Webmaster Forum / General / Web Design / January 2005

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Can anyone please recommend a FREE site search engine suitable for use on a
web site.
Thanks.
Regards,

...any experiences..?...

Ooh I'm suffering indecision. I noticed I can get five domains hosted
by hostroute.com for 90 dollars  a year if I pay in dollars and host
in usa.
But if I go to there english site its 90 pounds so nearly twice the

My sites tend to have the conventional arrangement of a vertical menu set
down the left side.
Earlier sites used to a table to format the menu.  When users asked about
printing such sites I would recommend that they click at the top of the main

Some web hosting outfits include an IP address address with an account,
others charge a buck or two per month to add one.
What are the reasons one would want or need an IP address?
Alex

Evening all
I've generally used Worldpay for a payment gateway on e-commerce sites and
think it's great for the most part.  However, I had to set up a site this
week using Paypal and was actually quite pleasantly surprised at how easy it

Have you seen / heard about an online 'favorites manager' which enables
users to log in and save their favorite urls like in a web browser.   This
to let them have access to their favorites from anywhere in the world...
Thanks for hints and tips on where to find such services or ...

hai is their any  favorites online to store website links
thx

I am sorry, but I have to scream.
Every time I drop in here I see all these headers that cry, "Need FREE
hosting!", Need Free registration", "Must be CHEAP", "Must be
affordable".

So I think I'm gonna send them an e-mail telling them the squirrel needs to
be fed.
Checking my stats this morning, huh? What happened to the counter?
Checked the code to be sure the host hadn't messed with it.

I've got a simple menu stored in its own file, which is included in
pages in the same directory, plus one or two directories deeper.  So
far, I understand that ../ will bring me one level up, and that / will
bring me to the server root.

How do i set up a unique download code for each buyer of my product , as i
don't want someone linking to the information and using for there own uses
etc as my bandwidth use can go sky high.
Basically i sell repair manuals and many i can email , but some are just to

We want to link to quality information sites.
No fee, no reciprocal link, no catch (no guarrantee we will link to
you <g>).
Either email us your suggested URL, and the existing associated

I'm hoping that one of the great and good folk of AWW can analyse this
log entry or possibly hint at other causes of comms failure.
Jan 29 23:56:50 klogd: PF ***new-rule***: IN=eth1 OUT=eth0
SRC=82.68.xxx.xxx DST=10.1.1.xxx LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=126