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To jim who orignally did this post. Are you still having problems and if so what ones. Most of your questions are answearable, but I am not sure what u mean by "nav not as long" Jim

Hi, Reasons tables should be banned: 1) Bane of any page buying built. No WYSIWYG can create tables correctley or as simplfied as they should be. Often over used by the novice who in all fairness, does not understand what is going on. 2) Still actually poorly supported in all browsers. Try too many tricks with them and the page falls apart. Highly annoying to fix if someone comes to you with a page thats messed up, it could mean taking apart the entire page to find just one missing tag 3) People use them but dont have a thought about screen readers and other software that blind and disabled people use. They read tables downwards rather then across. The human eye of course goes left to right (or right to left depending on langauge) 4) Because of part 4 above, many pages fail any of the new rules for pages with regard to WC3 Accessilibity 5) With tabless designs, its all controlled via CSS. I can modify just one line which changes all the text and numbers, colours, backgrouns of every tag using that name. 6) You shouldn'nt need to support NS4 any longer. Its old technology that unfortuantley, good as it was back then, should be put to bed. Permentantly. Yes it takes time, I have come across a few pages which go "yes do it this way" only to fail in another browser, but once learnt and the concept and downfalls understood, the pages are easier, lighter in code and are better all around. Jim

Are you running an phpBB board? Jim

Hi, Can you give us an example page where we can take a look? Thanks, Jim

Hi, Tableless designs is what I mostly do for work, and I love doing them, gets away with all that other rubbish stuff that you just don't need. You should be able to design a tabless layout so that both IE and morzilla can see it perfectley 1st time around. If you still have problems, post below and I will take a look! Jim

Hi Tara, As easy as it is for me to say this, the best thing to do is to dump striaght in and learn it first hand. I have now become custom to useing just bog standard note pad and dreamweaver MX at a push. Personnelly, if your learning about HTML for the first time, stick away from templates as they don't teach you anything. I find it best to make a page that I like and then to save it, do a back up of it and them just duplicate the file and change it for each new page. Tables are very easy to learn, although I am now fixated on not using tables at all and doing tableless designs. A quick intro on tables. You can find extra tags on the net but this is for simple tables. I am doing this quick lesson because until I grasped tables suddenly one day after drinking alarge amount of Pepsi, I never got how they where done or what to do with them. I hope this short intro is useful. To help you, get a piece of paper. Draw a box on it. This is the outline of your table which in quote is this: Note for almost all HTML and now with the new XHMTL standards, all tags must be closed, even BR ones. The width and height are measured in pixels. The border bit is just on so you can see whats going on, you can make it zero later. Anyway, on with the short lesson. Inside the box, draw another box, make sure it goes all the way across the table and say, 1/2 way down the page. This is called a table row Now inside of this table row, draw 3 boxs. These are called table cells and this is where you will be putting all your text. Repeat this and put another row in the gap under your first row and put 3 table cells in it. You quote should look like this: Now we can put some sizes into the table cells. Remember that all the sizes must add up to the main tables width and height otherwise it will go very pearshape. I have gone for the first rows cells to be 100 wide each (giving us 300) and 75 high which means the last row of cells will be 150 each (giving us 300) and 25 high (25+75=100) And there we have our first table! We can even populate some text into each cell if you want: This is obvioulsy a very simple look at a very simple table and there is so much more to learn, you can span columns and rows which means rather then having 3 cells per row, you could have 1 big one above 3. See here: There is so much more you can do with tables so I will let you find that out! Never be afraid to ask for help, after all, all of us here have learned from scratch! I just often look at source coding and see how people have done and then sit there and play with it till I break it and then fix it again. Jim

Hi, I use to muble and stutter too being dyslexic but the software helped me with that as it made me think about what I wanted to say and hence I didnt have the problems any more Jim

Hi, As leezard said, its the only way, either via a line, or wireless. I am not sure what you have in mind though Jim

Hi Jack, I teach dyslexic and disabled students how to use computers to overcome their disabilities. I can recommend "Dragon Naturally Speaking" . The web link for this is: http://www.scansoft.com/naturallyspeaking/ You will need to make sure he has a good enough computer and I would recommend buying the advance version if he is planning to write a book. Whilst there are other ones out there, they are pretty rubbish compared to this. A few notes when dictating: 1) He must speak clearly into the microphone, slurring words or being lazy when talking does not help with any package. 2) Do it somewhere quiet, otherwise the microphone can pick up some background noise 3) Be patient, you can use the package after about 5 minutes training but you will need to spend more time with it to make it reconise all the words you will need. Any more questions, please ask! Jim

Hi, Do away with H1 tags and use CSS Jim

Hi, Its entirely upto you, you should be able to move both at the same time without any problems. If you want to delay moving 1 for 2 days thats all you will need, not 1 month! Best thing to make it all go smoothly: 1) Back up current website 2) Sign up for new hosting with us 3) Upload current website to your new hosting, test and make sure this works 4) Change your name servers to point to our servers 5) After 72hrs, kiss bye bye to your old domain and welcome to Total Choice Hosting Do you have any other questions you want to ask? Jim

Hi, Have you given write permission to the folder in question? Jim

I do now get a 403 now for both. Curious Nat, how u do it? Jim

Yep I get a 403 for the link u posted nat, but for the link that I posted, i get a picture Jim

Nice curtis. You need to remember that although you can have multiple say body tags, they all stack, so if you accidentally change the font on the 3rd time around, thats the one that will stick when the page is created Jim

Hi, Yes that is correct Jim

Hmmmm I smell something cooking Naughty

Nat, Dunno what you did to get that. However, by looking at your code source, I can see this image if I type it directley in: http://www.naturalimagesweb.com/Images/NIP13NSp.jpg Jim

Hi, albany.draftclark.org would be a subdomain so it would not be possible to have that as your main hosting account name. Jim

Hi, You can do it using Fireworks MX or Flash MX too Jim

Hi, In AWstats are you looking at the total amount that has ever passed through the account? If you still have a worry, start a help ticket so that we can take a look Jim

Hi, An add-on domain is like me owning and hosting 123.co.uk and then buying abc.co.uk. The abc must point to the same root folder that 123.co.uk, that is to say, you can not direct it anywhere else. The cost for this is free Jim

Hi, On the HTML page where you call the flash movie in, underneath if do what you have said in your post and yes it will work Jim

Hi, You have two methods. 1) Create the flash page as you have done and then create a html link on the page which bypasses the flash 2) Create a flash detection page. Simplist one is to set up a flash movie which fowards the user to a different page. If there is no flash, have a meta redirection on a timeout to send them to another page. Jim

Star Tipper, Are you using the CPANEL hotlinking protection or your own handcoding one? If the CPANEL version, please start a help ticket and I will enter some handcoding hot linking protection for you. Note that say for instance you have a graphic called me.gif, they will always be able access it by typing in www.yourdomainname/pathtofile/me.gif There is nothing that can stop this. Jim