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FTP Live is a Free File Transfer and Editing from your Web Browser

This service is great for making those quick-but-essential file uploads, downloads, or edits when on the go.  This service is free and you can even include it in your own web pages!

Simple design yet very affective and easy to navigate. Great job, keep the great work going, if you need a design feel free to ask me and we can work out some negotiations.

After (and everyone else).  Feel free to plug your services in the "Advertising" forum at

Yes, the simple and easy-nav designs are really "in" right now, so thats cool.  I noticed a could things additionally:

1) You do not have a standard navigation bar or anything.  Is there a reason for that?

2) You linked to hostned at the bottom using the text "web hosting".  That's really great!

3) Your header links to page "index.php" and not "/".  Is that intentional?

Well, when you carry a positive balance in your PayPal account (have $$ in there) it is automatically put in to a Money Market Fund (a type of mutual fund *).  A mutual fund is very much like a savings account that you would open at a bank, but they are known to have slightly higher interest rates in exchange for minumum balances (i.e. $500 or however much).  In recent years, mutual funds have become so popular that ther sometimes is no minimum balance, as is the case with Pay Pal.  So every month you get paid $$ for having a balance in there.  It encourages you to keep a higher balance so you can accrue more money in interest.  The contraversial thing about it is that I have not met anybody who would advise to keep a lot of money in their PayPal account, mainly, I assume, for security reasons.  From what I understand, it is not FDIC insured 


* Money market funds have relatively low risks, compared to other mutual funds (and most other investments). By law, they can invest in only certain high-quality, short-term investments issued by the U.S. government, U.S. corporations, and state and local governments. Money market funds try to keep their net asset value (NAV) — which represents the value of one share in a fund — at a stable $1.00 per share. But the NAV may fall below $1.00 if the fund's investments perform poorly. Investor losses have been rare, but they are possible.

Thanks Afterburn.  Yes, I remember you are very talented with graphics and such.  HostNed may commission your services again soon.   

A sincere thank you to user RWILSON and unknown perp from Dubai, United Arab Emerites for working so well as a team to get our web sever listed on SpamCop.  Way to go guys!  It really helped to leave the form to mail script wide open in your web space without any password protection at all and allow the form to enter in unlimited number of recipients and any "From" address he pleased.  Hey, now THAT is a SPAMMER's dream come true right there

Took engineers a LONG time (and cost HostNed a lot of $$) to find out who was connecting to our web server to send 100,000+ spam and phishing emails!  Yes, got our server listed by SpamCop and also got the user's site Suspended and our Arab friend blocked and reported to FBI!  WTG guys.

One user FFSPIRA on a shared linux server was found today to have multiple directories full of other directories and files all with universal Read.Write,Execute (777) permissions.  Uh oh! HUGE sucurity NO NO there.  That got his site suspended right away.  SWEET!

[MSG - Slowly Poisoning America]

Do you believe that many of the foods we eat are slowly poisoning us?  In this web site
MSG - Slowly Poisoning America
the author makes the following claims:

The MSG triples the amount of insulin the pancreas creates...

Not only is MSG scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance: NICOTINE for FOOD!

The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing legal issues with their advertisers.

Are you a believer or it it just hype?

[Basic RSS]

Get feeds from the forum in RSS format.  Here is the info to use:

Basic RSS
https://my.hostned.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2

Advanced RSS
Limit to certain board
Example: "Domain Names" = board #10 so use the following RSS URL
https://my.hostned.com/forum/index.php?action=.xml;type=rss2;board=14
Also limit number of items
Use the "limit" command so to limit to three items, use the following RSS URL
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I agree with zelo here.  From what I am aware of there is a decent graphics tool for Linux called GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program.  It has versions for all three -- Windows, Linux, MacOS-X.  Now THAT is impressive!  Now For "Web Site Editors", here is where Linux falls a bit short.  We all wish our favorites like Dreamweaver and FrontPage would just port over a version for Linux users, but for now there are only some less familiar options.  Linux of course has great text editors (Pico, Vi, Nano) for doing those raw edits, but for real dynamic development there is just Composer (yes the old Netscape Communicator component.  Then there is Sun's Star Office (OpenOffice) which has an HTML editor built in but it falls short in many ways.  So is there any possible saviour here for Web Dev on Linux?  Some say maybe the future is in Screem, which is very advanced but does not provide a WYSIWYG interface.  For my money, there is nothing like the dualing screen (HTML and WYSIWYG at the same time) to get that must-look-good-and-be-done-yesterday type stuff done!

