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    UK webhosting recommendations please

    After 2 years of steadily decreasing reliability and customer service response I am looking to find a new web hosting company. I need: UK based servers (most of the sites I look after are UK companies). PHP/MySQL. Genuine 3 nines uptime. Package to allow around 20 separate websites, preferably...
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    Subtracting groups of rows

    Is there a way of getting a 'difference' value on a row in a database. I have a db constructed thus: CREATE TABLE `test` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL auto_increment, `cat` varchar(20) NOT NULL, `month1` int(11) NOT NULL, `month2` int(11) NOT NULL, `main` varchar(20) NOT NULL default ' '...
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    Duplicate content

    Have a look at thread828-1534492 if you are concerned about duplicate content penalties from search engines. This new solution may ease your woes! If you want the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first. 'If we're supposed to work in Hex, why have we only got A fingers?'...
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    Solving the 'Duplicate Content' issue

    Matt Cutts has done a video discussing the brand new CANONICAL tag, which helps us tackle some outstanding duplicate content issues. He first discusses the standard ways to minimise the problem, then shows how the new tag can resolve remaining issues. If you want the best response to a...
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    Webdesign Usability Checklist

    Try this page for a good overview of website usability. Although there are a number of points that are perhaps over-dogmatically stated I think it offers a good starting point, covering many of the points that can easily be overlooked. If you want the best response to a question, please check...
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    Standard backup to USB hard drive

    I am using the standard backup utility from SBS2003 to backup to a WD Book external USB hard drive, and cannot get past a 4GB backup. I am getting an 'out of space' error even though it is an almost empty 500GB drive. Is this a known problem, or have I missed a simple setting somewhere? If you...
  7. johnwm

    Centering variable-width images

    Is it possible using standards-compliant markup to centre an image in a div, when you don't know what the image width will be? I've checked FAQs, and googled for 'centre variable width images' without much success, except for a rather hacky conditional version at...
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    PHP database slow response via AJAX

    Sorry this is a bit long-winded - I seem to be missing a trick somewhere - I think it may be with my use of mysqli_fetch_row. I am translating an existing ASP website to PHP, and using AJAX to fetch a day's worth of images with a button onclick event. Everything seems OK, but I am seeing a 2-3...
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    A new view of page source

    I just found this FF extension and it looks excellent. Its the one by Felix Ritter on this page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=view+formatted+source&cat=all You can display formatted page source with all CSS and JS inserted as scrollable boxes or use the inline mode to view...
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    T61 power cables

    Anyone know where I can get 3m extension power cables for IBM T61 to plug into the output of a standard T61 power adaptor? Alternatively I can get them made up if I can source male/female pairs of suitable connectors. I'm looking for around 100 pieces as a first order. I would prefer a UK...
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    Web design guide for experts

    This is a brilliant design guide, well worth the time to view. It's also very well done! http://www.asktheadmin.com/2008/04/design-and-coding-rap-video.html ___________________________________________________________ If you want the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244...
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    A Great How-To!

    Dear Experts I've been searching for ages to find the secrets that REAL web designers use and I've finally found the TRUE answer. It is all revealed here: http://mirrorshades.org/wc/2007/01/not_another_teen_website.shtml We all need to spread the word (or not as the case may be) - enjoy...
  13. johnwm

    Site critique please

    I would welcome constructive comment/criticism on www.ttkc.co.uk Client has control of input to news and happy customer page (they were tested with dummy data before launch) so there may or may not be anything on those pages when you look...
  14. johnwm

    Firefox re-installation

    After some hardware problem I have had to re-install FF2.0. I have rescued all my Favourites from the old installation, but I can't find my memorised passwords. I've tried FAQs here, and done a search on this forum Any clues? You help will be appreciated...
  15. johnwm

    Partition info lost

    Is it possible to get partition info back from a crashed drive - or have I misread the problem? I've just had a mains crash which took my computer (3.2G dualcore with 200G Maxtor) out. On reboot I get 'Insert Boot disk or select bootable disk'. Figuring that I've lost an XP file I have inserted...
  16. johnwm

    FireFox 2.0.0.2

    Latest FF is now released with some security updates: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.2/releasenotes/ ___________________________________________________________ If you want the best response to a question, please check out FAQ222-2244 first. 'If we're supposed to work in Hex, why...
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    Redirect form data to 3rd party site

    Bit difficult to explain this - probably why I can't get my head round it at all! I'm trying to get input from a form on site1 (normal asp back end under my control) and progammatically send the info from the server to a 3rd party site so it looks like a form input. I need the page output from...
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    Webhost with full MySQL5 support

    Following what sounds like good security advice I've been looking to upgrade my websites to use stored procedures. I've been fine with my present supplier (who claims to have MySQL 4 AND 5 available) while I used MySQL 4, either straight or with prepared statements. With increased usage and...
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    Button validation problem in XHTML

    I am missing something really easy here! I'm doing a new version of a page (first time using AJAX so the page isn't polished for publication yet!) and I'm getting a validation error on ONE instance of a button: The button is inserted dynamically (around 36 times on this page) and only the...
  20. johnwm

    DW-Q28A driver

    I've tried googling, and only found duff leads. I've tried the Sony storage site and the Sony electronics site and can't find anything. Does anyone know where I can find a driver for this device, or are there any well-known hardware faults with it that cause (fairly regular) failures to read...

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