Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Here are all the answers to all your questions about stuff, well the website mostly. There isn't much at the moment but more will come later on. You can always email me if you can't find the answer to your question.
There are questions under certain headlines.
General
Where does the name "Ichabod" Come from?
The name Ichabod is an old old name. The most popular use for it was in the famous novel "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." I also found the meaning for it, which it kind of means depression, which is a bummer. I was hoping for something cool.
What does the "1799" stand for in "Ichabod1799"?
The "1799" was the year when parts of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" actually happened.
How do you pronounce the site title "Ichabod1799"?
It's really funny listening to people trying to pronounce it. People who have actually seen or read or know of Sleepy Hollow usually get it right. It's kinda pronounced like this;
"Eck-ah-bod" (Eck, like as in "eek a mouse" or "that's Icky" but without the 'y' so it would be Ick.)
And the numbers, well because they're based on a time period would be pronounced as "Seventeen - Ninety Nine" so the whole title is
"Eck-ah-bod-seventeen-ninety-nine."
It's kind of said how it looks. Just think that the "h" is silent.
Some people try and pronounce it with the "ch" in it, it sounds really funny when people say it like that. eg, "Ishabod."
When did this site first start up?
I can't remember the exact date, but I think I started Ichabod1799 around September 2003. I'm not sure, but I know the year was 2003. Before then, I had other sites by the names of, "Totaly Blasphem", "Shrine of Shadow", "Realm of Death Angel of Death" and "Sleepy Hollow".
Website
Can I contribute anything to Ichabod1799?
Midis, and if you want to make some banners for me, that would be great.
Can I Affiliate or link to you?
Feel free to link me. You don't need to ask me and there are some banners for you to use in the "link to us" section.
Although if you want to affiliate with me, you need to contact me first. I don't affiliate for the sake of it and I don't want too many affiliates either.
I do have some terms and conditions about this however - I will only affiliate to websites that are similar to some way as mine. I will not affiliate with affiliates of my affiliates, that's not really fair to others and pointless. Also your host must be reasonable. I will not affiliate with people uploaded on a free server such as Geocities or Angelfire that create a lot of ads and popups. I will not affiliate to people uploaded on hosts that dish out viruses and spyware (such as HostUltra). But I will affiliate to those still freely hosted but on a professional host, where an application for hosting is required (such as Xtenshi). Don't be shy, just contact me so we can discuss it and see.
Can I win anything?
Sure you can. We are have some website awards. If you want to enter, just enter at the Awards For You section.
I'm browsing with Opera and your site looks crappy
Yeah, I don't like Opera. That program needs some fixing up. It has trouble reading the simplest HTML codes. Lately my layouts I made for Day Dream Graphics have been rejected because of trouble shooting in Opera. Opera can make their program compatible for my site! Anyway it shouldn't anymore, since I have been told about this problem I test my layouts in 3 major browsers and they all work fine in Explorer, Firefox and Opera, which would be the bases of every other browser.
What URL should I link to?
There's no point to linking to ichabod1799.cjb.net anymore, I'm not going to update that anymore, not since my new domain ichabod1799.net - better for you. But just in case, remember ichabod1799.cjb.net, the future is unpredictable and can be very harsh. I know from personal experience, nothing ever goes my way. www.ichabod1799.cjb.net is like a back-up URL, if anything goes wrong to the site it will be posted there. But I've had this domain and paid hosting for a month so far, I don't regret a moment of it and there hasn't been any server problems.
How come it's so hard to contact you?
No it's not - if you need to contact me email me at webmaster[at]ichabod1799[dot]net. There you go it's right here. It's published at the bottom of every page through this site. I don't publish it clearly or on a "contact page" because fear of email spam. Notice how I've taken down my personal email address? The internet is a very dangerous place.
Do you have any terms and conditions for using your graphics/works?
