web-development

In mozilla firefox, how do I dock the dom inspector to the bottom of the current tab?

In mozilla's firefox browser is it possible to dock the dom inspector to the bottom of the current browser tab? Similar to the internet explorer developer toolbar? ...

jQuery setinterval does not show first element

Hi, I am creating this content slider, you can view/edit here: http://jsbin.com/esame4 I have put in place setInterval so that animation runs automatically, however, when it is run for the first time, google image is shown but not afterwords. Should be simple but i am unable to figure out the problem. ...

How much to charge for a web app that will take 2 months to develop?

Hi. I am a freelance programmer working on a php project which I estimate will take me and my team of another 2 programmers around 2 months to complete. This does not include time needed for testing and bug fixing, which I estimate will take between 15 - 30 days. How much do you think I should charge for this project? ...

How can I simplify my toolbar interface as the list of commands grows?

I'm writing an internal-tools webapp; one of the central pages in this tool has a whole bunch of related commands the user can execute by clicking one of a number of buttons on the page, like this: Ideally, all of the buttons would fit on one line. Ordinarily I'd do this by changing each widget from a button with a (sometimes long) te...

Slick PHP based image manager for managing user profile images

Hi, I'm just throwing this out there as I'm plodding my way through creating a Member Photo album on a site i'm working on, where they can login and upload their photos to a personal gallery. I want this to be nice and lightweight, but still slick and "modern" with a modal based interface for the user. I'm surprised though that there is ...

How to get an error message out of my webpage

I have a web page that when I run it on a remote computer I get the message saying that remote errors cannot be viewed When I go to view it on my web server machine, I get a message saying: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage • Most likely causes: • You are not connected to the Internet. • The website is encountering ...

DW-CS5: Run Facebook applications on local server

Hi, Dreamweaver CS5's Live View features seems to be pretty cool. Is it possible to even live view the facebook applications inside DW that we develop, if yes, how to do it. If not possible with DW's live view, then any other work around you may suggest please to test/view facebook applications on local server. ...

how to seamlessly integrate subversion and git?

I'm looking for tips on how to seamlessly integrate subversion and git, for deploying web sites by a small team of web developers. We each have our own development versions of our sites on our local machines. We also have dev, staging, and live servers. As our team has grown, we haven't updated our revision control and deployment strate...

Book recommendation for developing ecommerce website in Java

I have seen that there are many books titled: Build Ecommerce website in php Build shopping carts in php or asp.net Is there any book which explains, from scratch, how to start building a website in Java using any framework or with servlets or JSP? Desired topics: Basic forms with logins and registration Building catalogue system ...

How do I get ASP.NET login status controls to display a Log In option?

I have the following log in status controls on the top of my master page. It displays the logged in as, manager log in, and Log out options. However, when a user is not logged in, there is nothing displayed there. When the user is NOT logged in, is there a way to display a "Login" text link that takes you to the log in page and then ...

Keyboard accessibility for divs containing images as options

I just replaced a radio button for selecting the users mobile device with divs containing images of the phone instead. I am using a JQuery click event to detect when the user chooses an option. How can I make this keyboard accessible? ...

Creating a fixed background for a website

Hello all I am trying to implement a fixed background for a website like one over here. Searching around for it told me that I can use background: fixed or background-attachment properties for this. My problem is the image which will be used as background. I am thinking about following issues: What should be image size? how will it r...

Organize array in PHP from mysql

Hi i have a social networking website. what i want it to do is pull out my friends status updates. basically what it does is i have a mysql query that pulls out all of my friends and in that while loop there is another mysql query that pulls out the status's from my friends. i want it to be in order of date but since its one while loo...

Should I use dialog boxes in my web application?

I'm developing a typical web application with functions like add, remove, view, search and other yada yada. However, I'm uncertain how much I should rely on dialog boxes. Should I have a dialog box for adding information to the system or perhaps only as a confirmation when deleting something? I could also, for example, use a login dialo...

Local web application or windows application for my system

Hello all I am going to design system that will keep track of publications due by researchers in my work place Need for this project : 1- a database housing the information . 2- Automatic reports must be generated . the users will upload PDF and we have around 25 researchers. I can’t decide which one is better for my system . My questi...

Any generic CSS libraries for web development?

Hello I'm working on a web development project where i need to take care of the design and working of the application. I found it very hard to style my UI which should be compatible will all the prominent browsers. For example to align the text inside a div i gave text-align:center which worked only in IE and not in Firefox, Safari...

Stopping cookies being set from a domain (aka "cookieless domain") to increase site performance

I was reading in Google's documentation about improving site speed. One of their recommendations is serving static content (images, css, js, etc.) from a "cookieless domain": Static content, such as images, JS and CSS files, don't need to be accompanied by cookies, as there is no user interaction with these resources. You c...

Is it possible to serve an ASPX page without it setting a cookie on your browser?

Hi, we're in the process of trying to speed up the performance of our website by serving static content from a cookieless domain. That seems to be going well, but I have a new question: I know that it's "static content" that we're talking about when serving it from a cookieless domain, but we also have static content being served by ASP...

Adding h.264 <video> support to XULRunner

Like Firefox, XULRunner only ships with support for ogg (and soon, webm) in the HTML5 video tag. Is there a relatively simple way to add h.264 support to it for all three major platforms? Perhaps a compilation flag, or a plugin I can add to it? ...

php lampp permissions of fopen function

hi i'm programming php using: netbeans 6.8 lampp for ubuntu (xampp) apache which came with xampp $fh = fopen("testfile2.txt", 'w') or die("Failed to create file"); $text ="hello man cool good"; fwrite($fh, $text) or die("Could not write to file"); fclose($fh); echo "File 'testfile.txt' written successfully"; //i...