RE: [wdvltalk] RSS help

2006-10-25 Thread Todd Richards
What language is your boss's website using? Todd -Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:50 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] RSS help Hi all, My boss asked me to put some RSS feeds on her website in the side

RE: [wdvltalk] RSS help

2006-10-25 Thread Todd Richards
me to do her website - which badly needs work.) Riva Todd Richards wrote: What language is your boss's website using? Todd . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or use the web interface http://e

[wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
Happy Friday everyone! Some of my sites lately have been experiencing a case of spammers hijacking my forms to send ads and other crap. Yesterday we started getting the same thing at work here from our recruiting website. The forms are mainly for more information fill out the form below so we

RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
Small office = checks and balances. The boss also does recruiting, so for now he has to also check the messages. Yeah, different story for a different day. Is this just something that everyone is putting up with, and only now we are seeing it? (the spamming, not having your boss check the web

RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms

2006-10-27 Thread Todd Richards
] Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 12:19 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Hijacked forms Todd Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ink wired: Some of my sites lately have been experiencing a case of spammers hijacking my forms to send ads and other crap. Yesterday we started

RE: [wdvltalk] Microsoft Exchange DNS

2006-11-06 Thread Todd Richards
Well, maybe I'm missing something. If you are just changing the A record of the domain name to point to the IP of the new website - and that's it - then everything should be fine. However, if you are going to make a critical change, such as changing the name servers, then you need to make sure

RE: [wdvltalk] iPod question

2006-11-08 Thread Todd Richards
Yeah, but she said brother-in-law, so technically it's family right??? ;-) As Ross stated, I'm sure that Apple and many others would be stamping a firm NO on the content of this email. However, I seriously doubt that you are going to have men in black suits at your door tomorrow morning. You

RE: [wdvltalk] Catch-all mailbox in Exchange 2003

2006-11-09 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Ross - I'm not that familiar with Exchange (I run an Ipswitch Imail server), however I will make one suggestion. DO NOT set up a catch all account (commonly referred to a nobody alias/account). If you were to ask 100 mail server admins, they would all probably take out a wet noodle and start

RE: [wdvltalk] Weird things happening

2006-11-09 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - If she clicks on a link and it opens in IE, then it didn't remove it from her computer. Mine appears under C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe Might just have to create a new shortcut for it. It's really hard to say why it would have disappeared. Are there other things

RE: [wdvltalk] Microsoft Exchange DNS

2006-11-10 Thread Todd Richards
Just make sure you aren't confusing nameservers for DNS records. I host all of my DNS separate from my registrar, so the only thing that I can do with my registrar (GoDaddy in this case) is to change the name servers, which in effect tell it where to go to find DNS information for the domain. I

RE: [wdvltalk] Javascript question

2006-11-16 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - I'm not familiar with this script, or specifically what you mean when you say it moves with the resolution (I have an idea but am not positive). My first thought would be to try wrapping it in a div tag and using CSS to set the position of it to where you want. Something like div

RE: [wdvltalk] 404 error even though the files are there!

2006-12-05 Thread Todd Richards
Ross - Not sure that this is the solution, but maybe worth reading... http://www.coffeecup.com/video-player/help/windows-2003-server-does-not-stre am-flv-videos.538.html You might also want to Google FLV IIS 6 Todd -Original Message- From: Ross Clutterbuck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [wdvltalk] ACT! and ConstantContact problem

2006-12-08 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - It might be a bit OT... I don't use Act!, but but I do use Constant Contact. Todd -Original Message- From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:31 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] ACT! and ConstantContact problem I don't

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: is i-LINK firewire for transferring data?

