| Technical Stuff Website started: Sunday, May 21, 2006 Technical Page started: Saturday, May 27, 2006 Web Hosting "Control Panel" discovered (WOW!): Wednesday, June 7, 2006 First technical problem (Case # 3808095, below) Tuesday, June 20, 2006 "The hardest part of finding things is remembering where you put them." I will strive to update this "technical" information as I learn it. I am using: Yahoo Web Hosting "Starter" $11.95/month Which includes: www.your-name.com you@your-name.com Matching email accounts -- 5 Matching website sub-domains (whatever they are?) -- 5 Data transfer (bandwidth) -- 200GB (whatever that is or means?) They claim it is an Ad-free site Blogging -- is available but I haven't gotten into it yet Disk space for storing files: 5GB (Which is looking like it's going to be enough for awhile...) You have to keep an eye on "Images," they accumulate, they have to be deleted separately... (All trial and error pages, pictures, etc are stored) I haven't found out how to completely control this yet. It looks like Web Hosting Control Panel will give me plenty of warning. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) for putting files on server They seem to recommend some 3rd party stuff but I'm using theirs... Remote loading of files on another web site is available (but I don't know why)? Free Page Builder (Yahoo Site-Builder 2.2) -- which I'm using... And I'm liking it better -- the price is right! Scripting and database tools: PHP, Perl, MySQL Email storage (per account) -- 2GB Integration with Yahoo Mail in-box POP and SMTP email access Email forwards Vacation responders Priority email Yahoo Site-Builder 2.2 Crude at first, harking back to early days of Word Processing, where you had to do a lot of things "manually," but it's been adequate and the price is right: Free! I haven't looked into 3rd Party possibilities, yet, All "composing" of pictures must be done outside of Site-Builder. Page size related stuff: I still like the idea of each page fitting onto an actual piece of paper 8-1/2" x 11 (with narrow margins all around) I have settled on 687 x 882 with 1" left and .25" right margins. My template for "everything" is "Save AS" Most pictures work best as a Thumbnails (since you can make the Thumbnail any size you want). "Print Preview" shows how the page will look so you don't waste paper... Grid is almost no longer applicable... Multiple pages of text load fast and seem to be OK... But I prefer going pretty much one "Page" at a time... Technical Support for Small Business: 1-866-800-8092 Custom Mail and Domains: 1-866-849-8258 Case # 3808095 (6-20-06) Could not "Only publish modified files" -- it behaved like it was working, it went through the motions, but it didn't actually upload (sometimes any sometimes a few but not all) modified files. The command to "Publish all files" still worked. Stephanie told me I would have to re-load the program (Site Builder 2.2.7) but after a day of preparation to do that, and after checking it one more time, it magically seems to have cleared itself up. As of today (6-21-06) it is working fine again. I also got an email back from Dena about this subject who told me several things to check and make sure they are "toggled" correctly, which they were. That's when I decided to test it again before reloading everything and it worked! How can anyone explain that? |
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