I didn't really at first, because no one reads them, no one follows them and sometimes some conditions are pointless and silly. All though after some recent issues I am now implementing a few conditions. If you are to use my wallpapers and layouts you must follow these;
- No hot linking - what is hot linking? that's when you just take the url of the file from it's origin and place it in your html code. If you are to use my wallpapers as profile backgrounds or other web use. Same goes for layouts and buttons/banners/avatars too, you MUST download them and upload them on another server, your own server or a free one such as PhotoBucket. If you hot link the files, then every time some one visits your site or whatever, it's going to download that file from my server, thus eating up my bandwidth. If there is no bandwidth, there's no more site, and this is something that makes me angry to see people hot linking my files - it's taken me 3-4 years to get my site this far.
- Credits - Leave all credits on the wallpapers, so you remember where you got them from. Leave all rightful credits on my layouts, even if you change images and stuff still leave the credits. It's polite.
- DO NOT Claim you made the layout or the wallpaper.
- DO NOT redistribute my works anywhere else.
- Editing - This doesn't bother me, you're free to edit my layouts to your liking, change the images, colours, fonts whatever - most people are polite and ask first - as long as you still credit me as the original source and DDG for downloading. And extra credit like HTML help.
Requests
Can I Request anything?
No! And this time I'm serious. I will not be taking requests this year, I just don't have the time for need the stress.
How many Requests have you made so far and how many pending?
Requests Pending: 0
Layouts: 24
Wallpapers: 12
Total: 35
Wow, I can count.
Wallpapers
How do I install/use one of your wallpapers?
Well simple. First click on the thumbnail or the title of your selected wallpaper, so the proper larger one loads up. Once that has loaded up; for PC users right click on it and select "set as background". Or right click on it and select "save picture as" and save it to your computer's wallpaper folder (which is usually the "My Pictures folder") - If you have done it that way, then minimize or close everything so just the "Desktop" is loaded on your screen, right click select "properties" and once that has loaded up to background properties use the options to find your wallpaper and select it.
For Mac users, click on the thumbnail or the title of your selected wallpaper, once the proper larger one has loaded Drag the image to your desktop. In the Control Panel, go to Appearance then choose Set Desktop and select the image you dragged to the desktop.
My computer screen is larger or smaller than 800x600. Is there any way to still make the wallpapers to fit my screen size?
Sure there is, (for PC) go to your desktop and right click. Select properties once the background properties have loaded change the picture display to stretch. Or you could change your screen size to 800x600 by going to your desktop right click select properties then settings and then change the panel of the screen size to 800x600.
What Program do you use to make your Wallpapers?
Currently Adobe Photoshop CS, which I also use to make a few of my layouts even this current layout. Before I had cs, it was Adobe Photoshop 7.0 and before that it was Arcsoft Photostudio 2000.
How come your wallpapers don't come in various sizes?
So you suggest that you want each of my wallpapers to come in various sizes, eg, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024. Well first of all, do you know how big a 1280x1024 file is? About 500kb - well that's big...ish. The simple reason I don't and won't make my wallpapers in various sizes is because it will eat up too much space. I don't have the room to do something like that. If you have a bigger or smaller screen resolution than the size of the wallpaper you downloaded, then change your desktop settings to stretch. My resolution is 1280x1024 and I set it to stretch and it looks fine.
Why won't your wallpapers show up when I use them as the background on my profile?
Busted! You might not be aware but you probably were direct linking the wallpaper. You would of simply just copied the url (address) of the wallpaper and pasted it in the background properties of your profile. That's called direct linking or hot linking and it's considered theft. Because by doing that you're stealing some of my paid for bandwidth. I have taken action to this issue by making it so when my wallpapers are direct linked from here, they don't show up. If you wish to use them as your background on your site or blog or Myspace profile, then all you have to simply and rightfully do is download the wallpaper and upload it on your own server, or a service that provides this feature such as Photobucket.
Layouts
Some of your earlier layouts look funny in other browsers?
Why are you laughing? That isn't funny and it's not polite to laugh at other's misfortunes. They should load up all fine now in many browsers, I went through and fixed them all up. I also deleted two of them.
