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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Creating an online community - use templates or self-develop?
PHPMotion, Joomla or develop my own?
I'm thinking of developing a common interest online community. It will be have UGC, stats, etc.. functionality, and perhaps an online store. Though cost is an ...
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Ideal web application framework for newcomers and whether it is better to use Java or PHP based framework? [closed]
My primary question is whether a Java based web application framework is better or a PHP based one and why?
Moreover, if I were just starting web development then what would be some ideal frameworks ...
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Phishing attack stuck with jsp loginAction.do page? [closed]
I'm testing a phishing website on a staged replica of an jsp web-application. I'm doing the usual attack which involves changing the post and action field of source code to divert to my own written ...
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How important is responsive web design?
I've heard a variety of opinions regarding the pros and cons of using responsive web design recently and was wondering whether it was necessary for small businesses that target small geographical ...
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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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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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Is there a visual web application builder or rapid webapp prototyping framework?
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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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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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Gracefully terminate a request based service on server [closed]
In our web application, for each http-request there is a lot of computation that happens on back end. Output can vary from 10 sec - 1 Hour. In the mean time when it is computed, "Waiting.." is shown ...
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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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Open Source Bulletin Board with Facebook Group Integration
I'm working on a an open-source community-oriented project which needs a highly social component where users can post discussion topics and questions and interact with each other. It would be ideal to ...
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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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How to evaluate a web developer?
I want to hire someone to set up a website. What do I ask to determine competence and
integrity of the individual? Is there a chart of reasonable charges/costs? How do I know
if I am being ...
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Where to find a template or script with frame on the left side(list of articleHeadlines) and on the right side the content [closed]
I am looking for something like the following:
http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/index.html#scala.Any
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What's the correct terminology when referring to the “home” page when logged in and logged out?
Struggling with some terminology here.
Let's use Twitter as an example. If you are logged in, you have a completely different "home" page from when you are not logged in. How would you refer to each ...
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Three-month freeze on domain transfers?
I am planning on hosting a web app on Google App Engine. I am planning on buying the domain from GoDaddy. Will I have to wait 3 months before I can transfer the domain from GoDaddy to GAE (or at least ...
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Online iPad 1&2 emulators give different results compared to the real thing [closed]
I'm designing a centered website (jQuery Isotope). Thre sandbox is here. I have used some online iPad 1&2 emulators to test how the site is viewed on these devices. Then, I managed to get hold of ...
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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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How to send messages? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to add SMS text messaging functionality to my website?
I am building a online SMS service that can send messages to mobile phones. I want to send messages like ...
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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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Is there an 'off the shelf' platform for making a new website similar to Elance?
I am interested in developing a website that is similar to 'elance' but for a particular vertical.
Is there an 'off the shelf' platform you can recommend for getting started with this, or would I ...
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Remove Google Analytics for Development Environment
I have a development environment for a website. The environment is an exact clone of the production side, so it's going to have google analytics on it. What's a good way to exclude traffic?
I tried ...
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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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advice needed with private Company CMS development [closed]
So here is the issue we have at the company we work at :
The company consists of 2 back-end developers and 5 front-end developers. We make websites mainly in PHP/MySQL -> html/css/jquery.
Currently ...
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IE CSS3 Compatibility issue using PIE.htc [closed]
A web site I am responsible for, nciml.org, was recently re-designed. The new design is posted at nciml.org/newlook. I am very happy with the new design when viewed in most modern browsers.
But ...
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Writing a Web Instant messenger [closed]
I am trying to figure out how to write an instant messenger like Google talk/Facebook Chat for my website. The accounts would all be in a mysql database.
How could I get started with this?
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XMPP Protocol on XAMPP
Hey I was wondering if I could use the XMPP messaging protocol in the Mac application XAMPP.
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Facebook like in business model
I have a website "www.example.com" and a Facebook page for www.facebook.com/example/123456
My website need active users.
Now in my website I would like a like button, now the question is:
From a ...
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CSS Sprites: Are they worth the trouble?
I can't help but wonder whether CSS sprites are very much over-used.
