Re: [wdvltalk] Changing Hosting Provider

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Groen
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 21:38 +1000, wwwpages wrote: > Hi folks, > > I am unhappy with my current hosts, they let me down far too often in terms > of downtime, error/problems, prompt customer support, etc. > > I have around 25 websites for various clients who host through me. > Hopefully more in th

Re: [wdvltalk] Directories - more

2006-09-20 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 20:59 -0400, Portman wrote: > I have optimized his site for search engines and plan to submit them > manually - is anything more than that a waste? Yup! Here's where to start with Google: http://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html -- cheers, Mark •

RE: [wdvltalk] Directories

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Groen
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:30 -0500, Cheryl D Wise wrote: > .Microsoft Expression > .. > standards complaint out of the box (XHTML Transitional/CSS 2) that you could > actually write a CSS Zen Garden layout without ever touching the code > directly. I'm not saying that it would b

RE: [wdvltalk] Directories

2006-09-19 Thread Mark Groen
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 04:53 -0400, Ann Dietz wrote: > -Original Message- > From: Mark Groen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 11:43 PM > To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com > Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Directories > > > > yup! > > >

Re: [wdvltalk] Directories

2006-09-18 Thread Mark Groen
On Mon, 2006-09-18 at 22:31 -0400, Portman wrote: > Hi all, > > The list has been quiet for a while - is anyone still out there? yup! http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/read/?forum=wdvltalk cheers, Mark Groen • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk

Re: [wdvltalk] Word problem

2006-07-22 Thread Mark Groen
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 22:34 -0400, Portman wrote: > Hi all, > > My husband is finishing up a dissertation and we noticed on a few pages > that Word repeats the last line of one page on the next page. It is not > possible to delete one of the lines because when you highlight it, both > lines hig

Re: [wdvltalk] Mouseover not working

2006-07-18 Thread Mark Groen
On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 20:50 -0400, Portman wrote: > I suddenly found that my mouseover is not working on certain menu > buttons. I have no idea why. Would someone mind taking a look and see if > you can tell me what the problem is? > http://www.starqualitydesigns.com/BestHealth/ Did you change

Re: [wdvltalk] Sharpening logo

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 23:15 -0400, Portman wrote: > I am resizing in GIMP and then copying to Word. I tried a number of > different ways - png, gif, jpg, bmp - all came out grainy. The huge > image is not very smooth itself. Seems like your Google term for part of the process, (lifting out tha

Re: [wdvltalk] Sharpening logo

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 23:15 -0400, Portman wrote: > I am resizing in GIMP and then copying to Word. I tried a number of > different ways - png, gif, jpg, bmp - all came out grainy. The huge > image is not very smooth itself. Do you think I should take the time and > clean up the large image an

Re: [wdvltalk] Sharpening logo

2006-06-22 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 20:20 -0400, Portman wrote: > I have a new client who wants me to resize their logo - it is 8400 > pixels x something. That *should* be a good thing, I'm assuming it's nice and clear. > The problem is that when I resize it and put it into > a header in Word (yes, I remem

Re: [wdvltalk] css float positioning problem - deep

2006-06-01 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 19:03 +0100, James Cutts wrote: > >> It works fine in Safari and Firefox, but in IE the footer (#footer) > >> completely disappears. > > > >> Im also having problems lining up the menu and content on different > >> browsers - does anyone have a solution? > > > >> You can view

Re: [wdvltalk] form not at top of page

2006-05-26 Thread Mark Groen
On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 12:17 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > I now do have the script working to bring up the form... > > However it is now appearing at the bottom of a blank page and off the > monitor - ie needs scrolling. Any advice on getting it to sit at the top > of the page? > > http://www

Re: [wdvltalk] simple SSI ! calling form

2006-05-24 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 14:20 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > On php it's 'warning' can't find file There's your best clue, the PHP code itself looked fine. BTW - using ssi that includes php in newer versions of Apache is tricky to implement, and you are are better off using mod_rewrite to manage the

Re: [wdvltalk] Anyone use GoDaddy Virtual Dedicated Host?

