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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How to analyse a Website and make optimizations on it?
I am invited to a workshop to review and giving advice for website upgrades and enhancement. I am invited for being a person who works in IT. I am a programmer and I work in windows application ...
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Is it possible to stop Chrome and other browsers from pre-fetching/rendering my site?
I know you can guide Chrome to prefetch links you think users are likely to click on your site, but can you also do the inverse? Can you tell Chrome (or really any browser) not to prefetch and ...
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Strategy for managing lots of pictures for a website
I'm starting a new website that will (hopefully) have a lot of user generated pictures. I'm trying to figure out the best way to store and serve these pictures.
The CMS I'm using (umbraco) has a ...
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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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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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Is it necessary for a web developer to know how to hack website?
I'm a web developer. I'm just wondering that is it necessary for a web developer to know how to hack website than developing a website?
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Pros and Cons of Wordpress multiple installations versus networking?
I have several sites and I build most of my clients' websites on Wordpress. It makes sense for most of the sites I build and if I want to give them the reins it is easy to train a client on.
I know ...
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Do user names used for login need to be unique?
Assuming a non-commercial site where users login with a user name and pw, do I need to enforce unicity of usernames?
Note: The db will use a separate unique index to identify the users.
The site is ...
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What's the most popular programming language for creating websites?
I want to know the details of websites developed using the different languages like .Net, Java, PHP, Python. Which programming language is mostly used?
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What version control options are available for PHP web development?
I have done some basic web programming in the past and wish to develop my skills further and begin doing large scale projects as a contractor. I have no experience with version control to this point ...
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Twitter Product Preview on Tweets
I just saw that twitter can also preview the products as it is on below Tweet:
http://twitter.com/#!/gillcleeren/status/131640082397528065
In this case, it is an Amazon product.
I was wondering ...
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Templating system for a website?
You know how Wordpress, Posterous, Blogger and the like all allow you to upload your own custom-designed templates? And if you look at the Source code of those templates from within their Template ...
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Why do many websites have so many javascript includes?
I notice this is the case mainly for rather sophisticated pages. However, why don't developers simply combine the JS files and condense it all together? Is it not a more efficient method, in terms of ...
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Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?
Question:
Is there such a thing as a self-hosted framework or CMS especially tailored towards the creation of interactive web applications without -- or with an absolute minimum of -- programming? ...
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Deciding on a Revenue Model for a Web Application
When building a commercial web application, what are the factors that go into the decision of a revenue model?
How many users are necessary for an advertising-supported application? What demographic ...
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what css styles are analyzed by search engines?
I know that Google used to do things like look at font-size and font-weight (or the equivalents from when Google first started) from their initial paper. But that was in the 90's.
Does anybody know ...
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What would be a good web based open source or low cost learing collaboration tool for high school students?
Have about 60 kids that are working on a science projects in two groups. Each group would like a web portal where they can discuss topics relating to what they are building, post questions, pictures, ...
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How can I spellcheck entire website?
I need to spellcheck an entire website(950 pages). I'd like to find a FREE tool like xenu (which checks broken links) but checks spelling instead.
does anyone know of a tool like this?
Thank you
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Any one-time message sms authentication services?
I remember a while back when I used imdb or google apps, I had to enter my phone number and subsequently was texted a short ~5 character code to enter in their online form. The value I entered in ...
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What is best way to manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?
How do you manage all images in a big project, inline images, background images, css sprite images?
Do you follow any naming convention?
Do you create sub-folders to manage images?
In a big project ...
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AJAX spreadsheet editor interfaced to own website
My website has records that are tables. I would like for my users to be able to edit these records in an easy way. Currently they download a .csv-file, edit it in their favourite spreadsheet, and ...
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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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Website still blocked after hack
I manage a website that was hacked a few months ago (I wasn't the webmaster then), it was running on Joomla. I have manages to redo the website with custom codes (php/mysql), but it still some ...
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Best way to protect public facing development environments?
We're in the process of setting up individualized dev environments for our developers. All of our developers are remote and we don't have a VPN or anything to bring this in house.
