Don't you love those interesting Ask & Answer scripts everyone has? Well, they'll work only if you have a domain or a hosted subdomain, so if your site is freewebs or geocities, it won't work.

First of all, download this file. Unzip it, and save it to your desktop.

Open your FTP program and upload the AskMe file.

Now, you must login to your domain's control panel. Create a new MySQL database, and name it something like 'AskMe.' After the database is made, it should provide you with the host name, username, password, etc.

Open config.php in Macromedia Dreamweaver or Notepad, and edit the variables with the information you just got from the MySQL database.

If you want your AskMe page to be decorated, change the styles.css file with your own. You can aslo change the header.inc, and the footer.inc fles. These 2 files will appear on every page of your Ask&Answer script.

Run the create.php file. (http://yoursite.com/askme/create.php) Replace yoursite with your domain name, obviously. If you renamed the 'askme' file to something else, replace that too.

Once you run this page, it will show you success (hopefully), and delete create.php file from the server immediately, for security reasons. To ask questions, you can go to yoursite.com/askme/index.php and test out your script by asking yourself a question. You can answer the question by going to yoursite.com/askme/admin.php and entering the password you created for yourself in the config.php file.

If you have questions, go to my Ask & Answer.