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Basic Body Tags HTML Tags: ><html></html> This is what every basic web page starts and ends with. You'll always see "<html>" at the beginning of your pages' source and "</html>" at the end. HEAD Tags: ><head></head> This is what holds all the stuff at the top of your page together. All of the stuff that the browser does not display. This could be meta tags, your title tags and more. TITLE Tags: ><title></title> These tags display the title of your web page. It goes between the head tags mentioned above. BODY Tags: ><body></body> The body tags are what hold together your actual page. Between these two tags are everything that displays on your web pages. The fallowing tags are a list of combinations you can make with the body tags. Body Background Color: ><body bgcolor="???"> You can replace the ??? above with either a color's name or it's hex number value to change the background color of your web page. Body Text Color: ><body text="???"> You can replace the ??? above with either a color's name or it's hex number value to change the text color on your web page. Body Link Color: ><body link="???"> You can replace the ??? above with either a color's name or it's hex number value to change the link color on your web page. Body Visited Link Color: ><body vlink="???"> You can replace the ??? above with either a color's name or it's hex number value to change the link color on your web page. Body Active Link Color: ><body alink="???"> You can replace the ??? above with either a color's name or it's hex number value to change the active link color on your web page. Text Tags Headlines: ><h1></h1> This creates headline text. This is good for putting at the top of each of your major sections on a page to set it apart from the rest. You can go all the way up to "h6" with "h6" being the smallest and "h1" being the biggest. Bold Text: ><b></b> This creates bold text. Good for setting words apart in a big paragraph. Italic Text: ><i></i> This creates italic text. This also good for setting words apart in a big paragraph. Emphasize Text: ><em></em> This puts a little more emphasizes a word or group of words. Strong Text: ><strong></strong> This also puts a little more emphasizes a word or group of words. Typewriter Text: ><tt></tt> This creates typewriter text. Preformatted Text: ><pre></pre> This create the text effect of preformatted text. Citation: ><cite></cite> This creates a citation. Citations are usually used in long pages or research papers when you want to reference where you got the material from. Font Size: ><font size="???"></font> This changes the font size. You can change what's in the "???" to a number between 1 and 7 where 7 is the largest and 1 is the lowest. You may also work in negative numbers as well, like "-1" or "-2". Font Color: ><font color="???"></font> This changes the font color. You can use a color name (white) or the hex value (#FFFFFF) where you see the ??? above. Hyperlink Tags Hyperlink Tags: ><a href="http://www.mysite.com">MySite</a> This is your basic hyperlink tag. The "http://www.mysite.com" can be replaced with any page path while the "MySite" will be the actual text that links to the path you give. I know when I click "MySite" that it will lead me to the mysite.com homepage. E-Mail Link Tag: ><a href="mailto:mitch@totalchoicehosting.com">E-Mail Mitch!</a> This is your basic e-mail link tag. You can replace "mitch@totalchoicehosting.com" with any e-mail address, then replace the "E-Mail Mitch!" with any text you need to link to the email address. When you click the "E-Mail Mitch!" then your default e-mail program should open up with an email opened up with my address already in the address bar. Name That Link: ><a name="http://www.mysite.com" title="Lets go to the example's website">The example!</a> When you hover over this link, whatever you define as the title is shown. This works much in the same way as an image's "alt" tag, giving you more information about what that link is for. Good for giving your site more accessibility to the confused as well. Link's Target: ><a name="example">Example</a> This is a little deeper as far as links go. This will create a place holder on a page for you to link to it. You can set this as it is, or with no text at all and the next tag is what will actually lead you to the place you use this to mark. If you leave the "Example" in then it uses the word as the place holder, if you leave the word "Example" out then it just marks that part of the page. Go to Target Link: ><a href="#example">Lets Go to the Example!</a> If on a page, this would lead us to where ever the link's target might be sitting. This is good to use if you want to create a sub-menu on a really long website. Formatting Tags Line Break Tag: ><br> Our trusty companion, and probably the first HTML tag that anybody ever learns is the line break tag. This little guy is useful in as the title says it, breaking long paragraphs of lines. Hence the reason why it is named the "Line Break Tag". Blockquote Tags: ><blockquote></blockquote> This will format whatever text might be between the two tags by indenting both the left and right sides. Paragraph Tags: ><p></p> This is the way you define a paragraph. Whatever is between the two tags is blocked together as a paragraph, like in a book. You can use multiple paragraph tags to break up long blocks of solid text on a web page. Paragraph Align Tag: ><p align="???"