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I have a wireless network. --Beth

Surfing at my desk...

A relaxing break...

I'm so glad spring is finally here!

I suggest that you look into PHP rather than VB, since TCH supports PHP and doesn't support VB :-) --Beth

Both subdomains work for me, accessed with the subdomain notation. --Beth

Is this scheme legal? http://www.roadtoretire.com/cgi-bin/fb.pl?...5106f4496bd1f2d[0] It reads like a pyramid scheme to me. "A pyramid scheme is a fraudulent system of making money which requires an endless stream of recruits for success. Recruits (a) give money to recruiters and ( enlist fresh recruits to give them money." --Beth

Forgive me if I get too basic here, but I thought I'd spell as much of it ought as I can (and then KW can steal it ) For each email account, you need the following settings: User information (Your name and email address) Logon Information (User name and password) Server information (incoming and outgoing mail servers) Your ISP tech support staff is used to providing this information, but they are doing it based on the assumption that you are using their incoming and outgoing mail servers. Since you have your own domain, though, you don't want to use their mail servers. You want the mail to go through your own mail servers (i.e. mail.****) There's a catch, though, many ISPs won't let you use an alternative outgoing mail server. This is a Good Thing, because it allows them to ensure that only people with accounts on their system are able to send email through it. So what does that do to your settings? User information is the easiest: your name and email address Logon information: Your username and password for your TCH account. However, remember what I wrote in the earlier message. If you are using your main cpanel login name, omit the "@****" Incoming mail server: mail.**** Outgoing mail server (SMTP): Ask your ISP, or copy what you're using for your email address under your ISP. That's right--your outgoing mail server is through your ISP, even though it is for a TCH hosted email account under your own domain. Depending on the current settings required by your ISP, you may also need to provide authentication information for the SMTP outgoing server. In my case, that is my username and password for my ISP account. I can't use the same settings as my incoming mail server, because I use my cpanel username and password for that--that's to authenticate with TCH. I hope I haven't totally confused you. Just try and keep in mind the pieces: You have an incoming mail server and you apparently have all the settings correct for that. You have an outgoing mail server, and that needs to be your ISP's mail server name, and your authentication information for your ISP. --Beth

You'll probably need to drop a help ticket on this one, but I do have one suggestion. (I use Outlook, but if I recall correctly from when I used Pegasus, it was similar) You are correct that you need to use pop3. However, you need to be careful about how you specify your username. For example, assume the following TCH account has been set up: And you've also created an additional email account: When you set up your email for username1, use: When you set up your email for username2, use In other words, your main cpanel name email account doesn't specify the domain name in its username for email, all the others do. In addition, you have to be sure which authentication is failing. I have to authenticate to my ISP to send email, not to TCH. So, it could well be that you have to authenticate using your username and password for your ISP. Many ISPs do this to ensure that only their own customers send email through their connections. --Beth[/b]

Actually, none of my sites are commercial. I have a personal site, which is a family picture set and my writings and such. I have a organizational site, which I maintain as a volunteer. I own two other domains, which are currently empty (hosted at the cheapest plan before it was deactivated completely). I want to buy one more domain (for my son, since my daughter has her own domain) But *none* of them are commercial, and I don't make any money from any of them, and I never will. That's what makes it so hard to justify the cost of a professional tool. And for teaching the kids how to build web pages, it seems that dreamweaver might be overkill. I grant that FP is not a professional tool--but I don't need one for personal use. (At work, I use JBuilder, and we build everything in JSP and Java code--no visual tools at all) --Beth

TCH Rocks Did I say that I think that TCH Rocks ? In fact, one of the things that I've noticed recently is that TCH Rocks Just in case you didn't know it, TCH Rocks Oh yeah, by the way, TCH Rocks

Your username doesn't have to have anything to do with reality, though :-) Its *only* required use is to log into cpanel. You can create anything you want for email addresses and your forum nickname. So, you have the following: Domain name: www.elvenjess.com Username (to login to cpanel): elvenje Email: create elf@elvenjess.com and jess@elvenjess.com The other place your username is used is as your default email handler. Any email addressed to an eddress that doesn't exist on your domain will be rerouted to 'elvenje'. My account name is actually 'beth'. I have no idea why, but I like it :-). My last host (which sucked) had my account name as 'bweiss', which was fine also, but the only time I used 'bweiss' was to login to their control panel (which sucked) --Beth TCH Rocks

