Question: Is there a service or a system methodology that would allow someone to setup a permanent base URL that could be used as a referrer to a business website regardless of where that website may be hosted at any given time? Example: suppose you have two websites that have identical content (they are just mirrored or synched copies)...
Now that IE8 is out, what are the gotchas that web developers are likely to encounter in their existing sites? Is there a list of "breaking" changes? Or is this thing "just going to work" with existing sites? ...
Hi guys, Is there something like the Reference property CopyLocal in a Visual Studio 2005 ASP.NET Web Site? A VS05 Web Application has a References folder in the Solution Explorer where you can select a reference and view its properties, such as CopyLocal, in the Properties window. But a VS05 Web Site only has a References folder in...
Has anyone used Wikis to create highly customized and scalable website that does not look like Wikipedia? Answers.com Wiki is one that I know of. If yes, how much of an effort was to customize the existing code or create new templates/plugins? Which Wiki platform was used? ...
hello, i was talking with a friend about what iis does when u put a new file inside a virtual directory. he tolds me that IIS recompile the entire website when u put a file anywhere in the website, i think it just happens (if happen) when u put a file inside your Bins folder. the conversation comes because a website in the company is ...
Did you used Dynamic websites before? you see its a good way for making fast admin areas for our websites? Is it easy to customize? Is it easy for the end user to manipulate? I am thinking to use it with a client and didn't use before, can you advice? ...
I'm looking for some recommendations for website tools to ensure that deployed sites are always live and available. Ideally, I'd like to have a decent reporting / messaging mechanism from it to report when any faults occur. I've considered using CruiseControl and having some custom .Net libraries ping each site and analyse the response ...
Could someone post some good links with examples of programs with code in C++ and(or) Java? ...
We are currently using SurfStats and I am trialling Sawmill at the moment as a possible replacement as it does not require the code injection that Google Analytics does. Is there a better package available or is it better to inject your own code (website is ASP.Net - VS2003) and write your own analysis application? Has anyone had any ex...
I used a tool a few months ago that scanned a specified website and created a visual hierarchy of the website's page links. It also represented each page with its appropriate screenshot. Does anyone know what tool this is? Or maybe something that performs the same basic features? ...
Many of us have web and application servers that use plain TCP. Some of us have web and other servers that use a secure layer such as SSL. My understanding of SSL is that the handshaking is very computationally intensive, and the encryption of an ongoing connection is (relatively) cheap. My assumption for you to correct: an average ho...
I have to have a page submit to an external website. Not a problem. Problem is the external website displays a successful message, not good, I need to get the site it was submitted from to be redirected to something more user friendly. The external website won't redirect, which I think might be the easiest, if I pass it a redirectto p...
I'm implementing a website with a CAPTCHA on the registration form; my first. I've read dozens of posts on the arguments for and against, and of all the various implementations out there. I'm happy with all that but it's a necessary evil in my case. What I don't understand is why people post the random captcha characters in their posts,...
Question: I need a way to automate routine tests that tell me if my website is reachable from remote addresses. Local tests and scripts from my own machines are not enough because these tests are inconclusive (return false positives). Is there a service or programming trick I can use to routinely attempt to connect to my site where the ...
I have a multiple language site. With html, javascript, may be ajax if an image does not exist in spanish folder, it should load image from the english folder. path example english site : images/home.jpg spanish site : es/images/home.jpg Today i have message.properties ... stuff for doing text conversion message.properties message_es....
My wife is starting a new business and wants me to create a website for her that will allow clients to book appointments. I could obviously go ahead and start building something from scratch, but given that this is a fairly standard problem, I would prefer to reuse an existing solution (preferably in Java, but there is some flexibility ...
Hello, I'm under very hard pressure to complete designing of a basic company website. Are there any tips and tricks that will help me finish the job very quickly? I don't know if some people use any specific software to get it done very fast or maybe shortcut keys or different designing standards or maybe some css/html templates? I re...
I am about to write a tender. The solution might be a PHP based CMS. Later I might want to integrate an ASP.NET framework and make it look like one site. What features would make this relatively easy. Would OpenId and similar make a difference? In the PHP world Joomla is supposed to be more integrative than Druapal. What are the imp...
Does there exist a site which hosts collections of unit tests in various fields? specifically, instead of digging and extracting the packages that seem close to your subject of coding, I'd like to use it like shared code, see how it was tested. (and then also know how it should work) So is there one like that? doesn't matter which progr...
Having a small, SEO-friendly corporate site behind a basic password protection scheme, I'd like to add a basic search facility by using one of the off-the-shelf solutions. (I don't mind Google, or Yahoo having the site's content, as long as it doesn't leak to the web). Google doesn't seem to support this, so I'd like to ask the SO commu...