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If it was the other way around it might, but since TotalChoice Hosting uses faster and better MySQL I don't think it should be.

You should find what you are looking for here! Hmm.. this might make for a good tutorial! Some of AwStats' terms and tables are a little confusing to say the least. Thumbs Up

Here at TotalChoice Web Hosting you are given the option to install Invision Power Board right from your cPanel! All you need to do is login to your cPanel, go to "Addon Scripts" under CGI-Scripts. From there you should see the Invision Power Board logo. Click the link, set your defaults and you're set! One of our board moderators, TCH-Don, has been kind enough to give us a few pointers on how to modify your new web hosting boards! We Will Cover Here: Modify your Invision Power Board Logo Change Forum Logo to a Text Link in Invision Power Board Add to the Upper-Right Forum Menu after 'Help' Check List for Allowing Fourm Uploads for Invision Power Board To Allow Users to Use More Avatars, in Invision Power Board Change the background color of your Invision Power Board To access your forum by IP address, including admin before domain propagation Modify your Invision Power Board Logo right click your board logo, select properties to see the path to the 'logo.jpg' replace it with yours, keeping it the same height. connect to your site with ftp or cpanels filemanager navagate to the folder you see when right clicking the logo. Copy your logo from your computer to that folder to replace the original logo using the same name 'logo.jpg' or logo.gif. to change the logo to a link, first change permissions for /Skin/s1/skin_global.php CHMOD to 0777 via FTP or filemanager. IBF cannot do this for you. log into your admin CP goto skins and templates manage HTML templates manage HTML global HTML elements select Board Header (logo, links, etc) > edit about 14 lines down you will find the place to modify. look for img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' this is what you can change it to. <td align='left'> <a href='http://mysite.com/' target="_top" title='Back To My Site'> <img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' border='0'></a> </td> then select update in your admin CP at the bottom of the window then with ftp again, CHMOD /Skin/s1/skin_global.php back to 644 Change Forum Logo to a Text Link in Invision Power Board To change the forum logo to a large text link in Invision Power Board: first change permissions for /Skin/s1/skin_global.php on your site. CHMOD to 0777 via FTP. IBF cannot do this for you. Then log into your admin control panel goto skins and templates manage html templates manage html global html elements select Board Header (logo, links, etc) > edit look for <a href='{ibf.script_url}' title='Board Home'> <img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' alt='Home' border='0'></a> down a few lines. make your changes like below, then update in your admin control panel at the bottom of the window <!-- global html --> <script language='JavaScript'> <!-- function buddy_pop() { window.open('index.{ibf.vars.php_ext}?act=buddy&s={ibf.session_id}','BrowserBuddy','width=200,height=450, resizable=yes,scrollbars=yes'); } //--> </script> <table width='<{tbl_width}>' border='0' align='center' cellpadding='0' cellspacing='1' bgcolor='<{tbl_border}>'> <tr> <td align='left'> <table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' background='{ibf.vars.img_url}/header_tile.gif'> <tr> <td align='left'> <!-- new board header --> <A HREF='{ibf.script_url}'> <FONT FACE="Times New Roman, Times, Serif" SIZE="+3" COLOR="#000000"> <B>My Forum</B></FONT></A> <!-- end new board header --> <!-- original board header you may delete this part if you wish or comment it out --> <!-- <a href='{ibf.script_url}' title='Board Home'> <img src='{ibf.vars.img_url}/logo.jpg' alt='Home' border='0'></a> --> <!-- end original board header --> </td> Add to the Upper-Right Forum Menu after 'Help' To add your own menu item to the upper right forum menu before 'help' first change permissions for /Skin/s1/skin_global.php on your site, CHMOD to 0777 via FTP. IBF cannot do this for you. log into your admin CP goto skins and templates manage html templates manage html global html elements select Board Header (logo, links, etc) ver 1.1 or +--Navigation End (ver 1.1.2) then edit find the area for the navagation for help |search | members ...... to add a menu item </td> <td align='right' valign='middle' nowrap> <table cellpadding='5' cellspacing='0' border='0' style='border:1px solid <{tbl_border}>' class='row2'> <tr> <td nowrap> <!-- new section --> <A HREF="http://mysite.com/" TARGET="_self">home</A> <span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <!-- end new section --> <a href='{ibf.script_url}&act=Help'>{ibf.lang.tb_help}</a> <span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{ibf.script_url}&act=Search&f={$ibforums->input['f']}'>{ibf.lang.tb_search}</a> <span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{ibf.script_url}&act=Members'>{ibf.lang.tb_mlist}</a> <span style='color:<{tbl_border}>'>|</span> <a href='{ibf.script_url}&act=calendar'>{ibf.lang.tb_calendar}</a> <!--IBF.CHATLINK--> </td> </tr> </table> then update in your admin control panel at the bottom of the window then with ftp again, CHMOD /Skin/s1/skin_global.php back to 644 Check List for Allowing Fourm Uploads for Invision Power Board if you have trouble uploading users avatars or posting images: in your admin control panel, check: Board settings > Security and Privacy > Allow images to be posted? YES forum control, edit permissions for each forum, allow upload checked. users and groups > manage user groups > edit group, Max upload file size (in KB)= reasonable size (disable this groups upload by entering 0 into this field. This will turn off the multi-part form the uploads use. ) (default is 0, I use 100 ) users and groups > manage user groups > edit forum access, allow upload for each forum. with ftp, Folder Uploads permissions set to 777 To Allow Users to Use More Avatars, in Invision Power Board Older forum 1.1 goto your forum/images/avatars folder and create a folder gallery/ inside of gallery create a folder for each type of avatar such as smiles/ or animals/ change permissions of each folder you create to 755 newer forum 1.1.2 goto forum/html/avatars/ change permissions of folder to 755 now upload your avatars to the folder. now when your user selects edit avatar settings in their CP and selects Pre-installed avatars, they will see all the uploaded avatars in all the folders you created. Change the background color of your Invision Power Board In your admin control panel, goto skins, select Manage Board Wrappers, and you will see <html> <head> <title> <% TITLE %> </title> <% GENERATOR %> <% CSS %> <% JAVASCRIPT %> </head> <body bgcolor='#FFFFFF' leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" alink='#000000' vlink='#000000'> <% BOARD HEADER %><% NAVIGATION %><% BOARD %><% STATS %><% COPYRIGHT %></body></html> change bgcolor='#FFFFFF' to your color value and update by selecting edit wrapper at the bottom of the page. To access your forum by IP address, including admin before domain propagation copy conf_global.php from your forum folder to your computer. save on your computer twice once as conf_global.php and the second as conf_global.php_original in the conf_global.php replace http://www.domain.com/ with http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/ get the ip from your welcome e-mail examples // line 27 // original version $INFO['board_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum'; $INFO['board_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum'; // line 68 // original version $INFO['html_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum/html'; $INFO['html_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum/html'; // line 130 // original version $INFO['upload_url'] = 'http://www.domain.com/forum/uploads'; $INFO['upload_url'] = 'http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx/~user/forum/uploads'; After propagation copy the conf_global.php_original back to your forum folder as conf_global.php

