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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Chrome Extension or online tool to access and edit files on server via FTP/other protocols
I recently got a Chromebook Pixel, and find it to be a great alternative laptop to my Macbook Pro, especially for non coding tasks like email etc.
I was wondering if there was any IDE style extension ...
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Measurable goals for a new web team/department?
I'm part of a new web team (the area is new) and we have to define goals. I need to define this goals so they can be measurable maybe monthly and yearly.
So my questions is if these goals should be ...
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Steps when developing for multiple clients using Wordpress
I am very new to web development and I am currently learning the in's and out's of HTML, CSS, MySQL and PHP. I am working towards being able to design websites for other people.
I am just wondering ...
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Help with a CMS for content only not display
Hello I'm trying to make some kind of tool for an school website, what I need to do is to make students take a test and according to what are the results (27 posibilities) they get a set of activities ...
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After my studies at Codecademy.com [migrated]
I've finished my HTML and CSS course at Codecademy and now I want to study Python. Before I do I would like to build a small website about the things I'm about to learn, just to practice my HTML and ...
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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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My webpage works using http, but not using www
I'm sorry to repeat this question as I saw it was previously asked. I would just like the answer in something that a complete idiot and newbie web developer (me) can understand.
I actually hired a ...
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The layout page “~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml” could not be found
I got this error and I can't figure out what is going on. I am positive the _layout.cshtml resides in the shared folder and for the sake of trying things out, I moved to the Home folder and it then ...
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How does this website work? [closed]
Link
By the looks of it this website is just a feed of articles from other sites. How does it import the whole articles like this? and how is the site ranking at all with the lack on original ...
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Getting started with a website [duplicate]
So I know HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, PHP. But I'm not sure how to put it all together to begin making an actual website. I'm not looking at something too big here since I'm just a beginner, but I ...
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How to deal with a client who redesigned their own site badly?
I am a freelance designer/developer. I am starting a registered business and will be offering other services soon and I am in the process of expanding the portfolio section of my existing website but ...
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Add article software for my website
I have been writing my website by hand for a long time, using Gedit(On Ubuntu). Recently I have discovered sublime text, which works great, but I still write it by hand.
Now I am looking for ...
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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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Share Web Hosting software packages management
I have a very basic question about web hosting. How will I be able to manage software packages on shared hosting services?
For example, some of my python scripts might require the MySQL-Python ...
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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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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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Load a section of page separately from the rest? [migrated]
I want to check the status of a couple servers and display on a page if they're up or down. Currently, I'm doing this with PHP's fsockopen() function. As part of this function, you determine a timeout ...
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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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How to tell Facebook not to fetch specific images?
I posted a few days ago how it was possible to tell FB to fetch specific images in my site for status updates.
I still need to tell it what not to fetch, since many of these pictures wouldn't ...
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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 ...
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Adding a Forum to my site: build one from scratch or use existing open-source platform?
Note: I posted this originally to stackoverflow.com, had it closed, and was told to post it on programmers.stackexchange.com. So I posted it on programmers.stackexhange.com, had it cloased, and was ...
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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 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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Check for duplicate 'id' values in a HTML page
I am developing a web application and I would like to check for duplicate id values in a HTML page. I am running the application on my local machine.
There is a way to do that?
P.S.: I am using ...
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Is there a program to prevent downloading a whole site
I want to avoid reinventing the wheel, so I am wondering if there is an (open source) program that you can use to protect a web server that has paid content by preventing a user from downloading all ...
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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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Setting up a VM testing server [MySQL, HTML, & PHP webstore] Testing for SQL correctness?
Question: Is there a way to test for correctness once the SQL DB copy has been installed on the local machine so I can confidently move to step number 3? Is there any information on the web that would ...
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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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How to Grok (Modern) HTML & CSS? [closed]
I'm a programmer at heart, but I've always wanted to understand more about HTML and CSS. Unfortunately, every resource I have tried to learn with I have found lacking. Every book/tutorial I've read ...
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Increase Servers folder depth limit for running scripts?
I have a CMS on my site that utilises TinyMCE (the WYSIWYG text editor). The issue is that TinyMCE cannot browse for files (example: images) on the web server. I get the error:
Error 324 ...
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Web gallery system
is there a gallery app or code that will show image that has been uploaded in an certain directory and it will be shown normally but when people download it , it will put a watermark in it
Any ...
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How can I test WebDAV? [closed]
I read the WebDAV faq, but I still don't understand how can I use it.
I saw it in the iThoughts software, it do sync with it, and I got curious about what can I do with it (e.g. can I make a website ...
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Website design using Responsive Approach or Mobile Site
I have been looking for mobile desktop website solution & I am confused with the information available on internet. In some case article talk about Responsive approach with the future but i am ...
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Adding 'jump to' link to specific section in the page inside search result description
I've noticed Wikipedia has many direct links to specific sections in their pages in search results descriptions. For example when searching for 'stackoverflow history wikipedia' the first result that ...
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Best practice when modelling a website's code [closed]
When developing with object oriented code you use an UML diagram to describe all the classes of the program. What about websites?
I have a prototype made with justinmind prototyper so I know how the ...
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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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Can I sell a php website on a condition that the code is not resold by the client? [closed]
What if I write my client a website using LAMP. Suppose that clients starts selling my code to other people, can I perhaps do something about it because I have already asked them not to sell it more ...
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Typo3 Product display with spec selection [closed]
I am looking for a possiblity in Typo3 to display our products. What I have in mind is something silimar to this:
http://www.haagen-partners.nl/aanbod/
An image of the product, some key specs and a ...
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website region lock | Localize SEO traffic
This may be a question that is completely out there but I'm about to publish a site that is very localize advertising - this can become big at some point but for right now I want to keep "out of ...
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Updating Old Site To New. Which Content Management System Lets Me Retain My Old URL? [duplicate]
My old site is done in HTML with .html as file extension.
To allow all those users who visit sites by typing a specific page url, and URL structure being good, I do not retain every single old url as ...
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Perl or PHP for web development [closed]
so, if one was developing a website and taking into consideration that it might grow, which is the better language for implementing CGI scripts? Perl or PHP?
i know PHP language itself (as opposed to ...
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what to look for when choosing a web designer [closed]
I've been put in charge of replacing our 10 year old, volunteer designed, static web pages with a modern looking flexible CMS based web site. That's the bad news. The good news is I have a fairly ...
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Web server with or without Panel [closed]
I start a Web server for my company for hosting about 15 website and I didn't install a Control Panel, I do everything by command and i'm pretty comfortable with it but do you think i'm losing time by ...
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Web-based interface for a static CMS [closed]
I would like to have a static CMS, but I need a web interface for the editor. The editor can be a php/python/ruby app hosted off my computer for when I need to edit.
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Difficult Client wants me to deliver project before payment [closed]
I am currently working on a project for a construction company. The payment due for the final milestone is coming up and completes the entire transaction. The contract states that the entire project ...
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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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Proper name scrolling news/photo
I'm very new to webdesign and am wanting to install a scrolling news/picture banner in the site but don't even know the proper term to search for to find out how to do it. Here's an example of what ...
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How can I measure website page load times from different countries?
Recently, I migrated one of my personal projects into cloud and hosted the app on UK based servers.
I reside in Turkey and I would like to see how long it takes for my pages to load for UK based ...
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How to prove someone is a Realtor on my website
My boss would like me to have some sort of a "login" for Realtors. The point is to have a certain portion of the site only available to Realtors. Initially he thought we could check their name and ...
