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Using a hosting company outside US

Lowprofile — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:17:20 GMT

Very new to how SEO works and how to increase page rankings. Does using a hosting service based in Canada or other country negatively effect your web site in rankings?

Best budget hosting providers? (Shared)

Alex — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:07:33 GMT

The title says it all..

Who are the best budget shared hosting providers you've found?

Inspired by this thread.

Alex

what is going on here? at a loss!

richardAZ — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:46:31 GMT

The first section of code is from my local PHP editor on my home machine.
The second section is what I see from the page source off the actual server.
What in sam heck is causing this? I can't figure it out.
The only thing I can think of is that is the editor itself causing the problem.
Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

**********
first
**********

Note that this is in the "body" section of the code. I don't understand why I'm getting the doc type or the extra html headers.

*********
second
********

Saturday November 21, 2009, 00:00

Need suggestions for bulk email campaign?!

EricWatson — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:31:42 GMT

If anyone has ventured down this road, your experience would be most helpful. Like how to, the best way, the cheapest way, etc, etc... Thanks!

LCD Monitor color differences?

kaiserblade — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:29:20 GMT

Why is it that every LCD monitor makes colors look different? I have 3 LCD monitors and my website colors look different on each one. It's really frustrating. I am using fairly inexpensive Dell, Samsung and Acer LCDs. Is it the cheap LCDs or could it be the video card or is it something else?

FF intermittant positioning bug

markbrown4 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:28:11 GMT

Hi,

When I refresh this page Obi-wan and Anakin sometimes position themselves incorrectly in Firefox 3.5.5 on a mac - but it could be for others.
http://www.yellowshoe.com.au/example...org-chart.html

Those two Jedi always get up to mischief. Any clues?

Edit PDF files in OpenOffice

SiberianHuskey — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:27:51 GMT

I downloaded this extension after downloading and updating OpenOffice to version 3.x. The extension is suppose to enable me to edit PDF files, well it's been a real struggle, I've read up on how easy, it's suppose to be and it's not working. I'm hoping someone can help me ?

Page Jumps

a-rob — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:49:44 GMT

Hello All - not sure what forum to place this in. CSS, JavaScript, or .NET.

There is a standard javascript Share popup - with all the stuff on it - LinkedIn, Dig, Blogger, MySpace . . .

Anyway, it is sitting inside of a placeholder.

Code:

Any time a user hovers over the link or image, the popup opens and the page moves to the left.

Does anyone have an idea why?

thanks for looking

Navigation links

dyung2 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:46:34 GMT

Okay my problem are the navigation links. So, here is my situation, in my index.php, I have 3 codes of lines that are:

Code:

When I click on the Contact link from the index.php it works, but when I click on the Contact link again from contact.php it doesn't work because now there is an extra word in the path. Note: My navigation links are in footer.php
You can take a look at my site: http://duely.freehostia.com to see what I am referring to.

Here is what my partial folder structure looks like:
index.php
common
-footer.php
pages
-contact.php

Should I dissolve my LLC now that I switched coasts?

saano — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:44:58 GMT

I recently moved to California, but my LLC is registered in NY.
I use the company to manage my small portfolio of sites, but I recently had lunch with an attorney who offered his services to dissolve the NY LLC and reestablish a new one in CA. His argument, as I understood, was that local accountants and attorneys won't be familiar with NY law.
I fly back to NY roughly once a month, but his argument does make sense should I need to meet face to face with an attorney on short notice.
The cost of the transition would be roughly $2K-$3K. Does it make sense to do it?

AJAX inconsistencies

iwojiwoj — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:24 GMT

Hi folks.

I am having a hellish time trying to get my site (http://woj.com/polish) to run consistently on all browsers. I'm using AJAX code that works great on Safari and IE8, but only work intermittently on Firefox and Chrome.

I'm hoping that someone out there could view source on my site and see what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks.

