PS - Found this place which seems very cheap, but I could being taken for a ride.

http://www.zyra.org.uk/123-reg.htm

Mr Euro - I use www.netsol.com - probably there are cheaper but it isn't expensive anywhere and they do an auto renew feature so you can't lapse by accident.

Thanks.When you have registered names can people trace the site to you? I mean joe bloggs not the police? I am also trying to learn about optimisation and everything that goes with websites! Any tips? anyone!?!>?

Mr E

Anyone can look up the Whois database and get the name and address of the sites owner. However, I believe that Network Solutions have an option to hide it. Some of the other providers will not.

Thanks, then I will probably give false information.

Agree with Kernow - I do all my domains through NetSol - they now have a service for everything. You can now also keep your registration details "ex-directory".

Mr.E - you're going into the realms of DNS servers etc etc - it's techy stuff, but once you've learnt it all you'll wish you did it all years ago.

I control all my domains,mailservers,websites completely online with no delay and no bods to talk to. It all happens in seconds. I use online services (USA based of course) to do it all and for peanut costs. All of this means I'm not locked to any ISP and can do what I want when I want to do it.

NetSol have "account" info and "domain registration" info. Account will have to be real because of credit card usage. There is also a legal requirement not to give false info on registrations, but I don't know who checks the millions of them every day.

BT the problem I found with NETSOL is I couldn't register .co.uk names, or at least not without messing around or talking to a live rep. I have been at this for a couple of days/nights and I am learning all the time but phew it's not as straight forward as one might think.

I haven't even got round to conditioning yet, only that one compnay wanted 2.2K for 5 sites. I think I might do it myself coupled with paying for some ad. space. On my list to do is call Bully to get some free AM advertising :-)

I am putting together complete buiness plans / operation bussiness in about 12 fields, not enough hours in the day!

I didn't bother with .co.uk - couldn't think of a good reason why. I stayed with .com for everything, and .net for some specialist stuff.

BT/anyone, how do you view condionting i.e being at the top of the list (I assume they do this by keywords but know nothing about it yet?) V's paying for advertising space i.e. Google sponsored links? What in your experience is the best approach?

Thanks.

Just spent an hour/two looking at google ad. programme, perhaps it's because I am tired and my brain/body are not quite where they should be, but it's as clear as mud (including wrong examples).

tried to open http://www.auction-world.tv
and just get a bland white screen,

when i try to openhttp://www.bid-up.tv

i get this ERROR

Server Error in '/' Application.
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Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Source Error:

An unhandled exception was generated during the execution of the current web request. Information regarding the origin and location of the exception can be identified using the exception stack trace below.

Stack Trace:


[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]
bidup.usercontrols.bid_liveauctions.Page_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e) +60
System.Web.UI.Control.OnLoad(EventArgs e) +67
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +35
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98
System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +98
System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain() +731




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Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:1.1.4322.573; ASP.NET Version:1.1.4322.573

do i need to change some settings,all my other web sites work ok,
seems strange they are both auction sites,

thanks

steve

scussy,
Re the first one, do you have ad blocking? I think thats the problem there?

The second one is a problme at their end, I dont think you can do anything other than wait until they fix it.

i have turned off ad blocking and still get a blank page,
anything to do with java settings in the options in IE,

steve

thanks its working now,i played about with nortons firewall and refreshed and it opened,then put back to origonall setting and still works,
so i dunno what it was but its working,

thanks
steve

Just got my main lap top back from the shop, worked for an hour then crashed. To cut a long stor short anone know where my device manager is? Also I have a new hard drive that I would like to transfer all my data to, in fact I would like to transfer everthing, data, desktop, programmes, settings, everything - is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks.

Right Click on My Computer
Properties
Hardware
Device Manager

Check out http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/index.jhtml

Look for 'Bootcamp' and then find the 'Bootcamp Archive'

NB. Access to this requires a Subscription (FREE) to Telegraph.co.uk but once there, it will have everything you are likely to need.

thanks Doc

Mr E

Is it your laptop or a normal computer that you are putting the new drive in?

Laptop Optimist. I actually have two laptops which are identical, one in bits (screen went), which the insurance company replaced with the latest model. In fact they gave me the money and I purchased the same make so I could use my old hard drive in the new machine (seemed easier than trying to swap data, settings, programmes etc..). Now I am having all sorts of problems with the new machine and want to replicate my old hard drive onto the new one (and try to use that in the new machine!).

Also can I put the RAM from the old machine into the new one (to double RAM)? It seems as if all the slots are taken? I am correct in assuming to increase RAM you need to buy bigger RAM blocks rather than load up with normal size?