> This is something extra you can do with the paragraph tags. You can set it to be aligned to the left, center, or right of your web page. Div Align Tags: ><div align="center">This text would be centered!</div> This is a way to align your text either to the "left", "right", or "center". by replacing what is inside the quotations marks you see in the example above. Div tags are also very handy when working in style sheets. Center Tags: ><center></center> This one pretty much explains itself. Whatever might be between these two tags will be centered. That's it. Ordered List Tags: ><ol> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> </ol> Wraps around your actual list, and gives each a number. Un-Ordered List Tags: ><ul> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> <li>Something</li> </ul> Wraps around your actual list, and gives each a bullet. List Tags: ><li>Something</li> Whatever replaces the "Something" in the middle defines one item on the list, ordered or un-ordered. Image Tags Basic Image Tag: ><img src=“???”> This is your basic, stripped down image tag. Where you see the ??? is where you would put the direct location of the image as it sits on your web hosting plan. Image Align Tag: ><img src=“???” align=“left”> You may replace the left with either left, right or center to change the alignment of the image you define in the basic image tag. Image Border Tag: ><img src=“???” border=“0”> The image’s boarder can also be controlled by defining it where you see the 0 above. Giving your image a 0 border width is helpful for when you want to turn it into a link, but don’t want the link color making a border around your image. Image Alt Tag: ><img src=“???” alt=“The description of your image!”> The “alt” tag gives your image more information when somebody hovers over it. It will display whatever you might want to put inside the alt tag. Good for accessibility; people can read what the image is about before it downloads. Image Height/Width Tags: ><img src=“???” height=“???” width=“???”> These tags are useful so that the browser may go ahead and draw out the size the image is going to take on the web page before the image downloads. Horizontal Rule Tags Horizontal Rule Tag: ><hr> This will insert a horizontal line across your page. Good for separating large blocks of text or content. Horizontal Rule Width Tag: ><hr width=“???”> You can use this to set the width of the horizontal rule, by using either percents (60%) or actual numbers (345). Horizontal Rule NOSHADE Tag: ><hr noshade> Makes sure that the horizontal rule has no shadow casting onto your page. Horizontal Rule Color Tag: ><hr color=“???”> The ??? may be replaced by and color value, either by hex number or by the actual name of the said color. Table Tags Table Tags: ><table></table> Every table you will ever see will start with the “<table>“ tag and end with the “</table>“ tag. This is what tells your browser, “Woah! This is where your table starts and ends!” Table Header Tags: ><th></th> These are the tags the define your table’s header information. Table Row Tags: ><tr></tr> These are the tags the define your table’s rows. Table Cell Tags: ><td></td> These are the tags the define your table’s cells inside a row. Now that you know how to build your basic table, lets get into customizing it! Table Border Tags: ><table border=“0”> The 0 that you see defined above tells the browser that you have no border at all. This can be bumped up to any number you need. Table Width Tags: ><table width=“100%”> The 100% that you see defined above tells the browser that your table will go all the way across the width of your web page. You can set this number to any percent or number that you need it to be. Table Cell Spacing Tags: ><table cellspacing=“0”> The 0 that you see defined above tells the browser that you have no space between your table cells. This can be bumped up to any number you need. Table Cell Padding Tags: ><table cellpadding=“0”> The 0 that you see defined above tells the browser that you have no space between your table cells and the border surounding the outside of the table. This can be bumped up to any number you need. Table Align Tags: >align=“???” The align code can be slapped into either a table’s row or cell to define if it is justified to your left, right or center of the table. Table Vertical Align Tags: >valign=“???” The valign code can be slapped into either a table’s row or cell to define if it is justified to your top, middle or bottom of the table. Table No Wrap Tags: ><td nowrap> This code prevents your cell’s data from being wrapped, or broken to fit inside the predefined space.
