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@Taylor Norrish, Send to phone might work for smaller post or individual images. But for longer post it would not be good a idea. Reading a long post or scrolling through a lot of images can be a bit tedious and painful on the eyes.

I don't know how hard it would be to add to your program, but look into adding an Email This button.

The share and Save social marking software I use on my website, among with the others I have used, offer an Email a friend button. But when you use that function, it only sends an email link to the website.

I would like to offer the ability to my readers to email entire articles with a link back to the original articles, preferably at the top, bottom, or both.

@Taylor Norrish, Send to phone might work for smaller post or individual images. But for longer post it would not be good a idea. Reading a long post or scrolling through a lot of images can be a bit tedious and painful on the eyes.

I don't know how hard it would be to add to your program, but look into adding an Email This button.

The share and Save social marking software I use on my website, among with the others I have used, offer an Email a friend button. But when you use that function, it only sends an email link to the website.

I would like to offer the ability to my readers to email entire articles with a link back to the original articles, preferably at the top, bottom, or both.

@Donace, I don't mind helping out, so go ahead and bug me with Questions.

And yes, magento looks good on paper, but bad in execution. My stonegifts.com website is built in Zen Cart, but I have streamlined the website down to make it as fast as possible.

@Donace, I don't mind helping out, so go ahead and bug me with Questions.

And yes, magento looks good on paper, but bad in execution. My stonegifts.com website is built in Zen Cart, but I have streamlined the website down to make it as fast as possible.

@Donace, I have used Joomla CMS with VirtueMart. Magento, Oscommerce, Cube Cart, and Zen Cart.

Joomla Virtuemart is a bit bulky for an intensive E-commerce website, but it's great for being an addition on top of a community website already utilizing joomla. I like to use it for selling ebooks, music, movies, etc. If you want to use it as just an e-commerce website you can, but it's a bit over the top on sql queries and doesn't offer very many mods for increasing it's capabilities.

Magento - I have used magento 4 times now and I still don't like it. Simple task that should only take a few seconds to do, take a few minutes in magento. The overall usability was not well thought out, which makes it a hassle to use.

OsCommerce - Ultimate control over an E-commerce website. It is a full cms that can do anything you want it to do. The down fall is, mods aren't easy to add in because there is no built in mod installing area. Same goes for themes, no automatic theme installing engine, unless you code in STS. The community forum is awesome, they are very helpful and prompt replys if you need help.

If you want to make an e-commerce website as fast as possible, then this is not the way to go. But if you time to spare and want an in depth website where you have loads of control and people to help you do it, then oscommerce is recommended.

Zen Cart - It is also a full CMS and includes amazing amount of mods and built in addons and features. It includes an automatic template install and mod feature. Pretty much everything you want to do or change on your website can be accomplished through the admin with minimal programming knowledge required.

The two true downfalls of Zencart, it contains more bloat then oscommerce because it comes with more mods. But that just means you need a good cache plugin, minify your css and js files, and make sure your webhost fully supports zencart. I have heard horror stories of people on a web host with minimal or no zen cart support.

The other down fall is the Community forum, I hate that place. The people are slow to respond and if they do respond, they tell you to buy the book, search the forum because they are positive they saw a post already asking that, or read the FAQ before they will even help you. There are exceptions to this, but they are rare and far between.

I am not the typical person to ask a lot of stupid questions, I will do a lot of searching around before I resort to asking for help. But on zen cart forum, you post as a new comer on there, expect minimal to no support.

Cube Cart - Easy e-commerce website, takes a few minutes to setup, not a lot of addons or mods. They offer a premium package, but I have never tried it. Cube cart is a basic cart, but it works out of the box with almost no bloat.

I may make this a post, I didn't expect the reply to get this long. :P

@Donace, I have used Joomla CMS with VirtueMart. Magento, Oscommerce, Cube Cart, and Zen Cart.

Joomla Virtuemart is a bit bulky for an intensive E-commerce website, but it's great for being an addition on top of a community website already utilizing joomla. I like to use it for selling ebooks, music, movies, etc. If you want to use it as just an e-commerce website you can, but it's a bit over the top on sql queries and doesn't offer very many mods for increasing it's capabilities.

