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How To Make People donate for your free website/your product I asked myself this question, because I have a product now, that I spent a lot of time on and I think that it might be time to ask for a little financial thank you So I browsed the internet on the hunt for ways, that people use to make inviduals donate money or items... Here's what I found, please expand the list! The well-known PayPal-Button I suppose this is the easiest and most popular way: One places a little button or link in a prominent position on the website or pops up a window in the app every once in a while, which asks you to donate a few bucks. Alternatives are: publishing the bank account number, other services, etc. The idea stays the same. The Amazon Wish List You put a link to a wish list on amazon.com online, so that the people that donate you money, know what they give you money for. advantage:people understand what you need money for. Nice books etc. and not world domination :-) disadvantage:only fixed amounts of money. you don't get the (i think) usual amounts of money like 5 bucks, because books and other amazon-stuff is normally more expensive Selling Merchandise There are ready-made solutions on the internet, like t-shirt shops etc. nicest thing ever is, if you have a sweet mascot and can produce it cheaply but uniquely. good example Haekelschwein.de advantage:people actually get something for their money -> more will do it disadvantage:you need a cool logo, a product with a good attitude and the they give/you get factor is probably about 4-10. Make people buy stuff using links on your website I don't actually know a good serious service, that does this, but I didn't do much research. Google has it for the Adsense-recommendation program, I think Amazon and eBay have it too, but I didn't find it directly. It works this way: people buy something, that they want anyway by clicking on a link on your website and you get your share. advantage:people want the stuff anyway disadvantage:probably not very effective So that's what I can come up with for now. Please enlarge the list with me and tell me what you think works best!

and mp3s and or videos don't have to be illegal necessarily. i had big pdf-files, that I needed uploaded, but I didn't want to give the guy FTP-access.A web upload is a very convenient thing, you can't deny that. You don't have FTP access all the time from every place. Services like filefront or rapidshare are clustered with ads, difficult to use and way too slow..

I accumulated 70 in the first four days I was here. New, interesting forum, a lot of interesting subjects that I never talked about before. I didn't spam (that much ^^). So, I lost 50 credits. My example still works, so what are you bothering yourself about. I lost a litte bit less.I like the host. I like the credit system. I will stay. But I think, the handling in the beginning should be rethought, that's it.

Hello together!Thanks for explaining the problem.OpaQue, no, I didn't have the slightest idea what was going on, now I do and I apologize for being so complaining. I know this is a free service and I think it is great, keep up the good work please. My recommendation would have been to note down in the email, that informed about the server shift that there might be some problems in the time afterwards. As an average user I have no idea what a server shift of such a size means and I just thought it was over by now.About the resource-exploitation: Couldn't there be some traffic limit for resource using too? Don't know if that is a naive question, I just don't know.Also, is there a list of too-resource-intensive scripts, so we know, what we shouldn't do? I don't think I use such, but I don't actually know. Daily backups for example seem a waste of resource to me now, that I know that we don't lose data that easily.

Oh, thanks for clearing that up, I didn't know it is mandatory.I always write it because I also look at my sites offline, therefore I never noticed.I know, the tags I mentioned are not the creme de la creme of meta tags, but some of them are actually useful (especially the very popular expire and refresh tags)

Ah c'mon, you can't argument with page loading time.. few bits..By the way isn't it rather a tip of the moment? I just noticed that, when I visited your site again.

welcome! you can close your tags on these forums for example :)This is a forum for coding-interested people who want or have free dedicated web hosting, you can see everything on the startpage, Xisto.com.