[Here is your initial form:]

Let's say you have a web form and you want to make a couple of the fields required.  To keep this as simple as possible we will involve only three fields, "Name", "Email", and "Message".  In this example, all three fields will be required.

Here is your initial form:

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<form method="post" action="whatevermailscript.php">
<input maxlength="256" size="35" name="email">
<p>Comments:  <textarea cols="55" name="Comment">  </textarea></p>
<p><input type="submit" value="Send" name="submit">
</form>
You might have noticed I didn't put a Reset button in there.  I think they are stupid, so I dont use them.

Now we need to plug in the validation.  We do this with good old JavaScript!  We will use a function, define the variables (the fields) and call for it on submission (when you click send).  So here we go.

Step 1. Add this in your html form page between the <head></head> tags:

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<script>
function ValidateContactForm()
{
    var name = document.ContactForm.Name;
    var email = document.ContactForm.Email;
    var comment = document.ContactForm.Comment;

    if (email.value == "")
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (email.value.indexOf("@", 0) < 0)
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (email.value.indexOf(".", 0) < 0)
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (comment.value == "")
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a description or comment.");
        comment.focus();
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}
</script>

Step 2. Add this as an attribute in the form tag:

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onsubmit="return ValidateContactForm();"

Finished Product

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<html>

<head>
<title>Form Validation Example</title>

<script>
function ValidateContactForm()
{
    var name = document.ContactForm.Name;
    var email = document.ContactForm.Email;
    var comment = document.ContactForm.Comment;

    if (name.value == "")
    {
        window.alert("Please enter your name.");
        name.focus();
        return false;
    }
   
    if (email.value == "")
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (email.value.indexOf("@", 0) < 0)
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (email.value.indexOf(".", 0) < 0)
    {
        window.alert("Please enter a valid e-mail address.");
        email.focus();
        return false;
    }
    if (comment.value == "")
    {
        window.alert("Please provide a detailed description or comment.");
        comment.focus();
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
Use this form to leave a comment:
<form method="post" action="whatevermailscript.php"
name="ContactForm" onsubmit="return ValidateContactForm();">
    <p>Name: <input type="text" size="65" name="Name"></p>
    <p>E-mail Address:  <input type="text" size="65" name="Email"></p>
    <p>Comments:  <textarea cols="55" name="Comment">  </textarea></p>
    <p><input type="submit" value="Send" name="submit">
    <input type="reset" value="Reset" name="reset"></p>
</form>

</body>
</html>

I hope you will be able to take this example form validator and use it in your own scripts successfully.  Enjoy 

Welcome to the HostNed Forums Afterburn!

I think i tried smartftp last year or so.  It seemed impressive.  I actually recommend that one to our users.  Personally I like Filezilla since it is great for server admins due to the sftp (SSH2) mode.  Since I am used to using Filezilla for root level stuff, I use it for personal stuff as well.  I like both FZ and SmartFTP.

[Photoimpact]

I use Ulead Photoimpact.  Mainly because it is easier to use, costs like 8x less than photoshop and has all the features needed for everyday image editing.

What FTP program are you using to transfer your files?  Why do you choose that one?  Why do you think it is better?

I agree with just about everything you claim here Zelo, and thanks for sharing your perspactives; but what do you tell somebody when they ask you, "Hey, what do you charge to make me a web site?".  Surely you cannot go over all that stuff with them there on the spot.