[thelist] SSI and .shtml file : get rid of ads

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Bob,

Thank you for your help. I just went to an infoseek site and found the way
they suggest to get rid of ads within the frames.  They said to save the
frame pages as .shtml and the adds in that frame section (such as header
part, left nav part, footer part - he has all these part as frames) will go
away.
OR/
I will tell him to quit using the frame. I agree that it'll save a lot of
hassle by doing so since he's not a developer or plan to be one - he's
studying to be a teacher. I'll suggest him to use plain html without frame.
I don't think he minds the ads as long as it appears in one place.

Thanks again for your quick and kind help!
inori

In a message dated 11/3/02 12:37:06 PM, spambait at onpointsolutions.com writes:

>Many (most) web servers are configured to process SSI's only when the file
>extension is .shtml. Analogous to a server processing an ASP file only
>when the extension is .asp. Servers can be configured to process SSI's with
>the .html extension (or any other for that matter) but your friend can't
control
>that.
>

>> - What kind of script he need to use in order to get rid of advertisement?

>Hard to know without knowing how those ads are loaded, but I suspect that
>even if you could remove the ads, that would violate the TOS of infoseek.

>Does your friend have any free web space provided by his ISP, something
>like www.earthlink.net/users/~yourFriend?
>
>
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>If so, he could just use that space for hosting his site (without ads).
>He
>
>could buy a domain name and re-direct it to that free space using the free
>
>service www.mydomain.com.
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>
>
>Another alternative is just to bite the bullet and buy some cheap web
>
>hosting. Hurricane Electric (www.he.net) and Crystal Tech
>
>(www.crystaltech.com) both offer great service starting at $10/mo., and
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>there's cheaper hosts out there. In the long run, a paid hosting plan might
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>save him more time/hassle than dealing with a free plan.
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>---------------
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>Regards,
>
>Bob Haroche
>
>O n P o i n t  S o l u t i o n s
>
>www.OnPointSolutions.com