[wdvltalk] Re: [google] registration of site

2003-10-01 Thread Sol Sinclair
Regarding a listing in ODP, you can ask them what is up at the: Open Directory Project Public Forum http://resource-zone.com/ You have to regiuster first. >>> Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your

[wdvltalk] Re: SCR: www.aquaspa.ie

2003-09-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
http://www.aquaspa.ie> Site checks out fine on Netscape 7 win2k, but i think you know this already. I found the text size a tad too small, with my browser set to display text at 14pt, which is what i normally surf at. But i resized to 16pt, and it was fine. I guess you are primarily concerned wit

[wdvltalk] Computer Performance Tips

2003-09-12 Thread Sol Sinclair
>>> Sol Fred, Here are some suggestions that I find vital to XP/Win2000 performance. 1. Always disable the Indexing service. This service is the equivalent of the hated Find Fast program installed by previous editions of Microsoft Office. It consumes incredible amo

[wdvltalk] Outlook Express Virus??

2003-08-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
Everyone; I am having problems with Outlook, and wonder if anyone has any advice. This is what is happening: I open Outlook, initially, and can move e-mails to folders freely. After about three minutes, however, a pop-up window shows up informing me that "svchost.exe has generated errors and will

[wdvltalk] Virus Links

2003-08-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
If anyone cares to pass along any links they have to web pages of updated viruses, (preferrably with an explasnation of how they behave), it would be appreciated. Thanks. --Sol [EMAIL PROTECTED] • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAI

[wdvltalk] Re: Virus Links

2003-08-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
thanks to Michael for the links. They solved my problem. I had the Blaster worm operating on my computer. --Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal passwo

[wdvltalk] Re: Credit card processors

2003-08-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
Tim; Although i cannot comment on the quality, i do have some links on credit card processing. HTH. http://www.2checkout.com/ http://www.authorizenet.com/ --Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your P

[wdvltalk] Re: CSS

2003-07-24 Thread Sol Sinclair
The only doctype (from w3c) that I could get to validate was xhtml strict ? (no doc type makes it fall apart) I have heard reference of this problem before. Below are some links to valid Doctypes; http://www.alistapart.com/stories/doctype/ http://www.hut.fi/u/hsivonen/doctype.html http://www.op

[wdvltalk] Re: stealing page content and images

2003-07-23 Thread Sol Sinclair
Does anyone know if the same thing can be done if you have a windows server? http://www.isapirewrite.com/ ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache's mod_Rewrite, but it is designed especially for Microsoft Internet Informa

[wdvltalk] Re: Font Buying

2003-07-21 Thread Sol Sinclair
Thanks Stephen and Alida for your advice, which I intend on following. Yes, they are priced at $22.00 each at http://www.fonts.com --Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

[wdvltalk] Re: [OT?] Simple Image Editor

2003-07-19 Thread Sol Sinclair
a client that needs a simple (*very simple*) image editor There is also Adobe ImageReady be suitable? --Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To set a personal passwor

[wdvltalk] RE: Layers problem solved?

2003-07-14 Thread Sol Sinclair
Works for me too on Netscape7.01 Win2K. /Sol This works fine for me on Mozilla 1.4, win2k. -Stephen http://www.mechavox.com jac - WDVL on Monday, July 14, 2003 4:37 PM, said: > Guys sorry about this but can ye have a look at > www.ingentus.com/clients/coh/index.htm & l

[wdvltalk] Re: Distinguishing bots

2003-07-06 Thread Sol Sinclair
Does anyone know of a quick and easy way (i.e. not involving a comparison against a massive list of UAs) of telling whether a visitor is a bot or a human? Hi Jon; I don't know if this will help, but thought I would send it along just in case. - Spider Traps - Basic Concepts - -

[wdvltalk] Re: search engines and divs

2003-07-02 Thread Sol Sinclair
A web client of mine suggested putting divs on his pages that contain keywords and links, but with the div having coordinates which put it off the viewable page (negative numbers). Anyone know if this is frowned on by search engines? Hi Steve; I have been keeping tabs on the search engine opti

[wdvltalk] RE: Text Size

2003-06-30 Thread Sol Sinclair
I would prefer to have my text resizable...Can't users enlarge the size of the fonts per their browsers? >From what I understand of it, it's best to specify your font-sizes in percentages in the stylesheet eg .nameclass {font-size:100%;} This works in IE and Netscape, from my tests. /Sol ___

[wdvltalk] Re: saving emails and folders in OE6

2003-06-17 Thread Sol Sinclair
I want to save all my emails (that I've weeded out and need to hang on to) but there are too many to save indiviudually to some easy to find place on my machine to burn to a cd. Hi Brooke; I am running Win2K with OutLook Express - I imagine it's the same. I back some e-mails to CD by dragging a

[wdvltalk] Re: Search Engine Placement Problems

2003-06-17 Thread Sol Sinclair
Apart from Google, what are the other main search engines to worry about ranking on? I am assuming that if they are powered by Google then you just have to sort out Google and you will rank in these others too is this correct? Pretty much so. If an SE gleans it's results from Google, optimize

[wdvltalk] Re: Customer Billing

2003-06-05 Thread Sol Sinclair
To Deb; Hi. I, too, must say I like your site (Re: http://www.puterbug.com/rates.html). My reason for posting was just to mention that I had a difficult time reading the "orangy" type "per address". /Sol • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: ma