Re: A83: new TI-83 Site


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Re: A83: new TI-83 Site




You can FTP to Geocities. As far as I know, you get 11 megs per free
account, and evidently you can have up to 6 accounts. I use Geocities, but
for the url I use surf.to, which is annoying, but free.
-Scott
(page is down, Battletech page anyway)

At 08:55 AM 2/2/99 EST, you wrote:
>
>In a message dated 02-02-99 5:56:33 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>timagic@yahoo.com writes:
>
>
><<  I use Geocities.  Whats not worth 66 megs of space for free.  Which
>is not cheating if you read the rules real close.
>  As for doamins goecities offers the same thing because its a
>standard fee applied to register.  And if you register your domain
>with them, you have no banners anyway.  I also use cjb.net, there
>domain is shorter than webjump's.  I do think I will get a domain name
>soon and move servers but there is nothing wrong with Geocities.
>  Also I feel pop-ups are a lot better to deal with than banners stuck
>to your page.  Me and my brother made a nice little program to deal
>with that problem right off.  Even works with many of the other sites
>people use.  Its avaliable on my site.>>
>
>Well, because you have not advertised HOW to get the 66 megs, and I don't
feel
>like looking in the rules, I'm going to guess that the normal webmaster isn't
>going to get the 66 megs.  Also, if you do manage to get 66 megs, it's
still a
>really annoying URL
>(www.geocities.com/Times_Square/First_street/second_house/first_door_on_the
_le
>ft/7345/ticalc/index.html), and it ads a sort of contempt like "He's on
>GEOCITIES?  Well, the page can't be good!", even if it's not true.  Also,
last
>time I checked (I don't know if I'm right or not), there is no ftp access,
you
>have to upload every file manually.  That gets annoying.  Also, there is no
>CGI support, which webjump has (although, the perl interpreter is down right
>now).
><< 
>>Tip #4:  Don't use frames, use a table.  Frames mess up your backround
>>picture, and are harder to use links with.  No one likes a webpage
>>that keeps a frame when you go to another page through a link.
> 
>   I use frames and it sets off the background of my site.  I actaully
> made the background with frames in mind.
>     And all you need to do is add the target=parent and load a frame
> set with 100% width named parent before you load your page (as long as
> you set it up correctly it works).  True I haven't bothered to do this
> in my links but...
>   As for tables???  I use them too but I don't think I have figured
> out what you are talking about here.
>  >>
>  If you look at my site (www.hmph.com/starcraft), then you will see what I
>mean about tables.  Instead of having a frame and 3 seperate html documents
>(index.html, mainframe.html, leftframe.html), you just create a table to make
>it seem like frames.  Sure, some people like to be able to keep the left
links
>there when they scroll, but most don't really care.  Also, on smaller
>resolusions and screens, there may end up being a scroll bar on the left
>frame, and that gets really annoying, why not just have it scroll with main
>document?  Oh well, I guess you can do what you want, but on the page I
looked
>at, it would have been better without frames.
>
><<  No offense meant by my biting and slashing of your words.  I'm just
>bored waiting for dinner to hurry up.
>
>Jimmy
>www.timagic.cjb.net>>
>
>mmmmm....dinner.....too bad it's breakfast time :(
>And about the "biting and slashing", I don't mind it every-so-often, I
like to
>argue :P  Just don't make a habit of it :)
>
>David
>"Common sense is not so common." -- Voltaire
>
>


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