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What is a Forwarder? Once a forwarder is set up, it can be used to automatically forward mail sent to one e-mail address to another. Say I set up a forwarder for work@mysite.com and wanted it to go to mitch@mysite.com I would set up a forwarder to deliver all mail from work@mysite.com to be delivered to mitch@mysite.com. You can also set it up to forward from more than one account. I could have work@mysite.com and play@mysite.com both set up as forwarders, so they any mail delivered to them would be sent to mitch@mysite.com. This will save you from having to set up 10 or 12 e-mail accounts if you are the one handling all of the departments of your web site. To set this up, login to your cPanel then in the box titled "E-mail" look for a link titled "Forwarders". Click that link, then you are ready to configure an e-mail forward of your very own! How do I configure a Forwarder? Configuring a forwarder is easier than you might think! Once you clicked the link I talked about above, then you should be lead to a page with the message, "Forwarding Maintenance" where it would then list your current forwarders. To set up a new forward, all you need to do is click the link that says, "Add Forwarder". From here you see three boxes, with the one in the middle listing your domain name. Do not get scared, we are half way through this! In the first box (the one furthest to your left) put in the first part of the e-mail address you want to be the filter. (from my example, that would be "work") The second box lists the prefix of the e-mail address, it should be alright to keep it as is. (from my example, that would be "mysite.com") In the last box, you put in the address you wish for this forwarder to direct all the e-mail to. (from my example, that would be "mitch@mysite.com") When you are finished, click "Add Forwarder" and you have done it! Good for you! How do I delete or remove a Forwarder? All you need to do to get rid of your forwarder, is to login to your cPanel, click the "Forwarders" link under "E-Mail". Once you are in the "Forwarding Maintenance" screen, click the delete button next to the forwarder you wish you remove or delete. That's it!
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What are Auto Responders? Auto Responders are e-mails that get sent out automatically when somebody sends an e-mail to a certain address you specify from within the setting in cPanel. These can be useful if you are going on vacation, and want to let people that are e-mailing you know that you are not available right now. They also have 101 other good uses and reasons for setting up. To configure them for yourself, first login to your cPanel. Next you will want to search for the "Auto Responders" link in the box titled "E-mail". Click the link, and there you go! How do I configure my Auto Responders? This is simpler than it might look! Once you follow my steps above, you will be lead into a screen that reads at the top, "Autoresponder Maintenance". There you will see a list of e-mail addresses and subject lines for those automatic responses. To add an Auto Responder to the list, just click "Add AutoResponder". The next screen you get will look much like an e-mail form. Here's what each box means, and what you should put there: Email - The email address this Auto Responder is for. From - Enter here your name or email address you want to see as the sender of the message to your Auto Responder receiver. Subject - This is what you want to show up in the subject line of the auto response e-mail. Character Set - If required, you can change the character set the message is encoded in. (usually just leave it as is) HTML Message - Click this box if your Auto Responder is going to have HTML coded into it. Body - This is the place you put the body of your message at. Once you have filled all those out you may click "Create" to create the Auto Responder you just set up or "Clear" to start all over again, just in case you messed up somewhere down the line. That's it! Once an Auto Responder is created, you can choose also to edit it or delete it all together, with TotalChoice Hosting the choice is yours!
