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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Looking for a rapid way to map web-app functionals, suggestions?
Not looking to for interface design tools, more a tool to document systems, methods, functions, relationships, etc. Never used anything like UML, but if that's your suggestion, please point me in the ...
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Testing new changes to website while retaining ability to revert back to original - to protect SEO
If I'm making changes to site code, content, adding/removing pages, changing links, changing database structure, etc.. How do I safely test all these changes, while still maintaining ability to revert ...
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How do I get a footer to appear at bottom of window
I am doing a new site and I need a footer area to appear at the bottom of the content (much like this site), but I want it to appear at the bottom of the window when there is less content than ...
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When should I accept links from other sites (SEO wise)?
Instead of blogging in order to promote my site, I decided to form supporting professional sites. Each site is related to a specific keyword that I would like to promote on my main site.
My question ...
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how to promote a web app? [closed]
i'm quite surprized this hasn't been asked yet
so for a given web app and a given set of potential users of this web app the goal would be to reach this set of potential users. how to achieve this?
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Website for a directory listing of taxi services?
I'm trying to build a self-listing website around a taxi service domain name that I have.
I am looking for a simple script / program that allows users to register, put up details about their taxi ...
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Is A/B testing worth the added expense and time?
A client is inquiring about blind A/B split testing for an online application focused mostly on usability of the design and application workflow. Someone in the client's office read an article about ...
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Is there any reason why a GIF image would show in FF/Chrome and not IE?
I've been asked to investigate why the images on a particular site cannot be viewed in IE (6/7 and 8, multiple machines) but is visible in all other browsers. I've verified that it has nothing to do ...
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How do WEB 2.0 sites get their first few members?
How do WEB 2.0 sites get first few members, like a new site comes up for "discussing books" or "renting apartments" or any thing for that matter.
So if some marketing is able to pull in some visitors, ...
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Free Web Hosting [closed]
i want to launch(publish) my site on the internet? so some one can tell me about free hosting?
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What are best practices for Drupal QA? For example, how would you check for hard coded broken links?
Looking for suggestions on how to QA a Drupal website. Thanks!
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Cufon text replacement and IE8 standards mode
I have a perculiar issue. In IE8 standards mode text replaced by Cufon.Replace works roughly 50% of the time, the rest of the time the DOM modifications are there (viewed through IE developer toolbar ...
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When to use and not to use ETags
I was just looking at our site on WebPageTest.org and one of their recommendations for speeding up a website is:
ETag headers should generally not be used unless you have an explicit reason to ...
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How important is the domain name for SEO
Most people advice to buy a domain name that exactly matches your main business field. For example if you sell computers the best one will probably be computers.com but with millions(maybe billions) ...
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What is the next step up in my IT career? [closed]
I looking to branch up and out of my career, but i don't know what direction to take that is a good match for my skills, and will lead to higher pay.
Experience:
Dabbled with OpenGL, Java, and C in
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average (x)html page per day [closed]
This question is just simple. I'm a web developer for 1 year now, particularly client-side html/css/jquery thing. I can do psd to (x)html average 3 pages per day. These pages are ...
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Which minimum browser or screen resolution should I target my web apps?
When making the decision on the minimum requirements for a web application on client machines:
Browsers - Which browsers should one target at very minimum
Screen Resolution - Which screen resolution ...
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Advantages/disadvantages of “separated” web applications
I'm in the process of designing a (soon-to-be) rather large PHP/MySQL web application. I've come to a fork in the road as far as internal architecture; I can build the website as a "traditional" web ...
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What to consider if working for ad space?
I've been approached to do web development work in exchange for ad space: All revenue from a yet-to-be-agreed-upon number of pages would go straight to me. To keep things simple, we have agreed on ...
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Ways for a beginner to network out and find customers for web development
I am new to web development. I have done a lot of studying on my own and created some projects on my own. I have reached the point where I feel that my skill will not progress much without more ...
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Beginning a Personal Web Site
I want to build my own personal website. Nothing very fancy, about 5-6 pages with a blog, about page,a page for my pictures and a few more pages of content mostly about what I am
interested in ( ...
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What shopping carts integrate well with MYOB? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
I'm trying to select an eCommerce solution that will integrate with the accounting program, AccountEdge (from MYOB). I also need it ...
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Elements of web design
What are some core elements of great web design?
Things like speed, layout, etc... Can we determine a something from the community for what we have all tried and works?
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in Web Design What format does Web Designer, Developer and Client prefer? Is it PSD, AI, EPS. or Firework's PNG [closed]
I would assume that the answer would be Photoshop PSD, But It would just be a biased opinion. What are your thoughts? I recently find illustrator to be fast in position stuff, at the same time my ...
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What deliverables should a web developer expect from a web designer?
Are there a standard set of deliverables a web developer should expect from a web designer? If I was to hire a designer to create what a website should look and feel like, what deliverables do ...
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Firefox remembering telephone number as username
I have a registration page which includes all the standard fields e.g. phone no, email etc.
The telephone and password are tab adjacent i.e. not physically adjacent but if you are tabbing it goes ...
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'Back button' functionality, how important is it?
It is increasingly common for "rich" applications to break the back button. I've always held that this was bad form but perhaps that view is outdated?
Is it ever Ok to break the back button? And if ...
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How to Migrate wordpress blogs from shared hosting to dedicated server?
I have some clients wordpress blogs on my shared hosting and now i want to migrate all to a new dedicated server. the shared server is on linux and the new dedicated is windows 2008.
I know how to ...
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IIS v6: wanted: powershell script that dumps full iis config, in order to clone iis setup to farm [closed]
This exists out there, right?
I have a hand-tweaked iis setup, with hand mods to the iis config (compression, etc)
Now I need to clone it to several addl web servers.
What is the best way?
Thx!
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Feedback/bug tracking system for an alpha/beta phase website?
I'm developing a website and it's closing onto a private alpha/beta phase. It will be exposed to a small selected group of individuals who will provide a fair amount of feedback.
What options do I ...
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Increase development speed for .NET website [closed]
I am curious to know that how we can make web site development much faster. I am specific about asp.net.
As far as my knowledge is concern, we can make asp.net website development faster by
Using ...
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Has the time arrived to forget Flash and Use HTML5?
As I read in HTML5 definition it can do anything that Flash can do! and I ask myself is it right to waste my time to learn flash or should I learn HTML5 instead.
Does HTML5 Beat Flash in the future?
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Subdomains or folders?
I'm working on a services type web application and I have to choose how to set up the URLs for the customers. Which solution is better, as a subdomain (e.g.: client.myservice.com) or as a folder ...
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Book on moving from dedicated apps to web apps? [closed]
This is not precisely a programming question, so I don't know whether it fits on Pro Webmaster, and if not, on which other StackExchange to ask.
I wondered if there's a good book on teaching how to ...
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Web Application Design - Good reading materials? [closed]
I've been searching for a few days to find some good reading material on web application design, and haven't been able to find much (too many buzzwords or something). I'm looking for something that ...
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Good open source engines to create a Jobs web app [closed]
Please recommend good open source engines or CMS or similar that I can use to implement a web application for headhunters and job applications?
At very minimum, should have ability or support:
Head ...
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Good source for posting videos to embed on your website
I have a website where I want to embed video tutorial on my blog posts. Now the video's that I make are HD and have not past the 10 min mark yet, maybe in the future.
Now I have the videos just on ...
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How to deal with multiple step forms where one of the forms are not submitted
Say you have a submission process that requires two forms. The submission of the 2nd form triggers an email. What do you do if the second form isn't submitted? Say the user forgets or closes the ...
