My Website.....
 

Thought i would let everyone know about my forums

www.geekyforums.co.uk

I had a play about with the guide on here about running my own web server, which i tried and had great fun. But unfortunately my 10mb virgin connection is not realiable to have as a server.

So i bought some webspace and the domain and the rest is history.

The hosting cost me £22 for a years hosting with 400mb webspace and unlimited traffic.

And the domain cost me £6 for two years.

All in all a bargain and i had great fun! But enough of that! Get signed up people and help the geekyforums.co.uk

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Not really mine, but a friend of mine - he's trying to raise money for red nose day...


http://www.beardo.co.uk

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ok, completely changed and moved it about, again, feedback would be much appreciated :) thx

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Just rebuilt my main site with new forum software (smf kicks the backside of phpbb) and haven't hawked it here in a while;

http://www.shoppingtvbabes.co.uk/

Tag line: Not everyone's cup of tea :)

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Better Watchout... QVC is on a the "War Path" & taking Legal action on use of their Vids & Images

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Yeah, I heard of a certain site getting all that treatment. I've not even had a whisper, so I can only assume there was some sort of trouble there.

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Please take a look @ our site

One of the most important sites on the net http://www.saferkidz.co.uk/

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Please could you read and sign if you agree and then pass it on please?

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/saferkidzuk/

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My site is satellitetvtalk.info - All sorts of articles on er.. Satellite TV and the discussion thereof. We cover everything from sports to drama to comedy and anything else we fancy writing about during the day...

Do take a look if you are so inclined...

Super

lv Jack STVT

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I've finally got some new stuff on my website..Let me know if there are any gaps......;)

It's all my newer work in the Cyberart section...:tu: please take a look and sign my guestbook.:)

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Don't mention adding content :( I've got to rebuild El Studentes' site again as she is adding at least 7 more pages and changing the front page. Not long finished adding the last set of updates lol. Never mind.

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It's not my site but www.myfootballforum.com is the other forum I use.

New Xbox 360 Forum!
 

Join Today...
http://xbox360z.freeforums.org/
I Need Moderators!:D

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Well it's been updated again.... after which it took her all of 5 minutes to realise she had misssed some stuff so guess who will be updating the site again sometime this weekend ........ Arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh lol
http://www.jessie-lou.co.uk

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:D Fantastic!

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Hi,

Shameless plug of my business site

Web Hosting busines .:. Hosting Hangar .:.

All Cable Forum members get a further discount that is not advertised on our website. For coupon codes PM (Private Message) me.

Regards,
Garry

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http://www.myspace.com/theslackrats
my band!

www.kuei-ling.co.uk
Kuei Ling Martial Arts

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well i am currently in the middle of updateing my aunties bussness website

http://www.siouxceramics.com

does any1 know how i can get search engines to index the site as this is a new domain as the previous owner wont give us the old domain which is on search engines

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You can submit the URL to the search engines, put a sitemap up in the google webmaster tools area etc.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/

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The Best way is simply to get it linked to really.

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well as i said that it has now started to appare on google lol

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Well, I'm still waiting on a cache update on Google, at least when it finally occurs it should pick up the fact that yet again the site has been updated. Hopefully by the end of the weekend I will have a "final" front page from el studente lol

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http://www.freebits.co.uk/backoutlook.html#live

Now that more and more are moving over to Windows Vista, I have updated one of my pages to explain how to do a manual import of Outlook Express Messages into Live Mail.

Have had some good feedback on this issue. Should be useful to some people.

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Hi,

Thought I would post my latest site, which is finished but for some minor template changes

It is called Love Hangar which is a 100% Free Dating site.
Link: http://www.lovehangar.com

Any feedback is welcome, good or bad

Regards,
Garry

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My Webby

Currently in beta whilst I test out download speeds for UK & US Mirrors. Basically its a non commerical Gaming (PC/Console) offering Game & IT related news as well as high speed downloads of Mod's/Demos patches & Trailers etc

Feedback would be most welcome

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Me and a friend are starting our own software development business and have a temporary site at http://www.cynetic.co.uk

It's currently only a place holder page while we work on our actual site.

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VERY nice Layout/Design :cool: Looks SMART

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www.uploadz.co.uk I run it with a guy. Very good uploading site.

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Yes I know it's poo - but still I have to start somewhere :)

http://www.dilli-theclaw.com

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I like the Google style, simple design. Works well considering what the site is aimed at and also that other sites offering such services are messy, confusing and over-designed (rapidshare for example).

How often is it used? Bandwidth and file space are two big concerns in maintaining websites and your going to need bucketloads of stuff. Would you be ready to pay for all that and would the google ads pay for it? How long do you keep the files for? Do you have the ability to support the site if it became popular all of a sudden?