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What is Spam Assassin? Spam Assassin is a e-mail spam filtering system that sits side by side with account with us to help block, mark or filter out mail you don't want. How do I access Spam Assassin? First thing you will want to do is log into your cPanel. From there, under the "E-mail" box look at the bottom for a link that reads "Spam Assassin". From here it will tell you if Spam Assassin is currently enabled or disabled. Clicking the boxes to enable or disable Spam Assassin is how you can turn it on or off. To configure the Spam Assassin settings click the button that reads: "Configure Spam Assassin (required to rewrite subjects)" How do I configure Spam Assassin? If you do not know what it is you are looking at, the next screen could be a little confusing. To help you understand here's a break down of what you should see on the screen and what do do with it: required_hits - The number of e-mails received before marked as spam. rewrite_subject - The tells Spam Assassin if it should rewrite your subject line or not as you define. (1 is yes and 0 is no) subject_tag - What the spam is marked with in the subject line. (usually ***SPAM*** or something else that could be picked up by your own mail filters on your mail client of choice) blacklist_from - An e-mail address you definitely want to be marked as spam. (you could also use *@something.com to get every email from that address filtered) whitelist_from - An e-mail address you definitely do NOT want to be marked as spam. (you could also use *@something.com to get every email from that address NOT filtered) Once you're done, just hit save and whatever you defined on the earlier page will now be in effect. If you picked to rewrite the subject, then you could now go into your mail client and write a new "rule" that would filter all mail with "***SPAM***" to go into a SPAM folder so that you could check it from time to time making sure you did not get any false positives. How do I use the Spam Box? You can turn your spam box enable and disable from the same page as Spam Assassin. It's just that easy! With the recent upgrades to cPanel, the TotalChoice Hosting team has been paying more attention to the users of Spam Assassin. In the previous build you would need to use a imap client to get to your spam box. Well not anymore. You can create a "new" e-mail account that has precisely the same settings as your e-mail account, but add: "/spam" to the end of the e-mail account user name. This will retrieve only your Spam Box mail. In order for this to be useful, you will want to set up your e-mail client to deliver this Spam Box mail to a special folder (perhaps called spam?) automatically.
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I am not sure if I understand what you mean by rating. If you mean Google's Page Rank, then our SEO has written some nice articles about that and other search engine optimization tips here.
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Hmm other than manually updating, I'm not sure I've seen a solution to your first problem, I'll have a look around though. On the smilies, I'm not sure what script or program you're talking about. Here on InvisionPower Board the "alt" text is determined I believe by the actual file name, but I'm sure it could be changed somewhere in the configuration if needed.
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The response time on help desk tickets being answered depend on a few different things. Sometimes the task takes longer so get fixed or answered, so then it will take some extra time. If you ever have any concerns about a ticket, you should add a response on the actual ticket about it. Don't worry though, we always answer every single ticket that comes through the help desk!
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What is cPanel? cPanel is a server side management system the runs the back end of your site. From here you have access to many controls and scripts that will add everything from tracking abilities to new scripts to your site. How to login to cPanel There are several different ways you can gain access to your cPanel. The first and most obvious is by going to yoursite.com/cPanel. Another is by putting in the IP address and fallow it up with "/cPanel". Lastly, you can also attempt to gain access by putting in server??.totalchoicehosting.com/cpanel. Once you have done one of those three, a new login window will pop up. Just put in your user name and password, as assigned to you from your welcome e-mail and you're all set! The insides of cPanel All of the different options might be a little over whelming the first time you login to your account. For the most part, everything is sub-divided into it's own category and box. At the top you should see a message logging in your IP address and also telling you "Welcome to Server??" where the "??" will be replaced by your server number. (Make note of this, it makes our jobs easier when you need to put in a help desk ticket if you give us your server number.) Starting at the top At the top you should see four boxes reading: Home, File Manager, Update Contact Info, and Log Out. Home - This will lead you back to the main cPanel screen. File Manager - This will lead you to cPanel's File Manager. Update Contact Info - This will allow you to change your contact e-mail. Log Out - This will log you out of cPanel. Account Information On your left, you should see a box titled "Account Information". Listed through this box you should see a plethora of information on your account. Here's a list of some of the more important details and what it means for you and your account at TotalChoice Hosting. Sub Domains - The number of sub domains you have set up on your account currently. MySQL Databases - The number of active MySQL Databases you are using. Disk Usage - Shows the