2006-12-29 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Deb - Yes, the i-Link is basically a Firewire connection - http://searchsmb.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid44_gci749630,00.html On my laptop, it uses a smaller connector than other Firewire devices. No big deal though if you have the right cable. As for the speed differences, it is my

RE: [wdvltalk] Hosting question

2007-03-29 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - You're talking $3.99 versus $6.99 in plans - neither of which is expensive for a host. It's going to depend on what is on the site as to how much traffic it will take to reach the limit. If she is truly going to get a lot of traffic then it would probably put everyone at ease to just

RE: [wdvltalk] Email addresses on websites

2007-05-17 Thread Todd Richards
Thanks Deb. I think we need to put the email addresses on the site, but perhaps not in mailto:; tags. Is that what the bots look at when scanning? Todd -Original Message- From: Digital Mouse Designs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:02 PM To:

RE: [wdvltalk] Email addresses on websites

2007-05-17 Thread Todd Richards
The original question - properly re-phrased - would have been more towards coding the email address links - whether to use a script to encrypt them, or not to program them in a link at all. I don't see how you can't have an email address on a website. OK, I see how you can do it, but that's a

RE: [wdvltalk] Email addresses on websites

2007-05-17 Thread Todd Richards
Thanks Ross. This is an interesting article: http://accessfp.net/protect-your-email-address.htm I tested one of my pages without the mailto: link and it still found the address on the page. Here is a way to test a page: http://willmaster.com/possibilities/demo/RetrieveEmails.cgi So I guess

[wdvltalk] Firefox 2.x

2007-06-29 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone - On one of my machines, I've been holding onto Firefox 1.5 (my laptop, unfortunately) so that I can have it on one, and 2.x on another for developing purposes. Today I got a popup from Mozilla that is urging me to upgrade. Is there still a need to test on both? I currently do,

RE: [wdvltalk] [ASP] CDOSYS and QueryStrings

2007-07-03 Thread Todd Richards
Ken wrote: snip I have figured out how to send a static webpage using the first block of code below but when I put in an address with a query string, the email is not sent and no error message is generated. /snip Hi Ken - The email is not sent, or you just don't receive it? If there is no

[wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute

2007-07-17 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone - I've got a client who wants to use Contribute for editing his site. Anyone have any experience with it? I've looked at it, but not extensively. Is it just a matter of configuring the roles, sending the key, etc.? Or does the site have to have editable regions, templates, etc.?

RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute

2007-07-19 Thread Todd Richards
Hi David - Thanks for your feedback. This particular website is ASP, with a few includes for header, menu, footer, etc. I'm guessing that they would need to have the menu removed from an includes and put on each page, if they wanted to add pages? Todd -Original Message- From:

RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute

2007-07-19 Thread Todd Richards
- From: Todd Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:55 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute Hi David - Thanks for your feedback. This particular website is ASP, with a few includes for header, menu, footer, etc. I'm guessing

RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute

2007-07-19 Thread Todd Richards
: David Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 10:20 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute You got it, that's the point! ;-) -Original Message- From: Todd Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11

RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver / Contribute

2007-07-19 Thread Todd Richards
are added and deleted the Contribute users were able to add and remove the links under Job Openings accordingly. David -Original Message- From: Todd Richards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:25 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Dreamweaver

RE: [wdvltalk] [OT] Tech break down needed...

2007-07-19 Thread Todd Richards
And we are pretty much all Dell (and happy). Hope that helps your stress level! :) Todd -Original Message- From: Cheryl D Wise [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 11:06 AM I've had much better luck with our HP machines than the Dells in the last 2-3 years. On

[wdvltalk] Quick Shopping Cart

2007-09-18 Thread Todd Richards
Hi everyone - A client of mine wants to set up an easy, quick, cheap shopping cart. Primary use would be to be able to sell gift cards during the holiday season. While I think it would be a boost to her sales, I don't think it's going to be a huge money maker. So paying $40-50 / month for a

RE: [wdvltalk] Quick Shopping Cart

2007-09-18 Thread Todd Richards
ZenCart on a couple of sites hosted on Windows where PHP and MySQL is installed. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP Expression Foundation of Microsoft Expression Web http://by-expression.com -Original Message- From: Todd Richards A client of mine wants to set up an easy, quick, cheap shopping cart

RE: [wdvltalk] Quick Shopping Cart

2007-09-19 Thread Todd Richards
@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE: [wdvltalk] Quick Shopping Cart FWIW, all of the carts I listed are ASP carts. Cheryl D Wise MS MVP Expression Foundation of Microsoft Expression Web http://by-expression.com -Original Message- From: Todd Richards Thanks Cheryl. That's true about setting up

RE: [wdvltalk] Back up advice

2007-10-22 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - I have had good luck with Maxtor and Western Digital. Even some of the no name brands are actually running brand name drives. NewEgg.com has a Western Digital 250GB drive for about $80.00 (includes US shipping). That should give you plenty of room now, as well as some room to grow.