2006-05-18 Thread Mark Groen
> > Diane Schips wrote: > > I just opened a virtual dedicated host with GoDaddy for a customer. > > The documentation is somewhat cryptic, it explains how to do things, > > but doesn't explain what to do, when, or why. That is the nature of dedicated hosting, you are expected to know how to adm

Re: [wdvltalk] Mail script on Apache

2006-05-01 Thread Mark Groen
On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 23:50 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > In my usual slow way I am trying to test out AffiliateClick on the desktop. > The script talks of a sendmail path through 'lib' or equivalent. > > Apache appears to use mail.php, sendmail.php etc and I can find the zip in > 'pear' but not

Re: [wdvltalk] wordpress - this is getting ridiculous - can't log in again

2006-04-02 Thread Mark Groen
On Sun, 2006-04-02 at 18:28 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > I uninstalled wordpress, kept the tables and have them working by renaming. > All worked; the blogs and other info is on page. > > I activated nothing, but moved subscribe 2 plugin to the plug in folder. > > I was told I did not have per

Re: [wdvltalk] help asap .htaccess

2006-03-30 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 11:22 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > Is this denying access to my site?How on earth did it get > there??# -FrontPage- > DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html index.htm index.php > IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti* Those are Front Page extensions,

Re: [wdvltalk] My blog is set up and awaits your critique and comment

2006-03-25 Thread Mark Groen
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 03:48 +0100, Joseph Harris wrote: > Spot on Mark. Hey, there's a lot to this... ;-) > > Trying to organise plug ins on the local machine. The ones I really want > don't seem to take! I'll try when I'm fresher. I'll probably rip > everything out and start again wit

Re: [wdvltalk] My blog is set up and awaits your critique and comment

2006-03-25 Thread Mark Groen
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 23:14 +, Joseph Harris wrote: > Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output > started at c:\easyphp1-8\www\wordpress\my-hacks.php:21) in > c:\easyphp1-8\www\wordpress\wp-admin\link-manager.php on line 233 That usually means there is some

Re: [wdvltalk] My blog is set up and awaits your critique and comment - looperman

2006-03-24 Thread Mark Groen
> > Some things take a long time. I have now set up a blog based on Wordpress > > at http://www.looperman-is-ready.com/wordpress/index.php > > > 1. Can you have a look and give a general comment. > > 6. Any other kind advice. As mentioned, things will go a bit wonky when the widths of your we

Re: [wdvltalk] Tracing e-mails

2006-03-19 Thread Mark Groen
On Sun, 2006-03-19 at 08:11 -0500, Portman wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there is a way to find out who owns a certain account > or if two e-mails from different ISP's come from the same computer? I > would like to find out about a yahoo account. You need to be able to read the email

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: GRRRRR!!! shared folders are empty!

2006-03-16 Thread Mark Groen
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:53 -0600, PBC Web Design wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I gave up on the printer sharing (and just went out and bought > an inexpensive second printer) and am about to give up on the folder > sharing because it's not working now. All folders I have set to > share have content

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: WinXP network folder sharing questions WinXP & one problem

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 14:06 -0600, PBC Web Design wrote: > Hi, > > If you are sharing folders between 2 computers, working in a shared > folder on the client computer you are also then updating files on the > main computer (and vice-versa) - correct? No, there is only one copy of the file you a

Re: [wdvltalk] Opinion on website

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:11 -0500, Portman wrote: > Excuse my ignorance, but can you tell me how to do that? > > Thanks, > Riva > > Mark Groen wrote: > > If the pages have already been crawled by a search engine then it's > > possible they may show up in a sear

RE: [wdvltalk] internal server error problem

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 18:02 +0200, Inas Hamam wrote: > Hi, > > I just deleted the old directory and re-uploaded a fresh one using Hostway's > online ftp program...still no luck...everything works but the index.php file > still gives the same error message... Thanks so much for your help on > this.