Please merge posts! There are loads of meta-tags available, but because in the early stages of the internet people did something, that you could call meta-tag spamming, search engines tend to ignore (most) of them and now judging the content. The ones HTML-guru mentioned are most important (except generator), but there are a lot more. By the way, you have to distinguish two types of meta-tags: <meta http-equiv="forexamplexcharset" content="something" /> and <meta name="forexamplexcharset" content="something" /> If you are wondering why I end the tags with /> and not just with >: this is because I write XHTML conform. If you are using the HTML-DTD (transitional/strict) this is not for you. write like you used to then The ones with the 'name' in them are for the clients, this means they are read only by the browser/search engine. The ones with 'http-equiv' in them are supposed to speak to the web server. Actually they don't, because servers don't read them out any longer. Nowadays you could probably say, that they are the ones that "do" something (like changing charset, redirecting, etc.) and the ones with 'name' are just read out for some informative purpose. But now let's get to the bloody point, enough general talk: first the 'name' ones, the informative ones: name='date' content='2001-12-15T08:49:37+02:00' --> when this site was changed the last time. The format is self-explanatory. You can also leave out the T and everything behind it. name='robots' content='noindex' --> control robots. also possible with robot.txt. Possible values: index, noindex, follow, nofollow, all. nofollow and noindex can be combined. follow + index=all. now the 'http-equiv' ones, the ones that actually do something. http-equiv='expires' content='0' --> This makes that the file will be loaded from the original server in every case, so it won't be cached. http-equiv='cache-control' content='no-cache' --> mystic thingie, that you can find on the internet. should do the same as the above one, but it is not "real" http-equiv='pragma' content='no-cache' --> another one http-equiv='content-language' content='en-us' --> pretty clear, eh? doesn't actually do anything for browsers I know. http-equiv='content-type' content='text/html;charset=utf-8' --> specify what can be found in the document and what charset to use.. http-equiv='Content-Script-Type' content='text/javascript' --> don't know what use it has, because you specify it for the specific fields too.. http-equiv='Content-Style-Type' content='text/css' --> see above http-equiv='expires' content='date' --> same as the other expire, but for a specific date. you can also put in the seconds after which the caching client should load from server again. http-equiv='refresh' content='5; URL=http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; --> a deprecated way to refresh the current site automatically or to lead to another site. you should not rely on this working (even though popular browsers support it). always note a normal link and preferably do stuff like this with PHP headers for example 301 for permanent redirects. that's better for your search engine stats too. The 5 is for seconds of course PICS - a w3c standard for adult stuff http-equiv='set-cookie' content='cookiename=cookievalue; expires=Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT; path=/;' --> not actually sure if this works. self-explanatory. It is not over yet, fellows, there are many more, for example the Dublin Core (DC) specifications, which are good but widely ignored and the possibility to note down a profile in the head element.. but hey I think we've got enough for today, right? Oh, I should add still that you can add a lang-attribute to the description or keyword tags, for example: <meta name="keywords" lang="de" content="Ferien, Griechenland, Sonnenschein"><meta name="keywords" lang="en-us" content="vacation, Greece, sunshine"><meta name="keywords" lang="en" content="holiday, Greece, sunshine"><meta name="keywords" lang="fr" content="vacances, Grèce, soleil"> Feel free to ask questions back!

Hi!Thanks then. I'm not here so long, so I thought this might be usual behaviour.Yes, I have a question still: A friend of mine once had the problem that he couldn't connect to my site (got another site instead) unless he was specifying a file to access. I know this problem from another friend. I heard from him that the reason is, if someone on the same network connected to a site which is in the same IP range as the one later then he won't be able to get it, unless he specifies a file. Is that true and can the publisher do anything against it or is it just a ISP bug of my friend?m^e I don't get quite what the problem with resource-eating scripts is? First of all, they are not forbidden explicitly and second I thought we have dedicated bandwidth, so everyone has the resources he applied for and isn't sharing them..?Thanks for this enlightenment.. :-)

So there is no limit for Perl? I have no idea how to write perl though and I don't want to use a much-too-complicated hotscript.I know it is not the best way, but sometimes I just need a fast & easy way to do stuff like this.

The good things about the iPod:– it has a good reputation, you know, you'll buy it and be happy with it.– it looks good. cmon most mp3players are big grey metal-things– it boosts your social status. probably the biggest reason for all the losers out there..– they are and are in some ways still innovative.the bad things:– the style boosts the price– they break too sometimes– everyone thinks you are one of the social losersI have an iPod shuffle (it was a gift, so why should I say no, better than the cd-player and the giant headphones I used before) and I am actually happy with it. It works, it is small and the sound is good. But it broke 4 times already. But I got it back on warranty always.Facit: You buy an iPod because wanta) to be a cool guy:) not to worry if it is good quality etc. (problem with no-reputation things)c) the design so hard.

Hi there!I was just trying to access PHPmyadmin in the cpanel, but it told me to use the right username. Took me 2 minutes to figure out: No users, no databases set up. My site can't access it either. I had full databases installed and used them 2 hours ago!Ok, this is the third time in one week, that I have severe inaccessibility problems with Xisto..CUT I just tried again and now it is working the same way it was before. What the ®Çª??Is this regular behaviour at Xisto and do I just have to live with the fact that my site goes west twice a week without any explanation and comes back from its vacation sooner or later? This is very annoying and I really demand an explanation for this behaviour lately, it is worrying me, because I like the host in all other aspects.regards, ruben

On OS 9 you boot from the system CD, so you have a working system environment and complete access to the hard drive. Thereby you can either, wipe everything out, transfer the data away or delete the files that contain the passwords (can't be that hard to find, somewhere in the system folder). I don't remember the exact structure in OS 9 but I'm sure you can delete the users without losing their data.So get it on, boot from the system CD and work that out :-) There seems to be no easy way.

This is a pretty good way to get your site top in results, isn't it? as this bug shows, it is not made by hand and well you can exploit it.

