On my web site, I have the following CSS: a:hover{color:red;border-bottom:1px solid} This displays a red underline on text links when hovered, which is desired. However, this also displays a red underline on image links when hovered, which is NOT desired. I only want to display the red underline on text links when hovered but not im...
hi, i am building a site with GWT. i have finished all the logics and now i need to work on the graphics/UI. i am just begining my way at web site and i have 2 questions: 1) how can i make my web site look good in every resolution? 2) in most of the places i have read that the UI components (background/buttons..) is always in a tab...
I would like to create a web IM chat system using Google App Engine using XMPP possibly. It would allow users of a social network to talk with each other. Is this possible using GAE? I haven't used GAE before. Does anybody know of any good examples/code which I could look into to get started? ...
Hi guys Now the machines we are forced to use are 2GB Ram, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3GHz CPU... The policy within the company is that everyone has the same computer no matter what and that they are on a 3 year refresh cycle... Meaning I will have this machine for the next 2 years... :S We have been complaining like crazy but they said...
As a C# developer that uses MS SQL Server heavily I'd prefer to use what I know; however, for a small project the licensing costs are prohibitive and so I'm looking at using a free open source solution such as MySQL. Which of the free RDBMS solutions are the best in terms of stability, performance, features and ease of use for someone fa...
I'm doing a fairly small project for a friend/client who wants a website with some information on it, a couple of simple pages, and a blog. I want the blog to be integrated into the site really well, and not have to build the site around Wordpress or other software (and I don't want to have a page with two links for "Enter Site" or "Ente...
I am a student and preparing myself for job. Being an ASP.NET(C#) developer, do I actually need to learn JSP(Java) or PHP? Being a web programmer, do I actually need to learn CSS and JavaScript libraries(i.e. jQuery/ExtJS/MooTools, etc.)? And can I only concentrate on programming. I.e. keeping away from business processes. Please, I...
A customer has asked this morning why he isn't showing up at all in the "Google Suggest" (I think it's called) dropdown. He complains that one of his competitors is the first ranked result in the Google Suggest dropdown. The competitor's business name is made up of common words (e.g. Widget Manufacturing) so, sure, he does show up. My c...
Hi, I'm on planning/modeling phase to develop a remote desktop sharing solution, which must be web browser based. In other words: an user will be able to see and interact with someone's remote desktop using his web-browser. Everything the user who wants to share his desktop will need, besides his browser, is installing an add-in, which...
I have created a PHP web-application. I have 3 environments: DEV, TEST, PROD. What's a good tool / business practice for me to move my PHP web-application code from DEV to TEST to the PROD environment? Realizing that my TEST environment still only connects to my TEST database; whereas, I need to PROD environment to connect to my PROD...
Is there any way by looking at a site (maybe through viewing source) to see what underlying technologies were used to develop it? I'm looking specifically to see what frameworks (if any) are being used, but other details would be nice as well. ...
Has anyone created a website with MLS search/listing functionality? Currently, brain storming how something like this is done and would like to see how others have implemented this. Any advice is appreciated. Thank You. (in ASP.NET 3.5) ...
I simply want to use the JQuery Slider functionality and nothing else. However, to do so - it's my understnading that I must download 3 files: JQuery Core JQuery UI base JQuery Slider This totals to about 74kb (28kb gzipped). Since I'm ONLY using JQuery for the Slider functionality - how can I remove all the unused JQuery base co...
I'm using the Google "Page Speed" plug-in for Firefox to access my web site. Some of the components on my page is indicated as HTTP status: 200 200 (cache) 304 By Google's "Page Speed". What I'm confused about is the difference between 200 (cache) and 304. I've refreshed the page multiple times (but have not cleared my cache) and it...
I'm trying to improve my web development skills. I'm already familiar enough with HTTP, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but I'd like to take advantage of some frameworks/helpers for site layout, CSS, and Javascript support. What are the best HTML/CSS/Javascript web tools/frameworks out there? (In this question, I'm not looking for scriptin...
Currently, I have a servlet act as web service. When I pass in parameters using POST, it will return me an executable binary file (application/octet-stream). However, beside binary file, I would also like to get additional information (in text format) about this binary file. Is it possible to achieve this by using only single POST requ...
Googlebot (Googlebot/2.1) appears to crawl URL:s on a newly added sites in an order corresponding to the length of the URL: .. GET /ivjwiej/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/ .. .. GET /voeoovo/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/ .. .. GET /zeooviee/ HTTP/1.1" 200 .. "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googl...
My website is working fine on IE, but when I open it on Firefox, Firefox asks to download the same page and opens the Download File dialog. This problem occurs sometimes in Safari also. For example, if I type in the URL as: http://www.example.com/news.html Firefox opens a dialog to download "news.html". Whereas, it works fine in IE. W...
I am reading in a bunch of multi-dimensional arrays, and while digging through them I have noticed that some of the keys are incorrect. For each incorrect key, I simply want to change it to zero: from: $array['bad_value'] to: $array[0] I want to retain the value of the array element, I just want to change what that individual key...
Hi I have an application, written in C++ This app dispatches a certan info to a script located on a remote website using HTTP POST requests. The app send requests with a period from several seconds to several minutes. The problem is that after about a half an hour of working without errors, the app starts to get 408 Request timout erro...