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Well my first website was offline. I created it using a free trial of webpagemaker. It was all right but I'd tried to cram every javascript application you could into one page so the final page size ended up being about 50kb of HTML. It was called CMATCME (hence my username) and the name has stuck. It was called this because at the time I though it sounded nice and it fitted in with my site's initial url (C:\Mat C.me). My next site was hosted online with my isp. It was pretty crap and it still exists click here. Again it was pretty much of a stick-every-script-you-can-in-one-place type site and I probably created it because I was bored. So after that I move hosts because of the big banner and my url changes and I begin to code html for myself. When I did this I found that I could do much more things, it saved me a few ??? and it did help me code php later on. Each one has a slighly different design: http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ http://lygo.com/ly/sitemissing.html (first php site) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (move to asp) http://www.directdomains.com/profile/ugtech.net?domain=ugtech.net&utm_source=ugtech.net&utm_medium=click (back to php - free hosting service closed down - site deleted) http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ (first time attempting mySql) So now I am including mysql and thinking more of what the site looks like rather than how many scripts I use. That's my story Edit: For some reason the links didn't work. Fixed.

ATTENTION: PRIVACY MESSAGE It has become clear that many people have been posting their email addresses in the following format somewords@somecoolprovider.com. This makes it very easy for certain spam bots (which crawl the web just as search bots would) to pick up email addresses which may be added to a database of emails. To protect your email address from such bots please hide both the @ and . symbols when you post it. Eg: somewords[_-A-_]somecoolprovider[_-D-_]com or make your own format as long as it hides the two symbols. If you wish to keep your inbox spam-free it is recommended that you do this. I will censor out these symbols for the most recent posts in this topic but I won't if you make a post after this message was posted.

Notice from cmatcmextra: Malish and tdktank59 both your posts in this topic have been deleted because the majority of the content of the post was clear plagerism. This is your last warning, next time none of you will have this message to warn you.

Haha same thing happened here. I'll learn from your experience and not bother trying again

I suppose you could try changing them with a php script but I don't think it would make much of a difference than changing it via cPanel: <?chmod("/home/username/public_html/folder/file_it_complains_about1.php", 0777);chmod("/home/username/public_html/folder/file_it_complains_about2.php", 0777);chmod("/home/username/public_html/folder/file_it_complains_about3.php", 0777);?> Save as XXX.php and run. Or if you haven't done anything with IPB yet, try reinstalling it.

1. By not asking 2. By doing your job very well as a mod for a long period of time. Congrats to the new admins and I wish you a good future in your new status

Yahoo looks cheap but I've heard stories of people trying to transfer out of yahoo and it's apparently really hard. See the following links for bad experiences: https://thefetts.github.io/nonetalk/ http://www.blogsome.com/ I know someone who uses domain site and they offer .com domains for $6.99/year.

Here's an even smaller random image script but it requires php instead. Xisto has php so all your visitors will be able to use this. For this script each image needs to be called something1.png, something2.png, something3.png etc. You can change the text "something" and the image extension into something you choose but the number must remain in place. It is assumed that all your images are stored in the directory images/ but you can change that in the script. All your images must be stored in the same directory and all image extensions must be the same. <? // Selects a random number from 1 to 4. Change 4 to the amount of images you have $randomNumber = rand(1,4); // Displays the image echo "<img src=\"images/something" . $randomNumber . ".png\" alt=\"My random image\">";?> And that's it

After 2 tests I got: CONSOLE Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]? Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.C:\Documents and Settings\Matthew>ping 222.138.109.99Pinging 222.138.109.99 with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=749ms TTL=111Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=727ms TTL=111Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=726ms TTL=111Request timed out.Ping statistics for 222.138.109.99:Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:Minimum = 726ms, Maximum = 749ms, Average = 734ms CONSOLE Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]? Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.C:\Documents and Settings\Matthew>ping 222.138.109.99Pinging 222.138.109.99 with 32 bytes of data:Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=770ms TTL=111Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=729ms TTL=111Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=728ms TTL=111Reply from 222.138.109.99: bytes=32 time=747ms TTL=111Ping statistics for 222.138.109.99:Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:Minimum = 734ms, Maximum = 738ms, Average = 735ms

Agrees with Tyssen and locks thread.

