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  1. I use awstats and Google analytics (formally Urchin) and that's good for me. Stefan
  2. Poor porn guys. Funny thing is, at least they make their money in an honest way ... unlike the mortgage and banking industry has over the last 10 years!! Stefan
  3. In Photoshop, to have transparent backgrounds for your images, you need to first 'Save for Web' and then you need to choose either Gif or PNG. When you choose one of those options, you will then be presented a screen with many new options, one of those options is the transparent background. Stefan
  4. You can configure WAMP to use your ISP's outgoing mail server .. this is usually set up when you first install WAMP. That said, WAMP is designed to be a development environment ... not for production. So I don't think having an SMTP server built in, is a problem for most. To test your use of the mail() function can just as easily be done on your live server. Stefan
  5. Personally, I check a few outside stats like the W3C and others, but I pay special attention to my own stats with regards to the deciding factor. ... But then again, we get about 500 000 visits a month, so we have some data. Another thing to consider is the subject of the site: if you are building a site where your visitors are more likely to be up to date with newer computers, then IE6 becomes much less important. Sometimes though, it is hard to predict these things. Stefan
  6. Wow, I appreciate all the kind remarks. I think that the teaching thing is in the blood - several people in my family are teachers or had been teachers, including my father. Stefan
  7. Ben, New site looks good. You have some design talent. Stefan
  8. Eric, has does the forum render on the phone? And btw, what phone are you using? Stefan
  9. Oh wait ... default was already mentioned. My bad. Stefan
  10. Hi, You change your thinking on this and use the 'default' statement for a catch all: switch ($_POST['page_count']) { case "1": echo "There is 1 page." break; case "2": echo "There are 2 pages." break; case "3": echo "There are 3 pages." break; default: echo "There are 4 to 5 pages ... or even more!" break; }; Actually, I think the other options presented above would work better, but I wanted to mention the 'default' statement. Stefan
  11. Just look in the APACHE config files and search for 80. When you find the line that says something like: port 80 ... you just need to change this to port 8080. So when hitting Apache that is set to port 8080, the URL would be: 127.0.0.1:8080/yourwebsite/ That said, why do you need both running at the same time? Just turn one off when you don't need it. Stefan
  12. In my third video the script is all there for you to use. ... It isn't that hard and at the same time, you gain important web design related skills. Stefan
  13. Classic Microsoft. You should see the Xbox 360 - half of the time the CD tray won't even open.
  14. Hi, Have you seen my podcast on the business of web design? I go over many details about starting a web design business where I also get into some basic working strategies. Stefan
  15. Tea and honey rocks! If you use 90% cocao and pure honey, this ultra tasty beverage is actually super healthy for you too! Stefan
  16. Hi, You need to learn a touch of PHP. Try my free beginners videos at www.killerphp.com. If you are impatient, you can watch my videos on processing forms with PHP. This part of the course shows you how to process a form and then to send the results to an email address. Hope that helps, Stefan
  17. That's what I love about the Web and this forum - you make friends with people from all over the world. Amazing. Stefan
  18. Life is full of irony. Now that I have the freedom and money to 'party hard', I just get too tired and I want to go home by 1 am. At 1:30, I become the walking dead, and by 2:30, I'm home sipping tea with dark chocolate and honey. Happy New Year. Stefan
  19. You can also try running Apache/WAMP on another port. The default port for web servers is 80, but if you change Apache to say 8080, then IIS can run while WAMP is running and there will not be a conflict. ... Only one web server at a time can run on a single port. Stefan
  20. I'm happy to hear you found the lessons useful. Stefan
  21. This comes back to basic copyright infringement. You would have to look this up or contact lawyer about this. That said, they cannot just copy your content and rebrand it. But they can use it as the basis of their own content by changing up the sentences, images and still deliver the same basic material and structure. These types of legal battles can be costly. My advice would be to contact their hosting company with a complaint of plagiarism and many times, the hosting company will look into it not wanting any headaches. ... I should point out that (if memory serves me,) that hosting companies cannot be held responsible for their clients content. Stefan
  22. You should be able to wrap the function call in a try/catch and then set it to catch any error. This way, you can display a nice friendly message to users. If you knew the twitter API, you could get a list of errors it throws, then create a more fine-tuned error handling routine. If not, just do a catch all and you should be fine. Stefan
  23. On the Mac, you may be able to set file associations - if that is the problem you are having. ... To be honest I am not 100% sure if I understood your question. I guessed it was file associations. Stefan
  24. You may want to check in the Dreamweaver preferences and see if there as option there to stop it from doing that. But typically on Windows, when you install a new program, the program will ask you if you want it to become the default application for x,y,z files. Stefan
  25. I am a big fan of Wordpress because it is really easy to use and install and it has a huge community behind it. That means lots of templates, plug-ins etc ... We also have Wordpress videos too. - I have not used CMS Made Simple, so I can't comment on it except to say some of our members like it. Stefan
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