Mich
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So glad you asked this question. I am using the information to create my favicon.ico. Happen to have IrfanView already. Just ran it up and see that iE doesn't show it, but netscape does. Oh well, some people will see it anyway. Do you need to add the directive to any other pages than the index when you have a large number of pages on your site?
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I just love this one. If all your games are motion oriented like you say, then I would go with this one in a minute. As for the names of the games you put up, use your meta tags in your html to include all the names. Don't clutter up your url with too much. That is not how people will find you. Also using the names in text form on your page will be caught by search engines.
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And again you come up with something I hadn't thought of. How do you think of all these things? Guess I will have to get busy and add ttf files for each font to my zips. This will have to wait until I am back from my trip away from this cold here in Michigan. I will be getting back with you then on joining your banner account. I also have a banner exchange page of my own that I would be glad to place a graphic link to your site on. I will need a banner or button of some kind from your site; but we can discuss that when I get back. I am leaving maybe Wed afternoon or Thur morning. Keep sending me corrections and ideas, please.Mich, now that I am able to download your zip files, I have a question to ask. Is it your intention to allow those that use your sets to modify them as they see fit? For example, what if they need a button you don't include in your set? Perhaps they want a "Login" or "Members" button, they are commonly used buttons on sites. Assuming the answer to my question is yes, can I suggest you include a copy of the font used to make the set in your zip file. This way they can add as many new buttons as they like.
Just an idea.
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Here's how to do it.� Open a text editor like Notepad, copy the code below and paste it into the editor.
RewriteEngine onRewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://(www\.)?mudmall.com/.*$ [NC]RewriteRule .*\.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|bmp)$ mudmall.com/img/nolink.gif [R,NC]Change the domain name where is says, 'mudmall.com' to your domain name and change the 'RewriteRule' line so it has the file extensions you want to deny access to. What I have there will cover most image formats, but you may want to add extensions like 'avi', 'mp3', 'wmv' if you have those types of files. Then change the RewriteRule URL so it points to an image you want displayed when someone tries to hotlink to your file, or you can remove the URL if you don't want to display an image. If you do use an image, make sure it is in an unprotected directory and keep the file size small, mine is only 1.3Kb. Otherwise you will be defeating the purpose of disabling the hotlink.Finally, save the file with the name '.htaccess', (note the period * in front of the name). Now upload this file to the directory/s you want to protect.
Got it, thanks!
My husband was awake so I was able to print it off for future reference. I don't know about adding copies of this file to every folder, as I have so many. For now I am going to stick to using my cPanel hot link protection.
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I have amended the screenshot in Post #1 to better illustrate what I mean. -
01/15/2006 I have put up a new desktop today. Will be gone for about 3 weeks so this one will have to be there until I get back.
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Well I am so glad my site grew on you. I have loved the combination of purple and green for a long time. I do realize that combination doesn't do anything for most people, but I just felt the need to run with it as it does indeed "sort of show" my personality.When I first saw your site the colours were not co ordinating and nothing matched and I sort of disliked. But when I stayed for a big longer and the whole design sunk in.. I felt sort of welcomed and i realised it had a really nice homely and personal feel to it. I guess your website has sort of shown YOU in it. It's not one of those amazingly designed and sleek websites but it's original and really pretty. You have lots of cool content and I like the sort of textures on each page.. it stands out
Suggestions greatfully accepted. Don't be shy. I am very open minded. After all, if I don't like your suggestions, all I have to do is ignore them.Plus all the images work well for me. There are quite a few things on your site you should change...
They certainly won't hurt my feelings.THANKS FOR THE COMPLIMENTS.
Come visit my sites often.
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Great Avalon. I will print this out for reference. Have to do it tomorrow morning tho, since the printer wakes my husband up when I use it while he is sleeping. He was a machinest running CNC and the printer printing meant trouble. So, he is sensitive to the noise.Mich, I wrote a tutorial about hotlinking here. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/27222-how-to-stop-image-hot-linking-for-a-selected-directory/ In particular it covered how hotlink protect particular directories rather than your entire site. This is useful if you want to allow hotlinking to certain images such as banners but not all images on the site.
