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If you have problems with TalkTalk make sure you ask for the right department. No ADSL or it's too slow ask for the broadband department. If they don't help ask to be put through to second line in the UK. The same applies to technical support. Just about everything thing else - if they don't fix it ask for the escalations department. Remember they are still selling at a loss to most customers until all the telephone exchanges have been "unbundled". The same problems apply to other ADSL suppliers. You can use a cable supplier - but check the download limits - they are often low at 2 Gb a month and check the small print - the price often doubles after an introductory period.
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Click the Talk Talk logo above to go to their site and check out their new deal. They are now offering "FREE" broadband up to 8 Mbps. You have to take out a contract for their Talk 3 package (£19.99) or the Talk3 international package (£20.99). The details are on the site. But basically, you get free calls throughout the UK to geographical numbers. Note the contract is for 18 months! There does appear to be a waiting list too. A note on that - I have a "go-live" date for broadband of January 2007 and I've had it ages. The reason is that is when they actually expect to get in to the BT exchanges and install the new equipment and get us up to 8 Mbs. For £20.99 a month you do get free geographical calls and free international calls to lots of countries like European countries, even the USA, Canada and Australia. Plus free Broadband up to 8 Meg! The free calls last for up to 70 minutes - but you can re-dial after that and carry on talking. If you're calling another Talk Talk customer the time limit is 3 hours! That is good! There is a £29.99 sign up fee for the new service - but you can pay that out of the advance rental you usually pay BT. I used pay £36 every 3 months line rental - so no problem for me. But click the logo at the top of the screen and check it out for yourself. If you need to phone NHS direct for health advice you will still have to pay the number is 0845 4647 and costs around 4p in the daytime and 1p a minute at weekends. The same applies to other 0845 numbers.
Broadband and web space: I do this site with FrontPage and use shared borders. That means what I put in the borders at top and bottom are on every page. To upload I enter my log in email Mike10613(@)TalkTalk.net and upload to ftp://www.Mike10613.Talktalk.net You can test to see if you set up your TalkTalk website right by typing the address into Internet Explorer but use ftp:// instead of http:// and it will ask for your log in the email you gave when you activated you web space - and your password. No don't bother trying to guess my password... Remember when you activate your web space to use an email address and that will then be the name of your site. In the email address notice I've changed the @ to (@) - I get a lot of bots on the site searching for that symbol and I don't want a load of SPAM in Japanese going to that address! I put a little Chinese on the Home page and they all assume I speak that and Japanese! I've had offers for mail order brides, fake Rolex watches and allsorts! I have had a email from a company in China in English that has digital photo frames for export - they display jpg's etc and play mp3's. interesting ... Check the Internet page and the other pages for more information about doing your own site. This is a popular page on this site after the Home Page and people don't bother with some of the other pages but there is lots of information on every page. Look at the adsense adverts too - click them if you find them interesting. You are allowed to have adsense on your TalkTalk web space. But if you're starting a TalkTalk site - email me first for some tips. You need to finish the site before you pile on the adsense. It's a good idea to have a unique name for your site - so it will show up easy in search engines. You also need to join a web ring and then you get traffic from this site if you join mine! Part of that traffic will be the bots from the search engines. For more information on starting your own website visit the Webz page.
I'm editing this page with FrontPage. If you have web space from TalkTalk or whoever - FrontPage is probably the easiest to learn. I'm still waiting for pages to load in to FrontPage and editing this one! I press ctrl S every now and then to save the page I'm working on. Doing the Home page is probably the most difficult. I decide on the background and that can then be passed to all the other pages. I use shared borders, not to be confused with margins, in the top borders are the hyperlinks to other pages in the bottom border links to other sites and my email address. I hold down ctrl and click the links and the pages load in fast! Everything in the top and bottom border on the Home Page (file name index.htm) goes on all other pages. You can see the names of the other pages in your browser - it's the bit after the / - so on this page it's talktalk.htm. I save the page not long after starting it and give it a name and a file name. Otherwise FrontPage names pages new page 1, 2, 3, and so on! On the new site should be lots of information on doing small websites and links to others. Plus backgrounds, pictures, music and animated gifs. I need more ideas! I can't do "forms" - I need FrontPage extensions on the server for that - and so have to link to another server for the guest book and counters. I hope this information will help if you're doing a website. If you haven't got FrontPage - try NVU. It works in Windows and I think there is a Linux version too. Get that from www.NVU.com , incidentally putting in that link to NVU was easy just type it and follow with a space. Other links need me to right click and click hyperlink. If you are starting a website on TalkTalk, don't expect much help from technical support - or any other ISP for that matter! If you want to save space - and you only get 15 Mb on TalkTalk - you can hotlink. The photos on my friends page were about 1 Mb; and so I put them on Photo bucket and they give you the code to hotlink them to your website. You just switch to HTML and paste it in. The Adsense adverts are pasted in with code from adsense. If you want to sign up for adsense - click the advert below (email me and ask my advice first). You can use it on your website and on Blogger and Soulcast. I've linked my website to Blogger - that gives me more control over the adverts and a different URL (address) for each blog. So each blog gets a load of adverts that are contextual, related to what I have written about; hopefully! The good thing about adsense too, is if people work together it pays better. You click my advert and I sort of get an introduction fee - eventually! That is assuming you do well - so it's in people's own interests to help each other. That is why I think an International Webmaster Community for amateurs like me would be good. You learn design, how to do the technical bits, tips on hot linking and resources like backgrounds and animated gifs and pictures. Plus you make new friends with whom you have something in common. Maybe I'll make it a Webmasters and Bloggers community! I just need a good short name! Someone stole the last one I thought up! It needs to be short so we can do sub domains (free) with FrontPage extensions for people to use when you start to get a little good at it! Adsense gets better all the time - but more complicated! So email me for some advice before signing up and use my referral button to sign up! It gives me a little incentive to help you! If you're doing a small website like this look at the Turnorfamily website - the link is on the web ring page and on the home page. It is under construction and it will give you some ideas on how to develop your site. You can of course get in touch with me at the email address at the bottom of every page on this site. I'll help if I can. This site isn't as boring as the white page and no music sites! But it's supposed to be interesting and entertaining.
Incidentally, TalkTalk cut their charges to mobile phones a while ago - check their website for details. It's much cheaper especially on weekends around 3.5p a minute to most networks. Put the numbers you call most on your calling circle. I think the line rental has been reduced by 50p a month too. If you're in doubt about TalkTalk broadband and thinking of signing up. Check out the prices for TalkTalk and then AOL UK (Also owned by TalkTalk) and there is a difference! New Pages On the Gallery page just click forward to see the next picture. The same applies to the PIX page and the Friends pages. Most images are now on Photo bucket - so I can make better use of the 15 Mb of space that I have. If you're doing a site - email me and join my web ring. The link will send bots from the search engines to your site. If you intend to put adsense on, wait until the site is finished and then please use the referral advert on this site! I haven't had a referral work out yet! You will also get traffic to your site with a link on my web ring page. A website with no visitors isn't a great idea! lol |
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