Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 18 June 2009 20:27:11 Dotan Cohen wrote: This choice only confuses users. What advantage does Atom give the user? Well, see for example this bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44899 Essentially, XML::Feed works the best if all feeds are Atom or all feeds

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-21 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Thursday 18 June 2009 18:46:37 Dotan Cohen wrote: I see. Well, in one case, it wasn't possible, because my account at the Technion's undergraduate students server got terminated without a redirect being set up after I graduated from the Technion. That's basa. Did you ask one of the

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
I could make a similar argument about some UAs not handling HTML 4.1 well, do you give them a choice of HTML 1.0 for your website? Well, these are very rare nowadays and need not be catered for. Most modern browsers can handle my XHTML 1.1 just fine, and I haven't heard any complaints yet.

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 15 June 2009 21:04:00 Dotan Cohen wrote: It didn't help. Google eventually lost the page rank for the old domain before the redirect and I had to slowly regain it. The only thing that you could have done here was to make sure that there was a redirect long before the old

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
I see. Well, in one case, it wasn't possible, because my account at the Technion's undergraduate students server got terminated without a redirect being set up after I graduated from the Technion. That's basa. Did you ask one of the Danys from Taub to reinstate the site for a a year? In one

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-18 Thread Dotan Cohen
This choice only confuses users. What advantage does Atom give the user? Well, see for example this bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=44899 Essentially, XML::Feed works the best if all feeds are Atom or all feeds are RSS. And there may be similar bugs in other programs.

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 14 June 2009 14:34:50 Dotan Cohen wrote: Use a header 301 redirect only! It moves pagerank to the new page. Don't use javascript or meta redirects. I used Redirect permanent. No luck there. Yes, that's a 301. What do you mean by no luck? It didn't help. Google eventually lost

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
Yes, that's a 301. What do you mean by no luck? It didn't help. Google eventually lost the page rank for the old domain before the redirect and I had to slowly regain it. The only thing that you could have done here was to make sure that there was a redirect long before the old domain went

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-15 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Monday 15 June 2009 13:11:44 Dotan Cohen wrote: Yes, that's a 301. What do you mean by no luck? It didn't help. Google eventually lost the page rank for the old domain before the redirect and I had to slowly regain it. The only thing that you could have done here was to make sure that

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-15 Thread Dotan Cohen
It didn't help. Google eventually lost the page rank for the old domain before the redirect and I had to slowly regain it. The only thing that you could have done here was to make sure that there was a redirect long before the old domain went cold. I did. But it didn't help. Did you mean

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 13:01:27 Dotan Cohen wrote: 1. I personally maintain my sites as mostly static HTML content that is generated from templates and uploaded to the site using rsync. If you're not using rsync or something - you should. See its -a option too. I use a ehader.inc and

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I use a ehader.inc and footer.inc file for consistent layout across the site, and include them with PHP. The rest of the page can be either static or dynamic, as per the need. That's not a bad solution. My template is more sophisticated than just including a static HTML header and footer,

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-14 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Sunday 14 June 2009 14:04:38 Dotan Cohen wrote: I use a ehader.inc and footer.inc file for consistent layout across the site, and include them with PHP. The rest of the page can be either static or dynamic, as per the need. That's not a bad solution. My template is more sophisticated

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
Use a header 301 redirect only! It moves pagerank to the new page. Don't use javascript or meta redirects. I used Redirect permanent. No luck there. Yes, that's a 301. What do you mean by no luck? Well, I didn't measure type-in, but in May this year, I had 1,843 hits for shlomifish.org

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Dan Shimshoni
hello, i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version over the weekend. in fact, i think i would better buy my own domain finally and move the site elsewhere. I believe it would be great and for the benefit of all to share tip and tricks lessons of building/upgrading a

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 10:30 +0300, Dan Shimshoni wrote: hello, i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version over the weekend. in fact, i think i would better buy my own domain finally and move the site elsewhere. I believe it would be great and for the benefit of

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Jun 10, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Omer Zak wrote: Tip No. 1: Use separte entities for connecting you to the Internet, registering your domain name, hosting your Website and providing you with E-mail services. Tip No. 2: Have access to at least two independent E-mail providers (and for the

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
I believe it would be great and for the benefit of all to share tip and tricks lessons of building/upgrading a domain-based website nowadays. (even better: a lecture on this subject) DS Here's all there is too it: Use links relative to the base url in you pages. That's it. If you really

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 10 June 2009 10:30:07 Dan Shimshoni wrote: hello, i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version over the weekend. in fact, i think i would better buy my own domain finally and move the site elsewhere. I believe it would be great and for the benefit of

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
1. I personally maintain my sites as mostly static HTML content that is generated from templates and uploaded to the site using rsync. If you're not using rsync or something - you should. See its -a option too. I use a ehader.inc and footer.inc file for consistent layout across the site, and

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Oron Peled wrote: Good day (cross-posted, check when replying). A a previous customer of Actcom I continued with Bezeqint under the same terms (including a contract renewal ~1 year ago). Few days ago I accidentally discovered that my hosted homepage wasn't accessible -- further tests + ~1 hour

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread guy keren
looks like www.actcom.co.il doesn't respond to requests any longer. users.actcom.co.il does respond to requests. it looks like this breaks my site as well, since i've used www.actcom.co.il in the links between my pages :0 i guess i'll modify the site for a new URL and upload a new version

Re: OT: Bezeqint made me poof... he's gone

2009-06-09 Thread Oron Peled
On 09.06.2009 Shachar Shemesh wrote: Oron Peled wrote: ... Few days ago I accidentally discovered that my hosted homepage wasn't accessible -- further tests + ~1 hour on the phone (navigating through Bezeqint support structure) revealed the unbelievable THE FREAKING BASTARDS