Web development is the development of sites on the World Wide Web or private intranets. It includes many topics including server side programming, client side scripting, web services and site design.
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The layout page “~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml” could not be found
I got this error and I can't figure out what is going on. I am positive the _layout.cshtml resides in the shared folder and for the sake of trying things out, I moved to the Home folder and it then ...
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How does this website work? [closed]
Link
By the looks of it this website is just a feed of articles from other sites. How does it import the whole articles like this? and how is the site ranking at all with the lack on original ...
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Getting started with a website [duplicate]
So I know HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP. But I'm not sure how to put it all together to begin making an actual website. I'm not looking at something too big here since I'm just a beginner, but I ...
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How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?
I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but ...
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Good security practice for writing a php/mysql web app [closed]
I'm about to create a web app that is php/mysql based. It should contain multiple users and two levels of admin accounts.
It will most likely not be very likely to be attacked in any way. Still I am ...
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How to determine which files are used by website
I recently became responsible for a PHP / HTML / MySQL website.
The document structure is full of duplicate files and folders making the site appear more complex than it is.
Is there any tool I can ...
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Content blocks on dedicated pages rather than listed on one page
I am doing a web site for a client. The descriptions for all his services are rather short and precise so I decided to put them all (about 10 of them) on one page and have a sticky menu in the sidebar ...
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Load a section of page separately from the rest? [migrated]
I want to check the status of a couple servers and display on a page if they're up or down. Currently, I'm doing this with PHP's fsockopen() function. As part of this function, you determine a timeout ...
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Impact on social interactions after URL change [duplicate]
Every article URL on a website I work on will soon be changed.
301 redirects will be set up to ensure inbound links still arrive at the correct destination.
However, social interactions (Likes and ...
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Files not Caching
We store our images on S3 and our performance has been incredibly slow. This morning we turned on CloudFront in hopes that our performance would increase. When I analyze our performance with ...
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SEO for Main Navigations
My question is simple... To what extent does your primary navigation [and secondary navigations] have on SEO for your website?
My particular case is this: I have "two" primary navigations. One ...
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Is there a program to prevent downloading a whole site
I want to avoid reinventing the wheel, so I am wondering if there is an (open source) program that you can use to protect a web server that has paid content by preventing a user from downloading all ...
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How to Grok (Modern) HTML & CSS? [closed]
I'm a programmer at heart, but I've always wanted to understand more about HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, every resource I have tried to learn with I have found lacking. Every book/tutorial I've read ...
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Web gallery system
is there a gallery app or code that will show image that has been uploaded in an certain directory and it will be shown normally but when people download it , it will put a watermark in it
Any ...
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How can I test WebDAV? [closed]
I read the WebDAV faq, but I still don't understand how can I use it.
I saw it in the iThoughts software, it do sync with it, and I got curious about what can I do with it (e.g. can I make a website ...
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Steps when developing for multiple clients using wordpress
I am very new to web development and I am currently learning the in's and out's of HTML, CSS, mySQL and PHP. I am working towards being able to design websites for other people.
I am just wondering ...
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My webpage works using http, but not using www
I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand.
I actually hired a ...
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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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Best practice when modelling a website's code [closed]
When developing with object oriented code you use an UML diagram to describe all the classes of the program. What about websites?
I have a prototype made with justinmind prototyper so I know how the ...
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How to tell robots that site is viewable on mobile phones?
Is there any markup or meta-tag which I can place in the pages of my website to tell crawlers which pages are either for web or for mobile?
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Website design using Responsive Approach or Mobile Site
I have been looking for mobile desktop website solution & I am confused with the information available on internet. In some case article talk about Responsive approach with the future but i am ...
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Can I sell a php website on a condition that the code is not resold by the client? [closed]
What if I write my client a website using LAMP. Suppose that clients starts selling my code to other people, can I perhaps do something about it because I have already asked them not to sell it more ...
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Typo3 Product display with spec selection [closed]
I am looking for a possiblity in Typo3 to display our products. What I have in mind is something silimar to this:
http://www.haagen-partners.nl/aanbod/
An image of the product, some key specs and a ...
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website region lock | Localize SEO traffic
This may be a question that is completely out there but I'm about to publish a site that is very localize advertising - this can become big at some point but for right now I want to keep "out of ...
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Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL? [duplicate]
My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension.
To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as ...
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Perl or PHP for web development [closed]
so, if one was developing a website and taking into consideration that it might grow, which is the better language for implementing CGI scripts? Perl or PHP?
i know PHP language itself (as opposed to ...
