dynamic-websites

What would be the best place to start learning AJAX (I have Perl as a backend)

I am currently developing a website using basic cgi to turn out pages. I would like the website to be changed to have a better (read dynamic) interface. What techniques (if not AJAX) and/or tutorials would you recommend to get me started? ...

Find out what sites are powered by

Any online tool/service that tells you what sites are powered by? Web Frameworks Multimedia platforms JavaScript libraries eCommerce Features ...

Financial News API

Any free/paid API to get financial news either world-wide / country specific. ...

Is google anti-Flash?

Google doesn't seem to like Flash content in any other way except writing text straight into the Flash IDE to get exported statically into the SWF movie. Which means that any text drawn by ActionScript into TextField's don't get indexed? Beginning at their Webmaster Guidelines, they recommend: "Avoid hidden text" - preventing hidden ...

What text inside Flash is indexed by Google?

Does the following mean that dynamic TextFields will NOT be indexed? We currently do not attach content from external resources that are loaded by your Flash files. If your Flash file loads an HTML file, an XML file, another SWF file, etc., Google will separately index that resource, but it will not yet be considered to b...

Free CRM for my website?

Searched hard but all I found was a page listing "commercial open source" CRMs, i.e. what you have to pay for. On the lookout for free CRMs so I don't have to build one! ...

Scrape HTML out of AJAX loaded pages

There's a site that uses AJAX to load in the HTML content, so when I attempt to access the URL of the page, it comes up blank. How can I scrape this site's HTML client/server side? ...

Inserting HTML elements with JavaScript

Instead of tediously search for workarounds for each type of attribute and event when using the following syntax: elem = document.createElement("div"); elem.id = 'myID'; elem.innerHTML = ' my Text ' document.body.insertBefore(elem,document.body.childNodes[0]); Is there a way where I can just declare the entire HTML element...

How does a website highlight search terms you used in the search engine?

I've seen some websites highlight the search engine keywords you used, to reach the page. (such as the keywords you typed in the Google search listing) How does it know what keywords you typed in the search engine? Does it examine the referrer HTTP header or something? Any available scripts that can do this? It might be server-side or J...

Sitemap on a highly dynamic website

Should a highly dynamic website that is constantly generating new pages use a sitemap? If so, how does a site like stackoverflow.com go about regenerating a sitemap? It seems like it would be a drain on precious server resources if it was constantly regenerating a sitemap every time someone adds a question. Does it generate a new sitemap...

Whats the easiest way to create an Admin Panel for dynamic websites?

I've heard about web frameworks like Rails, Django, CakePHP and others, that help programmers to quickly create dynamic websites which are basically a web GUI to interact with a database. I was wondering if there are ways to "generate" these Admin Panel GUIs pretty much automatically, something like a Microsoft Access for the web? Where...

Is ASP.Net 2.0/Ajax toolkit the right technology for implementing a SEO friendly website

Hi, As I understand it, just URL re-writing is not the only thing one needs to do for making a website SEO friendly. You also needs to maximize the use of div (instead of tables), reduce javascripts, flashes and have a clean HTML. I need to know how can this be achieved when one used a ASP.Net control. ASP.Net send loads of stuff to th...

Safe to have page resources without file extensions?

I need to decide on naming conventions for a new website. I can use mod_rewrite at will. My favourite solution would be to work with no file extension at all. www.exampledomain.com/language/pagename this would lead to "pagename" being treated as a directory. I would have to take that into account when using relative links. Are there...

Preserving text formatting for dynamic website

Hello Folks, I am facing a problem while creating a dynamic website. I am building it for some pharma company, which have many products. The problem is, every product have different sections of description, and have to be formatted differently. I wanted to store all the product descriptions in the database, but at the same time preserve...

Best way to integrate a database into a website?

Hey people As part of my job I complete calculations based on information I gather from websites. My question is what would be the best program for me to create an application that will search a website to extract information, complete the required calculations and then present results. After a brief search I believe that Visual Studios...

how to force the user to download a file, not to view it?

I have a download page where i have kept musics, pictures, ebooks and etc. Whenever users click at the image it opens it, and same things happen with .pdf files if the user has installed pdf reader on their PC? I dont want them to open the file but to download it? Any ideas ...

what is ssl and how can i use to make my website secure?

Can anyone tell me about SSL and how it can be used to secure a website? ...

Is there a way define a global variable which is accesible from a class method?

Here is the situation I create a instance of a class $newobj = new classname1; Then I have another class writtern below and I want to this class to access the object above class newclass { public function test() { echo $newobj->display(); } } It is not allowed, is there a way define a variable globally through a clas...

How much languages is "recommended" for a dynamic website?

When constructing a website, say a Q&A site or a just a forum site for a community, is just knowing HTML,CSS,PHP, MySQL, and javascript enough to make the site dynamic? I am saying this because when I talked with my teacher, he said that major sites use many languages combined. And he said that a site shouldn't be designed only in PHP. ...

ASP.NET MVC/IIS 7: Creating dynamic websites (subdomains) with a button click

I'm working on a community forum script, and I want to give every one an opportunity to create their own community forum for free. So let's say I have the following domain: www.forum.com Bob wants to create his forum, he signs up, picks a username ("bob") and gets his own forum instantly: bob.forum.com There are the things that need ...