Magento - I have used magento 4 times now and I still don't like it. Simple task that should only take a few seconds to do, take a few minutes in magento. The overall usability was not well thought out, which makes it a hassle to use.

OsCommerce - Ultimate control over an E-commerce website. It is a full cms that can do anything you want it to do. The down fall is, mods aren't easy to add in because there is no built in mod installing area. Same goes for themes, no automatic theme installing engine, unless you code in STS. The community forum is awesome, they are very helpful and prompt replys if you need help.

If you want to make an e-commerce website as fast as possible, then this is not the way to go. But if you time to spare and want an in depth website where you have loads of control and people to help you do it, then oscommerce is recommended.

Zen Cart - It is also a full CMS and includes amazing amount of mods and built in addons and features. It includes an automatic template install and mod feature. Pretty much everything you want to do or change on your website can be accomplished through the admin with minimal programming knowledge required.

The two true downfalls of Zencart, it contains more bloat then oscommerce because it comes with more mods. But that just means you need a good cache plugin, minify your css and js files, and make sure your webhost fully supports zencart. I have heard horror stories of people on a web host with minimal or no zen cart support.

The other down fall is the Community forum, I hate that place. The people are slow to respond and if they do respond, they tell you to buy the book, search the forum because they are positive they saw a post already asking that, or read the FAQ before they will even help you. There are exceptions to this, but they are rare and far between.

I am not the typical person to ask a lot of stupid questions, I will do a lot of searching around before I resort to asking for help. But on zen cart forum, you post as a new comer on there, expect minimal to no support.

Cube Cart - Easy e-commerce website, takes a few minutes to setup, not a lot of addons or mods. They offer a premium package, but I have never tried it. Cube cart is a basic cart, but it works out of the box with almost no bloat.

I may make this a post, I didn't expect the reply to get this long. :P

Is your website build on a CMS like Wordpress, joomla, oscommerce, zen cart, or drupal?

Contact us / email pages typically use what's called phpmail or sendmail, which is server side email messaging. Even though your MX records are set to receive mail through a different mail host such as Google, your website will still handle the emails through sendmail and phpmail.

I have noticed that Google doesn't like phpmail, most of my email problems with them have been solved by switching to sendmail.

Another way of fixing website email is to use SMTP host relay-hosting.secureserver.net

If you don't wish to use phpmail or sendmail, most packages such as wordpress, joomla, etc let's you setup your SMTP to send out emails, without using the server side email processing.

here are 2 website discussion about phpmail or Godaddy Sendmail not working.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38669/does-t...

or

http://forums.devarticles.com/web-hosting-45/ph...

You may find a fix on those two website. Or a fix from one of the links in the comment areas.

Is your website build on a CMS like Wordpress, joomla, oscommerce, zen cart, or drupal?

Contact us / email pages typically use what's called phpmail or sendmail, which is server side email messaging. Even though your MX records are set to receive mail through a different mail host such as Google, your website will still handle the emails through sendmail and phpmail.

I have noticed that Google doesn't like phpmail, most of my email problems with them have been solved by switching to sendmail.

Another way of fixing website email is to use SMTP host relay-hosting.secureserver.net

If you don't wish to use phpmail or sendmail, most packages such as wordpress, joomla, etc let's you setup your SMTP to send out emails, without using the server side email processing.

here are 2 website discussion about phpmail or Godaddy Sendmail not working.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38669/does-t...

or

http://forums.devarticles.com/web-hosting-45/ph...

You may find a fix on those two website. Or a fix from one of the links in the comment areas.

I am glad it helped you out, if you have any questions or problems, let me know.

Djames

I am glad it helped you out, if you have any questions or problems, let me know.

Djames

The cname ghs.google.com works with no problems. Maybe you have a space before or after ghs.google.com that is causing the error.

The cname ghs.google.com works with no problems. Maybe you have a space before or after ghs.google.com that is causing the error.

It looks like ghs.google.com is still working, but I am in the process of setting up another domain on google apps. So I will post a followup comment as soon as the Cname record updates, which can take up to 72 hours.