---------- Post added at 00:00 ---------- Previous post was yesterday at 23:47 ----------

Its not too bad, I dont think you need two pages though. You have your links to the left, and then a photo to the right but not much content under it. On page 2 you have the reverse, nothing on left and content on right. Why not move the content on page 2 and put it to the right of the links on page 1?

Good first effort though, The Important thing is learning HTML and you seem to have done that :tu: Looking at it, you could move onto learning HTML + CSS. You have enough of the HTML needed so all you would need to learn is how to style it with CSS. Also means you dont have to bother with tables and other such formatting HTML code which isnt used much anymore.

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Cheers for that - I'm probably going to have another fiddle in the morning :)

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well...!!!! not one of the urls posted here work...Some Webmasters!!!!HEH!!!

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Really? Mine most certainly works so "!!!!HEH!!!" back at you :p:

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:shrug:

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Looking good dilli, If you want a free 'no ads' hosting account I can spare you some space.

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Looms good but when the window is smaller the 'now 50mb' star covers the upload area. Can you not float the input box's to the right using css?

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Sounds cool :tu: - not too sure how to do that :(

I've had another play and clean up of it today.... And yes I will be looking at css soon enought :)

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Just completed this site: www.branthowe.co.uk

Nothing too fancy, still table based but some of the elements are positioned with css (gallery images). Fonts and size were requested by business owner.

Overall quite pleased with it since I'm now writing all sites in notepad from scratch. Its html transitional and css compliant and is accessible level A..
Next site in development will be entirely positioned with advanced css.

Dilli, email me : mark @ mlweb dot co dot uk and I'll hook you u with some space. Dunno about forwarding your name across but it should be just a case of changing the name servers.

You will have full ftp acccess etc which since you run your own ftp server should be a breeze.

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Nothing wrong with a table layout mate, I always say, if it can be done with tables, do it with tables! Not all browsers fully support CSS yet so if you want it to look the same for everyone tables is the way to go imo.

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All modern browsers support CSS, Its best to use it when you can. Cleaner, easier to maintain, reduces loading times (albeit not much of a problem anymore).

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The problem with using tables is that you have to include the presentation data with every page so in the future if you want to move bits about you need to alter each page. With css you only need to edit the one file to totally change the look of the site. I sure you've probably seen it but take a look at css zen garden (google it)

Re: My Website.....
 

Back online people!

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Anyone that is interested in a bit of Live Drum & Bass

www.bodymovingradio.com
www.bmradio.co.uk

Live UK Drum & Bass Radio Every Wednesday & Sunday from 7-10 PM UK TIME

Body Moving Radio is dedicated to bringing new Drum & Bass talent to the scene . Check us out

Forums
Chat room ( Java & IRC )
Downloads section ( Radio Back Sets )
Shoutbox
& More

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Please could someone help.I am trying to build a website with the free 55meg.
I am using dreamweaver and cuteftp, when I enter my username and password into cuteftp and it trys to connect I get this


[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

I have entered the following.

FTP Server: upload.ntlworld.com
User Name: your username
Password: your password

But still get the above error message.

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Hi

the server address is correct

your user name should be your main email address you set up when registering your account, but without the '@ntlworld' suffix

The password should be the original one you set up when registering, i.e. letter & 9 numbers - this is the usual cause of problems, as people change their e-mail password, but the webspace still expects the old one.

If that is the case & you can't remember the original, you will have to contact Technical Support & they will reset it for you.

:)

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http://oceanclips.tripod.com

3D animation.

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http://lauzjp.googlepages.com/home :hyper: that was so much easier than fiddling about with the ntl space again! :)

Thank You webuser magazine :tu:

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lauzjp, in case you aren't already aware of it, download picasa and you will be able host images from your wedding online via your google account. Easy to do and the software deals with the upload and resizing so you don't have to ;)
http://picasa.google.com/

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ooh, cool! ta. :tu:

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Absolutely, Picasa is great & dead easy to link to from a Google Pages website

http://gazfan.googlepages.com/home

:)

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here is a website I been working on.....

its for a friend who want to promote himself, its not fully complete.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j.kelly...cky/Rhome.html

ik

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Just sent an email with some useful links in for e-marketing to a relative and thought that sharing them here might help the Cf members as well.

Her site is http://www.tall-boutique.co.uk if you would like to stop buy - I did not design it mind.

Statcounter
http:/www.statcounter.com/

This is pretty much the industry standard for tracking visitors to your site. You won't need the paid for package as the free one gives you a history of the last 500 page views. We subscribe to it and get a 1000 page view history but at the time the were only giving out 100 as the freebie.

Google Suggest
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Try's to auto complete keyword search's as you type. Useful because it shows you in popularity order the other keywords and key phrases.

