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Which third party website thumbnailing services do you use?

I've got a requirement for showing thumbnails of arbitrary websites. I need to be able to show small thumbnails (120px by 90px), and larger thumbnails of around 480px wide. I'll need to specify the queue and invalid placeholder images and preferably have a pingback when the queued images are processed so I can respond appropriately. I'd ...

Script to control own browser

So I'm trying to debug my website... basically what I need to do is write a script that will periodically follow a link on my page, but I need to see the result in my browser which is why I need it to happen in the browser. I want it to click on the same link every few seconds without any human interaction. The resulting page each time w...

Which is the best jQuery-powered site?

This "Top 10 JavaScript (jQuery) Powered Sites", posted about 2 years ago, was the one that invites me (after seeing the list) to use jQuery. All the sites in that list made me realize how cool it is to build sites powered by jQuery. And now more and more sites are being powered by jQuery. More and more developers are learning jQuery. T...

Is there a standard site structure format?

Is there a standard site structure format? The use of this would be for export and import into a CMS or framework to define the urls, content, metadata for a website. Something tool agnostic would be the goal. JSON, YAML, XML, whatever. Maybe something like: { 'baseurl': 'http://example.com', 'site': [ {'slug': '/', 'title': 'E...

C program to convert Dollar to Rupee

Is there a way to write a C program to convert say Dollar to Indian Rupee (or visa-versa). The conversion parameter should not be hardcoded but dynamic. More preciously it should get the latest value of Rupee vs Dollar automatically(from Internet) ? ...

Best way to handle advertising that expands on mouse over.

I have recently seen a number of web sites where you want to click a link in content on the page, but as your mouse moves across an advertisement (ad) to get to the link, the ad expands to cover the content link, and I accidently click the ad often leading me someplace as a user where I DID NOT choose to go. I find this beyond annoying ...

Website functionality tips

Hello everyone, I'm writing a paper about website functionality so far I've covered some of them : Event Calendars and Registration, and Appointment Setting Product Databases and Wizard-like applications Flash and other Interactive Multimedia Presentations Online Publishing and Article Modules Surveys and Interactive tools that entice...

Adding an assembly reference in a website project (VS2005) and storing it in subversion

I have an assembly I need to reference in a website project in Visual Studio 2005. I have in the solution a folder called Assemblies in which all third-party assemblies reside. I can right click the website project in the Solution Explorer and select "Add Reference..." and navigate to the assemblies folder to get the assembly. Once I do ...

get post from wodpress

I have a static website, and i like to take some (+ or - 15) post from my 200 post wordpress and get it in a static website with design and thing really different from the blog i have get that code : <?php $my_id = 1828; $post_id = get_post($my_id); echo $post_id; ?> but how to tell the address of the blog, and how to get the dat...

who (NOT WHY) should have the final say on the layout/design of a website that is developed in-house?

forget the weird cases/companies, but in general, who, in your view, is the person who should be able to put his/her foot down and say "THIS is the layout. THIS is where the marketing message comes, THIS is where the price comes, THIS is where the testimonial comes"?? - the boss man, the template designer, users (split testing or somethi...

Allow Get request but only in my domain?

On my site i can trigger certain things using GET request like the ability to hide or delete a comment. I am not very worried but it would be pretty annoying if someone design an attack using img src= url to delete comments or emails. Is there a way to prevent this? I am using httponlycookies for the login data. if someone does img src ...

Online tasks in PHP and/or Joomla

can you suggest me some sites where we get an experience like being tested by a teacher? I need to have such a site where we get a sort of task to perform with or without a time frame in either PHP or / and Joomla... I donno where to post this question.. Trying with Google didnt help me much.. Please let me know if I am clear enough.. o...

Target _blank netiquette

I'm not talking about the way and means of opening new windows or tabs, that's not the problem. (And I use a rel="external" attribute rather than target="_blank" these days anyway.) I'm talking about the philosophy of this line of thinking: Also the site map & Privacy Policy links at bottom of screen should open a new window rat...

How to update existing IIS 6 Web Site using PowerShell

Hi, I am trying to create a PowerShell script that creates a new IIS 6 web site and sets things like App Pool, Wildcard application maps, ASP.NET version, etc. After extensive search on the Internet I found a script that allows me to create a new Web Site but not to modify all the properties I need. $newWebsiteName = "WebSiteName...

How to install and run (setup) reddit.com on windows environment?

Hi Everybody!! Reddit.com is providing their code as open source and free. I want to setup the reddit.com website at my local machine in Windows Environment. Could anybody please help me or guide me to the best approach. Also, i have apache (WAMP) installed in my machine. Kindly somebody help, I have searched everywhere but unable t...

Adding functionality to a static website using ruby on rails

Hi, I am new to ruby on rails. I have a website with a lot of static pages. I want to add a number of dynamic pages to the website and these I am going to develop in ruby on rails. The functionality offered by these pages will be triggered when the user clicks on one of the buttons which is on one of the static pages. I am thinking th...

Django flatpages and a catchall startpage

I'm using django 1.1 and flatpages. It works pretty well, but I didn't manage to get a catchall or default page running. As soon as I add a entry to url.py for my startpage, the flatpages aren't displayed anymore. (r'^', 'myproject.mysite.views.startpage'), I now flatpages uses a 404 hook, but how do you configure the default website...

How to read a web page in PHP

I'm new to PHP and trying to save some web pages to text files using PHP scripts. Do you know any PHP script to load a web page into a file buffer and remove HTML tags? ...

Changing page location after google analytics setup

The current website structure is setup such that all the ASPX pages are in the main folder. It's becoming increasingly difficult to maintain, so I would like to create new folders and move the relevant pages. This would change the URL from say: http://mydomain.com/DoStuff.aspx to http://mydomain.com/DoingFolder/DoStuff.aspx I fear th...

Where should I upload my code for others to get involved in?

I have made my own php MVC framework and have also written its documentation. It is about 80% complete. Now basically I am looking for a way so that other developers should be able to analyze my code and possibly join hands for its further development and improvement and also they should be able to browse through the documentation (html ...