LisaJill

Check out AWStats, referring sites; if you see sites that seem random and don't have a link to you, then it may be referrer spam. Many of them may reference sex or drugs or gambling type things. The method I'm using is outlined on weblog wannabe: blocking referrer spam. Hope that helps. =)

Normally you would see it at the top of your control panel; but if the server is down you won't be able to get there. In the meantime, if you submit a support ticket (link at the top of the forum) including your username and domain name, the support staff will be able to look into it. =)

It is called referring spamming. These people are lower lifeforms than email spammers, although I didn't think that was possible. I was getting well over 100 a day on my site; and have employed some fancy htaccess blocks (with some help from tch) to block them, as they eat bandwidth. =/ Basically what happens is that your site gets spidered, even the logs do; unless you use robots.txt to stop it, and some people ven show referring sites on their own websites; so referrer spammers use this to up their page ranks. Bleh. =)

Some of the servers are running a different version of cpanel/different theme. I read about that when I first signed up. You are probably seeing a several icons and a caption under them? If you can't find it, try a "find in page" from your browser's edit menu. If still no luck, a help desk ticket may help resolve it. =)

That depends. If you have individual entries permalinked, you may wish to have your meta tags identified by keywords in the post. I'm not really sure how much weight meta tags are given; I've read a lot of conflicting information on this, so it may not be necessary. All of my pages (also a weblog) have all the same meta's; I come up on a lot of google keywords so maybe that is enough. =)

In cpanel, it should have as the first link under Stats: AwStats. In my cpanel, I have a listing, it looks like this: Stats: AwStats Stats Latest Visitors Bandwidth Error Log Raw Log File Raw Log Manager Here is a screenshot. If you do not see that, please open a Help Desk Ticket (link at the top of the forums) so that it can be looked into.

As far as evaluation goes, weblogs are pretty high up there. The reason for this, as I understand it, is that there is so much pure, text content that the spiders can grab a lot of it to index it. This has been the subject of much discussion around google bombing, since many bloggers often pick up on the same subject; thereby raising the common opinon very high on googles listings. The only thing that you may have issues with is your title. BlogSpot is a very, very popular hosting service; unfortunately it's utilized by most of the wrong type of sites, and they won't police it. You may want to re-consider the title just for that. BlogSpot is one word and yours is two, but it's close enough to be an issue. Everything on your page looks great though. Welcome to the family!

I am biased, I use movabletype and I am fairly good with it. I have wordpress installed on a test site, but have *not* had a chance to really play with it. Wordpress installs much more easily, but MT is more powerful, especially with version 3 coming out. However, the install is not necessarily for the faint of heart. Either would require customization to attain the result that you want. I know that wasn't the answer that you want. It's a hard one to answer because I don't know what goals YOU have for your site. I'd read through both sites and see which one strikes your fancy. =) Let me know if you have more questions! If you decide to go with movabletype, don't forget to read the TCH Guide to installing MT. as well as MT's own instructions.

That really depends on your knowledge of html and css. Both WordPress and MovableType, as well as some others, can be modified so that you could either build your page around them, or pull them in via iframe or, preferably, php includes. Does that help at all?

What you would do is create your index.html as your entrance page, and have an 'enter' type link that goes to your content page, named whatever you want (such as entrance.html or main.html) index.html is the first page that will be delivered, so you create that as your entrance screen and it is what people will see first. does that help?

*sighs at Alan* Only if you stop in to IRC sometimes! Thank you again everyone, you are all so wonderful. Rock Sign

Yes, it will ask when you sign up what domain name you intend to use. However, you will have access to the site without a domain name; and should you end up with a different one it would be a simple help desk ticket to change it. Nonetheless, it is much easier to know beforehand; and it can be competitive to get a domain name, so give it some thought.