It looks like ghs.google.com is still working, but I am in the process of setting up another domain on google apps. So I will post a followup comment as soon as the Cname record updates, which can take up to 72 hours.

I use Avidemux or allok for encoding.

I just do single pass, 300 kbps rate for the recording I showed you. When i recorded it i was only using the windows codec 9.

Sorry about the delay, this message didn't send me an email saying i had a new comment.

I use Avidemux or allok for encoding.

I just do single pass, 300 kbps rate for the recording I showed you. When i recorded it i was only using the windows codec 9.

Sorry about the delay, this message didn't send me an email saying i had a new comment.

Not a bad reason to not use Silverlight.

I prefer silverlight for presentation videos that require extremely high quality and small file sizes because a lot of people will be watching it.

As far as DRM, I have not looked into Microsoft's Play Ready DRM service.

The sad part about any DRM services for Videos, is that someone can use camstudio / camtasia desktop recording to capture the video. So I don't put protection on my video files because if someone wants it bad enough, you can't stop them, so why spend money on it, in my opinion.

Not a bad reason to not use Silverlight.

I prefer silverlight for presentation videos that require extremely high quality and small file sizes because a lot of people will be watching it.

As far as DRM, I have not looked into Microsoft's Play Ready DRM service.

The sad part about any DRM services for Videos, is that someone can use camstudio / camtasia desktop recording to capture the video. So I don't put protection on my video files because if someone wants it bad enough, you can't stop them, so why spend money on it, in my opinion.

Ya, i know FLV is larger file sizes. The intent was to see if your server could stream large file sizes such as flv and wmv correctly. If it couldn't then it's problem with rack streaming video. If it's isolated to one file type then it's down to the streaming of that file or server coding for mp4 file types.

By the way, have you seen the great quality for Silverlight, which is a microsoft codec. Small file sizes beautiful quality. I host http://www.billionaireadvantage.com on the howbits.com server. With silver light you can go full screen with no quality loss with great detail. The file sizes are smaller then a mp4 but the quality is High Def.

Take a look at that video it's a long power point presentation but very nice quality and you can read the small text in the presentation. The video streams fast and is a really small file size.

Ya, i know FLV is larger file sizes. The intent was to see if your server could stream large file sizes such as flv and wmv correctly. If it couldn't then it's problem with rack streaming video. If it's isolated to one file type then it's down to the streaming of that file or server coding for mp4 file types.

By the way, have you seen the great quality for Silverlight, which is a microsoft codec. Small file sizes beautiful quality. I host http://www.billionaireadvantage.com on the howbits.com server. With silver light you can go full screen with no quality loss with great detail. The file sizes are smaller then a mp4 but the quality is High Def.

Take a look at that video it's a long power point presentation but very nice quality and you can read the small text in the presentation. The video streams fast and is a really small file size.

Have you tried loading up a different video type and seeing if it works? Such as wmv or flv? If those formats work then, it's down to corrupted h.264 mp4 file handling.

If you are uploading videos with the intent of seeing if the videos work on your server, you don't need to code it in every time. Just go to

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-...

and type in the link to the video under the file properties. Then click update preview code and play the video.

Saves you some time when testing streaming ideas and doesn't require any programming on your end.

Have you tried loading up a different video type and seeing if it works? Such as wmv or flv? If those formats work then, it's down to corrupted h.264 mp4 file handling.

If you are uploading videos with the intent of seeing if the videos work on your server, you don't need to code it in every time. Just go to

http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw-player-...

and type in the link to the video under the file properties. Then click update preview code and play the video.

Saves you some time when testing streaming ideas and doesn't require any programming on your end.

What are you planning to do with your website, or rather what is your business plan for it?

Btw, want some usability advice for your website design? :wink:

What are you planning to do with your website, or rather what is your business plan for it?

Btw, want some usability advice for your website design? :wink:

I posted about my servers, before I saw your comment about you hosting your website.

I wasn't expecting a prompt response from you.... :mrgreen:

I did a quick search and found this link, maybe it will help with your apache install.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-343...