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: : : Have you seen Lexus Nexus, a law library on the Net? : : How do they protect their databases from being downloaded by software pirates? : : I was told by a friend that databases are stored in a separate sever and are protected by passwords. : : How does this work? : Building and protecting databases is a little beyond my expertise. And it's probably going to be very difficult for you to do it if you're running your site off of a free server. The only way to guarentee privacy and security is to run your own server. But that requires a lot of money and a lot of programming knowledge, or someone to do it for you. More money! : Yes, most databases like Lexus Nexus are built on a separate server, and password-protected to better protect against hackers. Where I work, we do this through Perl scripting and a very complicated authentication program, to keep our members in and others out. But nothing is 100 percent hack-proof, and even our professionally-designed scripts don't work one hundred percent of the time. : : The site I am trying to build: : : http://users2.50megs.com/chu/ : : Please take a look and please advise me how to improve it. : First: build your content. Get your information up online, give people a reason to visit you. Don't worry about the look too much when you're first starting out. Don't try anything too flashy, or which detracts from the important content. Make sure your site looks good in different browsers and different versions (Netscape 3 and 4, Explorer 3, 4, and 5). : And learn HTML. I see you build your site with FrontPage. It's a good thing to start out with as you're building your HTML skills, but knowing the language is primarily important. You can't get a professional-looking site unless you know HTML. : Good luck!

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