Ian

HTML Code:













"if (white && red) { loadXMLDoc('url1','http://woj.com/polish/proxy.php?url=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl=en%26q=' + urlEncode(white), loadFlag); loadXMLDoc('url2','http://woj.com/polish/proxy.php?url=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl=en%26q=' + urlEncode(red), loadFlag); document.getElementById('table').style.visibility = 'hidden'; document.getElementById('white-content').innerHTML = urlDecode(white); document.getElementById('red-content').innerHTML = urlDecode(red); }  window.resizeTo(self.screen.width, self.screen.height); window.moveTo(0,0); getAllSavedTerms();">



"white">"100%" width="100%">"bottom" style="color:#dddddd;" id="white-content"> "bottom" align="right" style="color:#dddddd;" id="white-hits">

"red">"100%" width="100%">"top" style="color:#ff8888;" id="red-content"> "top" align="right" style="color:#ff8888;" id="red-hits">



"table">

"100%" height="100%">


"center" valign="center">

        

        "400" height="250">

        

        

        

        "intro-outer">

        "intro-bg">

        "intro">

        Compare two aspects of "http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&q=+polish+polishness+poland" target="_blank">Polishness, as Google search terms:

        

        "form1">

        

        "5">

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        

        "top">

        1. "input-white" name="white" type="text"/>

        "50" align="right" valign="top" id="eg">e.g. "top">

            "search_example_1">

        


        2. "input-red" name="red" type="text"/>

        "50" align="right" valign="top"> "top">

        "search_example_2">

        



        "submit" value="Compare" />

SERP monitoring tools ?

nikola8 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:11:30 GMT

Hi,

What tool do you use to monitor your sites web position.
I'm thinking that some online hosted tool is much better then desktop application as I don't need to open and run it each day.

I have over 50 sites I would like to monitor (5 to 10 keyword for each) only for google.

What I need is:
- position on google for each site and keyword
- number of indexed pages

Thanks,
Nikola

Page Flip Digital Publication

JeffGSR — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:53:54 GMT

Hello,
I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find the creator of this software? I have seen many websites offering page flip software, but none like the following. As you will see this page flip software has many cool animations built in. Any help is greatly appreciated.

http://www.toyassociation.org/AM/PDF...008/index.html

Need help excluding certain terms from database search.

aloeroot — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32:27 GMT

Hi folks -thanks for any input.

I'm running a MySQL database client version: 3.23.58

The database contains a lot of comic strips and is designed to be searchable by keyword (among other things). Each strip's record contains keywords related to its content, and it also includes a list of every character who appears in that strip.

However, I want to restrict people from searching for specific keywords, for example "George", because searching for the word George would bring up nearly all of the strips in the database, as George is in almost all of them - something we're hoping to avoid. With thousands of records, it wouldn't make sense for me to remove all instances of George from the keywords field, either.

Here's the way my query is presently structured. I capture the keywords from an input form, trim the whitespace and then run the query.

Code:

$query = "select * from table where description like \"%$trimmed%\" order by date";

This works well to let people search for the terms we want to allow, like "flower", "flowers", "flowering", but I want to refuse to let people enter "George", "Georg", "orge" etc. and having every George-related strip show up.

I started experimenting with if statements to deny the search based on the value of %$trimmed%, but as you can see this gets problematic quickly especially for characters with longer names. There's got to be a better method.

Code:

if (

$trimmed == "George" or

$trimmed == "george" or

$trimmed == "eorge" or

$trimmed == "orge" 

)

 {

echo "Generate message denying the search
";

exit;

}

Any ideas? Thanks so much.

Looking for recommendations for ergonomical keyboard

kohoutek — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:20:14 GMT

Every few months, I get tendinitis on my right wrist due to working approx. 10 hours per day using the keyboard.
It hurts like hell but bandaging and the regular ointments don't really help much, ergo I'm looking for a keyboard that might be ergonomically more suited for people like me?

Does anyone have similar problems? What helps you best? And which keyboard would you recommend?

Thanks!