Although noone has sent me money yet, I have gotten the PayPal one click payment system working on my website. (No, you can't see it--it's in a protected subdomain.) --Beth

The real question about transferring your domain is who owns it and who is the registrar. To find out who the registrar is: http://www.internic.net/whois.html To find out who the contacts are: http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois There are a couple of different "pieces" to this. 1) who is the registrar (Network Solutions, GoDaddy, etc.) 2) who is the administrative contact 3) who is the technical contact If you are one of the contacts, you should be able to work directly with the registrar to remove any reference to FeaturePrice and also to set the domain name servers to whatever TotalChoice tells you to. If you are not one of the contacts, and FeaturePrice is the only one, you're going to have a much tougher time. There are several threads at www.yourhostsucks.com that suggest that FP used a standard password scheme with their registrar that you can probably break. As long as you can make the changes, you don't have to transfer registrars unless you want to. Personally, I recommend that you retain control over your domain name--make sure that you are the contact who needs to make changes--that way, no matter what happens, you can keep control of your domain. Once you've reset the domain name servers to TCH, you should be able to upload your files to your new site. As long as you have copies of your files on your own machine, you'll just FTP them to your TCH site just as you've done with other hosting services. I'm also a refugee from FeaturePrice--you will love TotalChoice--I promise. --Beth

I liked the first one, too. My favorite is still the puppy, though! --Beth

The Acceptable Use Policy Says: And Lianna wrote: Okay, I just want to be sure I understand: I cannot give away or sell any amount of space on my account. (This seems eminently fair--at $4/month, my friends can get their own accounts.) But, what exactly is meant by 'sub-sites' of your MAIN system? If I make the subdomain, and it is unrelated to my "main site", it seems that would still be permissible, as long as I'm only using the subdomain to simplify my navigational scheme and separate content. Likewise it seems that it would be acceptable to me to have a family account have subdomains for family members. I am *not* talking extended family here--I'm referring to a subdomain of 1-10 pages for each child. I read the AUP to mean I couldn't give a subdomain to my "little" brother (who is an adult and runs his own business). But I didn't see as preventing me from giving my 7 year old her own subdomain if she wants one. Is that accurate? (Not trying to pick nits, but wanting to be sure I have this straight) --Beth

Pricey is why I haven't bought it yet :-( But I did get a new printer, new answering machine, and 2 new phones on Sunday. Dreamweaver would have been more fun. Their website does not currently list FP as qualifying for a competitive upgrade, unfortunately. You had mentioned that before, Lianna, so I checked to see if it still applied, and it doesn't. Oh well, gotta save my pennies. --Beth

I'm being teased about using FrontPage, and admittedly it has some flaws, including generating tons excess html, etc. However, it does provide some really nice features that I appreciate, especially since my web building is a hobby (my personal site) and a volunteer job (the regional site). There are features that I *really* like: WYSIWG. I can code in pure HTML--but I don't want to Ease of publishing: it tracks what has changed so I don't have to Themes/styles: Easy to reuse the same color/font elements from page to page Ease of identical borders Ease of creating nav bars (including custom ones) Easy to move files around--FP updates the links for me Easy to set up the navigation scheme by drag and drop Works a lot like Word, so it's pretty intuitive Autothumbnail when I drag and drop a picture Wizard to create media files Given those likes, what other options are there? I don't want to give any of those up. The additional features I would like: Better support for JavaScript Better support for PHP, especially within a formatted page Better ability to template (i.e. include a JavaScript on every page. I know it's possible in FrontPage, but haven't worked through that yet) It'd help, too, to know the cost involved in the alternatives.... --Beth

I have dual monitors--a 21" and a 17". I haven't taken any pictures of them lately :-), but I don't see anything suprising about it! --Beth

