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Website Projects in Azure Web Role

I am researching a new ASP.Net project that we would like to host in a Windows Azure Web Role. One of the technical requirements of this project is to make use of the full pre-compilation options (non-updatable, single page assembly) of the ASP.Net Web Site project model - as opposed to the ASP.Net Web Application project model. Is it p...

Making A Unique Website Design

Lately I have been trying to make a cool website design for my website, but every tie I make one with photoshop elements I get something that doesn't look very good.. any advice on making clean and simple web designs with photoshop elements? Thank You ...

in a website, setting one cookie is better than setting many single cookies?

Hi, Suppose that you have to set 12 cookies, would it be better to store all of their values in a single "big" cookie or store each value on its own cookie? I want to know if that improves website speed. Thanks. ...

WebSite getting fake users that spam their sites/products, any clever idea to deal with them?

Hi guys, We have this website, something like a CMS with some extra stuff, it isn't relevant. So people can register and write some stuff on their profile which is automatically published on the site. About 3 days ago, we start getting fake users whose profiles was just links to marketing sites or sites trying to sell you something. Th...

Navigation Menu - ideas?!

Hey there I'm currently teaching myself to create websites - this particular site is for a that business I have. I'm using Dreamweaver CS3 to do so. I need some help with the horizontal navigation menu I am trying to create. I have three main categories within my website, each with their own small image to represent them. I want to hav...

Redirect mobile devices to alternate version of my site

We've got an alternate version of out website ready for mobile devices. The content we serve is different and it works well. What is the best way to detect which version to serve. We don't have a list of all mobile devices so to use the user-agent header is tricky as we may miss something. We thought about useing device screen width ...

How to simulate browsing from various locations?

I want to check a particular website from various locations. For example, I see a site example.com from the US and it works fine. The colleague in Europe says he cannot see the site (gets a dns eror). Is there any way I can check that for my self instead of asking him every time? ...

Can an exe compiled from C# be integrated into a website?

I'm a beginner in programming. I've just made a program called "Guessing Game". And it seems to work fine. Can I integrate it into a website? The CMS that I'm using is Mambo. === additional info's Thanks for all your suggestions. I still don't have any background about Silverlight, WPF and Java Script which I think sounds good. I'm u...

How can I embed a WordPress blog into another site?

I currently make my website using iWeb. Is there a way that I can embed a WordPress blog into the site? Either through an easy option or through coding? ...

Bar graphs on a website

I'm by no means a web designer, so I'd like as detailed help as you're willing to give. I'd like to make a website that that tracks some data I enter using a bar graph from 0-100%. I'd enter the maximum number the graph could go to and then some data point would be updated occasionally, which the completion bar graph would reflect. How...

Broadcast Audio to web site

I am looking for learning materials , examples , learning what I need to broadcast from a pub Audio Broadcast directly to Web site. ...

Following a javascript postback using COM + IE automation to save text file

Hi, I want to automate the archiving of the data on this page http://energywatch.natgrid.co.uk/EDP-PublicUI/Public/InstantaneousFlowsIntoNTS.aspx, and upload into a database. I have been using python and win32com (behind a corporate proxy, so no direct net access, hence I am using IE to do so) on other pages to do this. My question is...

Schedule a job in hosted web server

Hello Geeks, Can some one give me a best way to implement a daily job with .NET technology. I have an asp.net application with the sqlserver database hosted in shared hosting, GODaddy in my instance. My application is used to add / change the data in the database which is performing quite fairly at this time. I got a new requirement to ...

Gimp vs Inkscape vs Fireworks for website development?

InkScape users, can you recommend Inkscape for website-template development. I have to learn a tool for website templating, to create layout and export slices, one of my friend is suggesting fireworks i have seen him working ie why i am aware about slicing/css, and web-says lnkscape shall be fine, nothing detailed review. Has someone, yo...

Using sqlite3 with a small commercial site

I am looking for recommendations for a db to use for a small commercial web store (about 10000 products, about 200 entries a day) written in RoR. Is sqlite3 sufficient for this or should I go for MySQL? How complicated is migration between these two at a later stage if required? ...

How best to search a website and retreieve data in PHP?

Hi Guys, Trying to learning some more PHP. Here is what I'm after. Essentially, I would like to search a website and return data to my own website. Add a few keywords to a form. Use those keywords to query a website such as monster.com for results that match the keywords entered. Grab that data and return it to my own website. How...

How to prevent a website being completely consumed and mirror-served elsewhere?

I have heard many stories from people who had their sites integrated elsewhere so that the visitors to those other sites would see the original one not even knowing that the site has no own content but just serves some other resource? I understand people are doing that to promote their resources by (ab)using the others' work. Is there a...

Is it possible to start / stop an application pool or website in IIS programatically?

I'm trying to find a way to stop, start, restart/recycle websites and application pools from within a web interface on the same server. Ideally this would be something I could do with .Net without having to execute shell commands. (I see other related quesitons have been asked but I don't want to do this from the command line unless th...

Does anyone know where I could get free GPS data on certain types of locations for any country

I am currently building a web application server which essential would allow a client application to send it's current location and query on the server for the closet locations of a certain location type, examples of location types would be nearest payphone, nearest restaurant or nearest gas station. Does anyone know where I could get ...

folder structre for a plugin oriented site like wordpress

i just want to know about the files and folder structure for a site which is a plugin oriented like wordpress or joomla. my requirement is to develop a site and want to add more functions via plugin or something like features. what i need is to just add and additional information or functional sessions like in wordpress we can use All i...