I am having my first foray into website design and I am learning a lot. I am also now seeing why web developers are not a huge fan of developing for Internet Explorer. Nothing seems to work how I expect. However, since the website has to work cross-browser, I am spending time looking at it in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. Something that i...
Hey, I have been designing a site locally in PHP 5, but have come across a few design issues I'd like advice now. Currently there are three features of the site and each feature has a class . These features are as follows : a blog a friends list a set of images I have a class for each but in each class I basically define a similar...
How do I user the JavaScript "filter" attribute as filter my JavaScript object? I've been reading the following StackOverflow post, and am in a similar situation. I have the following JavaScript object: { 'cars' : [{ "car_id" : "1", "price" : "42999", "make_id" : "050", "year_built" : "2007", "color_id...
hi I wanted to know which is the best webservice provider to choose if I want to write a multi threaded crawler. Appengine,ec2.... Appengine java apparently has some restrictions .. also a free would be great as i am just testing the app. ...
After asking this question, it appears that a lot of CSS hacks and tricks are needed to achieve something that simple. People have said that CSS is broken. So I wonder now, if not CSS, what are some alternatives to creating advanced html structure and markup/layout? Are we left with tables and framesets? Or is there something else? ...
Hey guys, I am a web freelancer and had been doing all coding by myself using netbeans (set up to use a remote server (ftp)). Recently, I started working with 2 other guys. They help me with php and css. The problem is that sometimes we want to work at the same time. Obviously one can immediately see the problems were having. Fil...
Background I am working on a project that runs in an embedded web browser in a small device with limited resources. The browser itself is a bit dated and has limits to its capabilities (HTML 4.01†, W3C DOM Level 2†, JavaScript 1.4). I have no documentation on the browser, so what I do know comes from trial and error. The point is t...
Hello There, I have been developing my own PHP MVC framework. Now I have seen different frameworks implementing different extensions for the View files. I am using simply php extension for my view files. Now is there anything wrong if i use php extension. Are there any merits or de-merits of it? Why use other extension such as: phtml...
Hello All, Is there a way to download files in case curl extension is not available or has been disabled? ...
Hay Guys, not sure where this should be posted, but i figure there must be quite a few guys who can design websites, as well as program them. What i want is articles, videos, books, tutorials, advice, applications, blogs, websites about designing websites. From generating color schemes and creating logos, to setting up a grid and export...
Hello All, I am currently working on a website. For debugging reasons, i chose the view source option of firefox v3.6b4. Then i clicked on javascript link eg something like this from within the source page: <script type="text/javascript" src="./dealer/dialog/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> Guess what, it showed me below message: <HTM...
Hi, we have some application that this is vital to prevent users from opening multiple tabs/windows per session on the website ? Edit: The reason is that those pages communicate with flash and we cannot know on server side whether the user has two windows open or not. Of course you can suggest to make those changes in application desig...
Is it possible to make the website unavailable while editing it, while online? If so, what is the method called and how is it done? I have a webhosting company so it's not my own server! Thanks ...
How can I implement showing "Generating data... please wait" information to a web browser from a web application (if data is not cached it can take some time to generate response), with and without JavaScript (AJAX)? I am interested both in solution using AJAX (where I can replace loading message using JavaScript), and in solution usi...
I'm building an application with a self-contained HTTP server which can be either accessed directly, or put behind a reverse proxy (like Apache mod_proxy). So, let's say my application is running on port 8080 and you set up your Apache like this: ProxyPass /myapp http://localhost:8080 ProxyPassReverse /myapp http://localhost:8080 Th...
I've searched and search and searched, for application design GUI ideas. But everytime I search all I seem to find are website templates, I never seem to find templates for building an application gui. Does anyone know of any sites that have or show examples of good application gui designs either web or client. Id like to see different e...
So, every so often you get sites like http://www.twitmaps.com - sites created quickly and pushed online for a random purpose. Often either you have plenty of spare time, or you just don't have the opportunity to get your own ideas online. For example in this one, the snow images are very vague and could do with more accuracy. What too...
what are the common mistakes developers/architechs do when developing a portal/web application... what should we avoid or take care of when we are developing a web application. ...
I want to generate random numbers, but these numbers should be somewhat biased, so that numbers in certain ranges appear more frequently than others. For example, to spread out a series of banner ad impressions in proportion to the number of impressions remaining for each ad campaign. ...
Hello All, What is the fastest and easiest way to get the last item of an array whether be indexed array , associative array or multi-dimensional array? ...