I'm going to be creating a site that's an aggregation of personal activities like Delicious, twitter, last.fm, etc. along with a blog. I'd like to try a CMS to manage/develop this site, but there's several very strong competitors: Joomla, Drupal, Xoops, Wordpress, etc. Language is not an issue, as a Java dev I'll be learning as I go reg...
I'm going to be coaching a gentleman, older, and fairly Internet inexperienced, with maintaining a simple web site. Nothing dynamic, just static pages, text, links, and images. I haven't done any web page work for years. What would you guys recommend he [we] use for software? Are there online tools we can share that would give him the ab...
Often, a language won't have its own community, or the "official" community isn't the most popular one. For all the languages you use, what is your favorite place to visit (besides SO!) for help - or just plain discussion/complaints? EDIT: Just based on the answers I've seen so far, there appear to be plenty of reference sites too. I do...
Does anyone have some guidelines or links to articles when designing a website that needs to be localized in 20+ lanaguages? The initial translation isn't so much the problem, rather ongoing maintenance (i.e. when an update is made on the English site, how are people notified that new translations are required). Thanks in advance! ...
I need to test a web form that takes a file upload. The filesize in each upload will be about 10 MB. I want to test if the server can handle over 100 simultaneous uploads, and still remain responsive for the rest of the site. Repeated form submissions from our office will be limited by our local DSL line. The server is offsite with high...
I have created a website project in VS2008 and in the appcode folder I have created a class deriving from System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebControl. I need to use this control in one of my webforms. I can't figure out how to. ...
As a software developer, I have done many web page applications and been doing blog for my programming experiences. I would like to use pictures in many cases. Pictures worth thousand words and they are universal language! You could create your own clip art images or download graphics(actually many are open clip art/image libraries avai...
I'm quite surprised how large some major websites homepages are. This is the total amount downloaded just when opening the homepage. cnn.com - 845kb microsoft.com - 470kb yahoo.com - 235kb gillette.com (flash) - 3.8Mb abc.com - 3.4Mb nbc.com - 1.4Mb youtube.com - 530kb Anyone care to add to the list? I'm just trying to justify the siz...
I have been asked to provide information on available techniques for assessing our current, and any future websites for security problems. the request is in the form of Do you know of any good free one that examines for security holes? I think our data security is probably worth a small amount of upfront spend so any non-free metho...
As a developer who is always looking for new resources and information, I loved Mike Gunderloy's blog "The Daily Grind" on www.larkware.com ("We get up early, so you don't have to.") Unfortunately (for me) Mike decided to discontinue the blog in December 2007. So, my question: is there a similar blog / site which provides such good link...
I'd like to create a webpage layout with the sidebar to the right and the main content flowing around the sidebar. Requirements: Content below the sidebar should occupy all of the available width Content below the sidebar should not wrap when it hits the left of the sidebar Main content should precede the sidebar in the markup Sidebar...
Hi! I can't find any other post which addresses this topic on a purely general level. I'm very unexperienced in developing full scale websites. I get around using HTML and PHP for simple tasks. Now I'm looking at developing a more elaborate site and want to get hold of a good tool which doesn't eat my wallet to the bones. I guess I ...
We are rolling out a site for a client using IIS tomorrow. I am to take the site down to the general public (Sorry, we are updating message) and allow the client to test over the weekend after we perform the upgrade. If it is successful, I open it to everbody - if not, I rollback. What is the easiest way to put a "We're not open" si...
Hi friends, I have designed my site with a 900 x 600 fixed background image. On the computer it looks fine. How will it look on a PDA device? Will I have to design it separately for PDA? How should check whether my site can be browsed effectively from mobile phone? What should I do? ...
Dreamweaver sounds like over-kill for my needs. XSitePro sounds like it would fit the bill. Any others worth looking at? I need to build a fairly simple site for my wife's consulting business. I like the idea of being able to choose from a variety of templates, but I want to have full control over the site so I don't mind doing some ...
I am trying to make a basic API for my website so certain other websites that I approve of can show content from my site. I have a PHP script on my server that the other websites can access to pull content in XML format. How can I make sure that only certain websites can access this php page on my server? ...
I am currently working on a web application that uses PHP and MySQL, but I do not have shell access to the server (working on that problem already...). Currently, I have source control with subversion on my local computer and I have a database on the local computer that I make all changes to. Then, once I've tested all the updates on m...
How can I test my site in AOL without installing AOL? I did that once on my machine, and it killed it... ;) I know, I know... I can use a Virtual Machine, but I'm really just looking for an AOL Browser... a separate browser install. ...
I'm in the process of setting up a new website which would greatly benefit from having user-forums. Since I already have user accounts, and profile details, stored away it seems that I'd benefit from choosing an open-source forum package which I could modify so that logins were tested against my existing database. Right now all my site...
Warm Standby SQL Server/Web Server This question might fall into the IT category but as the lead developer I must come up with a solution to integration as well as pure software issues. We just moved our web server off site and now I would like to keep a warm standby of both the website and database (SQL 2005) on site. What are the bes...