Google Adwords
https://adwords.google.com/

The defacto internet advertising medium. Allows you to place your adverts to the top and right of the keyword searchs. You only pay when someone clicks on your ad and visits your site. If you do this spend time to make sure that the text in the ad give's a call to action 'buy it now' and that the text in the ad matches the targeted keyword and also that the keyword & text in the ad are somewhere on the page you send the link to.

Prweb
http://www.prweb.com/

Offers a free way to get press release's out there and will increase your net profile. (and in the end Google rank)

Anatomy of a search engine
http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html

Links to part of the initial University project by the founders of Google in which they explain what they where trying to create. They also give (if a little complex) information about how Google provides results back to the searcher.

Google Blog
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/

Official source of news from Google themselves.

Search Engine Spider Simulator
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

See how your web page look to a search spider.

Google guide - Improving Page rank
http://www.googleguide.com/improving_pagerank.html

Page rank is the multiplier that is the final part in how far up the normal (organic) Google search listings you can reach. Google rates sites by content and relevance then multiplies this by the page rank figure so moving from PR1 to 2 can catapult you up the listings. Our work site is sat at PR4 which I'm very proud of. Links to your site are key to getting this higher.

Publicising your website
http://philip.greenspun.com/panda/publicizing

Worth a read through.

URL Trends
http://www.urltrends.com/viewtrend.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tall-boutique.co.uk

Good information about your site and its ranking in various places. Plus gives you your Alexa Rank.

Page rank Prediction tool
http://iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction

Exactly what it says on the tin.

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Hmm your links don't click Handyman they have Blocked:: in front of them for some reason!?

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Perhaps something to do with the recent hacking attempt. Simply copy and paste then or remove the blocked from the front in the address window.

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Musical duo "Without A Doubt" Had this for a few years now.
www.wadworld.co.uk

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It's more likely down to them being copied from an email in Outlook.

I've had some links in emails that Outlook pre-fixes with blocked::

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I did wonder about that. Probably best the links are blocked (even though they are all 100% safe).

I sent the mail then dived into sent items to copy the text for here.

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I re made my whole kung fu site. www.woskf.co.uk

it was done with frames, and some people hated it.

so its all done better,

Let me know what you think.

all criticism accepted :erm: :D ;)

ik

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Small point ik, but I would be tempted to move the menu on the left down a bit so that the top of it is level with the top of the picture on the right.

Other than that it looks nice so far :)

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like now?

ik

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Much better :)

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cheers dude.

ik

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looking good. ik, nice one :tu:

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cheers Gaz

ik

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If I had to critises it would be your html coding. It is a mixture of upper and lower case. If you dropped it into lower case and used css instead of tables it would be very simple to redesign.

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hehe, I know what you mean, but I use editplus2 and that highlights all the code, so it does not bother me that much, as editplus2 does not bother whether it is all upper or lowercase, in fact it could be a mixture of both, it still does not care.

but I do know what you mean

ik

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Now THAT's just being picky :p:


I fancy myself as somewhat of a decent web designer and I always use tables where tables work, CSS positional stuff can be nasty with cross browser compatibility being a big issue!

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thATS what I WAs thiKINg :erm: :D

I tried the positioning for ages, it only worked for both with tables, so I used em

ik

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Not really, xhtml compliant code is lowercase :D

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Perhaps he doesn't want his website to be XHTML (which should be in upper case) compliant :p:

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ok for the purists......

I fixed all my code to lowercase, took me ages

ik

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Positioning can be tricky with css but it is possible to pull off and it is good it have css only sites. The only problem I have had with different browsers is that IE 6 has crap support for alpha layers in png files. But with MS forcing IE 7 onto so many computers it should be fine.

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It is easy enough to get stuff to position correctly although I always seem to have a few issues with Safari which is supposed to be 100% standards compliant.

Well done on changing the code IK whilst is is a way to xhtml it's more for neatness. If I was being completly anal I would have suggested code indentation :S lol

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I mostly do code indentation, its easier to read, but at lease I know my code.

one other thing about the case of code.....

the doctype had to be in uppercase to be valid HTML!!! using the http://validator.w3.org

but keeping this line as it is, the rest of my code is valid HTML 4.0, with the exception of 2 links that are for multimaps, and the embeded videos, other than the links they give out, its all valid.

oh and my CSS passes with the exception of the body, as I have changed the scrollbar, and I knew that would not pass. pity all browsers not support this feature, hehe

I was going to use the wee image on my site, but not sure who actually really likes seeing them ;)
ik

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ok, I think I might list my ones :)

This is my interaction design site:

Interaction Design

Just a Uni Project, had to research technology and such.