I do not know the last time you looked at the TotalChoice Web Hosting Tutorials and Frequently Asked Questions but if it has been a while you should look again! I have been working pretty hard at this today and the last few weeks and I think we finally have an amount of content written by myself and taken from various sections of the board to be proud of now. Where most companies only give you a few threads on tutorials, TotalChoice Web Hosting delivers a whole plethora of choices! If you have any sugestions for new tutorials and faqs please e-mail them to me at mitch@totalchoicehosting.com. Choice does matter!

The iSearch PHP search engine allows you to build a searchable database for your web site. Visitors can search for key words and a list of any pages that match is returned to them. Want to learn more? Need setup instructions? View the Total Choice Web Hosting Help Site Page on iSearch!

Gallery is a slick web based photo album written in PHP. The software is good, but the installation instructions and documentation are quite vague. Want to learn more? Need setup instructions? View the Total Choice Web Hosting Help Site Page on Gallery!

Coppermine Photo Gallery is a picture gallery script. Users can upload pictures with a web browser (thumbnails are created on the fly), add comments, send e-cards and view statistics about the pictures. The admin can manage albums/pictures/comments and batch add pictures that have been uploaded by FTP. There is a simple theme mechanism that allows to change the color scheme used by the album and the script can read digi-cam EXIF data in jpeg images. Want to learn more? Need setup instructions? View the Total Choice Web Hosting Help Site Page on Coppermine!

aMember is the most useful and full-featured membership management software in the world. It comes from aMember Free is a flexible user management program. It has support for PayPal not recurring billing, 2Checkout not recurring billing and Clickbank payment systems and allows you to setup paid-membership areas on your site. It also can be used without any payment system - then you could to manage user manually. Want to learn more? Need setup instructions? View the Total Choice Web Hosting Help Site Page on aMember!

TotalChoice Web Hosting has created a special section for all our HTML and CSS tutorials! Why? Because here at TotalChoice Web Hosting we believe that knowledge is power. We also believe in giving you all the tools you need to make the best out of your web hosting experience with us. Here you will see tutorials on looking for GoogleBot, Keyword Analysis, The Importance Of Inbound Links (backlinks) and so much more! TotalChoice Web Hosting Web Site Promotion Tutorials

TotalChoice Web Hosting has created a special section for all our HTML and CSS tutorials! Why? Because here at TotalChoice Web Hosting we believe that knowledge is power. We also believe in giving you all the tools you need to make the best out of your web hosting experience with us. Here you will see tutorials on html tags, adding e-mail tags to a hyperlink, common http codes, and so much more! TotalChoice Web Hosting HTML and CSS Tutorials

