I've added an Facebook Like button, but as my site is still very small I believe it is not a good idea to show that bubble-box telling everyone that this page only has 3 likes. Then, it's better visitors don't see how bad it performs so they're not blended and can decide on their own if it's cool or not. This is how I've added that butt...
Unfortunately, I've never had a senior developper or mentor to show me some of the best practices. So I develop sites (php/mysql) on my Windows machine with WAMP, I test in hidden (password restricted) folders on the production server and finally move sites to production folder. I would like to have a more fluid/practical/error-proof se...
i want to launch(publish) my site on the internet? so some one can tell me about free hosting? ...
I'm thinking of implementing my web application in a certain way as an optimization, and I'd like to get people's opinions on whether this is a good idea or not. Here's the details: For most of my pages, instead of determining server side whether the user is logged in, and then modifying the page I send based on that, I want to send the...
Hi all: Basically I want my Java Applet to simulate an url has been clicked, once a certain event listener has been executed. Say, before I have a link in html: <a href='destinationpage.php?pid=1001' target='rightFrame' /> I'd like to keep the same link to php intact, and when Applet actually invoke the click simulation method, the ...
I want to implement a logic similiar to what some of the websites do is they ask for your email address and send you a link on that mail address when you click on that link you are redirect to there home and given a temporary password which expires in a time limit and ask you for setting up your new password. I am intersted in knowing ...
http://www.example.com?foo What's the term for the foo part of the URL? ...
Is it possible to add Bullet points for the warning/Alert message box for a webpage using HTML and Java Script? If not, what would be the best possbile way to create one of those? The message box should have the below properties: Warning Image Message box header Bullet points listing summary Accept and Reject button Thanks in advanc...
Can anyone offer any software suggestions or best practices for QA'ing complex websites? To be specific, I have built and currently maintain a few sites, and I'm always paranoid about breaking something when I release a new version. Because of this, I've built a pretty solid development environment tied into svn. I feel like my planni...
Hello there ok i may be wrong about this and if i am then i am sorry. But is it possible to change the screen with ajax by looking at whats after the "#" in the link. because when im on facebook i know that it is all an iframe yet when the screen changes so does the text after the "#". Is that what is causing the change or is that a resu...
My question is about .htaccess I am using WordPress 3.0.1 as the front end of my web application. I want most HTTP accesses to follow the normal WordPress flow. However, I have created a special "Page" in WordPress that has embedded PHP code that powers my web app. URL's of this form "http://site.com/app/" already go to the correct pa...
Hello, I'm building a site with nanoc and cannot find out how to use a global variable that could be incremented on the compilation of each page. The idea behind this is to get the list of all tags (incrementing the appearance number each time a tag is seen). I though that declaring the variable in lib/helper.rb would do the trick, but ...
Hello everyone. I am working on a website i will like to know the number of people who has visited the website. Can someone tell me what to do? ...
I am coding a website using the Codeigniter PHP framework. I am using mercurial for version control. I have 3 systems I work with. I do my coding on a Windows 7 machine using Netbeans 6.9.1. I am occasionally making commits, and pushing to a repository at Bitbucket.org, purely for the purposes of backup and version control. I have a ...
Many times I encounter a site, and would like to know - how did they do this? Moreover, I'm looking at a the work of someone else in my own (web) project, and want to understand what exactly did he do? What are the parts of the page? Which scripting manipulations are being performed? Which requests are being sent to the server, and whe...
Hello, I'm finishing up my Computer Science degree within the next year. For the past couple of years I've been doing Web Development on a freelance basis. I'd really like to be able to get a decent job doing Web Development after school. My "professional" experience so far has been with PHP, MySQL, and various frameworks. I live in t...
Hello, I tried to find the player to play gsm file on my site. After searching on google, it seems quicktime player is the only ready to use player available. However, I have to provide the location of the gsm file to the quicktime plugin in order for it to play. I worry about the security issue that may cause by this since some files a...
I'm working with a product that has a web-based interface. The functionality is huge and is divided into modules. Access to each module is via a drop down menu available on all pages. Each menu item has at least 2 levels of drill downs (vertically) Problem: Too many top level menu items Solution 1: Group Elements (Logically) so that ...
I am a big fan of the http://www.stripesframework.org and using it heavily for my projects. However the project seems to be dead. It is not possible to register to the website anymore (no license) and I couldnt contact any of the administrators. Also the mailing-list is not available. Is anyone aware of the status of the project? It wo...
I would like to implement a facility like Orkut offers where user is able to configure the colors and style for the site, and the changed styles will be used for the user. I would like the user to be able to enter the color combinations for the site background, top navigation, and left navigation. Can some one please let me know what a...