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How can one disable the upper and lower scroll overflow bounds [migrated]

I'm designing a website with a dark theme using HTML and CSS, but whenever I scroll up or down past the elements on the page the white background is extremely jarring. I've programed but I'm new to ...
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Would it introduce lag and bad user experience to host a website with two hosting companies?

I'm developing a website for a customer that has two companies, but the two are closely related. The customer wants two separate sites that look and function as one site as far as users are concerned. ...
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Maintain quality of web-appearance: Track number of html 404 responses to fix missing pages

This was probably discussed a lot of times, but I just don't know the technical term to search for this. Situation: Let's assume there are many external links pointing to pages in a certain domain A ...
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Chrome doesn't remember vertical scroll position of my website when reloading the page?

Chrome seems to remember the last vertical scroll position of most websites when reloading the page or going back to it from another page. However, it's not working on my site. The site is a fairly ...
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Web standard/convention for light/dark themeing of a website? [closed]

The option to switch between a light and a dark theme is getting more and more popular. However, every site implements this feature differently. It could be useful for power users to have a global ...
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Redesigning a live site

I run a very popular website, frequently attracting tens, if not hundreds of thousands of users daily. It's a game, and uptime is of critical importance to most players. Here's the catch: it wasn't ...
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Can you change your URL when clicking links to different sections on the same page?

Can you change your URL when clicking links to different sections on the same page? I have a product list separated by different categories on the same page... these categories are using the ...
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domain name different from business name

Is it bad to have domain name little different from your business name? For example: Business name is Houston Pharmacy while the domain name is Pharmacyhome.com Would it be bad for SEO and also for ...
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What is the proper response header when an address is not available but its parent is available and is displayed?

My website addresses has a hierarchy structure. When one page is requested, and it is not a valid address, it tries to find its parent, and if the later exists, it will show it. Now, my question is ...
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Does it make sense to implement own ad system on a website? [closed]

I've done research on viability of AdSense to put on our website and found that this is probably a bad approach for the following reasons: The ads are quite often not relevant at all for users You ...
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Friendly URLs with .htaccess

I'm have the following .htaccess: RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{request_filename} -f RewriteRule ^(.*) $1 [L] RewriteRule ^(([^/]*)+)(/([^/]{0,32})(/.+)?)?$ index.php?a=$1&q=$3 [L] My ...
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Trying to improve code-text ratio without a catch-22

My website has several subdomains with it that represent each major section of the website and I have that to allow search engines to understand what each section is about. My problem lies with the ...
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combined 301 redirects not working

I made some changes to the files on a website and now Search Console is showing me 404 errors for some URLs. The normal setup, which works fine is like this: the user-friendly URL mywebsite.com/...
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Is it bad for SEO to use a continue reading toggle?

Is hiding content (only showing the first 150 characters) to minimize scrolling on a webpage bad? If I Google this question I get results of things like: Is it bad to use read more links on the ...
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jQuery/AJAX on old Computers/Browsers

I am working on a plattform that will have a lot of users in the so called "developing countries". So many of them will be using old computers and old browsers in tiny internet cafes. We want to make ...
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Detecting Browser Features, displaying upgrade advice and not bothering google

I have a website that is pretty demanding in regards to required browser features. Currently, the site does not indicate this in any way to visitors when they access it with an old browser. I want to ...
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Where is the best place for page's ID in a user friendly URL? [duplicate]

I searched within the site but none where addressing exactly my question, So I ask it here: Which one of these structures for a user-friendly url is the best with regards to search engines and user ...
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Navigation: Sub-menu item for section page

I'm considering some small navigation changes to one of my sites. Consider the following (simplified) site structure: About Some Technology About Some Technology Our Products Products Overview ...
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Clean URL: with or without "?"

Simple question What is better: http://www.example.com/product/123/subpage/456.html or http://www.example.com/product?123/subpage/456 As far as I know they would rank the same SEO wise, but my ...
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How to get users to sign up for a ugc site?

How do you get users to register for a user generated content site? The problem is that if the whole site relies on user generated content then it will take longer for people to participate if the ...
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Archiving web content annually. One site or sites by year?

I run scientific conferences and over the past 15 years have amassed tens of thousands of abstracts, videos, and digital posters from presentations. Over the last couple of years we've started ...
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Creating country specific twitter/facebook accounts

I see many companies that have an international presence trying to localize their social media presence by creating country or language specific accounts. However some seemed to have done so without ...
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for a blog with posts and categories what are all the best ways to create user friendly and seo friendly urls [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: What is the best stucture of SEO friendly URL? I am creating a module in my website which displays ringtones. It is like creating blog posts and categories, and it will also ...
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youtube has changed the appearance after dec 2012 and how to revert to the old look [closed]

Youtube has changed the appearance. Now it looks like a junk blog created by a dummy designer. Every thing is looking like black ink blotted on a white paper. How do we revert it back to its classy ...
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What are the different ways of making a Joomla! website mobile friendly?

I am involved in the development of a number of Joomla! websites and we would like to make these websites mobile friendly. I have done a bit of searching online and I can't seem to find any standard ...
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Best way to let users choose country/language when submiting an URL to a directory

I want to offer the user the possibility to add the country/language for websites they would submit to a fairly simple website directory. I have a folder with flags from http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/...
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How to allow user to enter text or upload file, but not both

We used to have a two-step process for answering questions. On the first page the user indicated how he would answer: either by typing a response or uploading a file. On the next page either a ...
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Best Modifier Key Combination for Web Shortcuts

Many users of my website asked for keyboard shortcuts to access commonly viewed pages. I know that links may have accesskey but to access them is inconsistent across browsers. I'm going to use ...
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black background & white letters or white background & black letters?

What is better for user? The site has a lot of text to read and I would like to make it as user friendly as possible.
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Need help getting user friendly URL

I trying to get a user friendly URL. My current link is this: http://www.norwegianfashion.no/designers/?designer=Batlak-og-Selvig&bid=9 What I want is this http://www.norwegianfashion.no/...
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Checkout Process: 1 page or 3 pages?

What's better for a checkout process? One relatively long checkout page? Multiple short pages/steps ?
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Is it ill-advised to create custom text for a login link (e.g. "Become a ninja" as opposed to just "log in")

I'm trying to figure out whether it's best to: stick with the tried and true link text for login ("log in" -> linking to the login page) Make the login button custom to the site and somewhat of a ...