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July 16

make any page be the website entry

I'm in the process of making my personal website mobile-friendly. I was so glad to find out that adding the "viewport" link was all that was formally required that I just plunged in without much forethought, duplicating files, adding the link to each file, and rearranging the code so it could reasonably be compressed horizontally.

Currently, when html://www.something.com is invoked, control passes to the index.html file. So I should have planned to replace the current index.html with another of the same name. But instead, my new "index" is "arbitrary.html" and I call it with html://www.something.com/arbitrary.html. Unfortunately in each file I also coded a link back to this new home page. There are a couple of hundred files which I would have to edit individually to get it right (that is, link to index.html rather than arbitrary.html).

I did it the wrong way, but the best I could, as an amateur. Is there any way I could save myself through some kind of indirection, so that when "something.com" is entered as the URL, arbitrary.html gets executed? --Halcatalyst (talk) 02:46, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

What you need to implement is URL rewriting. On an Apache server, this is done by editing .htaccess - you'll need to add a line DirectoryIndex arbitrary.html. Tevildo (talk) 09:07, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Various techniques are listed at URL redirection. The most "amateur" way might be to use the Refresh meta tag: include the tag <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; url=arbitrary.html" /> in the <head> section of index.html. AndrewWTaylor (talk) 10:18, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Outlook time stamp

In sent items, is the time stamp on outlook, the time the email went into the sent items folder or the time it went to the outbox folder, if it took a while to send because either the file was large or you had connection problems? 92.27.242.127 (talk) 10:57, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mouse cursor

While I was using MS Word and MS Excel, I realised that:

MS Word: A mouse cursor appears when you are at the left side of/in the sheet, changing its view, allowing you to select the line... How do I change this?
MS Excel: How do I change the plus lookalike cursor/icon of the mouse cursor that displays while I’m in MS Excel?

Apostle (talk) 18:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2. No, You need for this: [1] or the whole sheet is protected. --Hans Haase (有问题吗) 19:45, 17 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Its a video. I'll watch it some other time... -- Apostle (talk) 05:00, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Mouse cursor/icon making software sought

What is highly praised in this day and age? Paid/Free? -- Apostle (talk) 18:30, 16 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

One thing to realize is that it's not just one mouse pointer, but usually an entire suite. A normal pointer, a working pointer, a pointer for when hovering over a selectable link, a pointer for when over a text entry field, etc. So, I find it easier to search for premade pointer suites. In particular, Windows has failed to keep up with larger resolution screens by making larger pointers. Thus, the stock pointers that come with Windows now are too tiny to see. (You can use pointer trails, but those get annoying.) StuRat (talk) 19:42, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you O Smart One.

-- Apostle (talk) 06:12, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Btw, try AniFX i.e. similar to IcoFX. -- Apostle (talk) 18:19, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]