THANKS!
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I am not making myself understood to you. I said in my last post that I had BLOCKED OUT the portion of the image that showed the http:// s. My access list has never been incomplete and has always been correct. From day 1 it has looked like this:Well, according to your post #1 in this thread, you only allowed three URLs to view your graphics. Yet, your access list was incomplete. Therefore Tyssen couldn't see it until you allowed direct access. And since your IMG SRC="http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/; Tyssen was, then, able to see your graphics. Actually not just Tyssen but all of us.
In fact I have made a test page for you. You can disable the hotlink protection and see what happens with this page http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
If it hadn't, I couldn't have seen my own graphics with the protection activated. I fully understand the function of the "HotLink Protection" and how to configure it. As far as I know, everybody but tyssen has been able to see my graphics on my site all along. The problem with tyssen not being able to see my graphics when he went to my site had nothing to do with an incorrect configuration in the Access Box.
On a wild guess, I went in and checked the "Allow direct requests" box to see if that would help, and this corrected it for him. I don't know why, any more than I and jlhaslip can understand why it was different for him. I just understand that it corrected the problem.
And, checking this box does not negate the HotLink Protection. People still cannot hotlink from any site other than those listed in my access box when I check the direct request box. I have run a test of my own by taking my http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ out of the access box so I cannot link to it from that site. I ran up an htm there with a link to an image on my webset dot com; and No Image. Came back and put a check in the direct request box and the image still won't come up. So checking the box doesn't defeat the purpose of hotlink protection. Give it a try. I have left the changes in for now. And you will find that the hotlink is still in effect at your sample even with the direct request box checked.
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
Yes, maybe people can put the url of the image in the address box and pull up the image directly, but that is ok. I am giving the graphics away for free. I just want people like tyssen, whatever their problem is, to be able to view my graphics when the go to my site.
And this is what I was trying to express and diagram in my #1 post in this forum. Some people cannot see your graphics when they are at your site unless that "direct request" box is checked if you are using "HotLink Protection". I don't know why. That is just the way it is.
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Very interesting responses people. Gives me much thought to ponder. Views I hadn't encountered before. But I still think our service people would be safer patrolling our borders than they are patrolling Iraq's borders?
Ran across this story about an incident brought on by the Patriot Act. Seems they are making "random" body and carry-on checks of passengers at airports. To avoid any "descrimination" the people are selected by means of randomly placing a red check mark on their ticket. Well, some guy's 7 year old daughter's ticket got checked and she was taken off someplace for a search. What a waste of securities efforts. How many 7 year girl's have been terrorists. This being politically correct and making sure not to offend someone by descriminating against them is being carried too far. If I were a passenger, I would certainly have rather had the time and effort spent searching a male passenger who was acting suspiciously than bothering that poor little girl. Needless to say, her father was greatly offended.
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OK, so you say that I have defeated the purpose of activating my hot link protection by checking that box. Do I understand you? I should go back then and remove the check, right?
I had visited the instructions and I do have my access set correctly, I just blanked it out on the screen shot.
The instructions do not address a problem about which I have been having a lengthy exchange with tyssen and jlhaslip at this forum
http://forums.xisto.com/topic/32203-xhtml-software-to-use-quotes-or-not/=
Starting at #8 thru to #14.
Please explain, if you can, why tyssen cannot see my graphics when I have my hot link protection activated. When I checked the box, tyssen said he can see my graphics.
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Just discovered something. I was having issues with my graphics not displaying for some people when they visited my site. After much consternation, I decided to investigate my cPanel settings. I had activated my "Hot Link Protection" but hadn't checked the box to "Allow direct requests". For some reason this affects the display in some cases. I don't know why, but since I have checked that box, the problem seems to have been solved.
