jholwell

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Real Name: Justin Holwell

Mechanical Engineer

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  • Splash Pages: Good or Bad?

    I have noticed a trend where church websites contain a splash page (or gateway) that provides links to separate sites, one for newcomers and one for members and regular attenders. See Mountain Lake Church and Bent Tree Bible Fellowship for examples. What do you design geeks out there think about this? What are the advantages/disadvantages of this approach? How does this affect SEO? I would appreciate your thoughts as I am just beginning a redesign of our church's site, powered by Drupal of course ;)

    -Justin

  • Force Browser to Download MP3's

    Does anyone know how to force the browser to popup the "save as" dialog box when user clicks on a link to a MP3? This is currently what happens on the Geeks&God website.

    I have tried adding this to my .htaccess on the server in the directory that contains the MP3 files:

    AddType application/octet-stream .mp3

    <Files *.mp3>
    ForceType application/octet-stream
    Header set Content-Disposition attachment
    </Files>

    The above directives work for Firefox but not IE7. I have tried each directive alone as well as together in the .htaccess file.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks,

    Justin