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what to look for when choosing a web designer [closed]
I've been put in charge of replacing our 10 year old, volunteer designed, static web pages with a modern looking flexible CMS based web site. That's the bad news. The good news is I have a fairly ...
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Web server with or without Panel [closed]
I start a Web server for my company for hosting about 15 website and I didn't install a Control Panel, I do everything by command and i'm pretty comfortable with it but do you think i'm losing time by ...
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Setting up a VM testing server [MySQL, HTML, & PHP webstore] Testing for SQL correctness?
Question: Is there a way to test for correctness once the SQL DB copy has been installed on the local machine so I can confidently move to step number 3? Is there any information on the web that would ...
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Web-based interface for a static CMS [closed]
I would like to have a static CMS, but I need a web interface for the editor. The editor can be a php/python/ruby app hosted off my computer for when I need to edit.
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Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment [closed]
I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project ...
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How to disable the grey hover pane in Firebug?
I have been using Firebug for several years, and I don't know if it's an option I have activated by mistake, or it's a new feature. When I want to see the HTML structure of a web page and I click on ...
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Proper name scrolling news/photo
I'm very new to webdesign and am wanting to install a scrolling news/picture banner in the site but don't even know the proper term to search for to find out how to do it. Here's an example of what ...
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Increased SEO Ranking [duplicate]
I am wondering how can I increase my websites SEO rank so that when I type the related keyword it would popup like facebook or wikipidia.
I have literally tried everything to somehow increase the ...
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What's the most effective way to maintain a live website without affecting users [closed]
I have a live website(not a blog or a CMS) and my programmers and I are adding new features to the website daily.
However, we do have around 1k costumers everyday so we really don't want to affect ...
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is it legal to use links from an established website to identify unique content?
Not sure if this is a good place to ask, but maybe someone here can point me in the right direction...
If I wanted to make a commercial, directory type website (where users can enter content) and in ...
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PHP and Javascript [closed]
I am a good C programmer. I have recently studied a bit of JavaScript and I plan on developing my skills by also learning PHP.
Can I learn both these language in 3 months and after that build a site ...
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Client asking for estimate to set up/ configure his server
I am building a web application for a client. I never set up a server using IIS. He needs me to configure the server to work with mySQL, php, and phpmyadmin. The server, is completely ...
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Client expects additional 'free' work outside of contract [closed]
I am currently working on a freelance project where my client expects me to set up his entire server from scratch.
Right now the server has a clean / unconfigured version of IIS 6 installed. While ...
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Organizing website files
I want to start creating my website but I have a few questions.
http://website.com/directory/webpage - in this kind of website, it does not display a .php or .HTML extension at the end. How to ...
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How to tell Facebook not to fetch specific images?
I posted a few days ago how it was possible to tell FB to fetch specific images in my site for status updates.
I still need to tell it what not to fetch, since many of these pictures wouldn't ...
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How can I add an image for FB status to fetch?
Typing any link on Facebook triggers an automated function that scans for images on a website. What I'm trying to do is to use an image for that sole purpose, which means I don't want it in my website ...
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Airline Ticketing [closed]
How does airline ticketing works. Is there any software which we can integrate in client's existing CMS website to allow visitors to book airplane tickets through there existing system.
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How to redirect to a new page and have the new page display dynamic data [closed]
This seems like a pretty obvious question, but for some reason I have yet to find an answer. The goal here is to have a user click a link, for example like on this site, the user clicks a question and ...
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Help with a CMS for content only not display
Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities ...
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How to upload a http file to Hostsite(DreamHost) [closed]
How do i upload a http file to any hosting sites? Preferably Dreamhost.
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Modern and sexy site without slider bar? [closed]
This might be a bit general question but is just something I wonder myself and I want to share it with you guys to see what you think about all this tendencies.
Lately I had designed some product ...
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How to add version control and seperate development server to php/web development environment? [closed]
I'm the team lead of a small group of developers. My background is primarily in application development and I've worked in larger groups where version control (SVN, Git, etc.) have been used and ...
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Make HTML static site more SEO friendly
I am desinging a website as shown in below image, right now it's just a basic structure. This site is totally static, basically I've 6 main pages in website. navigation section, slider and footer will ...
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How do I know dead links in Google ad-words?
I am spending a lot of money on Google ad-words in my website. Sometimes customers get dead links from ad-words and unable to get to intended page.
I know this is an issue from my part. I need to ...