Hope this helps others.
Notice from BuffaloHELP:Moving to Hosted Members Area. -
One little thing I'd like to see is some sort of 'mouseover' effect on your text links. It's personal thing I guess, but I like to see something happen when I hover over a link.
Hmm. Hadn't thought of that. Good idea. Will work on it after I get back from vacation. Need to take a rest from the cold weather here in Mich.
Am just starting to toy with css. Be patient with me and I will coming into the 21st century here soon. Teaching myself simple html has been an adventure. Getting lots of help from people like you on here.
Thank you for this kind offer. I didn't think my site was worthy. I may take you up on this. Do you charge for this? I don't have any trouble linking back to your site with a small graphic button. Do you require it be put in a specific place?By the way, if you're interested my site has a free banner rotation service for graphics related sites like yours.
BTW I love your site!!!!! Took a look the other day and was really impressed.
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Thanks Tyssen.
The problem was evidently in my cPanel settings. Will post the solution in the What Is...? forum. Seems I goofed by putting both sites in my signature. Now I don't know which site you reviewed. I meant to have you review:
Come back please?
Oops. Sorry you don't like my personal homepage. Suggest a new color for me and I will consider it.
I made the mistake of including 2 sites in my signature. The one I really want a review on is
Please come back?
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Well, here goes.
My site is not completely up yet. My previous host went down and I got approved
here. I have a basic package and have applied for and been approved for an
upgrade, but haven't had time to get everything in order to upload.
Am revamping some of my pages, and that will take time. Give me an idea
what you thing of what I do have up, will you please? I have taught myself
html, so don't be too cruel on the negative comments. Suggestions will be
appreciated. I have reduced the dpi to 72 on my graphics and have
compressed what I could of my jpg files to decrease load time.
However, some pages have a lot to load and will take extra time.
I am having some issues with graphics on my site not linking for some
people. This seems to happen Primarily for people who are outside the USA.
If you experience this, PLEASE let me know.
I am strictly an amatuer, but if you think I can help you with your personal
homepage, please send me a PM.
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I don't understand what is meant by "the war against terrorism." Terrorism is not an army you can fight in any arena. It is calculated random acts of violence in the name of religious beliefs. The only way to fight it is to be prepared and defend yourself against it. Terrorism went on in the Holy lands long before written history and still is. If people who should be experts on the matter, by now, have not made any headway preventing it, what makes the United States think we can solve it for them? Sending our young men and women off to Iraq to fight and die seems the honorable thing to do, but seems also a waste. Offense is not the only way to win. Sometimes a good defense wins the game. Wouldn't it make more sense and be more effective use of their services to have our troops patrolling our borders here at home? It would be a more likely way to keep terrorist out of our country. It would most certainly be safer for them and not costs us all those precious lives. What do you think? -
Hmmm. Another question to ponder. If homosexuality only exists in humans what is the origin of the term "queer duck" come from? What does it really mean? Does anybody know? Just thought I would add a little levity to this weighty subject matter.
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You should do what is right, despite the consequences. If you stayed at your comfort zone how would you expect to grow beyond your world?
But if you are so worried about the consequences interfering with your school life (I'm assuming it's school related, i.e. school bus), you can write an anonymous note and drop it off at the principal?s office or the bus driver's sight. Be sure to be honest in the letter why you are writing instead of telling in person. Be descriptive in your witness account. And sign off as anonymous. Seal it in an envelope and be sure to address it. Drop it in the school's teacher's mailbox or be sure that the bus driver can see. Oh, and I would advise printing out in a printer
Anyway, a witness should be coming forward and should not hide the truth. Otherwise two innocent boys might be punished.
I agree with BuffaloHELP's advice. This is the right thing to do in the safest manner for you.