Re: [wdvltalk] Opinion on website

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:43 -0500, Portman wrote: > Won't people still be able to access the pages by searching for > something? (i.e. a product name?) > > > Mark Groen wrote: > > Put all your sites that are on the internet but still under development > > in a

Re: [wdvltalk] Opinion on website

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:27 -0500, Portman wrote: > Hi all, > > I am 99% done with a website for a client but she is moving and doesn't > want me to upload the site yet. The problem is that some people have > found the site from my site and started placing orders. I am not sure > what to do -

Re: [wdvltalk] internal server error problem

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 10:04 +0200, Inas Hamam wrote: > OkI am slowly going mad here... > I installed a copy of the wordpress blog software on my server and am trying > to get it to work. > The whole admin side works perfectly, I can write posts, edit posts, do > everything. > But when I try to

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: sharing a printer isn't working

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Groen
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 06:54 -0600, PBC Web Design wrote: > At 11:33 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote: > >http://www.homenethelp.com/web/howto/net-xp.asp > > > Using these instructions above it *seems* like I made some > progress. I can now see the Desktop *icon* in the Network Tasks > which I never cou

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: sharing a printer isn't working

2006-03-14 Thread Mark Groen
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:01 -0600, PBC Web Design wrote: > At 09:55 PM 3/14/2006, you wrote: > Seems to me I have to enable File & Printer Sharing for MS Networks > but when I try to add the Client on the laptop it tells me that > Windows cannot find the drivers for it and that if I have a disk

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: sharing a printer isn't working

2006-03-14 Thread Mark Groen
On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 21:29 -0600, PBC Web Design wrote: > At 12:38 PM 3/9/2006, you wrote: > >1) Go to Start - Run - type in cmd (for command prompt) and type ping > >\\nameofdesktop, does it respond? If not, then you are not seeing it at > >all. If yes, then go to #2. > >2) Open your Printers d

Re: [wdvltalk] wdvltalk: Better email link

2006-02-24 Thread Mark Groen
On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 11:42 -0500, Randy (PeterPan) wrote: > > my hosting > company provides SPAM Assassin, and I have them delete obvious SPAM. But > I don't want too aggressive a filter because sometimes it traps good > mail too and besides, the SPAMMERS can come up with 1000 wa

Re: [wdvltalk] People on dial up

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Groen
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 20:12 -0500, Portman wrote: > Hi again, > > I was wondering if someone who is on dial up would mind looking at my > site and telling me which pages take too long to load . . . I realize > the first one is graphics heavy - need to figure out what to do about > that, but i

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: PC Shutdown problems

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Groen
On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 23:16 +, John Hughes wrote: > Folks, > > Don't know if any of you have come across this issue before. I burned some > php files to CD and loaded them on to another PC. They wouldn't open in > CoffeeCup and after a bit of headscratching and hoking around I found that > the

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: PC Shutdown problems

2006-01-24 Thread Mark Groen
> At 15:37 24/01/2006, you wrote: > > >Peter MacGregor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I've a PC that is not quite a year old and > > > in the past week or two it's developed an > > > inability to shut itself down. > > > > > > I don't usually switch off at all as I have > > > a broadban

Re: [wdvltalk] strangest thing...is this a virus?

2006-01-03 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Rita Crisafi" <> To: Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 8:37 AM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] strangest thing...is this a virus? >>Does anyone have any idea what the problem could be?? >> >>The source of the page is here: >>http://www.barbesrecords.com/lasrubias_test3.

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: Spam problem

2005-12-08 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Peter MacGregor" <> To: Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2005 9:41 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] OT: Spam problem > For the past ten days or so I have been inundated with messages > telling me emails I have supposedly sent cannot be delivered. These > come from two sour

Re: [wdvltalk] php mail()

2005-10-27 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "steve miller" <> To: Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 6:19 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] php mail() > Hi all. > > Could use some help with php mail(). I am using this to send email, and > have having trouble getting the reply address right: > > $mailto="$userstuff[3

Re: [wdvltalk] create Outlook task using php

2005-10-06 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - To: Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 6:37 AM Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] create Outlook task using php > Does anyone have any good sources for how to create/manipulate Outlook tasks > using php? > I doubt it since there is a good chance that the person running Outlook w

Re: [wdvltalk] Sending mails

2005-10-04 Thread Mark Groen
Forgot to add - turn on error reporting to get more info as to what your script is doing: put this near the top: error_reporting(E_ALL); That's for all errors, more types here: http://ca3.php.net/error-reporting mg > My guess is that the emails are stored in a temp directory or array > somewhe

Re: [wdvltalk] Sending mails

2005-10-04 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Harris" <> To: Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 2:03 AM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Sending mails > It was just a hope it might solve it ;-).Otherwise, humble beginner > though I am, that seems only to leave some loop count. Presumably it is > looping

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: password protecting Windows

2005-09-24 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "PBC Web Design" <> To: Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 5:21 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] OT: password protecting Windows > I'm interested in learning how to password protect my system on startup. In Linux, it's the root password. In Windows, iirc, you will have

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering?