Yo, neat design. Didn't look any further, I had the impression, that it was not interesting for me. I think thought the tip of the day should be in the same style as its little fellows, it falls a bit out of norm.

Hej Lynna! Welcome to the forum. You could for example tell us who you are, what you do, what moved you here, etc. Good luck with posting,Ruben

Hmm, the intention is marked quite clearly on the page: Establishing some web features that have become more common directly into the browser.I actually think the ideas are not that bad (Blog directly, store favourites online, multiple favorite toolbars), but the browser is just a bad rip-off. I think they should join the FF developing community, I'm tired of new browsers with new personal problems, that you have to adjust your website to.I would not use this browser, because I don't make use of the features (online favourites are with Google, blogging is done not often, I don't REALLY need multiple toolbars) and this way the browser just gets overloaded and slow.That's why I stopped using Firefox: Safari is faster in any way and I can abstain from the neat FF plugins and features mostly. Sometimes I switch to get a JS-error-analysis, which I really need sometimes.

err the link is deaad and the most obvious alternatives don't work either.I think that is a big step by Google, leaving their computers, stepping up and showing their face. I mean if there was a fat, ugly sexist in that store you might reconsider Yahoo Search, right? So, saxsux, tell us, what do Googlers look like? Pure beauty? Pure evil? Pure nerd?

I don't begrudge their success to Google. They are a nice and innovative company with a good image. This normally occurs to small personal businesses, but they still mentioned to be a friendly company, that doesn't take itself to serious. (I haven't seen Microsoft making April Jokes or changing their logo on Christmas, etc.)Well, maybe they will dominate the world one day and show their evil face, but I will happily bow in front of them and say: You tricked me good!They don't have this urge to destroy everything in their way yet and I kinda like that about them, don't you?

Hej!As you all probably know, there is a file upload size limit, when uploading with PHP. It is the default preference in the php.ini (file that configures PHP) and cannot be changed by users.Currently it is set to the very low value of 2M. I think this is pretty low in an internet where quality gets better everyday and file size under 10MB are considered really small (yes, not occuring to web pages, but to a lot of other things).I am trying to make a small upload script for myself and my school newspaper, so that I can quickly load up changes from a computer, when I don't have FTP access or not the time to configure everything. I think this does not interfere with the hosting rules. I know this is not a file shack, but since we all have dedicated space and bandwidth, it won't disturb anyone, if we use it to its extents.I work for example with a school newspaper and we want to exchange PDF-files when they are finish, to criticise them and publish them later for those, who didn't have the opportunity to buy them. But I don't want to give the PDF-guy a password for FTP, so I would like to give him a web uploader. Sadly a layout PDF is normally about 30-100MB big, so I can't make a use of a PHP script. I think 2M is not a really fair limit. I thought the 5GB bandwidth we get per month was dedicated anyway. So if we use it, because we have some spare, then it won't harm the service or did I misunderstand something there?You have your reasons for that limit, but then I demand an explanation because my reasoning seems right to me (of course, hehe).regards, ruben

Just wanted to add that the generator tag is absolutely useless bit-waste for the author. Some sourcecode creators (wysiwig) may include it by default, but that does not mean, that it has any use, except them being able to find out how popular the websites are that were created with their software.+ the charset tag: it is not really necessary. the web browser takes the charset information from the apache headers that are sent when the page is submitted, so the meta-tag will be overriden.You only need it when viewing your site offline, because then there is no charset-sending webserver in the back.[LINK=http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (German)[/link] provides a good soure on all available meta tags and how important they are. I'll translate later, gotta go now.

Tech service fixed it for me now. Say welcome back :-)

I don't know why it does that.. I mean I'm used to Google interpreting the search results before it searches (like calculator etc.) but this obviously is some kind of a bug, because it gives uninteresting websites priority, that they don't have at all.I can't re-use the result you had for "belgium language" that you had m^e.The Online 2 could also mean the two galleries that are online.

I guess it is like that, because we have dedicated web space (it is reserved) and they probably haven't so you can easily "afford" that amount. By the way, fellows, I think there is no rule against registering there too, so where's your problem?I agree with m^e that you will hardly ever need 150 Megabyte for a web page, I never created one bigger than 10 Megabyte. But if you have that much, you might also use the hosting server for other purpose but mere website hosting. I would like to offer my friends a place, where they can quickly upload files, like rapidshare.de but just for them, and well, there a 153 Megabyte make a difference ^^Is that allowed at all? I'm not sure about the conditions concerning this right now..I mean, of course, you can't allow it for illegal purposes, but stuff like sharing pictures, documents, etc. should be allowed, right?

This seems like a general problem, but my database is up and running. Check yours again, hopefully it was only maintenance too. Hope these maintenance times don't come to often or too long...