http://qpost.com/my/advice/cityinsider Interested in building local interaction among people, small businesses, and nonprofits in every community nationwide en-us >1. How can I register a URL. http://dotster.com is a good service to register a domain name. >2. Will I own it exclusively? you don't own the url, but 'own the license" of the url and pay a yearly fee to use it exclusively during that period. You can pay up to 10 years fees in advance. To protect your domain name, it is best to trademark it with uspto.gov for your specific use. >3. Will it be universal or only on certain servers? yes, domains will work on any Internet server. it is an internet standard. domains need to be added to servers IP, but that is handled with your hosting provider. >4. How can I increase its visibility/access first step. submit your domain name/url with search engines cityinsider Wed, 21 May 2008 14:02:22 +0000 http://qpost.com/q/url_issues 64 If you want to send an email with video and pictures embedded you'll first have to have them hosted on the web somewhere. If video is at youtube.com, they will provide you the link automatically. Just cut/copy and paste embed html into your email. You will need to set your email program while in compose mode to "html format" The best way I'd do this would be to find a free html editor /page maker and first create html email message with pictures and video, then just cut and past the html code into your email program. of course, send a test to yourself and a few friends to make sure it looks right in different email programs. cityinsider Thu, 15 May 2008 14:34:56 +0000 http://qpost.com/q/adding_video_pictures_to_emails 62 I don't believe she has rights to keep the design from you if you paid for it, but technically, you may have to give her copyright a mention inside html of pages. I think your site could be easily copied by a designer from just going to the domain. Actually, you could start doing it too by using File > Save Page As from your browser on each page; it would save copies of all images and html to your computer. If she takes down your site, then at least you'll have most of the content to give to a new designer. cityinsider Thu, 01 May 2008 19:40:00 +0000 http://qpost.com/q/website_hostage_situation 59