2005-09-18 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "PBC Web Design" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 6:27 AM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering? At 01:32 AM 9/18/2005, you wrote: >More on ZA's badly implemented update this time

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering?

2005-09-18 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "PBC Web Design" <> To: Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 6:17 AM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering? that the update of ZA was the culprit. I'd just keep Black Ice (and even go for the paid version) b

Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering?

2005-09-17 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "PBC Web Design" <> To: Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:23 PM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] OT: HELP! computer rebooting on it's own/Windows XP error deciphering? At 02:37 PM 9/17/2005, you wrote: >Deb, > >on my recent install of ZoneAlarm a couple of days ago

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] local host goes on-line

2005-09-15 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Joseph Harris" <> To: Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 3:47 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] [OT] local host goes on-line > Any ideas why the local server won't be active until I go online? It never > used to happen.The main difference in the whole setup is tha

Re: [wdvltalk] Thunderbird crashed

2005-08-04 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Portman" <> To: Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Thunderbird crashed > Thanks for the e-mail. All I can find is under c:\Program Files\Mozilla > Thunderbird\defaults. I don't have a Documents and Settings (using > WinME.) The

Re: [wdvltalk] Another mass email problem - but bigger!

2005-05-23 Thread Mark Groen
s, bounces, FCKeditor included, multiple cross generation of lists, open tracking, click tracking, etc. etc. etc. all handled smoothly. Been using it for over a year with a couple clients, no problems beyond the learning curve for them :-) Warm Regards, Mark Groen MG Web Services

Re: [wdvltalk] Apache server path

2005-05-22 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "loren wolsiffer" <> To: Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:54 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] Apache server path > My www server has a path like this > /home/mydomain/public_html/ > > On my local host the server path is > c:\website\mydomain\ > > which I want to change to

Re: [wdvltalk] Zone Alarm

2005-05-21 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Portman" <> To: Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 2:19 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] Zone Alarm > I started up my computer yesterday and suddenly I am getting all sorts > of alerts from Zone Alarm. I have had Zone Alarm for a while and it is maybe it was set to auto-up

Re: [wdvltalk] Windows XP Icon remapping

2005-05-20 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <> To: Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:48 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] Windows XP Icon remapping > Any one have any pointers on how to remap the Internet Explorer icon on > a winXP desktop so it launches Firefox? Go to Explorer view and ge

Re: [wdvltalk] [OT] wierd web mail

2005-05-01 Thread Mark Groen
> Has anyone a thought? Well, on this subject anyway. Mail box full? cheers, Mark • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e-newsletters.internet.com/discussionlists.html/ S

Re: [wdvltalk] Character encoding

2005-04-28 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - To: Sent: April 28, 2005 6:08 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] Character encoding > Finding a toe dipped into Kevin Yank's Site Point e-letter I was frightened > by the encoding issue. He says both ISO-8859-1 and UTF-8 can cause severe > headaches with PHP. I wouldn't call

Re: [wdvltalk] Pop Up Windows

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Pop Up Windows > I am noticing that each time I get an update for IE, through my windows > updates, things change with IE. It never put a status bar at the bottom > before, and I've been using that script since about 2000, but it sure > does n

Re: [wdvltalk] Pop Up Windows

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Groen
> I tried status=0, but that didn't work, but thanks anyway. I guess I > could try your script if that's ok with you. no problem, it's one that Jeff H., youngpup, or PPK left out in the wild for an example, (stand on the shoulders of giants). You call it in the html accessible-wise thusly: some

Re: [wdvltalk] Pop Up Windows

2005-04-23 Thread Mark Groen
- Original Message - From: "jdmajor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: April 23, 2005 4:20 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] Pop Up Windows > Hi gang, > I have a simple popup window code like this: > >