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Ok...I stand corrected. Although I think I will keep the copyright notice as they do recommend it to remove any defense of ignorance of copyright protection from infringers. Lee

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In the US, this is absolutely not true. All works are copyright protected, regardless of whether the symbol is there. Canadian copyright may be different, but my general understanding is that lack of copyright symbol does not in any way imply a work is in the public domain. Just because people steal the pictures doesn't mean they had a right to. And if they want to steal pictures, a symbol at the bottom of the page isn't going to stop them. Ask the music industry about that. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I have heard several people lately state that all works are automatically copyrighted with or without a copyright notice. I'm not sure where that myth is coming from but that is absolutely not true. One of the most notorious cases of this is Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. (http://www.rcfp.org/news/mag/24-1/bct-kingesta.html) The normal method of securing the copyright on a public speech is to distribute the speech to the press with a copyright notice prior to the event. MLK failed to do this and eventually his family ended up in a law suite with CBS over it. It was eventually ruled that a public performance of a work was not the same as a general publication so King did not wave his right to copyright the speech under the U.S. copyright law of 1909. The key here is that, if it had been published without a copyright notice he would have lost his rights to it. The only way he retained his copyright was in the fact that public performance is not considered general publication. Posting on the internet certainly is and if you do so with any work without a copyright notice you forfeit all rights to that work. Lee

Not sure how I feel as I have no idea what your question is. LOL Weezy <{POST_SNAPBACK}> OK...guess I need to be a bit more specific. Image searches like this are used by people looking for free pictures to use for web sites and such. Want a picture of a horse? Just do a google image search for "horse" and grab what you like from someone else's site. Many people now block referrals from google or yahoo image search because it is almost exclusively used for stealing pictures. If there is no copyright notice, all the better. None of the pictures or pages I found on your site using google image search had any copyright notice at all. That puts them in the public domain, free for anyone to use. I was just wondering if that was what you intended or if that even bothers you. I know I have had to fight a few times to get my copyrighted articles and pictures removed from other people's sites. Lee

I have blocked anonymizer from sites before. Same procedure...block their IP. but this situation is mostly spam bots. They don't use anonymizer. Lee

The effect you seem to be working toward has a fairly standard solution. Create your header as a stand alone unit. Create your footer as a stand alone unit. Then create a table to hold the content in between. The table will expand to any size you need and can easily be made to show exactly what you have there. Take a look at the columns on this page. They are simply tables and they will expand forever to hold any content I put in them. http://www.verchi.com/prose/wind.htm That is a pretty extreme example but I basically create all my pages the same way with header, footer and content in a cell between with any graphic elements created with table cells that expand with the content. Lee

I have given this some thought. In fact I started setting up at one of the stock photo sites to post some of my pics but I never followed through. You do have some nice pictures. I am rather surprised that none of the whoahorse pages I have looked at have any copyright. On a related note...how do you feel about this... http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=l...com&btnG=Search Lee

I agree with pretty much everyone here, frames are simply more trouble than they are worth. However, I have a very nice PERL chat I built using frames (sorry, no sample online at the moment). But even then I made sure there was a working non-frames version that was user selectable. I have one page on my site that uses an iframe for the petfinder site. Even that is a bit radical for me because I have iframes turned off in my Internet Explorer (except for trusted sites). Lee

Most people surfing the web are looking for something very specific and it's a good chance you don't have it. That is no big thing. Your retention stats are actually pretty good. However, another important thing to watch is how many visitors hit favicon. That will tell you that, even if they are in a hurry to find something, they found your site interesting enough to bookmark it or perhaps your site had the info they were looking for. Lee

Malarkey

Hi Weezy Most spammers like this have bots that crawl the web looking for certain scripts. If you watch your raw server logs for a while you will notice hits looking for the standard installation of scripts like formmail, popular guestbooks, free-for-all link pages etc. The best way to fight this is to make your installation somehow non standard. For example, I had one of those free-for-all link lists on my last site. From the first day I installed it there was spam. I simply added one more required field "I agree to pay $10,000 removal fee for each spam link I post: yes, no." The spam stopped immediately, not because they were afraid of the fee, but because their bot no longer fit the required fields and someone would think twice about adding that field to a bot. Sometimes just moving the program to a non-standard location will defeat the spam bots. Check you raw logs to see what they are searching for and it might give you some ideas how to beat them. They also search google for keywords associated with such scripts, so it can help if you disallow those files or folders in robots.txt. Lee

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Have you been watching your "last visits" to see where the traffic is coming from? That will also show you clearly if your htaccess blocks are working. Lee

Bullet

I have actually been thinking along the same lines lately. I really do like it here in the TCH forums. There seems to be a lot of good people here. But I was thinking about hunting down some other forums on web design. You can never get too much information...at least not about this and it has been a while since I have done any serious exploring on the net. So this looks like it might be interesting... http://www.webdesigntalk.net/ Lee

Hi Weezy The hard part isn't finding a web design forum, but finding one that is at your current level that you can click with. I hang out over at slashdot a lot. it's a pretty good place to keep up on all the latest tech stuff. You might check around some of the blog sites like livejournal. Lee

Many search engines are extremely slow implementing new instructions in your robots.txt file. It may take a month or two for that to take effect. In the meantime you need to take other actions. The first thing to do is find out where all that traffic is coming from. A big jump in traffic volume usually means a link to your site has been listed in some prominent place. Start watching your "last visits" (Cpanel) to see where the traffic is coming from and what they are looking for. You can then set up very specific blocks in your htaccess file. This link shows what happens when someone tries to access my photofolio through google image search http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=htt...6lr%3D%26sa%3DN here is the htaccess code that does it >setenvifnocase Referer "^http://images.google" bad_ref=1 setenvifnocase Referer "^http://kr.imagesearch.yahoo.com/" bad_ref=1 setenvifnocase Referer "^http://images.search.yahoo.com" bad_ref=1 setenvifnocase Referer "^http://www.altavista.com/image" bad_ref=1 setenvifnocase Referer "^http://www.picsearch.com" bad_ref=1 <FilesMatch "(.*)"> Order Allow,Deny Allow from all Deny from env=bad_ref </FilesMatch> <Files 403.shtml> order allow,deny allow from all </Files> and your english is fine Lee

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