First of all, if I stick all my images in a single file it makes an aweful lot of empty space. I know, that shouldn't make an ...
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Developing from scratch vs. Wordpress
I am facing a dilemma, over the past six months I have been building my website from scratch and I put plenty of hours into it using standard html/css/php/mysql/javascript and jquery...
My website ...
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Suggest free live support software with auto invite to visitors? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Live chat solutions
Please suggest free live support software with features like:
Manually invite a visitor to chat.
Visitor geo location.
I liked commetchat and ...
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What Tools Exist for Comparing Two Files?
what tools do you guys use to compare two scripts, basically i modded an template and need to compare this template with the new release of this template. Any help greatly appreciated.
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Sharepoint 2010 as framework for website?
So I'm looking at several solutions for our new website. And we've looked at ExpressionEngine first and foremost.
Now, during brainstorming today, one person said "why don't we use Sharepoint 2010 ...
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Why my website subpage displays “www.domainname.com/#!home/” why “/#!”
i am taking over a webpage from a previous webpage designer, and i am wondering why does the website display "#!"? eg. www.domainname.com/*#!*home/mainPage. How do I change this so that it doesn't ...
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Posting a link to our page on facebook doesn't resolve correctly within FB
We have a product page, there is a javascript popup that requires users to enter an email address to gain access. But the page behind the popup is fully rendered (for SEO value and such).
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Portal construction with JetSpeed2
How good is JetSpeed2 for a full fledge complex portal construction?
Due to licensing issues, the company I work for has decided (most probably) to not to go ahead with Liferay or GateIn etc and ...
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Why isn't google updating my description of my website? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Google doesn't seem to update the description or title of my homepage
I had created a website,hosted it on godaddy.com.
I edited it recently .(fetched and uploaded ...
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web application or web portal? [closed]
as title said differences between those 2. I read all the definition and some articles, but I need information about some other aspects.
Here is the thing. We want to build a web site that will ...
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Where could I find web designers/ web developers that would like to work together? [closed]
Note: If this isn't the right place, please let me know where I should ask this.
I am working on projects to earn money (in codecanyon and themeforest) and I wanted to know for a while where I could ...
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Anybody know if a free and/or open source Micro/Light CMS like Perch, Pagelime, Unify, Cushy CMS, Magicedit, etc [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I have an existing site, I just want to add a CSS class or wrap it in a tag or something and let my clients make ...
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Java based portal framework [closed]
We have an application that needs to be built and are looking for some Java based portal framework. In last few days we have gone through over 10 different open source option Liferay, JetSpeed2, ...
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Vanilla forum personal journal tool [duplicate]
I am developing a forum for a research project, i am using Vanilla forum (though i am not tied to this yet). Another feature of this site will be a personal journal/diary/blog. Only the user and ...
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Framework for interaction between web-page and server-side script
I want to make a web-page that will have several controls elements, among which there are elements like check-boxes, radio-buttons, "range selectors" (one can specify the min and max value, like it is ...
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is there a checklist that a small website should
I am not a web developer - this would be my first foray.
I can do HTML/CSS/Javascript, but never created a website for a company.
If anybody is creating a site for small company (expecting some ...
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Tool to identify Internet Explorer rendering differences with css
I develop website using chrome and mac os as development environment.
Since my audience is pretty specific I don't feel the necessity for too much backward compatibility with IE8 and less.
However ...
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Subdomain Is Redirected and Causing an Error Because www. is Added
On my site, say example.com, if I try to access test.example.com, Firefox automatically adds www. to test.example.com, making it www.test.example.com, which causes an error. However, if I visit a site ...
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what do I need to do to get started with a website? [closed]
I am a student and I have made websites for some companies before but now I would like to make a generic website for myself but dont know how to get started as I never had to deal with hosting or ...
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What can I do to make my eService website customers feel it is a luxurious service? [closed]
I'm developing an e-service website that its monetization model is via paid membership. Beside quality service and content, because I'm serving them for a high fee, I want to make them feel like it is ...
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Should we still support IE6 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Should I bother supporting IE6?
As an independent web developer, should I still be supporting IE6 on my own site/or client web sites?