Midis
What are Midis?
Midis; which stands for Music Instrument Digital Interface (I think) are very small music files which are made at home on a computer which is why they sound funny and lack singing/lyrics. They are mostly created for background music to help singers or for website background music, for home made video games or sheet music creation.
Where did you find all your midis?
Various places, I’m sorry I can't credit all of them but most of them; I lost most of the websites where I found them. The Zelda ones came from VgMusic.com and other video game midis. Some of the Buffy ones came from Foxxed Slayer and the Buffy Musical ones came from safalra.com. A lot of Evanescence and No Doubt midis came from Midisite.com (which is a great place to search for any midis you want). Most television and movie theme midis came from TV Timewarp. Midis that have people credit with them they were sent into me.
Did you really make some Midis? How?
Yes the midis under the title "My Crap Composing" I have made using a program called Anvil Studio and reading off sheet music.
The songs that say "re-written" did you really re-write?
Yes, they are either songs that are originally played as a duet piece, I re-wrote them so it easier for solo performances and to make them sound nicer and easier to play yourself.
Why won't the midis play on my computer?
Check your player (either Media Player or QuickTime) settings; make sure under file types that midi is selected.
Can you put midis on your Ipod?
Yes and it's really simple to do. First open your Itunes library and import the midi file you wish to have on your Ipod. Then select that file in your library and right click on it and go "convert selection to ACC." It will take a while but soon a duplicate of the midi file appears. Delete the original midi if you wish and then the next time you update your Ipod it will put it straight on there.
Other
When the hell is BloodRayne 2 coming out in Australia?
Out on Playstation 2 but discontinued on Xbox (but I got my copy off Ebay from the UK, make sure it can play in 'plal' formats before you buy it)
What colour is the sky?
Mostly blue, but somtimes I've seen it red, green, purple...today's world is really f'ed up
When is Evanescence's new Album coming out?
It's already out. No news yet about any other Albums
What's the font used in the Buffy logo for "the vampire slayer"?
A question asked by many fans and for years myself until I recently found the answer. It depends which logo too, because what they use on merchandise (including DVD covers) and what appears on the opening credits are two different fonts. In the season one an season two opening credits it was all the one font which we don't really know but it might be "Slayer." In the opening credits of season 3 onwards we see a re-vamp to their logo as it includes the "Buffied" font but "the vampire slayer" is written in "Slayer." However on merchandise such as books, comics, video games, DVD covers etc, they used a commercial font called "Kruella." On the general logo it's written in all small letters and on the earlier editions of the comics and books it's still using the same "Kruella" font but typed in all capitals.
You can download the basic fonts of "Buffied", "Buffy" (designed especially for logo use, with the first 'f' written in a capital) and "Slayer" (as well as other Buffy fonts) at Dusk til Dawn. Kruella however even though it's much demanded is a commercial font and would need to buy it if you want it from My Fonts. I have purchased this myself *cough cough email cough me cough*
Where can I find sheet music for The Ring theme?
Yes since The Ring & The Ring Two soundtrack was released, the track "The Well" has become very popular, as it is a simple piano arrangement of the creepy music used constantly in these great films. However sheet music is not available for the Ring soundtrack. Most people (myself included) just learn it by ear, as I said is a simple piano arrangement. But no threat if you can't do that - it took me a while. I have made a midi of it and printed off the sheet music to the midi, then scanned it and have it up here for download.
You can download my arrangement in the choice of two zip packs. One is in PDF format, and the other is in JPEG images. Each pack both includes notes on best performance playing and the crappy midi I made for the sheet music.
Download: PDF Pack - JPEG Pack
Hope you enjoy playing. All the notes are there and it's spot on when you play it along to the track on the soundtrack.
Couldn't find what you were looking for?
Then email me at webmaster[at]ichabod1799[dot]net - sorry about the [at] and [dot] this is just so it prevents spam in my account.
