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After doing crazy amounts of research, you're going to be going between Ebay, and Newegg. I would generally weigh each part between the two of them, giving newegg the benefit of a very nice return policy, and easy RMA.Ebay will give you lower prices many times, but also weigh out the cost of shipping (many of my parts were free shipping from both though). You could also get a barbones premade from either of those, although I wouldn't recommend it, due to quality assembly. I've never tested either. And most probably don't use "arctic silver" the thermal compound that is oh so great at keeping your cpu nice and cool, etc. Just shop around, betweenthose, and you'll have your parts in no time. Use tomshardware forums, and these forums to get some overall information on which parts are better for you, etc.

I agree. This place is dead, or almost dead. I really liked the hosting too, it seemed fast, and nice, and being able to post-to-host. But I can't deal with the ownership problems anymore. Way too many of them, and they don't seem to know how to set up the apache server correctly. Not to mention there's only one guy answering tickets, which can take a week. He was very nice, but no one wants to waste this much of their lifejust on server crap. I've never, ever had ownership problems with any other host, including many free hosts. First time I've run into it, and can't solve the riddle. It's just Joomla for crying out loud! lol. Yea, I tried this out for a week, but it was a pretty large waste of my time. Onto something bigger and better!

I'd say that you should probably go ahead and spill the beans. If she rejects your advance, then it's better you find that out now, so you can just be friends, and not always expect something tocome out of it. If she's interested, then yes, you will advance to relationship status. I wouldn't put something like thatoff because, she might end up with someone else, and you just blew your chance. It's better to get everything over and done with, and get the truth out in advance. It sucks putting yourself out therelike that, but if you don't nothing will ever get done. Girls like guys who take charge.

If we didn't use money, we would always use another form of currency. Before money, people used items to barter. Salt, sugar, Jewelry, metal, food. There was always something. I would say that it would be much harder to survive like that, because it turns everyone into a haggler. The biggest thing to worry about, money wise, is just make sure you have enough for you. Don't worry about the rest of the world, that will only drag you down. Be happy with what you have, and the fact that we actually have it better than many people word wide. If the currency system was removed, then the same companies that have all the money today, will still have it. They have products that people want, and people will offer them anything for it.

Chocolate ice cream is best (unless you feel like less flavor) Blue is better. Diet Pepsi is my choice (so pepsi) Milk chocolate, unless I want less sugar, then dark chocolate it is! Selena Gomez!

I think Microsoft is finally getting their-selves in gear, and you can see that with windows 7. I, personally never used skype, because there's already several other systems that do the same exact thing. It would be nice to finally have something built into windows for all this, now normal, technology. They're probably not going to just leave skype how it is, but instead upgrade the system, and integrate it into windows from now on. I really don't think they will infringe too much on privacy.. as they generally ask your permission (they have to by law) before doing anything like that. You can simply opt out, if you want. What they do send, without your permission, is what parts are inside your computer. They need this though, so they can put their operating systems together faster, and better, and have less problems. Overall, I'd have to say this is a step forward for Microsoft, and skype is not going to die, or be a paid service. I honestly doubt that they will ask for money period, since they can simply put a small ad on the program, that will pay for it ten-fold.

Alt tags for images are very important for SEO. They help the spiders and bots understand what image it is, since they cannot directly see it. You can also use this alt to help your overall keyword density, by using rich keywords. For text, the reason why some people use words, and have a link in them, instead of just having a link written out, is also because of SEO. Spiders,and bots favor this, because if the words are linked to another page with the same wording and overall subject, then that will increase your chances of being moved higher up the search engine ladder. Anchor text is very good for SEO.

That "banner" is simply their favicon.ico, and they're using a thawte security to verify their ownership, and it's basically saying "these guys are really google". To get that, all you have to do is order it with your server provider. For instance, with Xisto / Xisto - Web Hosting, they offer it when you're ordering your package. I think it's around $10 setup, and $40 a year.

Between servers, coding and the likes, you will end up running for the hills, due to the complexity. Coding itself requires a substantial amount of time. The biggest, and best advice I can give you, is to start out with a CMS (content management system) and play around with that first. They're pretty easy to install, and play around with, but can take a bit to master. Once you get that down, then you can start messing with files, and how to change colors on specific parts, etc. This will give you some basic understanding and knowledge on how all this works, instead of simply throwing yourself into the fray. Millions and millions are donated toward cms's and they are designed, and programmed by many, many programmers and designers. Even if you taught yourself all the odds and ends, it would still take around 10 years to make something like this yourself. Most cms are free of charge, and even a majority of their extensions (forums, yahoo ask, etc) are free of charge. I would say, that you should start out a bit smaller, with Wordpress. From there, you can go to either Joomla (my favorite), or try out Drupal, or some other CMS. Wordpress is the easiest of them all, I believe. Wordpress.org Joomla.org Drupal.org There are many other options on the market, but these three have the most funding (several millions per year), have the most programmers, and some of the best extensions, and designs on the market. They're also 100% free. Download the package, unzip the package, and use an FTP program to move it over to your server (I use filezilla). Then you need to create a database in cpanel, and use the information it gives you after creating one, in the web setup. Yes you set these up by simply going to your website. It's rather easy, and quite fun to play around with these systems. But, I'm telling you now, that if you just dive right into coding, and styling, then you will want to scream and run away from this because it's far too much to grasp. CSS alone is a ton to grasp, not to mention when you start throwing in mos (transparency), and other effects that are higher css grades.

