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Imageis Senior Editor and Renegade of Funk at Preppermint.  Amber got started off in radio as most do, driving around a van and slinging T-shirts.  After locking herself out of said van, she was tagged as management material and promoted to Morning Show Producer in Detroit.  From there it was just short steps to Traffic Chick and then Morning Show Chick.  She has also been Midday Girl and Night Girl.  She can work and work it at any time of day. She currently writes, edits and submits material for Preppermint and works at G-105 in Raleigh to keep her mad skills fresh.
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Chris Boylan
Imageis the Executive Producer and Co-Creator of Preppermint.  He also writes a column on radio and the internet for AllAccess called "The Net Untangled"  For a profession, he is an idea man who wondered why you needed to email a web guy to put your prep on your website. Then he wondered if he was able to concentrate hard enough to grow his toenails faster.  He can.
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The Low-Hanging Fruit Print E-mail
Written by Chris Boylan   
Article Index
The Low-Hanging Fruit
Get Rid of the Splash Page
Serious Geekery
Remove Dead Links


If you want to try it yourself, here’s how to do it on a Linux server:

WARNING – SERIOUS GEEKERY FOLLOWS – FEEL FREE TO SKIP IT

The server is set to serve up a certain default page when someone just types in the domain, like “http://www.example.com”. If your default page is a splash screen, you can change the default page that the server returns. Note: This works only for Linux with Apache – the most common setup.

Open the file “.htaccess” from your main web folder in Notepad or another text editor. (you may need to rename it to htaccess.txt in order to do so). You’ll have to download it via FTP first, or you can edit it directly if you have a web interface with your host.

Add the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.html

Change “index.html” to whatever the name of your home page is (i.e. index.html, home.php, default.asp, etc.)

Save it and re-upload it. (Remember to change it back to “.htaccess” if you changed the name) Ta-Da! Now your splash page isn’t the first page when someone types in the domain.

For more info, see the Apache Documentation.

END OF SERIOUS GEEKERY – NORMAL PEOPLE WORDS BEGIN AGAIN

So, for some sites, we’ve made some big progress. For others that didn’t have a splash page in the first page, what can you do?


 
 
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