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 inform website owner if someone downloads something from the website?
Right, beginner here so bare with me..
What i've got: A simple html/css website with a page where clients can find informative documents in the form of PDF's and rich text documents, they can just ...
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What emails should I create for a web services company? [closed]
I am building a software and web services company and want to create different email account to use them in contacting my team, customers "which i do for them websites for example", users of the ...
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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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Which tags to use for good SEO on the page
I have a event page, where it has the following items.
Event Name
Venue Name(s) {some cases go upto 5 or more venues}
Event Info {Genre(s),Language,type(s)}
Date(s) on which the event is.
Event ...
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Documented Web Site Design Process
Is there any well documented process to be used in web site design projects?
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Does someone knows of a free asmx webhosting?
I wrote a webservice (*.asmx) and I want to host it for free.
Couldn't find a website that alows web service hosting.
Does someone know of such ?
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Spam prevention through IP tracking
I am building a website with user generated comments. In order to implement user moderation/spam-protection, users have the ability to mark comments as spam. When one comment is marked as spam, I want ...
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'Development dashboard' web application
I am not sure if something like this exists in that it is ready out of the box.
I currently have some web space that I use for various projects, and I would like to setup an area for some friends and ...
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Is Paypal the best solution for payment gateway for a website?
I have a realty website that needs a payment gateway for their property reservation. The reservation fee range from $500-$600 and about 5-6 people per month. I was wondering if Paypal is the best ...
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How do I know whether a site is a daughter site of another?
Given http://www.ocfaustralia.org/ and site 2 http://griffith.ocfaustralia.org/, is there a way for me to tell whether site 2 is a daughter site for site 1?
That is, if I were to remove site 1 would ...
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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 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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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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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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why does loading my homepage leads to my index page?
please when ever i load my new site quancer[dot ]com. It leads to my index page. I just installed the script using softaculous autoinstaller. Please kindly help me with this.
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How auto load image work when an status is post to social website?
When posting a status update on social website like facebook.com and linkedin.com which contain an URL, it will automatically scan the images available on the particular website and put it at the ...
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What's the canonical process for backing up a website? [closed]
This is going to sound terrible, but bear with me. I currently have a cron job that does a mysql dump, a git add all and commit, and a git push to bitbucket. I set this up almost a year ago, when I ...
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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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Importance of WAP version of web system
What is the importance of WAP version of web systems? to cater those mobile phones that does not support standard HTML pages?
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Most CSS Grid frameworks use pixel as css units, why?
I started to develop my own webdesign using an grid framework 960 CSS Framework and also noticed that most of other famous css grid frameworks use 940/960px as maximum page width? Some of them have an ...
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Set up development site on another server/host
I'm developing a site for a client. They've got a site now that's hosted at hosting.com. I'm going to move them to my VM hosting solution at edge web but I want to run some tests and have the client ...
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Domain registrar changed DNS without warning
We have had a very long an damaging outage which lasted around 24hrs due to a change in our DNS servers by our registrar. What happened (according to our registrar) was that for some reason their ...
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How can I change my site's meta tags using fatcow.com site builder?
I am a newbie to website work. I am on the board of a new non-profit, and have been given the task of getting the website up and running. We elected a package from Fatcow.com that gives hosting and ...
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ecommerce options for 5-6 products [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Which Ecommerce Script Should I Use?
We're looking to develop a simple e-commerce solution to sell 5-6 products.
We'd rather not have to use PayPal's buttons (buy it ...
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Send and Receive SMS from my Website
The way I plan to use it is:
Have people send SMS to a number to vote.
On the backend (assuming that the data comes back to my Web server), I will display the voting results on my Web site.
After ...
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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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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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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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Google Site Search ReIndexing
At the moment, Google Site Search isn't really working for me. I checked Google Cache and it says that the site was last updated on Dec 16 back when there was very little content.
How do I get Google ...
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is it possible testing a site on a smartphone using a local server and wifi?
Is there any way to access a local server via a smartphone during developement, or must I test it online?
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Web app to take screen shot of website and annotate?
Does anyone know of a website that will take a full screen shot of another website and let users write notes over it then send that annotated photo by email or private link? Basically looking for ...
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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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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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Best practice for SEO “special characters” in products pages
Whats a best practice for creating websites do to the fact that i need to enter "ö" within the content/title/meta. Should I spell it without, and just use a "normal" character or do i put in ...
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How to insert in a blog sharing links to visitors Tweet, Facebook and so on social networks?
I am developing a web blog using ASP.NET, but I guess that the tech details like this, here, is not important.
My aim is to insert in every post I create those nice buttons to the social networks ...
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How does Google+ embed link works?
I am trying to understand how does embed link works in Google+ Stream.
I manage a site and usually every post contains some text and at least an image.
But when I try to embed the link to a ...
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Is there a way to add Google Docs-like comments to any web page?
You know the comments on Google Docs word processing documents? And how it creates a little discussion over in the right-hand margin?
I love it. Great for collaboration. I want to free it from ...
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Let tester directly click on web site to report bugs, similar to bugherd?
I'm doing website User Testing and want them to report issues by clicking on web site and type text into a comment box. Similar to diigo.com or bugherd.com
Bugherd is designed for this but it is ...
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PHP Development Environment (Host: Windows 7, Guest: Ubuntu)
Since editing files live from a remote server slows down development. I use XAMPP on windows to develop then run the web app's on a Linux server.
However to avoid environment dependencies I'd like to ...
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How can I exclude a specific computer from web stats?
I'm using AWStats to track visits to my site. I know how to exclude specific ip addresses from the stats (using AWStat's .conf file). But how would I just exclude one specific visitor (me)?
I want to ...
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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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full environment for development and production web site [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to find web hosting that meets my requirements?
is there any hosting that gives you full environment for development and production web site
including IIS,Sql ...
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Problem with Expires/Cache-Control Headers
I'm using Apache 2.2.16.
I've got the following HTML file in my htdocs folder:
<html>
<link media="screen" type="text/css" href="/css/test.css" rel="stylesheet" />
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Is there an alternative to LiveStream?
I´m looking for an alternative to LiveStream, I mean, a free live streaming solution for video broadcasting and then embedding the player in my website.
Bandwith limitations is OK.
Concurrent ...
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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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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 ...
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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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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 ...