Visual Communication

Again, A Uni Project about art and such. I prefer making the sites than the writing.

and a flash portfolio which I have linked to before:

Christine Almond Portfolio

I have pages taking, briefly, about each of these here:
Damien O'Neill

Should be adding a PHP/MySQL site soon and a ASP site. So any recommendations on those before I start would be cool, including what kind of site would be good to make using these (doing it to learn)

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I'm doing an online christmas list for my php/mysql learning.

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PHP & MySQL is a great combination, I'm starting to dabble in Ajax at the moment which is also a brilliant technology!

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Ajax is the above + Javascript isnt it? Does it have its own frameworks/librarys?

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AJAX is Asynchronous Javascript and XML and is used to create nice interactive web applications. A simple implementation could be to update certain areas of a page without doing a page refresh/postback etc.

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Well, Thats what I mean. Does AJAX actually contain anything new or is it simply a new name for a certain combination of existing tech?

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I've not used PHP before and I'm just looking into Ajax so I'm not fully sure if it contains anything that you may not have seen.

Have a look here and see if there is.

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Ajax is a new name for something that has existed in Javascript for quite a while, the meaning is that it can get data from the server/call scripts/etc separately from a page refresh

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Just done a mock-up of my works new website that I have spent this afternoon on.

http://www.trial.mlweb.co.uk/purple/image2.html

Any comments welcome, this is the 1st mock-up so I'm still not happy with several areas, the image to the right of the news for 1.

Quite pleased with it, wanted to do a nice bright web 2.0 style.

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Had a re-jig of my site.

I've got rid of the crappy old index pages, made the blog the root, & replaced the rather poorly made photo gallery with the excellent Coppermine Photo Gallery.

Have also installed the same theme (K2) on Wordpress & CPG, so it all fits together.

Still some niggles to sort out, though.

www.smokingmirror.co.uk

www.smokingmirror.co.uk/photos/

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I like the nice bright look - but agree about the image next to the news - the link placeholders overlapping into it looks a bit messy :)

Looking good Tez :tu:

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why not make your text links, instead of saying more all the time?

the image of the news is fine, but I would try to make the site a wee bit smaller, I have a 17" monitor and it does not all fit nicely

ik

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My forums, working for few months, please do check them out
http://www.iwanttomoan.co.uk

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I like the bright style, as a non-coder I found it quite easy to read and inviting. A couple of niggles. One that has been mentioned before - on a 17" screen at 1024x768 the page is fractionally too wide which gives you a scroll bar at the bottom. Those things *really* bug me.
Also it looks a bit untidy in Firefox, the green 'more' things overlap onto the news picture for random distances. I'd agree that making the actual text into links would be far neater.

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My new site is http://www.britishclubdivers.co.uk

It's a bit bare at the moment but I hope people will use it to make new friends for diving as you should always dive with a buddy.

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http://unspecific.net

P.S - Not entirely finished, contact me for more info! :)

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mines a fishing website/forum just starting out

www.talkaboutfishing.co.uk

Im moderator "VR6Gaz"

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http://www.trialuk.com/images/logo.gif

Highly tuned, Highly Modified Japanese Imports!

Specially tuned by Trial Experts.

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This is how it all worked out in the end....

www.purplegriffon.com

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It's cool, though I have a 19" Widescreen running at 1440x900 so it looks a bit odd with the far right third of the screen completely blank, also the course listings etc looks a bit too busy on the main page? Just an opinion that last one though!

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I don't care what you think ;) Google loves it. Reckon it's on for doubling traffic in the organic searches alone. Msn and Yahoo love it as well we have gone from 13-20 on Google to 1-3 on most searchs and on msn and yahoo Its number one on loads. Really chuffed about it.


Anyone know why Google gives out positions in 2's sometimes ie 1+2, 3+4?

I think i'd rather have 3-4 than 1 by itself. Draws your eyes to it and make sit more important. (Example of 1-2)

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Heres my two websites

www.knaresboroughmartialarts.co.uk
www.chrisjonesaction.co.uk

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Here is another site I have started - http://www.dorsetoffroadrc.co.uk

TV, Film and Music Quizzes
 

Hello All,

Ive been lurking for a while and today I finally posted a few things.

I know that Im promoting my own site but I considered that it was relevant as we have a load of TV, Film and Movie quizzes that you may like :angel:

They can be found in the download section of the Siliconhell forum here

I have attached one of the Invisible Movie quizzes for you.

Enjoy

VinylJunky

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Anyone that is interested in a bit of Live Drum & Bass

www.bodymovingradio.com
www.bmradio.co.uk

Live UK Drum & Bass Radio Every Wednesday & Sunday from 7-10 PM UK TIME

Body Moving Radio is dedicated to bringing new Drum & Bass talent to the scene . Check us out

Forums
Chat room ( Java & IRC )
Downloads section ( Radio Back Sets )
Shoutbox
& More