bicsdomain.tk under construction

[bicostp]

I'm about 80% done with my website, and I set a.tk name, but I really hate the 15-second, full screen .tk ad. How do I disable it?*

Also there's a black bar at the top of the pages which really ticks me off. Any way to get rid of that?*

Or is there another short URL service, so you could use something like subdomain.gamefanatic.com? If there is, I might go with that because then I'll be able to use my own favicon.ico file.

*without paying for the domain.

[Jeff]

1. Pay for a domain (optional).
2. I'll host you (bicostp.bigpileofgames.com)

[bicostp]

I've got hosting already. Thanks, though.

And I said I wanted to see if there's a free workaround.

[nos_slived]

Go into My dot.tk and log in, then go to Marketing. The first radio button should be "No, thanks".

I thought you were using 100webspace?

[bicostp]

Yay! That did it! Thanks.

(I'm all set for hosting. )

http://bicsdomain.tk

^My new old site. I call it this because there's a vastly improved version in development (about 80% done) that I am yet to upload. As Ben did, I have eliminated almost all the 1994-era N00b web crap from my site.

Please note that I DID NOT update the news on the homepage, and navigation is funky. (it's impossible to return to the initial homepage, clicking the "home" button brings you back to my really old homepage, from my 100webspace days. It's all inconsistent, and looks crummy.) But don't worry, the new version fixes all these problems!

I'll make this the thread where I post all my site info, since my previous question has been answered.

[nos_slived]

You do know that you can't use your own favicon with .tk domains, don't you? It replaces it with the .tk favicon.

You can get around this by moving all the content of your site to a folder such as '/main/', then create a new file named 'index.php', with the contents:

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<?php
header("Location: http://bicostp.portablesofdoom.org/main/index.html");
?>

That should instantly redirect the page to your domain. It works better than the HTML meta redirect.

BTW, you should edit your profile so the site button links to your actually site, not just the forums.

[nos_slived]

Also, I think you should connect the buttons in your menu, because the gaps look a bit odd.

Oops, I'm a bit out of it right now. I meant to edit, not douple post.

[bicostp]

Like I said, I just threw my old site onto the server until I finish redesigning it.

If you want a kind-of-sort-of preview, look at www.i-mockery.com, I modeled the homepage after theirs because I couldn't come up with one that looked decent on my own.

[nos_slived]

Hopefully, you'll have a few less ads than i-mockery.

You should still load the redirector so you can use your favicon.

[bicostp]

Yeah, i-mockery has a lot of ads... unless you run Firefox with AdBlock and the Adblock Definitions file from http://www.pierceive.com/ with tweaks mentioned <a href="http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.ph ... &">here</a>!

Ijust did some more work, and there are absolutely no frames left. I also got rid of all the extraneous junk from my local copy of the new site (mostly junk I accidentally put there and files that were not linked to) and the size is still just a few megs. (including a couple media files)

That reminds me, how do I make a custom 404 error page on an Apache server? I tried following the directions from http://www.plinko.net/404/custom.asp , but it didn't work.

[nos_slived]

When looking for help on Apache servers, where better to look than Apache.org.

[gannon]

Customizing Your 404 with Apache

Create a file called .htaccess in the root directory of the server (the one you refer to as '/') and enter your error handlers in the following format, one per line:

ErrorDocument [3-digit code] [action]

For example, you can point to a custom 404 page like this:

ErrorDocument 404 /errors/custom404.html

You can also simply have it display some other text:

ErrorDocument 404 "Sorry, this page doesn't exist.

Make sure you begin the text with a quote (").

Windows users have reported problems creating .htaccess files. Create a file named 'htaccess.txt', FTP it to your web host, and then rename it to .htaccess.

You can even make your 404 errors more friendly for international visitors by displaying a page in their own language. Check out this Apache article.

[bicostp]

Well, I am still having trouble, and I've gotta call it a night.

I'll mess around with it tomorrow. In the meantime I'll just keep working on the new one. (really I don't need a .tk name...)

[nos_slived]

Windows users have reported problems creating .htaccess files. Create a file named 'htaccess.txt', FTP it to your web host, and then rename it to .htaccess.

Then those Windows users are morons, because they haven't figured out that using quotation marks around a filename while saving files forces that file to take the given extension.