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Feb 14, 2002
    Question:
    Dear Dr. Website:
    What is the best way to track referrers (individuals) to my website in order to reward them for their referral? Paypal seems to do this through their service, and I need to be able to do the same thing.

    Answer:
    The easiest method of tracking referrers to your site is to view your site's log files. Most sites are configured to create log files, and these files contain information about your site's visitors as well as other demographics. You can choose one of many log file analysis tools to find out what's in the files.

    Another way of tracking referrals is to use a service such as our own TheCounter.com. With the counter provided by TheCounter.com, you can see the referrers, IPs, OS, browser, and many more stats for your site.

    Finally, you could always use some ASP, Perl or PHP code to track your site's referrers, but this would take some knowledge of the language and a certain level of programming skills.
    Thanks

    --Dr.Website

    Question:
    Dear Dr. Website:
    I have created a couple of web pages using the Netscape composer and I have stored these on AOL FTP space. How do I get those pages from that space to my website, ariosomusic.net?

    Answer:
    Since you have your own domain name, you probably already arranged a web host as well. If not, you should look through the thousands of hosts listed on our Web Host List http://webhost.thelist.com/

    Once you have contracted your web host, you'll need some FTP software to move your web pages to your host's web server. You can use any FTP software, such as WS_FTP or Cute FTP. These can be found and downloaded from CWS Apps:

    http://cws.internet.com/ftp.html

    When you created your site using Netscape Composer, the pages were probably saved on your local hard drive.

    You'll need to start composer and figure out where they were stored, and once you have done that, you'll start your FTP program and point to the web site files on the left, and your host's FTP server on the right hand side (of the FTP program).

    Then moving them to your host is a simple matter of clicking a button or dragging and dropping them from one side to the other.
    Thanks,

    --Dr.Website

    Question:
    Dear Dr. Website:
    hello , I am webdeveloping a website using flash for the first time, can I include more than one flash movies in a single html page (without frame) , and can I change the width and height of the flash file.

    Answer:
    Yes, you can put more than one Flash movie on a page, though you should make sure that they do not overwhelm your visitors. You can change the size of the Flash movie within the parameters of the code you use to place the movie on the web page, like this:

    OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://yoursite.com/" WIDTH=539 HEIGHT=88
    Thanks

    --Dr.Website ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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