Regarding static layout, is this pretty much the layout as described below?
http://www.glish.com/css/3.asp

If the word is very long, or the image size is large, this layout will break. Is there a way to prevent this?

Hi there,

         I have built a site using the book as a guideline. I am having problems in finding a web hosting company where the site will install and work properly.

         Any pointers is greatly appreciated.

Best Regards
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Jay

I use WebHost4Life. It supports .NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005 for the same price as other solutions. I tried to get it to work with SQL Server Express but failed. Their tools for mounting a site are not very intuitive of orthogonal but do work. They do respond back to requests for help.

http://weboperahouse.com

i used liquidsix.com for www.clubvwnica.com

great support and very good control panel.

Does this mean that it's not possible to xcopy the 2005 express database to the host, even though they support SQL Server 2005?

I mean, do they actually have to support the express version specifically?

philthy,

I use webhost4life too and have no problems with 2005 express. in fact, i just put an amended sample of the beerhouse up there today.

plb - the main issue is perhaps the fact that you need to login to your W4L account with your db login (this takes you to the c:\db\username area). this is basically your registered login name with _db at the end of it, plus your normal password. in my case, i log onto sql381.mysite4now.com. you then upload your datafile.mdf file to there and then via the control panel, go to Database Admin->MSSQL Admin. From the selections on the centre panel, select Attach New DB and follow the intructions from there. of course, you'll need to then use a connect string in your web.config a bit like the one below:

<connectionStrings>
     <remove name="MyLocalSqlServer"/>
     <add name="MyLocalSqlServer" connectionString="Server=sql381.mysite4now.com;
Database=mypreferredname;uid=myuid;pwd=mypass;" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient"/>
</connectionStrings>

but all those parameters map directly to the database that you are asking the control panel to attach. i previously couldn't figure it out as i was putting a relative path to the db, rather than the server name.

hope this helps

jim


[edit] very early days and this will cahnge drastically, but here's the site that i put up today. this includes the new forum listing that i modded yesterday (see http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=57522). i plan to deviate away quite a bit from the original but HOPE to retain the core integrity as prescribed by marco. anyway, basic 1st draft here (plb, i nicked your claret buttons temporarily just to test a few things - will give them back soon) :D :

http://www.jamestollan.com/Default.aspx

can someone tell me how to make my site static. I don´t want that the rightcolumn to
move when you resize the page.

As for WebHost4Life - their help staff advised me that they had had trouble with the Express addition. I stopped fooling with it then and just used the full product. Maybe others can make Express work but after moving to the full SQL Server 2005 product I had no more problems. I'm not going back.

I would tell you how to make the page static but after a dozen or so postings I vowed not to post again on that topic. Just keep saying to yourself, "It's a feature not a bug".

Pat

http://weboperahouse.com

can i get a link to the topic?

Well, the full product is a little out of my price range, so I'm stuck with the express version :)

I just thought that, as long as the hosts support SQL Server 2005, they automatically support the express version as well. Shows what I know... :D

I live in Denmark, and the webhosts here haven't evolved much since classic asp, PHP4, Access and older versions of MySQL. Some are starting to adopt .NET 2.0, but they are really lacking on the SQL Server 2005 front. If they do support it, they charge a million...

When the time comes to move my site to a web host, I'll find one abroad, that is a little more up to date.

In the mean time, I'll use IIS on my own machine...

By the way, I think It's great the way you guys extend TBH. It's a great learning experience...