amount of disk usage you are using. SQL Disk Usage - Shows the amount of SQL desk usage you are using. Bandwidth Usage This Month - Your bandwidth usage for the month. Disk Space Available - The amount of space you have left currently. Email Accounts - The number of e-mail accounts you have set up. Email Forwarders - The number of e-mail forwarders you have set up. Auto-Responders - The number of auto-responders you have set up. Mailing Lists - The number of mailing lists you have set up. Email Filters - The number of e-mail filters you have set up. FTP Accounts - The number of FTP accounts you have set up. Server Information This is the box located under the "Account Information" box. In this box you will get more details about the TotalChoice Hosting server that you are currently on. CPanel Version/Build - The version/build number of the cPanel. Operating System - The operating system the server you're on. Apache Version - Apache version for the server you're on. Perl Version - The Perl version for the server you're on. Perl Path - The path to Perl for the server you're on. Installed Perl Modules - A list of installed Perl modules for the server you're on. PHP Version - The version of PHP your server is using. MySQL Version - The version of MySQL your server is using. SendMail Path - The path to SendMail on your server. Server Status When you click on this link you'll get a full detailed list of what all is up and running on your site, or what might be down at the moment. If you need more details, then please feel free to check out tchstatus.com! Need more? Many of our other tutorials cover the other depths cPanel has to offer. Also be sure to check in at the TotalChoice Hosting Help Site for more information on it as well.
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Nice to hear your comments Kyler, and feel free to tell your friends!
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I've been trying out a few products here and there in my spare time. As I was sorting through various downloaded programs I came to realize that I have become pretty reliant on Outlook Express and nothing else as a mail client. I've look around at a few alternatives but I figured this would be a good start of a conversation. What is your favorite mail client and why? I know there are probably more than a few people out there that will be willing to try something new, so share your thoughts with your fellow family members! Thumbs Up
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Yep, many congrats to Rick, he's one smart cookie!
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Hmm, odd situation indeed. I just loaded the page fine from IE6, Firebird and Opera.
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I would say using the built in Mailman mailing list script might be a better way to go. It's there, configured and plenty of help sites online to help you get started on it.
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I'm sorry, without cPanel, so that we could do a cPanel to cPanel transfer, you'll just need to recreate each one.
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Yes, he will be billed automatically, and when it's time for renewal, his account should be automatically deducted from, and he'll receive an email when this is done. The avatar? I believe it's a web hosting ninja!
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Good to hear! Now I'm moving this topic to "Running Your Online Buisness". Always be sure you submit your topics in the correct forum. Thanks!
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You shouldn't have any problems hosting with us, and it sounds like you've made a good call on your choice of plan. If your current host provides you with a cPanel then yes we will be able to move over your current account status and emails over that way, just open up a help desk ticket after your new account is set up and ready. On the spam fight front, all new accounts come installed with Spam Assassin, which will help you filter out your spam. You may transfer your domain by going to our domain name registration page, and click on the transfer link. From there, you will be walked through the steps. Hope that covers everything!
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All you should have to do is login with the name and password you gave yourself, then you should be given an admin menu to make those types of changes.
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You can find out more about adding a message board to your site here! It's really an easy task here at TotalChoice Web Hosting! Let us know if you need anymore help at all! Thumbs Up
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Could you please either put in a help desk ticket about this or contact our domain name registers by going to our domain name registration page and clicking on the support link at the bottom of the page. Thanks
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I got your help desk ticket and we'll be be looking into this shortly.
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Hmm, just from your description of the problem I would guess you have something wrong with your cookies either on your machine or how the board generates them. That might be the place you should start troubleshooting.
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More than likely because you have the address to your site in your signature.
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Without more account information, there's not much we can do. Please put in a help desk ticket, and we'll have a look at this for you. Thanks!
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Thanks for the kind words. We always love to hear feedback from clients who host more than one website and I'm happy to see you have enjoyed your stay here so much! Thumbs Up