[wdvltalk] Print Style Sheets

2007-11-17 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone – I have an issue with a print style sheet on 2 sites.  Both of them work fine in IE, but when previewing in Firefox, the content gets cut off at the end of the first page (even though it might need to scroll for a few pages). Any thoughts on what this might be, or how to correct it?

[wdvltalk] Linux Server - Help Getting Started

2007-12-22 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone - I'm going to put together my first Linux server, for testing purposes now but possibly more later. I currently host and manage 10 Windows 2003 servers, so Windows is my thing. Linux, on the other hand, is not. I've looked at the various distros out there and am not sure which

RE: [wdvltalk] Linux Server - Help Getting Started

2007-12-22 Thread Todd Richards
and will investigate Fedora and Ubuntu a little more. Thanks! Todd -Original Message- From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 11:25 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com; Todd Richards Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Linux Server - Help Getting Started Todd

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: is this a good price on a hard drive?

2008-01-04 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Deb - It depends on what she uses the laptop for. I upgraded my original laptop from an 80GB to a 100GB. Now I would love to have something closer to 160GB to 200GB. My point is that I think 30GB doesn't seem like very much. Although if it's Windows 98, and she doesn't do much, then it's

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: is this a good price on a hard drive?

2008-01-04 Thread Todd Richards
Usually hitting F12 during startup will allow you to boot from CD (or on some systems choose what you want to boot from). I usually start tapping it right when it finishes the memory test and is detecting the hard drives. Hit it once or twice or three times - not a big deal. I agree with David

RE: [wdvltalk] OT: is this a good price on a hard drive?

2008-01-04 Thread Todd Richards
On 2008/01/04 1:01 (GMT-0200) Felix Miata wrote: No! Formatting is something you do to a partition, not to the physical device. With W98 there's big likelihood that the problem is a boot sector virus or a BIOS virus, neither of which standard formatting would affect. Reinstalling might kill a

RE: [wdvltalk] Kaspersky problems - or maybe not... maybe!

2008-02-29 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Joseph - As a last resort, try running the Winsock fix. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html Todd -Original Message- From: joseph harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Kaspersky

RE: [wdvltalk] Kaspersky problems - or maybe not... maybe!

2008-03-02 Thread Todd Richards
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Kaspersky problems - or maybe not... maybe! From: Todd Richards Hi Joseph - As a last resort, try running the Winsock fix. http://www.snapfiles.com/get/winsockxpfix.html Todd Todd, I was going to reply when there was a result to following

RE: [wdvltalk] Template site question

2008-03-15 Thread Todd Richards
HI Riva - I have purchased from Templatemonster.com before and had no problems. As Franni mentioned, the code is usually a bit bloated. Usually if there is music, there are two versions of the template - a standard HTML version, and the Flash version (which contains the music). On

[wdvltalk] Uploading Files

2008-03-20 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone – I’m currently using ASPUpload on one of my sites.  I’m looking at finding another “tool” that will allow users to upload multiple files – sort of like JUpload or XUpload.  Today I uploaded pictures to Kodak, and, if you are using IE, you can drag multiple files to the screen and

RE: [wdvltalk] [thelist] [OT] Hardware question about RAID...

2008-05-07 Thread Todd Richards
Tris - I actually have had luck with some onboard RAIDs, but if I have the option, 9 times out of 10 I will purchase an add-on card. And after doing some research and hearing what others say about 3ware, I took the leap and never looked back. I have an 8-port IDE in one server running RAID 5

[wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-05 Thread Todd Richards
Hey Everyone - I'm having a brain lapse here and can't figure out the right way to do this. On a home page, I have Upcoming Events with a box floating to the right that will show the next 5 events. I was trying to use rs.pagesize = 5 but for some reason it's not working (although it is in

