My friend is starting a microfinance website and he wants my help with the site development. Obviously I would want to get some knowledge in HTML and CSS, but I'm not quite sure what else I should learn. I'm not clear on the advantages and disadvantages of using perl, asp, javascript, php, etc. are. Also, I need to create a payment optio...
Hello! I'm planning on developing a website that uses two languages, instead of making separate htmls one in language "a" and one in language "b", I wanted to know what do you recommend? What should I be looking at if I want to change the value of the variables like buttonNames instead of designing a separate thing? Or should I be desi...
Hey I developed one application and upload on example.appspot.com now i want to upload it on www.example.com what to do??? pls reply fast.. ...
Hi Guys, I have a site that when i search in google (ifiwereyou.co.uk) it takes me to a 123reg holding page. (it works fine in most other search engines) This is beacause google is showing the url as http://ifiwereyou.co.uk rather than http://www.ifiwereyou.co.uk Is this being caused by a missing dns entry or is there a way i can s...
Ok so, right now I can't really afford to pay for any service. I want to be able to take screenshots using my rented server, which is Linux based, and output them on the screen. I know there are a lot of services that do this, but they usually have limits or watermarks, or you have to wait for your screenshot to be taken from the queue....
Hi, I having a problem in my website where I have 2 objects held in session, both object are structured differently and do not have any links to each other (not intentionally). Both objects however, have a collection of "Travellers". What I am trying to do is modify one collection by adding or removing "Travellers", when a finish button...
Let's suppose I am programming Facebook (which i'm not), or some other site that involves heavy traffic. Our general Layout is: All CSS is in external files 99% of JS is in external files the back bone of the websites HTML is generated by a PHP/MySQL backend, then we have JS functions to generate the DOM of parts that commonly change. O...
How would I go about constructing vertical bars, all adjacent to each other (touching) from the left side of the page to the middle (all the same size in width)? ...
How can I add sound to a web site . I don't want to show .swf player in the page .music should play in the background ...
hi, I have an old website and I've been asked to implement a small forum to display in a specific website block. I've implemented this forum with Drupal and now I need to integrate it into the old website. I was wondering how to integrate it: should I just create a 1 to 1 copy of the old website page and add the Drupal forum or shou...
To all the Chinese members of StackOverflow, a quick request. I'm performing a series of tests on a university website and want to ascertain if it can be accessed from all parts of China. So far, sites like JustPing have reported success from major cities like Shanghai, Beijing etc. I'd still like to go ahead and get a report from the av...
In a web application, if the user forgets his password, its fairly common practice to send an email to the user with a temporary link or password that expires after a given amount of time. Most of the posts I read on SO suggested expiring the link after 24 to 72 hours, but it seems to me that it would really only be needed for about 10 ...
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Hi! I have a div that is the body of my site, inside that div I put a div on the left side (to have a vertical menu) http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/117f79fa0e.png http://www.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/4569a5f550.jpg My question is, how can I make the menu div follow up to the bottom of the body div so that it doesn't look ...
Hi! I have a side bar menu composed of ul->li->a, styled with css to look as a vertical menu on the left side. I just noticed that when I choose an option a thin grew dotted line surrounds the box(button of the menu) that I selected. To me this looks "wrong", is there a way to prevent this from being visible? Thanks! ...
I need to figure out the best way to determine if someone is the actual owner of a website. I don't just mean the domain although in a lot of cases that might be the case. My first inclination was to have them put a special comment in their HTML that my program can scrape. e.g.: <!-- @webcode:1234 --> One possible problem with that...
We are planning to design a website for evaluating kids (games, quiz). Are there any specific user interface guidelines for targeting the kids (e.g. keyboard usage in a laptop or a standalone keyboard, ability to control a mouse, ability to navigate the user interface and its controls, size of buttons, page navigation)? We are looking fo...
I am working on an upgrade for a company website. It currently in production using vanilla ASP.NET. For the upgrade I switched the framework to ASP.NET MVC. I am ready to deploy a beta version of the website. I have tested it locally by creating another website in IIS and just copying the published files there; that works. I only have a...
Does anyone know what technologies/ content management systems newspaper companies like the New York Times or the LA times use to run their websites? I need to re-design my Universities website, and I want to make sure I'm using/researching the best technology possible. ...
Hello, I use a screenshot tool like SnagIt and this tool is able to make a screenshot of a specific element inside a website. I tried this feature with firefox, safari and ie, all runs fine. When I use the mouse pointer to aim an element, SnagIt shows a red box around the hovered element in the browser. For example, this tool knows the ...