There are some really good reasons for waiting until an upgrade has been out a little while before installing it: Server updates take time, for one thing--often with the server *down*. Server updates (except for security issues) may not buy much by the way of new features Server updates may break *other* pieces of software, so that the server that is *down* for the update maybe *down* even longer while the *other* software is being investigated and upgraded. The sysadmin team may not even be aware that some other piece of software just got broken by the update. That means that *we* (the customers) find the breaks, and then report them one by one. There may be problems with the update itself--it could be buggy. On the other hand, if the hosting service waits until the software update has been available for a while: If there are bugs in the software update, they will have been found and patched (that also means the team can install *both* updates at once, rather than two separate possible server downtimes and installs Other teams will have discovered what software the update might break and what the fixes are But the hosting company can't wait so long that not having the software creates problems. Updates and patches that fix security issues need to be installed right away (and that might mean another patch that has been postponed has to be installed first) Major upgrades in functionality need to be updated in a timely manner. For example, any hosting company that did not start supporting FrontPage 2002 extensions would be losing business Medium upgrades in functionality need to be updated in a timely manner, too. For example, upgrades to PHP and MySQL need to be made about the time new software apps are released that use those upgrades. I was recently asked my opinion about several web hosting companies. My first response was "Just go with TotalChoice--no need to look further", but I did look at the other companys' websites. One of them was running CPanel 4.0. TotalChoice is running 6.0. To me, that was *too* big of a discrepancy. A hosting company that gets that far behind on their software concerns me--do they also get that far behind in their hardware upgrades? Are they putting adequate money back into the business? So, there are lots of factors to weigh. There are updates that *must* get made immediately. There are others that can (and should) wait. My hat is off (or would be if I wore one) to the Head Guru and his team for making those decisions well. --Beth

I use FP 2002, and I *only* use FP2002 for uploading websites created in FP. FP tracks files on both the system you're building on and the system you pubish to, and if they aren't the same, it wants to delete the extra files on the destination server or add the files. For files that are not part of your FrontPage web, though, you want to use FTP. So, if you're installing scripts, or retrieving files that someone has put in your accout via FTP, you want to use FTP yourself. Examples of when I use FTP: I gave my cousin an FTP account and he uploaded a video of his son. I used FTP to download it so I could include it into my web I want to install phplib (I do, but haven't yet!), so I would FTP it into the correct directory (once I figure out what it is) I hope that helps! --Beth

Oops: forgot to mention: www.bweiss.com is hosted here at TCH I'm the webmaster for www.region3.us.mensa.org, but it is not hosted by TCH. (It would be if I'd gotten to choose a hosting service, but that was an organizational decision. --Beth

You can host multiple domains on a reseller account; those are designed for hosting more than one domain. Due to server loads (and probably because they need to make a profit), TCH does not permit reselling of space or multiple domains on individual accounts. (Personal opinion: at $4/month, you can afford to buy two if you need two different domains.) If you just want two domains to point to the same site, you can do that without extra cost. If you want to take a look at some TCH sites, you can just go through the forums and click on the URLs in people's signatures--that will give you a random set! I have some videos on my site--that might give you insight, too. --Beth (satisfied customer)

I think that'd be great--it's one of those features that I'd love to work with, but haven't gotten around to installing! --Beth (trying to learn MySQL, PHP, on-line PayPal payments while simultaneously overcommitting to volunteer organizations)

This is my most-used JavaScript code; I include it on all of my pages. ><script language="Javascript"> var ATSIGN = '@'; var PERIOD = '.'; var MT = 'mailto:'; var CEXT = 'com'; var NEXT = 'net'; var OEXT = 'org'; var AEXT = 'aol'; function EM(ext, domn, urname, subj, linkText) { var addr; var sendingTo; addr = urname + ATSIGN + domn + PERIOD + ext; document.write(('<a href="' + MT + addr + '?subject=' + subj + '"\>' + linkText + '</a>')); } </script> To use the function I do: > <script language="Javascript"> EM(CEXT, 'hotmail', 'username', 'From website.com (Which Page)', 'FirstName LastName'); </script> This creates a mailto: link with the person's full name as the anchor and the referring site and/or page as the subject of the message. This is not, however, collected by email address harvesting spiders, since the HTML code does not contain an actual mailto link with an address. --Beth (Yours for a spam-free world)