Greetings

[mtkelso]

Hi, everybody.

I'm Matt, and I am capable of making fantasticly atrocious web pages. The only way to impove, I assure myself, is to try. So I'll just crack my knuckles, take a deep breath, and go to it.

But I have a couple of questions for the fine folk here, and I don't know where they belong...

1) I am hoping to make a web page that allows users to rate a given service from 1 to 10. Between a decent HTML book and the Aracnophilia editor, I think that I'm well on my way. But I am looking for some way to automatically average the entries. Also, I'd like to mention how many people rated the given service. Any ideas?

2) Does anyone know of any browser settings, etc., that help control the proliferation of popup windows? Even Yahoo is in on the game now, with their silly camera advertisement. Oh, and GeoCities, where you have to click the thing twice before you can read the text underneath it. What a waste of time...and on every page. Aagh! But I digress.

Anyway, it's nice to meet you guys in that cyber sort of way.
-Matt

[Mark]

Hi Matt!

1. Take a look at: http://www.gossamer-threads.com/ for the rating thing.

2. I don't thing there is a way to use the browser to "kill" the popups. You need to have a popup killer, such as one from: http://ranfo.com/software.html

[whkoh]

And
http://www.adkiller.com/
http://www.admuncher.com/
http://www.adsubtract.com/

Basically they find the banners and (text) links and replace them.

[Paul]

Hi Matt,
Welcome to the forums. Just for the record http://www.gossamer-threads.com is more of a link directory. You could customize it but it might be easier to find a script like this at:
http://www.hotscripts.com
http://freeperl.com
http://www.scritps.com
....and many others.
Good Luck,
Paul

[Goldilocks]

Hi Matt, welcome to the forums! I'm sure you'll find all the help you need here. ;)

[micosol]

Hey Matt, I ran out of witty things to say, but Hi anyhoo!