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<img src="image.gif" alt="Image" style="border: none" /> That should do it.

I think I agree with most of that. If they're looking for just one link, why not give them just one link. And short thank yous are very good. Quick and to the point. And although the three line rule is good when it comes to combating spam, quite often it makes spam, because people end up rambling on and adding extra line breaks when they don't need to, just as I am doing now.

Actually, that should be marked up as a list, as a navigation bar is effectively a list of links.

Sounds are not much good really, as they annoy web users and discourage them from returning to your site. However, sounds are seen as exceptable on: flash sites, sites for bands/singers and personal sites where you might want to show off what you can play. Remember not to use copyrighted sounds though, as it is a illegal and can get you banned from your hosting service.

It only shows the pages "as they're intended to look" because the designers were too narrow-minded to test the page in a proper browser.

How do you think you learnt to talk? By copying people. To walk? The same again.If people are going to learn something new, they need someone to copy from, to give them ideas. Using these "Source Code Protectors" is expensive and pointless. You're site is also filled with unsemantic and unfriendly search engine code.To be honest, if you're naive enough to think these protectors do any good, you're code probably isn't worth protecting anyway.

Translation:You don't need much knowledge to work with cPanel. It's easy. It's one of the best control panels for web hosting. Thanks. Bye.

My site seems to be loading very slowly at the moment, as do the forums. A friend says he could not get my page to download at all. Any problems?

Hosts don't only support specific domains (normally) - if they have a DNS (Domain Name Server). So basically, if they support .com, they'll support .net, .info, .org, .name, .co.uk, and guess what - .uni.cc !

Yeh, it's way too big - Flash player downloaded quicker . Actually a .GIF would be better as you're not using that many colours.I like the colours as well - very natural.

Firstly, which forum is easier to skin, phpBB or Invision Board?Also, how do you start skinning a forum, and are there any good tutorials you lot have seen on your travels? around the WWW?---I am hoping to set up a message board for my swimming club, and want to find out the best ways to customise it.---Thanks,Ol.

Windows XP . I want to get a Mac, even though they're really expensive and have far less software available than for Windows. I hate Microsoft. They suck.

I think it is only supported by Apache, but I'm not sure - I'll look into it.

My new site - Haze8. None of the links work and there's no content, but an opinion of what you think of the design would be nice . Also, any ideas of content I could add, and a mark out of 10, for the general appeareance would be cool . Thanks.

Macromedia Flash MX is a very powerful, top of the range program and like most of them (eg. Photoshop) are fairly hard to get started with, but in the right hands can produce amazing pieces of work. On the other hand, SwishMAX is a hell of a lot cheaper, very easy to use, and can still produce impressive animations. If you're going to use it seriously (ie. for work), then I would definately go for Flash. If you're on a limited budget though, and you're only going to mess around with it, get Swish.

The best way to do it is this: <pre> <code>Code snippet (use < and > for < and >).</code> </pre> Just for anyone interested - there is an interesting discussion on the usage of < and > at CodingForums.com.

I've never heard of the above functions before - I'm a bit of a newbie at PHP . What exactly do they do and how do they differ from the include function?

I don't know if there are any real benefits to it, but it is normally better to learn something this way rather than just using a system in cPanel. Also, if you ever have hosting where the only way of managing your files is through FTP, you can just use this method.

Don't bother. All of these "source code protectors" are scams. The only way to stop people nabbing your source code is not to put it on the net. There is a very good article on this subject here. No right click scripts, JavaScripts which block the image tool bar - this stuff only does one thing - pisses people off. There is no real way to stop people from copying your work, although registering copyright of your work may help you to track down/prove people guilty of plagiarism.

I prefer PHP because: I hate Microsoft. It is easier. Integrates well with MySQL databases. Open source. More Powerful. PHP normally runs on Apache, which is much more secure/stable than Microsoft server. Bug fixes/updates are added often. I hate Microsoft. Oh yeah, I said that before .

This tutorial shows you how to put one HTML file inside another using PHP. This technique is very useful for menus, where you might want the whole menu to change sitewide - much easier to change 1 file than 50 . I have also used this for footers and headers; you can use it anywhere you want to be the same on each page of your site. <?php include("file"); ?>Now I will tell you what it all means.<?php and ?> - open and close the PHP statement (a bit like HTML tags). NB. You may have seen the above written as <? and ?> - but this will only work if your server has short-tags enabled. To acheive maximum compatibility, use <?php and ?>. include - tells the script to include a file. ("file"); - the location of the file you want to include (I normally give includes an extension of .inc or .php, but you can use .htm, .html etc.) The page the include function is in must have an extension of .php. And there you go! A page with a PHP include. ----- I hope you enjoyed my tutorial, if you did, you might like the one on custom error pages with .htaccess

Has anyone got any recommendations for good FTP clients? I have mainly used web-based file managers before, so nothing to hard to use .

Thanks lhunath, you rock .

Oh bull-s*** ! Thanks . So do I have a file called index.php with the above code in, but make the default page home.php?

That's the bad thing about it. I started off with FrontPage, but now use Notepad - and only Notepad. It might be harder to learn HTML properly, but believe me, it's worth it - a bit of hard work to start of with is a hell of a lot better than spending a week debugging the crap that Microsoft call HTML. I hope I've made my point .