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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Should Site Title be Before or After Page Title?
Apologies if this is a dupe. I tried searching, but didn't find anything specifically addressing this concern.
When creating a large(ish) site, page titles usually reference both the site name and ...
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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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Video for an ads-driven web-site
I have a website, wich i will fill with a bunch of useful videos.
I've implemented an ads rotation engine for articles and will do so for videos.
The next milestone is to decide, how video will be ...
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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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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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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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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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Different folder and web structure
Is it possible to keep a different folder structure than the web structure that users see when browsing the website?
I.e. I want all my main pages to be accessed the following way:
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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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Where can i get high quality vector graphics for web design?
I am looking for a place i can buy web 2.0 (cartooney mac-like) vector graphics for use on my sites..
Wheres the best place to go?
Thanks
Daniel
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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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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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One Main Offsite Blog vs. Multiple Onsite Blogs
I work as the in-house SEO for an office refurbishment company. We are developing two sites:
Site 1: office refurbishment
Site 2: office furniture.
Here in lies my dilemma.
For SEO purposes, ...
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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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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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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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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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creating a tag-based website and not using programming?
I want to create a tag-based website, and I need a tool that I could use (preferably without programming).
It's a site where a user could pick tags on a certain item. All tags will be placed under a ...
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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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How can I validate HTML offline?
When I'm developing a website locally sometimes I want to check if the html is valid but I haven't been able to find a good tool. I want it partial as a sanity check when I'm troubleshooting layout ...
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Using DynDNS to dynamically update your IP address
In this link stark had suggested that I use IP address instead of a domain name. He had also suggested that, if your ip address changes dynamically then the dynamic update client will update the dns ...
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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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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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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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PHP photo/album gallery script with an admin backend and easy to integrate [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?
I'm looking for an open source photo and album gallery software that should be is easy to integrate in a webpage and ...
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How to create static web pages with re-arranged 15-20 links title with combination logic? [closed]
How to create static web pages with re-arranged 15-20 links title?
For example : I have link 3 title
a-as-in-alfa
b-as-in-bravo
c-as-in-charlie
(This all are clickable link title, clicking will ...
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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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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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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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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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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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Which shopping cart / ecommerce platform to choose? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
I need to build an ecommerce website within a tight budget and schedule. Of course, I have never done that before, so I have googled ...
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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?
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How to transfer domain mail id to gmail google server? [closed]
I don't know how to transfer domain mail id into gmail.com
For example:
My email address is rohit@somdomain.com and I want to transfer this into gmail.com.
Is it possible? If so, please tell me ...
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Guide to build a WebRadio [closed]
I want to have a guide at a project I got to do.
It consist of building up a live webRadio..
I have made researches on google but really not knowing where to start and what will be needed. Do I need ...
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Experienced programmer, beginner at web design, tools for effective maintainable web design? [closed]
I do quite a bit of programming in my work, which I'm comfortable with, but recently I've being trying to do some web-design for non-work related reasons.
I've got a Drupal site up and running, and ...
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Should I still use the <b> tag?
A while ago I learned to use proper CSS stylesheets on my websites. However, on Wikipedia and eBay and other sites I see the deprecated <b><i> tags being used. I was going for <span ...
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How should I prepare the design of a web page for a web developer?
What techniques, software or practices do you use to prepare a description of a web page for further development? I am doing some research (with little luck) in how to create description for web ...
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How to fix this navigation issue in my site? [closed]
First off I use webs.com for the creation of my site. I have a very basic layout. List of links of the left and content on the right with a heading up top. Now in my list of links every link is an ...
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Web services load test with increment variable
I'm trying to found out some application or way to run a load test on a Web services.
requests must simultaneous but my big problem is that: for every request, the values passed to a variable long ...
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How does URL Rewriting affect SEO?
The following paragraph is from SEO Google Guide
Google is good at crawling all types of URL structures, even if
they're quite complex, but spending the time to make your URLs as
simple as ...