Will do. I think it will. Guess I'll just have to find out... Thanks for your help

Okay, so here's the situation. For one of my school projects I have decided to do a simple cartoon animation. Because of the colour loss that you get when saving in .gif format, I have decided to save it as a .wmv file. However our school does not have a media player installed so I have decided to hand the project file (.mswmm) in instead and provide instructions on how to play the movie from there. Therefore when the cd is inserted I need two files to open (movie.mswmm AND instructions.txt). I have googled about autoplay and I have found out that you can only get one program to open through the autoplay.inf file. So instead I have complied a .bat file which is as follows: start movie.mswmmstart instructions.txtexit It opens the files and then closes the command prompt window, opening the movie file first and the instructions after so they are on top of the movie window. My autoplay file is as follows: [autoplay]File = core_files/Begin.batIcon = core_files/cd_icon.ico Instead of the usual ordinary cd icon which is displayed, it shows my chosen icon and the code starts the bat file when the cd is insterted. So, can I have confirmation on my coding before I risk mucking up my computer and cd?

PHP Moving to entertainment...

If you read the pinned topic you'd know that you need 10 posts to request a sig....

Site Review It's a nice site and it's good for a first attempt Here are my thoughts on it: The first thing notice is the footballer image on the right. It doesn't look very realistic and makes the site look unprofessional. As soon as I look at it I can tell that it was designed in mspaint and it's a good image if it was created in that program because mspaint is probably the worst graphics program there is. If you were to try and re-create the image in paint shop pro 9 or photoshop cs2, it would look a lot better. Next thing I see are the navigation buttons and the images there are of poor quailty aswell. The thing I would recommend is to scrap the navigation images and use css to create a background rollover effect and maybe have one image to use as a header for the navigation menu. Then I notice the strange table with nothing in it towards the top of the page. I go and disable adblock and refresh the page and a flashing page header I see. I appreciate the work on the animation but perhaps have it in the centre of the table at the top and rename it from banner.gif to page_header.gif or something so mine and other peoples adblocking programs don't pick it up. The final thing I would recommend is to experiment with indenting the main page text so that it isn't glued to the right hand side of the navigation table. I would also suggest validating your pages and saving your images as .png wherever possible. They are generally better quality and load quicker. If you're willing to invest more money into your site, maybe buy a graphics program. On a positive the frontpage looks okay in firefox and the colour scheme is nice. The text is legible (unlike the text on of my sites) and the domain name you chose has a very good name (not like jerryshomepage.com or talkaboutsports.com) Site Rating: 6/10

Please see here. This is a tempory issue which will probably be resolved shortly....

Some of the text I notice is stored as an image. The text-images on the right hand side I noticed immediately because of its poor quality. That can easily be solved, simple save those images as a .png instead of .gif I don't know how this page is meant to look in ie, but in firefox, the page needs the left-right scrollbars, which I personally find annoying. To get rid of this I would simple move the text on the right further to the left slightly. I think that could be done using the css float:right thing eg <span style="float:right"><img src="bla.png" alt=""></span> etc, but don't quote me on that. Still a good site though

The script is currently in use on my website. Right click and do view image on the any of the images on the website and (in firefox I know that) you may be surprised In the browser, when you do view image, the url will be http;//example.com/img.php?fl=IMAGE&type=2 etc. On my example website, you'll see that I edited the variables in the url. The cache question however I am unsure about. If you wish to get image protection, here is a small script I will provide for you: [hr=noshade][/hr] Place this on whatever php enabled webpage you want to allow images to be displayed (note it maybe a good idea to alter the contents of the variable): <? $allowImage = "1a2b3c4d";?> Just before this line: on img.php add this: if ($allowImage == "1a2b3c4d") { After this line: add this: } else {echo " <script> window.alert (\"This image has been protected. You are NOT ALLOWED to see it when attempting to get to it directly.\"); </script>";} I'm not sure if this works but try it. I doubt though that it will protect right click, save as. What I do think it'll protect is: Image Hotlinking Accessing images directly When someone hotlinks your image, the nasty red cross will appear when they view your page. If they access the image directly, the alert will appear. Note: This script has not been tested but I am 99.99% sure it'll work, please make backup copies of your files first.

Since you said you are not using the space, why not just terminate the account and reapply when you need it. The reason why admins will not freeze your credits is because you are paying for the reserved space b/w and other server resources. If you terminate your account then they are not reserved for you so your credits are not reduced.

Dunno, I just heard OpaQue tell this to someone else in the forums and took note.

Posts are no longer counted in the sig forums as the admins thought that the posts in there were generally spammy / not worthy of credits.

Yes, they should do...

No, the amount of credits deducted for a post a mod knows is unworthy of credits is based on the number of credits orignially earnt for the post itself. So a plagerized post which earnt 10 credits would have more deduced than one which earnt 7.

For Xisto - Web Hosting I think the nameservers are ns1.computinghost.com and ns2.computinghost.com

For starters this is a topic which has been discussed three times already and that's only the topics which a mod hasn't come along and locked. Click here to contine your discussion (look at the posts 5th to 7th down the list). LOCKAGE