TotalChoice Web Hosting has created a special section for all our backend services tutorials! Why? Because here at TotalChoice Web Hosting we believe that knowledge is power. We also believe in giving you all the tools you need to make the best out of your web hosting experience with us. Here you will see tutorials on Spam Assassin, Setting Up Your E-Mail Accounts, FTP Help, How To Preform a Trace Route and so much more! TotalChoice Web Hosting Backend Services Tutorials

Have you ever seen a HTTP or FTP number or code and had no idea what it ment? Here's a list of both the FTP and HTTP codes you can now check next time you run into that confusing situation. Here's a list of some of the most common HTTP codes you might see: 200 – Success: OK 201 – Success: Created 202 – Success: Accepted 203 – Success: Partial Information 204 – Success: No Response 300 – Success: Redirected 301 – Success: Moved 302 – Success: Found 303 – Success: New Method 304 – Success: Not Modified 305 - Use Proxy 400 – Failed: Bad Request 401 – Failed: Unauthorized 402 – Failed: Payment Required 403 – Failed: Forbidden 404 – Failed: Not Found 405 - Method Not Allowed 406 - Not Acceptable 407 - Proxy Authentication Required 408 - Request Time-Out 409 - Conflict 410 - Gone 411 - Length Required 412 - Precondition Failed 413 - Request Entity Too Large 414 - Request-URL Too Large 415 - Unsupported Media Type 500 – Failed: Internal Error 501 – Failed: Not Implemented 502 – Failed: Overloaded Temporarily 503 – Failed: Gateway Timeout 504 - Gateway Time-Out 505 - HTTP Version Not supported

Thanks for letting us know! I have moved this discussion over to our Security forums.

Here at TotalChoice Hosting we believe in giving back to the clients in more way than one. Since so many have become fans of our services, we figured it was about time we gave you more ways to share your love for our web hosting company. Here's a list of downloads you can download and use on your own! TotalChoice Web Hosting Wallpaper #1 TotalChoice Web Hosting Wallpaper #2 TotalChoice Web Hosting Desktop Icon TotalChoice Web Hosting Buddy Icon All files are going to need to be unzipped, then they will be ready to use!

If you are using the squirrelmail that comes built into our webmail packages, then I don't belive you can modify any of those files or folders.

Shouldn't be a problem. All you'll need to do is update your current register's domain records to that your name points at our name servers. Your name servers should be listed in your welcome e-mail.

If you want to change the method that you pay, please put in a help desk ticket to the billing department. Thanks!

No problem! The most fun I had durring whole thing was watching and be able to point at the TV and say, "Hey I interviewed that guy!"

Paintshop Pro is probably the best sugestion in graphics I can give you. That's what I learned on though for the most part.

Thanks for the kind words!

Here is an example of your basic e-mail link you see on a web site: ><a href="mailto:mitch@totalchoicehosting.com">E-Mail Me!</a> Now lets say you wanted to go ahead and fill in the subject line of the e-mail that was going to be sent to you. This is how you can do that, just add: ><a href="mailto:mitch@totalchoicehosting.com?subject=Fan Mail To Mitch">E-Mail Me!</a> Notice the "?subject=" ? That's the important part to add, then just put your subject line in after it. So you want to fill some of the content in as well, right? You can do that too! This is what you need to add: ><a href="mailto:mitch@totalchoicehosting.com?subject=Fan Mail To Mitch&body=Mitch, you are the coolest!">E-Mail Me!</a> Did you notice the "&body=" ? That's what you need to add, then place your content right after it. If you mess up the first or second time, don't worry! Just make sure you follow my examples exactly and you should be pretty well off. Now I do not know if I've ever gotten fan mail before , but now you have little more total choice in your e-mail link coding!

Making it easy to navigate inside of your web site is one of the most important things that you can do for your visitors. This little trick was one of the firsts I learn of when studying HTML tricks and I thought the fine folks of the TotalChoice Hosting Family Forums would enjoy it. ><a href="#" onClick="history.go(-1);return true;">Send Me Back A Page!</a> This tells the browser to go back one page. That's it! No mater what the page is before it, it will go back. The only problem happens when that page happens to be the first that you pull up. When that happens you'll get a browser window pop up and tell you "Do you really want to close this page?" since there was no page to go back to, by the logic of your browser that is.

The newest MySite Showcase interview is up! This time around, I had a sit down chat with none other than Natalie Brown from Natalie Brown Online. (You might know her as webgyrl on the TotalChoice Hosting Family Forums) I have to say she was really a great and talented person to get to interview, and I would rate this up there as one of the most coolest things I've been able to do here at TotalChoice Hosting. Natalie has a lot to say from her place as a role model to talking about the back end of her own website. What are you waiting for? Go check out the interview and be convinced for yourself! I have also started an open discussion on this topic so you can all have a say about the newest MySite Showcase interview.

As you can see from the latest news forum, we have a new MySite Showcase interview up and ready to read. Please feel free to give your thoughts on it here!