Web site control and ownership

I have a domain name and a working website on free hosting at the moment. I intend to upgrade to a better form of hosting. However, the problem I have is a breakdown in communication with the person who put my site for me. He seems to be able to tweak and change things as and when I want him to, although can leave me waiting. And for this reason I want to take control of my business and site, so to speak. However, he hasn’t been very forthcoming and I don’t know what to do. I have feeling he doesn’t want to hand over web site control! I really want the web site control and ownership – can this be done? And would I be able to do changes and tweaks etc. once I have upgraded hosting and maybe purchase a web package?
A. H.

A professional ‘web site‘ consists of a domain name, the web hosting account and the actual web site files (web pages and other multimedia files). The ownership and the control of these can lie with different individuals. Once you consider these three ‘segments’ as individual entities, understanding web site control and ownership becomes easy to explain and to grasp.
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Windows 7 browser program

A good friend of mine advised that I should have Firefox as the Windows 7 browser. But I am kind of used to Internet Explorer. Are there any major advantages in shifting to a different program?
Jonathan Calecas

Jonathan, I’d like to give you unbiased advice but that’s really difficult because nothing in this world is subjective! Anyway, it’s fine to use Internet Explorer as the Windows 7 browser because more than half the world employs this program to surf the web – check the web browser statistics.

Having said that, your friend is not entirely wrong and his advice holds a good bit of value.
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Smaller tabs in Chrome browser

Here is something I found an hour back. I’ve been using and avidly following the development of Google Chrome web browser for more than 1.5 years so this took me by complete surprise.

Anyway, I found out that the browser tabs in the Chrome program can be made smaller by a quick mouse drag action. Thus, click on the tab and with the key still depressed move the mouse quickly to the left. You don’t need to move the mouse a lot… just a wee bit. Furthermore, you can be selective and pick the tabs you want to make smaller in size.
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Cannot login to email? Check this out

It can happen to the best of us. The other day my assistant, who is a “thoroughbred” programmer, comes up enquiring whether things are fine on Hotmail because he just cannot login to his email account. A quick check from my side showed that there was nothing wrong with Hotmail because I could login without problems. My assistant insisted that he was using the correct username (the full Hotmail email address) and password but they were being rejected.
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Links not working on web site

I have only recently started learning to make a web site. I prepared everything on my computer and then uploaded the files on the server. But now the links are not working. Also the images are not visible. Everything seems fine on my computer so why am I facing this problem on the server?
Jerome Taylor

Though I assume the site was developed on a computer running Windows, most of the troubleshooting tips for the problem of links not working would also be applicable for users on other operating systems. Based on my teaching experience, there can be many reasons why things seem fine on your local system but the hyperlinks do not work on the server. Keep your mind open to possibilities of small errors and do go through these tips thoroughly – do not take things for granted.
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Most popular free Windows email

I was thinking of creating a second email account – I already have one from my Road Runner. So I was wondering if you can give me the details of the most popular free Windows email service. Could you also help me create a free email address on this new computer.
Madison Norman

Picking up the most popular email service in the world was easy for me. I create a poll through Polldaddy.com and ran it for a few months on this web site. The response was overwhelming -more than 20,000 votes were registered. The result of this public poll, which also allowed voters to post their comments, was not in tune with what I thought, but that’s what makes us human – we all have our opinions – strong ones I may add!
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Set Startpage as Chrome search engine

I wanted to add a new search engine – Startpage.com – to Chrome web browser. Though I was able to do this, the “Make Default” button stays gray. Do I need to use the “%s” because I don’t know what it means? Having a new Chrome search engine is unnecessarily complex and Google needs to work on this to make it more user friendly.
Mike J

I tried out the Google’s free web browser, Chrome, a few days after it was launched and it quickly became my favourite. What I really liked from the word ‘go’ was the no-nonsense interface with a single text field in which one can enter both the URL and a search query. Though the default Chrome search engine is Google.com (of course), you can change it to one you like in a few mouse clicks.
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How to stop someone’s emails

I want to block someone from sending me emails….NOT JUST GOING TO THE DELETE BOX !! I DONT WANT TO SEE THIS INDIVIDUAL’S E-MAIL ANYWHERE IN MY ACCOUNT!!! This should not be rocket science!!!!! Surely, I don’t have to call this person and have a confrontation… Please send me a reasonable solution to this problem because I think I would not be the only one looking out for an answer. Thank you.
Sandra Snider

Sandra is looking for a solution to stop someone’s email from reaching her account. She is probably very frustrated with the messages she gets from this vile individual and, I suppose, wants to get rid of them automatically. Is it possible? Yes, but would require to change a few settings.
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How do I view a deleted web page?

I had bookmarked a web page but it seems unavailable now. I’ve been trying for 2 days and even the main web site does not load. Looks like the entire web site has been removed. Is there a way to view a deleted web page?
Prabir Ghose

The internet is a dynamic medium. Things change very fast – old pages are removed and new ones added. Typically, when pages and sites are modified or moved, the developers make use of redirection methods so that visitors do not find themselves at sea and get to the desired content quickly. But if the entire web site is taken down and has been offline for many days, it’s unlikely that it will come back. So how can you view a deleted web page – one which is no longer available?
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What is a watermark?

A digital watermark is generally a small image or text that is placed on a larger image to specify and/or protect ownership. Though, skilled image manipulators can remove a watermark from an image, it still serves as the best way to prevent people from copying and using your photos and pictures without first asking for permission.
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