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Great! That helps a lot. I guess I did already know about the search engine possibly finding a page in your site other than your index page and displaying it outside of the frame, but I had forgotten that. I'm going to redo my site and not use frames. Also, that's a great hint, using the title attribute in some of my page tags. I'll incorporate that right away. Thanks again!

Is there a way to see all of the available topics, perhaps an alphabetized list? I saw a topic earlier, replied to one of the entries, but cannot find the topic any longer.Thanks very much!

I would suggest going to http://www.anim8tor.com/ They have one that's pretty good, has a detailed manual, and it's totally free! I've used it just to play around with and it's pretty fast also. Good luck.

Might I suggest that you make your font changeable when someone tries to change the Text Size from the View dropdown menu (in IE, that is). I tried to increase the font and nothing changed. Perhaps you have styles on your html page or the text is really an image? Also, when I moused over the top-left tab at the very top of the page, my printer icon kept covering it so that I could not click on the first link. Perhaps other people have the same problem? Finally, do you know when you might have content for your site? Thanks! I look forward to seeing the finished product.

I know keywords and links to your site by high-ranking pages helps your site rank higher in search engines, but..... I have a question as to what may hurt your rank. It used to be that having your pages in frames was a bad thing to do. Is it still bad? Does it matter whether you use frames or not? Also, does the fact that you use the older style of having font, bold, italic, etc. tags embedded in your code affect your page rank? Would removing those type of tags from your html doc and placing them in a style sheet affect your rank? Thanks!

I don't believe meta tag keywords are used any longer by the search engines to rank your page. The key words (words that are most appropriate for your content) should be used throughout your pages in an appropriate manner. Not too few, not too many!

What free products are you talking about? antivirus-wise. bachdot

yes, there are alternatives...Spybot or Adaware can be downloaded from their respective sites and cost approx $30 a year each. Note: a lot of spyware programs say they are free...well, you can run the scan for free, but if you find spyware that should be removed, they say you have to buy the product to be able to remove the spyware. So, they're not really free! bachdot

I think it's great to come up with unique designs/layouts, but you have to be careful and make sure the site is, first of all, usable and readable. When designing websites for clients... standard, easy-to-work-with templates are best.bachdot

Do you have to download anything to have the virus scanner be effective? bachdot

Hi, Jen. I, too am new. I've looked at several different topics but got an error on several of them. What's up with that? L J

I, too, usually just use Google. I've found it to be the most thorough.

Dear m^e, That's a great tip! You could also insert your email in the following way, so people will know what they have to remove to use it: myEmailAddr_remove_this_part@email.com Thanks, bachdot