Tnet, I don't do reselling but if you keep a close eye on this, it shouldn't be a problem. Over time, you'll be able to predict when you need upgrades, as well. =)

You should submit a help desk ticket for this (link at the top of the forum), I'm sure it will be resolved quickly.

Do you mean simply news updates? Content of that nature? If you do, I might suggest movabletype. I realize that it is a blogging system; however TCH supports it (I know of several sites here that utilize it) and it is very easy for a client to update, and very customizable with some learning. They are also coming out with version 3.0 soon which looks promising. Many sites out there use that as their backend, it may be something you wish to look in to. =) This can be used to run sites on several domains as long as they are on the same server, so I don't believe that would be a problem. I believe, also, that a few customers are doing something similar so perhaps they'll relay their experience with this. =) If you mean update as in full control of layout, look and feel I'm not sure what to suggest. Movabletype allows this via full control of author's permissions, but its not really a GUI; some html/css experience would be required for layout modification.

Before this question is delved into; is there a particular set of features or requirements that you have for the CMS software? It's become a very broad category so it would be far easier to know what your intent is with the site and what must haves you are considering.

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I started out a long time ago using Dreamweaver. Now I use Notepad. I have used VI in the past and have a windows version until I have a moment to install a dual boot to Linux. I do most of my editing through movabletype's templates screen so being able to read through the code sans highlighting has helped immensely. I use EditPlus if I ever need to find specific line numbers; or I just pipe the page through the w3c validator since it also outputs line numbers.

You could reduce some of the confusion with this by cutting out where it says .php. Basically, what they're saying is to create a framed page with 2 frames, and have each of those frames call each of those files, respectively. Your index.php for this would look something like this: ><html> <head> <title>My Document Title</title> </head> <frameset cols="30%,*"> <frame src="view.php" name="view"> <frame src="comunread.php" name="comun"> </frameset> </html> wherein you need to adjust the columns percentage. You then need to create two files (view.php and comunread.php) so that the frame has these files to pull in. The tutorial that you're following has probably already had you create these files, or will tell you what to place inside them. From a very simple perspective, .php files can be treated as .html files; they give you more flexibility with server-side scripting by telling the server to parse them for php. I hope that helps to clarify what they want. =)

I have no personal experience with QTVR, however I did find a site called QTVR Tutorial for Educators and within that they have what looks like a very easy to follow, step-by-step tutorial getting these movies on the web, which you can find at HTML Scripting for QTVR. Sorry that I can not help more. I hope that this at least gets you off to a start. I hope when you're done you'll link to the movie, it sounds wonderful and I'd love to see it if you're going to make it public. Hope that helps =)

Wow, thank you everyone! It's a pleasure to be able to help out and be part of the family. =) I really look forward to getting to know everyone here. Thank you so much for the warm welcome! Rock Sign

I've moved my movabletype database several times now, finally settling on TCH. For me, it was as easy as doing a databaes export using phpmyadmin and then importing it at the new host. You'd need to reinstall the software so that it would run, and make sure paths and username/passwords were updated. I have no experience with Ikonboard but the database part is fairly straightforward. =)

Just based off your initial post, I just want to ensure you're using the proper cases for the password and usernames that you've put into MT? It's all case sensitive, I believe that the usernames from TCH are all lowercaes (that's fairly standard practice in my experience) but since you make the database it may be mixed case. They have to match *exactly* or authentication will fail. Good luck with the re-install. I've done these several times so if you would like some help, feel free to hit me up on IM. I'll be around too much (!!) until Tuesday. =)

Deno, The quick answer, there is a file in the templates/subsilver directory of phpbb, called something like oinline_header.tmpl (it's been a long time, look for something with header in the file name) That has the banner image in it, you need to change it. If I can make a suggestion - make sure you choose a skin FIRST then deal with that, because otherwise you'll do this multiple times. Of course, if you're going to allow your users to choose skins, including subsilver, you'll have to do this multiple times anyway. =) Hope that helps!

Was only added in the last day or so, no worries. =)