Mich

Go Mich go.. don't let 'em get away with it o.o

Heres a scare tatic tell them you have their number and that your going to report them to th authorities for false advertisement.

We are of a single mind here. Got another call today from a telemarketer. It was a young man this time. I asked him the name of the company he represented, if I could find them on the internet, and an 800# I could reach them at. He gave me all I needed to know. Then I told him that our phone# is on the "do not call" list and I was going to report his company for being in violation of this. He had nothing more to say. HA, I guess I told him. Poor guy, he was only the messenger, trying to earn a buck.

i searched google for a help page (phpbbFM closed their forums), and i came across a topic here! Then i decided i wanted to reply to the topic, and here i am.

A bit about myself:

 

Avid gamer, Age of Empires III, Star Wars, Star Trek.

IPB person, familiar with 1.3-2.1 (no modding of course, I am not that smart.

High School Student

Political Blogger (theperspectives.blogspot.com)

Google Fan

 

Well, I look foward to being a part of this great community

Avid traditional graphic designer

Haven't got a clue as to how to match your 2nd line.

Retired Senior Citizen

Haven't got a clue about this line either.

Another Google Fan

and I welcome you to Trap 17. It is a great forum and hosting site. Best I have ever found on the web. My previous host went down last December and I got on here in January. I can relate to your troubles and quandries with other sites. Hurry and get lots of points so you can get hosted.

Well I have have been through 3 hosts, 10 crashed Invision Power Boards, and a week & 1/2 of a wierd suspension from Ideal-Hosting.org About 2 weeks ago my hosting provider started getting really wierd, and gave my and everyother link with Ideal-Hosting.org & Daphosting.org or Quadragon.net (something like that) a page like this (Suspension Page) and I tried to get to the hosts bulletin board, but it failed.... so you know I went looking for a new host and got to the Trap 17, main page, went wow! Very cool, nice clean design, IBP which is great and all this other cool stuff, so I cant wait till they host me!

Well, hello MaineFishing45! Welcome to Trap 17 from one of the elders of the forum. Is that 45 for your age or your birthdate? I am in Michigan, USA. There are a lot of nice helpful people here that you will come to know. I have only been here since January and have learned soooo much. I was hosted at another site until last December when they went down without any warning. Trap 17 came to my rescue and I am still rebuilding my .com. I have found them very reliable and am sure you will make this your permanent hosting home. Stop by and see my site when you get a chance. Just click on the sig below. And don't forget to post your url when you get hosted here so I can come visit yours.

Hello, My Name is Addi and I am also new to Trap 17 .

I just found this website on google, because I was looking for free hosts. I go to a public school and have recently signed up for a web design class. In this class, we have to learn how to design a website and actually design a website for our school. Since our school is very small, we do not have a website yet.

Before I found Trap 17, I was looking and signed up for some other free hosts. I signed up for byethost, which looked very complete and easy to use to create a nice web site, but my hypothesis was found to be wrong. It was very hard to use and was very uninteresting, and even though it said that it had many feautures it did not. Well, I hope that I will like this host a lot better.

Thankss ,

Addi

Hello Addi, Me thinks you might want to start your own introduction as a New Topic. Go to General Talk, Introductions and click on New Topic in the upper right just above Forum Options. Make up a catchy Title and use a smiley to mark your topic. People will have trouble finding you here buried in MaineFishing45s introduction.

Congratulations!! I hope you will enjoy the beniefits of being a Trap 17 member. I have been a member for more than a year now, and it is only now that I got problem with my account. My website account was terminated for my inactivity for about a month, so keep posting and always be active. Keep collecting more credits for security!

Aha, so I am told. I don't have a lot to say to most of the people on here who are much younger than I, but I try to welcome as many as I can by checking the Introduction forum when I am on-line. Seems my welcome messages get redundant sometimes. I don't know if that is counted against you or not. I certainly hope not. I try very hard to find topics to at least comment on. Thanks for the encouragement.

As of March 15, 2006 I have all but about a dozen of my sets on site. Will start working on getting Desktop/Wallpapers added to the site right soon. This has been a more difficult project than I anticipated. Sometime soon I will be done uploading old sets and will have time to make some new ones.