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Well, no, actually it is. I can't see your graphics and I've looked on two different PCs with different firewall configurations. And when I paste the URL of one of your graphics into my browser I get a 404 - which means it doesn't exist on your server at that location.
I'm sorry if you think I'm 'raining on your parade' but you've got errors on your site that need addressing.
Tyssen
I made an adjustment in my cpanel. Try my site again and see if the graphics are coming up for you now. Others have checked it out and they can see everything fine. I don't seem to have a clue as to why they aren't coming through for you.
THANKS!
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THANKS! Hey, I headed over to that site to try to join ConnectMe. I don't understand the process. I thought it was a "webring" but it is an affiliate program. A kind of I put your button on my page and you put mine on yours? Like a banner exchange thing. This is not what I had in mind. Has anybody formed a true webring for hosted members on here? I belong to several others and it really brings traffic in. People just cruise along through the webring using the common webring panel on everybodies site. I do have a banner exchange page on my site that only has one at this time, but I am confining that to the common subject matter of Graphic sites.We already have something similar to the program in discussion. http://forums.xisto.com/topic/25192-blogconnect-online-renamed-to-connectme/ snlildude87 already started one and from what I hear, it's been very successful. Please follow the direction of snlildude87 or contact him for further information.
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Well, I took the table out and used the background to tile the image instead. It still doesn't meet the standards at the W3C site, but I run it through a validator of my own and it passes just fine. W3C now says I can't have a background image statement in my Body content. Go figure. W3C wants everything in a css file instead in the html itself. Haven't learned that much about css yet so guess I will just be behind times until I can learn it.
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Hmmm, I don't know what to tell you. I have a friend in southern Arabia that also cannot get my graphics to show. Exactly what does the 404 say? When I try the same thing I get a 404 that says I don't have permission to access the graphic. Let me check with somebody on here and see if I need to do something in my cpanel to solve the problem. You might also check jlhaslip's last post just above. Perhaps something in the browser is causing it.Well, no, actually it is. I can't see your graphics and I've looked on two different PCs with different firewall configurations. And when I paste the URL of one of your graphics into my browser I get a 404 - which means it doesn't exist on your server at that location.
I'm sorry if you think I'm 'raining on your parade' but you've got errors on your site that need addressing.
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I was going to suggest a webring for those hosted by Trap 17, but I guess this is what you are suggesting. I see no replies here. Have you had any e-mails? Did you get the webring formed?What's a webring? a webring is a collection of sites strung togeter, to evenly distribute the members and hopefully attracting more visitors. Here's the requirements:
A membership on Xisto
the ability to put some PHP code in a block in your CMS or something
a site with ways for members to cnat and hangout online, and just have fun!
People that I really want to join:
Sang Nguyen (http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/)
cmatcmextra (iambored.info)
cragllo (sponk.co.uk)
So e-mail me if you want to join, I'll make the code asap, once I fix my CMS!
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I didn't have the zips up because space was borrowed and I didn't want to overdo the ISP's generosity.Yes that set definitely looks much better! One slight problem, the link to the ZIP file you have on the page appears to be broken, "Page not found". I guess you can fix all that when you get your hosting here.
Say this is a great site. I see it is also hosted by Trap 17. THANKS!!If you're looking for images to use, perhaps my site will be useful for you, http://www.mudmall.com/ It's a Fantasy Gallery with almost 2,000 images.
Yeh, I am going on a 3-4 week vacation here next week
and need to get some points up in reserve so I can be gone. Won't have an opportunity to work on sets or post on here. Fine tuning some of my pages is taking up most of my time right now. Trying to correct some of the things a validator is finding.
Tools For Photo Album With Html
in Websites and Web Designing
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I use tumbnails on my site often. A sample can be seen at
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
Try it out, if this is what you want, you can use my page as a template. Or I can make you one if you like.
Actually here is a better example/template from my homepage site.
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
This would probably suit your purposes better. Of course, I would make the background color different.
I am a purple and green freak.