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Archive for February, 2008

Question: Has anyone had any experience dealing with toxic mold in their home in Gainesville, Fl?

A friend of mine is in the first stages of dealing with this and any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I don't even know what category to post this question on.

Answer: If the mold is in the drywall, all the drywall must be removed. Hopefully replaced with something less prone to mold than drywall is. If the mold made it into the wood that holds up the drywall, move. Honestly. Mold doesn't go away. Chemicals are simply more nasty things to breathe, and don't really kill toxic mold anyway. For this reason, if I ever finally build myself a home, you can bet your buns I am not installing drywall.

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Question: Can I get into Fordham?

What do you think my chances are of getting into u of m, university of pittsburgh, or Fordham??
GPA: 3.8 ( I am a junior)
Act: 28
Forensics
Stage Crew
Member of National Honor Society
High Honors all 3 years
Volunteer at hospital, food bank, and nursing home
Shadowed doctor (interested in pre- med)
Leader of school group
The only thing is I don't do any sports...
I take all the honors and AP classes my school offers
Any advice is greatly appreciated..Thanks!!
I wasn't planning on submitting my sat(just act)..it was about an 1800. Would it help me to submit it?

Answer: Yes!

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Question: Creating a home page in WordPress?

I need to create a static home page for my WordPress website. I didn't think it would be a problem, since I created a new page using the "Home Page" template and called the page "Home". The only problem is that the home page doesn't pop up when I go to my site. I can get to the home page by clicking on the "Home" button in the navbar, but the home page url is test.mywebsite.com/?page_id=123 (just an example, and right now it's in the test stages). How would I get my home page to have the url of just plain test.mywebsite.com? I know it's probably something simple...

Answer: Hi LP,

Sorry you're having trouble setting up your static home page in WordPress. It sounds like not only do you want to have a static home page, but that you also want to use a custom template for that page (so it looks different from the rest of your site).

If you edited the home.php template, you will want to instead edit the front-page.php template. home.php is the template for the page that contains your latest posts while front-page.php is the correct template for a static home page.

You will also want to adjust the settings in your WordPress dashboard to display a static page instead of the default latest posts page:

http://www.webhostinghub.com/support/edu/wordpress/101-getting-started/configure-homepage

Hope this helps!

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