But here's the ...
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Does Google AdWords care about duplicate content?
Our site offers several families of products, all of which have a common set of configurations. For simplicity's sake, we'll say we offer products A, B and C, each with configurations 1, 2 and 3
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my domain Emails are marked as SPAM in gmail ?? How to Solve this issue
At pro webmasters I searched for an issue which relates to spammed domain list for sending emails which end up in the Spam box in Gmail. I found the link something like below:
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Abandoment to blame?
I have a code snippet for an app that users are loading as a 3rd party script on their site. The general sequence is as follows:
Site loads "http://www.example.com/foo.js"
foo.js does stuff
1 to 2 ...
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Ad networks that will serve via https?
I've built a website with 160K page views per month that serves every page over https. The recent FireSheep news will probably increase the adoption of "https everywhere". But it's been very hard to ...
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portfolio blog hosting
We currently have a photo storage website. A user can store his photos on our site. We want to give a facility to each user to create his photo portfolio and customize its look and feel, and contents ...
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Customizing a newly created website via Google Apps
I just purchased a domain through enom via Google Apps. I have no information for logging into the enom website. How do I actually start customizing the web site? Do I somehow do it through Google? Or ...
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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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IE9 changes Browser Mode based using domain name or ip address for the url
Update : Tested with IIS6 and IE9 the same problem persisted. using paulmorriss's advice the Browser mode and Document for the page were different, so this problem had nothing to do with IIS6 or 7 but ...
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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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Is it a good idea to recommend browser on a e-commerce web site
I have built an e-commerce app but I didn't have a lot of time so I decided to build the app compatible with cutting-edge browsers.
so of the features are not working and some them are working less ...
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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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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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Hosted web site builder for non-techies
I'm looking for an easy-to-use, well-supported tool for building your own web site, that a non-technical person can understand. Preferably something web-based and hosted, so they have to do as little ...
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Modernizing traditional Marriage Application Web Form
We have an issue in our company right now where gay people are complaining that our forms are not "gay friendly" we have a wedding registry page where it says groom and bride but they want a different ...
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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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Working environment for web designer - editing files, version control, auto backups (Mac)
I've tried several times to get my head around this but failed everytime!!
I want to setup a working environment for creating websites that is efficient and straight forward to use. It needs to ...
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How can I screen clients that try to register multiple times?
My company offers a bonus to every client that registers.
We would like to prevent people from abusing this by registering several times.
We thought about filtering clients by
IP (there is a ...
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How to know my free disk space on web hosting server?
I have got some work from my friend for updating his website. Earlier his website was made by some other person and he used to maintain all the stuff. Now that developer has given only the ftp ...
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3 Scenarios for most relevant keywords in website. Which one is best?
A webpage about Tomato Soup has either of three following filenames:
Scenario 1
website.org/en/tomato-soup
or
Scenario 2
website.org/en/tomato-soup-healthy-soups-recipes
or
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Website subscription service [closed]
I have a friend who has asked me to build a site for her that allows people to sign up for a monthly subscription service for a few dollars a month. The service will send them text messages ...
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what does the term 'webmaster' signify in the computing world?
We know webmasters are managers and maintainers of websites. But is that all there is to it? Does being a Webmaster require any general skills besides being able to manage content? If I put it on a ...
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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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Where to get ads for my website?
My website is getting around 100 visitors per day so I was thinking that I should put some ads on my website but it is really very hard to find the best advertising plan which can benefit me the most. ...
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How is the hierarchy of .htm/.html/.php decided?
If I have a folder with files named index.html, index.htm, and index.php how it is decided which one will be used if you only list the URL to that folder? Is that something you can chose or is that up ...
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Custom or Open Source CMS?
I am in the process of having our corporate site redeveloped. My problem is do I choose a bespoke CMS or open source solution?
We have used a bespoke CMS in the past and it can be very limiting in ...
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About cdn architecture to route way
Our web system, use the third-party cdn service.
Assume that the user set the local dns with the googledns or opendns to visit our web sites, so cdn service will select the closest cdn proxy node. ...
