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Excellent. Thanks so much Peter.

Hey guys! I am in the process of moving a site from my space here to another host. I am about to change the nameservers so that my domain will point to the new host. However, I'd like access to my cpanel here after the fact so I can view things like ftp settings, MySQL settings, redirections, and such to get them duplicated at the new host. Is it possible to log into my account's cpanel after my domain has been switched over to the new nameservers? Thanks in advance for any light you can shed on my situation.

I don't get to post to my blog nearly as much as I'd like to, but I'm doing a lot better than I used to. I try and keep it oriented around technology, gadgets, and design. I have a LJ that I throw my random comments and rants onto for my friends to read. I like having the different types of content seperate. I can write content that will appeal to a wide audience that mostly finds my blog through search engines, while also providing the more personal stuff to the very narrow and closed audience of my friends.

Congrats you three!

Thanks guys!

I just added the following code to my Blogger page to make a pull-down menu of my recent posts: ><select name="previousmenu" onchange="document.location.href=this.options[this.selectedIndex].value;" style="width:70px"> <option selected>- Previous Posts -</option> <BloggerPreviousItems> <option value="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogPreviousItemTitle$></option> </BloggerPreviousItems> </select> My question is... will bots from search engines such as Google dig into these pull-down links? I don't want to kill a spider's ability to index my site by not using standard links. I was also thinking if this is the case, I could put the links in my page and hide them with CSS. Would an search bot index hidden links as well? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

Thanks for the tips everyone!

Well I had decided it was too late to work on this, and I got in bed, and I had an idea... knowing I wouldn't be able to sleep until I tried it. And even better, it solved my problem! I'm posting it here in case anyone else goes crazy trying to do a gradient background that works across systems. Instead of making a background image that fades from white to my target background color, I made an image that fades from white to transparent. I saved it as a PNG. Now I can change the background color in my style sheet without having to make a new image every time. If this is a bad idea, please let me know. Thanks again for the help!

Well the websafe #666666 still isn't working out in Safari... It's too late for this now, but I think you've got me going down the right track. Thanks for the comment on the layout, I've learned a lot in the last day about CSS.

Thanks! You hit the nail on the head. Under the Edit Menu I was able to to go into "Color Settings..." and set it to Web Graphics Defaults. Thanks a ton! (CS is 8.0)

I'm using Photoshop CS. If you're still looking at the page at all, you'll see that I've tried to match grey, and I can't get that to work.

Thanks. Now it looks like my problem is my color settings in Photoshop... everything that's blue in Windows comes up Purple in OSX. I just made a colorsafe jpg in Windows, and it shows up purplish in safari but safari renders the web-smart color as blue. I've really stepped in it.

Thanks guys. What's the difference between "web-safe" and "web-smart"?

I've just redesigned my blog at blog.ocell.net. I haven't done web-dev in years, and I basically reverse engineered a Blogger template, learning CSS along the way. I want a gradient background, so I made a one pixel wide image that starts white and ends blueish, repeating across the page. Then I tried to match the hex value for that final blue hue in the image with the background color set in the browser by my css file. It looks great in Firefox, but the colors don't match up in Safari or IE. How can I choose a color that can be reproduced in my image, and reproduced by all Browsers? Thanks in advance for any help!

It's not a script, but I use www.mybloglog.com with pretty decent success. They've got a free service and a pay service. The free stats are good enough for me. Might be worth a look for you, as it doesn't use redirection. http://www.mybloglog.com

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I've got the same problem when I power mine up. I'm always afraid something's not getting power, because I can't hear it start up! Silence is bliss.

Wow.. my quest for silence lead me to a Zalman CPU cooler and the Antec Sonata case. Your solution is certainly a lot more effective!

Here's my "productivity pod" in my dorm room here at NC State University. The image is hosted at Flickr.com, so please click on it for notes, a description, and larger versions of the image. I have the TCH Homepage up there (twice actually), but my domain registration experience was so awesome I made sure to include the TCH domain registration homepage in the shot as well. To go straight to a large version of the image, you can follow this link: http://photos4.flickr.com/9276329_a21fe4cbf4_o.jpg

Oh, I'm embarassed. The Help Desk pointed me to where you buy credits. The Domain Names tab, then "Forwarding & Masking" (in case someone searches the forum for this answer)

I have searched through Help, FAQs, and the forum, but no luck. I have signed up for a domain through TotalChoice, and I'd like to forward it to my current website while I get my new site built on the TotalChoice servers. I go into the My Account page on TotalChoice's domain site, and then go to Manage Domains, and then Forward Domains. I select my domain, I only have one, and then on the right fill out where I want it forwarded to, and I hit save changes. Then I get this message: "Reason: Insufficent credits to perform the operation." It says I don't have any credits: How do I get credits? And thanks in advance for entertaining this complete "newbie" question.

Thanks Bill!

Well I do have a quick question now. I got my domain through Total Choice, so now I'm registering for hosting. It asks if I'm a new customer or if I want to add it to my domain registration account. I tried adding to my account, using the e-mail and password I used to register my domain, but it said it was invalid. Do I have to setup a new account for hosting? I'm guessing they are separate? I'm sorry for the simple question, I would just hate to get an account started and find out I can't tie it to my domain name. (I'm new to this)

Great! Thanks everyone.

Thanks for the welcome. Of course when I decide to buy, it's not possible... just my luck! ;-)