Thanks all...I will examine the tree closer and see where else it's got the canker. As you might see from at least one of the pics, it seems that the main trunk is affected, so pruning there will be impossible. I read something about copper? is that something to try? and you refer to making it healthier, like fertilizing? mulching? and thanks for the kitty compliment, she is a ferrel turned housecat and she's a polydactal and a real sweetie. Still a bit uneasy around strangers, but she has come a long way, the kitty in the first picture (bottom right corner, tiger striped) she was part of her ferrel family, when you would come within 10 feet of her, she would scramble, now she sits on my lap and purrs, she's a real lover and sweet too. I took in these 2 the calico's kitten and rehomed one other (they all got left behind when some trailers moved out from a neighboring area).

A few years back, I opened an account with BlueHost.com and registered www.thekitchengardener.com I deluded myself into thinking that I could earn some ad revenue by posting gardening related content and showing ads through Google AdSense. I posted a series of long articles and had plans to host a discussion forum and even make my own movies. I maintained the site for almost a year, but never got enough hits to earn more than a few measly bucks from Google. It finally dawned on me one day that the basic problem is that the Web is up to its eyeballs in content. Youtube was just taking off at the time, piling massive amounts of video on top of all the other content already available. In order to stand out, you've got to do something really unique, or work like heck to develop your own mountain of content. All's well that ends well though. I registered another domain with BlueHost to start selling custom kitchen knife blocks (woodworking is my OTHER favorite hobby besides gardening!), which so far has been far more lucrative than selling ads on a gardening site. A few months ago I accidentally uploaded my knife block pages to thekitchengardener.com - woops! I haven't even bothered to fix it. :-) Anyway, I'm not trying to discourage you, just sharing my personal experience. If you're looking for a hosting company, I would have no problem recommending BlueHost. They are reasonably priced ($90/year if I remember correctly), offer a lot of extra tools to run scripts, monitor usage, etc. etc. Their tech support department has been helpful on the few times I've needed to contact them. The other nice thing about going with a hosting company is that you get your own email addresses - lots of them! I think I can create like 1,000 email accounts or something crazy like that. I only use 2. :-) For software, I use FrontPage. It took some time to get used to, but I quite like it now. I try to keep my websites simple anyway, so I only use a fraction of what FrontPage can do, but I don't like tedious tasks so using an editor is much more convenient for me than coding HTML by hand. FrontPage has recently been replaced by SharePoint Designer, which I have used once or twice. From what I can see it looks pretty similar to FrontPage. Also note that if you want all the flexibility of a hosted solution but don't want to pay a hosting company, you can host it yourself. Recipe: 1) Download a VMWare virtual appliance containing Apache web server. Also download VMWare Server to run it on. Both are free. 2) Configure your cable modem/DSL router to pass port 80 traffic to your virtual webserver. 3) Register a subdomain with a dynamic DNS provider. Most of them will work with dynamic IP addresses (DHCP), and are usually free. You can alternatively see if you can get a fixed IP address from your ISP (they will probably charge extra for this) and then point your domain to that address. This is all free, but there will be a pretty steep learning curve if you're not technical. -Diggity

If it were IE7, for colors you would go to the General tab in Internet Options and choose the Colors button and it has a hotling to help there that explains it well. If you are clicking top right corner full screen control and that is making that window smaller, then it sounds like the page is already at full screen and the click is just reversing it. Maybe while one window is smaller,,, stretch the edges of the window to the size you like.

g'day mike, pretty good hey, i started my own page around 7 years ago very basic simple beginning learnt much along the way, learnt HTML the hard way i reckon. anyway just in case check the source of my page and see waht i have got in meta-titles and meta-names or other maybe some ideas there for you hey. with my sort of page the names i used i was suggested to sue to attract the search engines, and getting visitors to chat to is what it is all about hey? your page loaded quick for me on 56k dial up in rural australia where the lines are congested and dial up is slow. len Here is a link that might be useful: lens garden page