (what a surprise), and honors the succeeding rules regardless. Hope this helps. It's fun watching this site come together. Thanks for sharing your process with us; I for one am learning a lot from your journey. Jim

Kasey, I think the Web Safe set only includes the ones that are divisible by 3 (0,3,6,9,C,F). And as you say, that can be declared with 3 digits as opposed to 6. I don't think #25d would do it, for instance.

Certainly the best $35 I've spent in a long time. A fun and informative read, and I'm glad I own it because (amazingly enough) I don't remember everything all the time.

First, you need to create a second site in Dreamweaver. Point it to the root folder of your local files. In the new site's 'Remote' page, enter the FTP information about your site here at TCH, the same way you did for the first one. FTP Host: ftp.newdomain.tld Host Directory: public_html Login: xxxxx Password: xxxxx Hope this helps. If not, keep asking.

I'm on XP, and I can see the site fine, in IE6, Firefox and Opera7. When you say "can't see" the site, are they getting a "page cannot be displayed" error?

Based upon your latter post, it sounds as if you're looking for something to manage your physical member list. As I said, I've never used aMember, but I get the impression that it's mostly designed for managing areas of a website. Someone with actual experience may be able to set us all straight about that. Certainly, given PHP and MySQL on all servers here, you should be able pretty simply to craft a solution that will meet your exact needs, if aMember doesn't do it for you.

As far as Membership is concerned, you might look at aMember. I've not used it, but it gets rave reviews from some here at TCH who have. As for accepting payment, I think you need several things; at least a SSL certificate so you can do secure transactions, and either a merchant account (for each credit card you want to accept) or a payment gateway like 2CheckOut or PaySystems. You'll find much more information on the TCH Help Site. Cruise around, and you'll find much great info. Good Luck!

The little down-arrow to the left of the Topic will take you to the posts you haven't read yet. I've never seen a way to change the order.

I signed it, too. Maybe they should change their name to Veri$oft.

Check out the Ultimate Form Mail script.

May I suggest that you look into PHP as an alternative? I'm not a long-time C programmer by any means, but I have done enough to feel that PHP is very similar in syntax and rules. It runs on the servers here, and I'll bet you can do what you want with it. Check it out at the PHP manual page Thumbs Up