WOW, that site looks so nice, where did you learn to make sites that nice? it looks professinal.

 

know any site I can learn to make a nice site like that?

 

Ps Thank you.

Thanks for the compliment. I am self taught via surfing the net for ideas and studying books from the library. There are lots of sites that offer html tutorials, some listed elsewhere on this site. I have been designing using Paint Shop Pro for over a year now. I just hope people will use them. Seems more people are finding them since I have been hosted by Trap 17 than when I was on my old host location.

Update: So on February 24th BMG customer service e-mailed me that they would send me an address label to return the CD I have received that I didn't order. Incidently, there was no phone number for customer service included in their e-mail either. It arrived about March 1st. Guess what. It isn't a postage-paid label. Now, would you expect to have to pay for postage to return something you didn't order in the first place? I don't. So I sent them an email:

I am in receipt of the address label you have sent me. However, I take exception to the fact that it is not postage-paid. I did not request an exchange. I requested that you correct an error made by a representative of your organization. I did not order the CD that was shipped to me. Somebody at your BMG Music chose to substitute it for the one I was offered by your telemarketer. This evidently happened when it became known that the one I ordered was not available as a free selection. I do not feel obliged to pay for your mistake. Therefore, I request that you send me a postage-paid label. I am certain that your response will be as prompt to this request as it was to my original inquiry.

I await their reply with baited breath

Well, hello RogerUK! Welcome to Trap 17. I am in Michigan, USA. There are a lot of nice helpful people here that you will come to know. I have only been here since January and have learned loads. You are much further advanced than I in all this stuff. I do web page graphics for the old fashioned folk. All this new fangled Flash / PHP / VB / etc. is mind boggling to me. My brain is cluttered with all the basics of html and I don't know if it has room for more. But I will give it the old college try when I get my site completely up, thanks to Trap for hosting my .com

Hope you get hosted soon. Good Luck!

I surfed your site for about 20 mins you have some very creative layouts and there is quite a selection.

I specifically like the orange one under the Land and Seascape Sets, keep up the good work.

Thank you for the compliment. Not all of my sets are up yet. I am still reworking a lot of them. Since I had to change hosts, I thought I would take the opportunity to improve many of them. The one you like is "Orange Symphonie" ? 2002 CE Barre Arts-System I am reworking another of Mr. Barre's pieces of art called "Spring". It has a similar effect in shades of blue on black. Check back often to see what I have added.

Added: "Spring" ? 2002 CE Barre Arts-System

I have run up a new desktop as of today 2/27/2006. It is a Barrel Racing Scene.

I was invited via my guest book to join Sisters With Heart webring. When I went to the site to check it out, I became suspicious. You cannot view whatever is within their site without joining their webring. This is supposed to be a group of "Christian" women. Their rules seem predjudicial. Rules I didn't know that one had to be over 18 to be a Christian. Then I went to their sign-up page and met with be bevy of information requests that I don't feel necessary to join a webring. See what you think. Join Sisters With Heart Webring Why would they need all that private information just to join a webring? What possible kind of emergency could arise that would necessitate their need to contact you via snail mail?

Could this be a form of spam? Among other things, they do not have a notice about gathering information, which is what they are doing. That may explain why you have to be 18 to join. What good is information about a minor? But the information they have gathered, if you choose to give it, would provide them with all the information they would need to do most anything illegal if this is their intent.

Anyway, their "by invitation only" seems not too Christian to me. I think I will remove this entry in my Guest Book.

Doesn't it just gall you when people are inefficient at their jobs? I received a phone call from a woman at BMG music with a 7 free CD offer about 10 days ago. She wanted me to select a free CD over the phone so she could send it right away. I inquired about the cost of shipping and handling, which she said was $2.00 on this special offer. Hmm, not bad thought I since it was usually around $3.00 or so. I asked what CDs were available to me for free choice and she said name one. I did. She said she would send it to me with my new membership package and that I could order my additional free CDs on line. Catch, I only have to "buy" on additional CD in the next 12 months. OK, I can live with this. So I agreed and we closed the deal.