If you like mmo's with some action, try out Vindictus. It's a decent mmo with pretty nice graphics. You'll need a decent graphics card to run it. Then there is Divine souls. It's graphics aren't quite as intense, and it has some nice arcade style fighting in a 3d mmo world. Pretty decent graphics in both games. I've tried a few others, and either they flat out suck, or they're simply not worth the time. I haven't tried all of them, so consider some others, from other posters here, and just download, and try them out. Uninstall the game, if you don't like it, and move on. There is also runescape, but like I said, it's just not up to par for me. I'm really waiting on Diablo III from Blizzard entertainment. They always produce the highest quality games, and pc games at that. Diablo III is a RPG hack N' slash game. Massive slaughter-fest, highly powerful characters, no healer, no tanks. It's the bee's knees.

Yea, I'm really digging this mycent service. This thing could get bigger than what Opaque realizes. He could add Job boards, "answers" system, as well as a facebook-like social network, and make a killing off ads, that would support so much more. All in due time I suppose. Their team has been extra sweet, and I find the prices really reasonable! I really hope this company survives and flourishes, because post to host is honestly a fabulous idea. You could always use a free host somewhere else, but I have to tell you, they have all been absolutely awful. So far my server here (for 2 bucks a month) is running smooth.

If you're looking for something more than what wordpress has to offer, I would recommend going with Joomla. It secure, sturdy, has an absurd amount of plugins, and - can do pretty much whatever you want it to. A large portion of the extensions are completely free. If you're more interested in playing with your website, and actually putting content in, while having some advanced features that wordpress doesn't have , then go for Joomla. I'd say the top 3 are Joomla, Wordpress, and Drupal. Drupal requires a bit more... hands on than Joomla does. Wordpress doesn't do enough, when you're seeking advanced functionality, but Joomla is perfect. It looks good, runs good, is secured good, free, lots and lots of money (millions per year) behind the project, and tons of developers. It has depth, and design, and great functionality. LikeI said earlier, you can do basically everything with it. I haven't run into one limitation that I couldn't overcome easily. Joomlamay sound like a fruity word, but it's anything but fruit!But you might want to try Drupal too, I just feel it's an advanced version of phpxxx software, and is too much work for littlereward. I might be wrong though, but considering I'm happy with Joomla, I'll stay with this. They have funding for the next decade I'm sure.Edit: sorry I didn't look before posting, and posted again several days apart though =)

Making a good, well thought out, optimized, eye candy website is still a pretty complicated, and tough job. To be quite honest most should be using content management systems, as the stakes are far higher these days. You can't really get by with a garbage website, that's not secure, optimized, and pleasant to the eye. This is a must these days. The bar has been raised - I wouldn't even bother trying to actually code anything myself, other than a one-page site. Much easier using the millions of man hours, and millions+ of funding that went into building systems such as Wordpress, and Joomla, that are free for us to have, and use. I've yet to mess with Drupal, partly because Joomla is so fabulous (and I want to master all of it), and also because I've heard Drupal can be a nightmare, and requires at least "some" coding. People should never trust installers, as they are prone to breaking, and are not guaranteed by the hosting company. It's much better, and easier down the road, if you simply get use to manually doing it. If you really want to build your own website, then throw away the coding, and go with a CMS (content management system). Learn it, live it, love it. They're here to stay, and will only get better and better. Considering it would take me: more college, about 10 years of coding, and millions of dollars to make something like Joomla, I'd rather stick to working a CMS, the trying to build a makeshift version. That's just me rambling now though!

Most get turned off to hosting, because they think hosting = make my website for me. Even with script installers, you need to know what you're doing. So far I've seen a vast improvementmoving to Xisto, vs. my old host, in terms of speed, and functionality. One thing I feel they need, though, is to add a link in cpanel to show you all your information. I had to look for quite a while to find the name servers, but found them on the forum here. Other than that, It's looking pretty good from my end of the spectrum.So yea, good luck to you, in your endeavors.