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hello cheers all for the help I made a little bit of a mistake - I jumped first thought later I signed up for threespires.co.uk hosting - their service was great (email responses within 15 minutes at half midnight) their hosting cost was fine and I doubt I'd exceed their quotas I went for the business package problem is, I found out they charge 19.95 for domain regstration/renewal for .com AND .co.uk which is a hell of a lot more than 1and1 charge So I looked to see if I could simply downgrade as neil said, but they say in their faqs that no accounts can be downgraded that initially didn't look such a problem as I thought, well I'll just move my domains over to my other contrat at 1and1 which was just a domain registering one that I started yeas ago, but then I found out that 1and1 charge a renewal charge for every domain transferred internally (from one contract to the other) which, even if I cancelled a few of my domains would turn out to be £40.00 What do I do??????? I like the threespires.co.uk system and support, but I can't afford £20 a pop renewals or the £40 it'd cost to move my domains from my current business account at 1and1.co.uk to my domain account at 1and1.co.uk do I try and place my .coms (of which I have 5, 2 I am willing to let go) on an american service that could redirect to my threespires.co.uk account and just swallow the dosh I'd have to lay out to internally transfer my .co.uks? I DON'T KNOW HELP Oh, and My brother just did a site for an english company and apparently, due to something in the privacy act thingie, info has to stay in the uk or you have to get customers to sign it out or something? I don't know, but it aint simple and I'd like to play it safe with this one. IF ANYONE KNOWS OF A WAY TO GET ROUND MY PROBLEMS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW

Well, I'll be hosting a uk based shop on the site for someone I know (no payments will be processed on it) and apparently there are issues with storing user info outside the EU tis a flippin nuisance as I can't afford too much cheers for the links though, look like they'd be awesome if I wasn't limited to the EU/UK

evnin all am about to move my hosting from 1and1.co.uk - I know, I know am looking for a cheaper solution I need at least 2 mysql databases cgi - perl and php free reign ability to have 2 or more add on domains and between 10 and 20 parked domains and pref about 200+ mb space has to be hosted in UK and here is where it gets interesting, I want it for around £10 a month or less anyone have any ideas? I'm considering getting hosting from diyhost.co.uk or matrixinternet.com or possibly memset.com if anyone has info on these hosts or can suggest a host to me I'd be much obliged thanks me

You are an absolute life saver the app you suggested works a treat and I am now able to get on and build the site off line cheers much appreciated

The avitar is great, not quite so enamoured with your sig, but tis good like your style

Right, I have a problem - I'm in the midst of building a shop site for someone based on php and mysql I want to build it offline so am using Apache, Mysql and PHP PHP and Apache are qorking fine, MySql works fine through the command prompt but I get NO joy when trying to get MySql to run a .sql from the command prompt if I tell it to look at localhost eg "mysql -h localhost -u user -D database -p < myfile.sql" and I can't get mysql to work at all when trying to access it with php through localhost - I mean when I run a php script from localhost eg http://localhost/script.php As the elements work fine on their own, I can't understand what's going on. have I missed an alteration in a conf or ini file somehwere? Like I said, through windows comand prompt MySql works fine so long as I make no reference to localhost. I can create users, databases, tables and I can insert data into tables and call said data in a number of exciting and informative ways, but only through command prompt which is close to no use to me when I am trying to build a database driven website Please someone give me some advice I'd be grateful of any help

Well, first, congrats on building the site - taint easy I know, to get a whole thing up and runnin I quite liked the site though I did have a few quibbles 1st is, can't you center the content so that those with a larger screen don't have everything bunched up in the left hand side of the screen, or couldn't you use percentages as previously suggested, it really wouldn't be that difficul, you'd need to be relarively creative when it came to sorting out which cells to have as the ones that fill what is left of the screen you wouldn't have to do much jiggery pokery, but you would need to use a few nested tables and declare the size of those cells that you want to be expanded to fill the screen You could keep the panels the size they are now and simply have the main panel (the one with the content) as the cell that expanded to fill the screen size that probably sounds like tosh, ach well I'm tired 2nd is, the light blue you have behind your 'titles' like home and navigation etc seems to clash to me with the grey - I think a navy would work really well though and give it a professional edge 3rd and final is something that has already been mentioned which is the way the page seems to abruptly end for some reason All your other panels and such are neatly and nicely tied off with a bottom section to em, but the one with the copyright line really needs the same treatment I really like the effect of the 3 colour block backgrounds Last piece of advice is this, don't listen to us all, they're only opinions and a lot of it is personal taste and you can't please everyone anyway, good stuff hope the venture is successful