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I really want lots of opinions on this.  Is Google SiteMaps really necessary?  Do you use their Sitemap Generator Tool or do you use a thrid party service like XML-SiteMaps.

I am going to have to challenge your statement.  The pricing appears to be on average 50 cents cheaper, but their home page is a PR0 which leads me to believe they are a new company trying to get started.  All the best to them, but I would stick with a known champ like cafepress.

One thing I do like about customdropshipper.com is their selection.  They seem to have all the stuff cafepress has and then some.  I applaud them for their creative magnets, puzzles and golf ball markers.

You may need to set permissions on the file to 777.  I would not worry too much about security of that.  The Hall of Shame is mainly popular scripts that hackers find through google and know are exploitable.  Your setitng 777 to a specific file most likely would not offer any dangerous opportunities (database injections, cross-site scripting, etc...) for anyone.

As for the owners of the files, yes, I believe you are right.  I am not for sure, but I think that if the file is created by your FTP client, it is owned by your username.  If it is created by your FileManager, it may be owned by apache.  Thats why sometimes a CHMOD 644 (default) or 755 will do, but sometimes 777 is needed.

Hope this helps.

Please state whether you are using Windows or Linux server and what the permissions are on the file.

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It seems that we often get the comment from users "My site has been hacked.  My web forum index page was replaced (or erased).  Please make it so that hackers cannot get in."

The kind of problem you are experiencing often happens when you have PHP or ASP scripts on your web space that is insecure.  The server must do what the script calls for and if the script itself is insecure, then it could seriously jeopardize your data.  It is not uncommon for popular web scripts like forums, blogs, CMS scripts and others to contain vulnerabilities that allow malicious users to access or edit or delete files.  If you are using a common web script and believe it is insecure, contact the author of the script for information on applying security patches and/or upgrading to the latest version of the script.

From my experience, the most insucure scripts are:

Subdreamer
PHP Nuke
PHPBB

Although almost any popular GPL web script can be vulnerable, even the most vulnerable can be made secure.  It takes a lot of attention and research.  Again, the most important thing you can do is go to the support site for the script you are using and apply all security patches.  Also find if the script designer recommends if Register_Globals be set to OFF.  If so, disable register globlas using .htaccess file.

In your CSS, try adding "margin: 0 auto" to make the alignation (is that even a word?) in Firefox and other browsers.

No, nameserver settings would be unaffected by deletingthe folder.  For more info on nameserver settings, see here http://www.hostned.com/members/faqs_domain_names_dns.html#How_do_I_set_my_nameservers_for_my_domain_name

Well, look here http://whois.domaintools.com/northtexascreationresources.org

See at the bottom, you have your nameservers set to

Name Server:NS3.NO-IP.COM
Name Server:NS2.NO-IP.COM
Name Server:NS1.NO-IP.COM
Name Server:NS4.NO-IP.COM
Name Server:NS5.NO-IP.COM

Why is that?  That would be the reason why things are screwed up in this way.  Why not just use the nameservers HostNed provides:

YIN.SSL1.US
YANG.SSL1.US

Looks like the way that it installed was a bit strange.  Looks like it may work from non-www.  I mean from http://northtexascreationresources.org/forum/index.php but not from http://www.northtexascreationresources.org/forum/index.php

Go ahead and open a new thread for the forum thing.  Make sure you post there the URL for the forum since when I go to the site I do not see a link to the forum from there.

I hope that works for you.  Seems to me like that would be the ringer.  Good luck.

Okay, I think I'm beginning to grasp the situation.  One question, is there anyway to move the domain registration over to hostned?

Sure, just go into the MyHostNed area [ https://my.hostned.com ] and open a ticket for sales there for it.

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OK, this should help you.  Go to this address
http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=northtexascreationresources.org
There you can see that your domain nameservers are set to no-ip.com
(Be aware that the nameservers are set at your domain name registrar and take a couple days to become effective)
It is possible that you are confusing the nameservers with the DNS zone which is on the HostNed server and accessible through your control panel (Plesk).
Think of them both as roadsigns that tell internet traffic where to go.  Nameservers are an earlier stop before the DNS zone.  In your case, the internet traffic is going to to the no-ip.com direction first and is not being directed back to HostNed.  If you replace the no-ip.com nameservers with HostNed's nameservers:
yin.ssl1.us
yang.ssl1.us
then internet traffic will be directed to here and eventually find your DNS zone and all will be linked up and good to go.