Loading Page Speed Issue in Startup Website
Hi All I think the question is a bit silly, but for a newbie startup building a website, do we need to concern the speed of the loading page ? Or what is the stage we need to concern about it ? ...
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How to efficiently determine if webpage comes from a website
I have some unknown webpages and I want to determine which websites they come from. I have example webpages from each website and I assume each website has a distinctive template. I do not need complete certainty, and don't want to use too much resources matching each webpage. So crawling each website for the webpage is out of the questi...
What are the benefits of having an updated sitemap.xml?
The text below is from sitemaps.org. What are the benefits to do that versus the crawler doing their job? Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additi...
What is(are) currently the best language(s) for modern web site design? Recommendations?
I'm a little out of date, before HTML4 and javascript got AJAXy. Does anyone have opinions about the best tools for web site design? I'd rather avoid ASP and .NET, since I've got a limited budget. This seems like a good time to start fresh. Please keep the replies on the coding recommendations, as I already know how to register a dom...
Novice needs advice for script that gets data and returns it in a usable format.
I have a large number of images that I am putting into web pages. Rather than painstakingly enter all of the image attributes, I thought I could write a script that would do the work for me. I just need a little push in the right direction. I want the script to get the width and height of each image, then format this into an img tag th...
Looking to scrape a website
I am looking to scrape a website like yelp.com, to get a listing of all the bars they have there. Are there any tools or scripts out there which would help me do this. ...
What is the most performance effective way to create a sitemap.xml for any CMS system?
We want to implement a sitemap.xml feature in out CMS system. There is some argument within our developers that this feature will impact performance due to each time a change is done in the Content a full list of links of the site needs to be created and placed in the sitemap.xml. The idea is that each time a public viewing page is e...
Website not rendering correctly in IE - Just cannot get it right. :(
Hi all, I have been trying to days now to get this website completed ... however, when viewing it in IE (compatibility mode) the header is all messed up. :( The website is here: http://nageela.einfal.com/ This is actually the first design I've converted into a Wordpress theme, so it's been very challenging. If anyone has any suggesti...
Tools and Techniques for Reviewing a Website's Content and Structure
Can the stackoverflow community recommend tools, techniques, and processes for checking the structure and content of a moderately large, collaboratively edited, evolving website? This process is time consuming to do manually, and it would be desirable to automate this to the fullest extent possible via software. I am interested in check...
Google App Engine as production platform
We are about to start working on new commercial web project and considering Google App Engine as a potential platform. Questions: Does Google App Engine is really scalable and may be considered as a production platform for commercial project? Is it more expensive (or cheaper) than good hosting company service in long run? Is it possi...
What's th best way to classify a list of sites?
I have a list of X sites that I need to classify in some way. Is the site about cars, health, products or is it about everything(wikihow, about.com, etc?) What are some of the better ways to classify sites like this? Should I get keywords that bring traffic to the site and use those? Should I read the content of some random pages and j...
How do you present an email address to thwart casual spammers (not spambots)?
Preface: I'm honestly not sure if this should be on StackOverflow, SuperUser or Doctype. If it needs to be on SuperUser please move it. If it needs to be on Doctype please close it and I'll re-post it there. We all know that putting your email address anywhere on the Internet in any format, be it in plain text or a mailto: link, will ca...
Size of sitemap.xml
What should be maximum size of Sitemap.xml for any e-commerece ASP .Net website. ...
File Server Design Approaches.
I have been working on designing a file server that could take the load off from the primary website, and serve images/files over the web to the client. Primary goals of the file server: - Take off load from primary server hosting the site - Reuse the existing web server code base and avoid duplication of code/logic for better maintaina...
How to update multiple elements with one MooTools Request.HTML call
Does anyone know if, using one Request.HTML call from MooTools, it is possible to somehow update more than one element in a webpage? The current call I have is: var req = new Request.HTML({update: $('content')}).get('../latest_events'); This updates the content div in my page with the "../latest_events" page. Is there a way to updat...
Why aren't my simple CSS margins collapsing?
I've always heard that margins in CSS will collapse when next to each other, so that settings two elements to have 40px all around will only result in 40px between them. Is this an old way to render CSS, as in does it not work this way anymore? This is the HTML and CSS. I can't seem to get the margins to collapse: Relevant HTML <div ...
IE image width & height = 0 before image downloaded
I'm trying to set the width & height property of an image element i've created in javascript. In FF, Opera & Chrome it's sets the width & height correctly. However in IE 6 & 7 (Haven't tried 8) the width & height remain 0 until the image is downloaded. The reason I need this is so that i can position each image in rows & cols based on it...
What are the best sites for reference in programming for .NET development?
What are the best sites for reference in programming for .NET development? Websites on WPF would be great but if you have some on other types of technologies from .NET, I am opened to that too (just write it though). ...
State is not retaining in checkbox
There is a check box in my webform. whenever i tick it ..and click on back button it will not retain its state ..when i comeback using the next button to the same page. Note: view state is enabled in the control There is no code in the page load event Code below: Protected Sub chkBx_SR_wu_SelectedIndexChanged(ByVal sender As Object...
Create a "playable demo" version of a Rails site?
It's quite common in sites- you have a "demo" version with a guest account full of data/posts/comments that you can play with, and all the data is reset every few hours so users wont spam the demo site. I thought to have another rails environment, "mysite_demo" and use a cron job to call rake to reset it's database every X hours, and po...