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Automatically Convert Prices on a Web Page to A Different Currency

Hi, I am interested in possible methods of automatically converting the prices given when a web page is loaded from the currency given to a specified currency. Ideally, the conversion would also make use of the current exchange rate to give valid prices. For example, in my specific case, I would like to convert the prices given in Eur...

Web SITE publishing, dynamic compilation, smoke & mirrors

When you publish a web SITE in Visual Studio, in the dialog box that follows, you are given an option to "Allow this precompiled site to be updatable". According to MSDN, checking this option "specifies that all program code is compiled into assemblies, but that .aspx files (including single-file ASP.NET Web pages) are copied as-is to th...

set up way of getting mysite.$domain

Hi I have several domains, only one website and one databse table for each domain. example: wbesite.us - data from USA goes to database table main_usa wbesite.co.uk - data form UK goes to database table main_uk Only have one database with name of the website. Having only one website structured, and having variables like $sql="select...

.htaccess file. Can I block access to a directory without blocking access to the files within it?

I'm building a website, but I'm not entirely sure what to do with the .htaccess file. Say for example I have a folder called pages which holds all my pages, can i deny access to someone if they type in www.website.com/pages so that they can't see the directory? I've tried putting the .htaccess file in the pages folder with the "deny from...

Categories and Tagging in a Web Application

I'm creating a small trivia site and would like to know if anyone has insight as to how I could categorize the trivia questions/quizzes so that it does not hinder the "typical browse around and answer questions" type of user, as opposed to one who uses the search engine to explicitly find trivia of interest. Trivia content will be creat...

Website including pages/pages to my site

Hello.. I have my site on index.html made in html+css., at my index.html i have this div id "content", where you put in main content to the page, and there's a link at the menubar that src to page2.php. When you press on the link it goes to the page2.php, but i want it to display inside the < div "content". In page2 i have Hello this is...

Proper Way to Create Standards-Compliant Webpage Structure

I have been working through projects involving packages that do all the web design stuff for me for the past few years. I will admit that I have not been able to focus any on actual web design. I was wondering what the standard is these days for website layouts. Are layout-tables looked down upon now? Or are all layouts done with div ta...

Geopraphic Charting controls for Websites

Hi All, I need to create dash boards showing geographic regions and show sales, hot spots etc on a map. What have you tried and what do you recommend? I like the look of both Fusion Charts and Dundas I will be using asp.net for the site but any control's or library's including flash or javascript are good options. Most important is ...

image slideshow with effect

hi, how can i made some nice slideshow for the index.html page, with lets say 5 images and a some effect when images are changing? (or something simmilar) ...

Solr and web site indexing to create a site search.

I was trying to build a 'site search' on a simple http site. I have a site, lets call it www.mycompany.com, that is pure html. Is there an easy way to use solr to index the entire site to build a full text search using solr as the engine? I googled for a bit and could not find anything specific of the type: Do A Do B ... profit! Le...

Preparing layout of web-design

I am starting design work of my first website. I know very little HTML. I don't know CSS and I am going to learn and use simultaneously. I want to know whether there is any tutorial on how to create a layout for any website. Any tips or best practices to be followed before designing starts? ...

Improve performance of website

I have designed a new web site. I have hosted it online. I want it to be of the best performance and load pages faster. This website is designed in php 5.0+ using codeigniter. This is using mysql as DB. I have images on it. I am using Nitobi grid for displaying set of records on page. The rest is everything normal page controls. As i ...

Design: Website calling a webservice on the same machine

More of a design/conceptual question. At work the decision was made to have our data access layer be called through webservices. So our website would call the webservices for any/all data to and from the database. Both the website & the webservices will be on the same machine(so no trip across the wire), but the database is on a separ...

Optimizing website - minification, sprites, etc...

I'm looking at the product Aptimize Website Accelerator, which is an ISAPI filter that will concatenate files, minify css/javascript, and more. Does anyone have experience with this product, or any other "all-in-one" solutions? I'm interesting in knowing whether something like this would be good long-term, or would manually setting up ...

Trouble Deploying .Net Framework 4 Website on IIS7

Okay, I am trying to deploy a .Net framework 4 website on IIS7 server. I have already changed the application-pool's target framework to .Net 4, but the app is still showing me the error: "The configuration section 'system.web.extensions' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration" I am guessing that has something to do...

Web Application Translation, methods and tools

I've developed a web application. It needs to be translated to languages other than English in the future, and ideally the translators shouldn't need to know HTML/JS/C++ to provide the translation. The server side of the web application is written in C++ and the majority of the localised text is in the HTML files. My question is: What a...

implementing google wave into a website

How do I implement my own personal copy of google wave into a website? Im talking about something similar to the "Acme Wave" example. I found http://www.waveprotocol.org/ but am unsure how I go from there to install it on a web host. ...

Websites and web applications?

(From the point of view of a user, not how it's built or which option is selected in Visual Studio) ...What is the difference between a "website" and a "web application"? Is there a difference? Are there characteristics that characterise the two? ...

How to read an IIS 6 Website's Directory Structure using WMI?

I need to read a website's folders using WMI and C# in IIS 6.0. I am able to read the Virtual directories and applications using the "IISWebVirtualDirSetting" class. However the physical folders located inside a website cannot be read using this class. And for my case i need to read sub folders located within a website and later on set...

Ruby on Rails website hosting

i want to start a website. it'll be a small community based website. i've learned a fair bit of ruby on rails and am planning to use it. however, i have never deployed a production website before. i've just practiced in my local computer. i wanted to know what are the things i need to deploy the website on the internet. what is the best ...