Well, today I received my free CD and membership package. Guess what. She sent me the wrong CD and charged me $2.79 for the S&H. So now I need to contact Customer Service, right? I searched and searched through the whole package of flyers and pamphlets and, guess what else, nowhere to be found is BMG's customer service phone number. So I had to pop on line to find the number. When I got to the site I could not accomplish anything without signing up and into my new account. After about 10 mins of searching, you guessed it, the phone number is not listed at their site either. So then I spent another 5 mins or so trying to figure out how to contact customer service for the reason I needed. I had to e-mail them via an on site e-mail message, not even from my own mailbox. When I check for the correct CD to request a replacement, I find that the CD I requested is "not available as a Free Selection". So, I requested a $2.79 credit and return address label so I won't have to pay to send back the stupid CD they sent me. Grr.

There is a spot on my account information page that allows me to cancel my account. But, I am afraid to do that before I return their CD and get credit for the $2.79 S&H. They could treat it as an outstanding balance and dun me to death for the charge.

Now, I figure either the woman was lying to me about the CD I requested being available and S&H charge, or just saying what I wanted to hear to get me to sign up, or she was just plain stupid. Or then again, maybe it was me who was stupid enough to believe what she said.

How was your day?

I want a guestbook for my other site but... There are seriously thousands... Anyone here know of a good one? Prefarably one that you can have on your own site... Unless its a pretty good remotely hosted one...

And a hit counter? Once again there are like millions... Dont need detailed stats for it just a desent counter...

 

Currently I'm in my first year of college majoring in Computer Science and minoring in math. Sounds like fun, doesn't it? Honestly, I'm having the time of my life doing so. Sounds pretty odd, doesn't it?

You will find a lot of friendly helpful people of all ages here at Trap 17. Welcome aboard. Show off your graphics as soon as you get settled here.

ok, and now somthing that i have found with one of the pages on this page HERE on the top under tha banner it says FREE WEB SETS FOR YOUR SITE but it cant be seen >_< jsut thought id let ya know, and now ive been lookng through allot of them and it is the same on all of them...like i said earlyer i would highly advise switching to a php site, all you have to do is edit one file and ALL of your pages that have the indicated script will put the updated stuff in...lol neways its still an excelent site!

 

Hmm... this almost looks like it was done on purpose, given the font size and color. Perhaps done to help bots easily find relevant content to raise page rankings? If so, it's a very clever idea, something I might investgate myself.

Right on Avalon, that is exactly why I did it. Take note Albus. Hey, I came up with an idea before you did, Avalon.

well that explains it then

Seems I am some years older than you There are a few of us on the internet that are over 20 you know.

and also do you code in notepad or use a program like Micro$oft Frontpage?

Very nice for a young person from my home town of Sacramento, CA. It is a site that the teenager will really enjoy. The subject matter is way to young for me , but the construction is very nicely done.

I give it a 9.5 out of 10.

i really like the design, the border around the page concerns me a bit, for those who have a smaller screen will it automaticly resize to it or will it stay as wide as it is?

i cant really read the text down at the bottom of the page, but that could just be me or maybe the color of the font against the green background i would suggest making it a little bigger.

i dont see any broken links, spelling looks fine ( i check those just for the heck of it) i also like some of the images you have on there! good job if you made them which i hope ya did :-D 1-10 i would give it an 8

...some of thhe links or pages dont work..i guess becuase your still workin on them...

First Impressions:

i opened your site and could hear some horrible thing in the background of my music. paused it, to find your site playing it . . . . its horrible (the music), that type of thing is a pet hate, but tis even worse if you don't have the ability to turn it off. . . .

the style of the page was somewhat old too. you don't see many sites with this style anymore. . . .

Graphics

Not my cup of tea really. i agree what has been said about the site having a

"homely" I hope this is a typo.

feel to it, but i would associate that home with a grandparents house.The graphic textures are also not my type of thing, as are the borders. The graphics are at a good resolution and the signature is a nice image. Tiled backgrounds of the style on your page also make it look old-fashioned, as do the frame graphics.

Layout/formattingThe Home button at the bottom of alot of pages takes you to a completely differernt site, which confused the hell outta me.

good luck with it all in the future, defintly keep it up!