RE: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread Todd Richards
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP On 06/05/2008 11:36 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Hey Everyone - I'm having a brain lapse here and can't figure out the right way to do this. On a home page, I have Upcoming Events with a box floating to the right that will show the next 5 events. I

RE: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread Todd Richards
- From: David Precious [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 11:04 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP On 06/06/2008 04:54 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Yes, it's coming from a MS SQL Server 2000 DB, and I'm using ASP to pull the data. Does

RE: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread Todd Richards
Yeah, I do have an ORDER BY. Maybe I don't have it in the right place? Todd -Original Message- From: r937 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 12:50 PM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP I also tried using Top, and that doesn't

RE: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread Todd Richards
No, you didn't miss it! :) Here is the original - SELECT * FROM events ORDER BY StartDate Without anything, I will get 10 events listed on the page. If I try SELECT TOP 5 * FROM events ORDER BY StartDate, then I only get the first 2 events. If I put it at the end like this SELECT * FROM

RE: [wdvltalk] Limited Records - ASP

2008-06-06 Thread Todd Richards
Ugh - After I started looking at this I realized that it's an Access DB - not SQL Server (which I'm used to working with). I'm guessing that might be the difference? Todd -Original Message- From: r937 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 5:02 PM To:

[wdvltalk] SQL Join Help

2009-01-11 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone - I always get tripped up by the joins, and my brain is aching tonight. This is probably a very easy question for some, so I'm happy to help your ego if you can help me! :) Table news: (for news articles) - news_ID - news_Title Table groups: (for group names) - group_ID -

RE: [wdvltalk] Subject: SQL Join Help

2009-01-12 Thread Todd Richards
Hey Tim - No, you weren't too late. I ended up calling it a night last night before I could figure it out, hoping that a little sleep would help. Well, thanks to you it did! I was close but needed one more join in there. I will have to study yours and figure it out exactly, as I have a few

RE: [wdvltalk] Subject: SQL Join Help

2009-01-13 Thread Todd Richards
Thanks Tim - it did help me tremendously. Sorry I jinxed you though! :( Todd -Original Message- From: Furry, Tim [mailto:tim.fu...@lsi.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:29 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: RE:[wdvltalk] Subject: SQL Join Help Todd wrote... I will have to

[wdvltalk] ASPSmartUpload Error

2009-01-16 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone – I posted on another board but did not get a single response. So I thought I would try here where the brains hang out! ☺ I have been using ASPSmartUpload on my Widows 2003 Server for a while. Everything had been working great. Suddenly we went to use it and now we are getting

RE: [wdvltalk] ASPSmartUpload Error - IGNORE

2009-01-17 Thread Todd Richards
OK, sorry for crying wolf, but this is resolved. Oh, the joys of having both a development and a live server. Ever have one of those days/weeks/months??? Todd -Original Message- From: Todd Richards [mailto:t...@promisingsites.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 7:27 PM To: wdvltalk

RE: [wdvltalk] Help please! Domain forwarding problem

2009-02-25 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Riva - I'm assuming you got this fixed? It seems to be working ok on my end. Todd -Original Message- From: Riva Portman [mailto:rrp...@roadrunner.com] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:54 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: [wdvltalk] Help please! Domain forwarding problem

RE: [wdvltalk] Help please! Domain forwarding problem

2009-02-25 Thread Todd Richards
On 2/25/2009 12:37 PM, Todd Richards wrote: Hi Riva - I'm assuming you got this fixed? It seems to be working ok on my end. Todd . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:subscribe-wdvlt...@intm-dl.sparklist.com or use the web

RE: [wdvltalk] Hey Rudy!

2009-02-27 Thread Todd Richards
Just wanted to say that I ordered my book last night from Site Point. Can't wait! Todd -Original Message- From: r937 [mailto:rudy...@rogers.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 10:28 AM To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com Subject: Re: [wdvltalk] Hey Rudy! thanks sheila yeah, i'm pretty

[wdvltalk] Issues working with dates

2009-06-10 Thread Todd Richards
Hi Everyone - I've got a few issues relating to dates on a classic ASP site that I'm working on, and I'm scratching my head and hoping someone can help. ISSUE 1: We are adding the ability for them to enter in some simple press release announcements to their member site. The announcements are

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