Date: 01/08/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, database, java, web, hosting

First of all, an apology. I'm sorry - I know that this has been asked a million times before, but things change very quickly in cyberspace and I have a rather desperate situation on my hands.

I've been placing clients with an absolutely awesome webhost/domain registrar for 10 years, a one-man operation with unparalleled customer service. He's now closing shop, and coincidentally, I'm also getting out of the webdesign business.

I have about a dozen clients that I need to transfer, with everything from 4 page to 100+ page websites. Some need to host multiple domains, others need space/bandwidth to support a lot of .mp3 and .pdf downloads, some need domain email, etc - all different situations. I've only got a few months to place these people and get them uploaded to a new site, on top of a new workload in another field.

I've been investigating hosting for over a month now, but am still undecided. Also, my clients are people with small budgets (non-mainstream authors, musicians, educational groups, etc) so while they can certainly pay their year of hosting upfront, as well as my time for moving them, moving to a webhost with an enormous set-up fee is simply out of the question.

None of my clients need php or database support or anything fancy; even the most complex site is done in basic CSS/HTML with some javascript. I'm about to get serious about GoDaddy.com - but I can't afford to make a mistake. Has anyone had any bad experiences with them? Can anyone recommend anyplace else? Any and all suggestions gratefully accepted. Thank you for your time!

EDITED TO ADD:
Thank you!! I can't believe the responses I'm getting, and I really appreciate it more than I can say. I have mixed feelings about getting out of webdesign, which is not making this any easier. It really helps to have some clear, concise input. I've always admired the people in this community, and I still do. There is a tremendous amount of talent here, and I've learned so much, even though I was mostly a lurker with little to contribute.

Thank you again. ♥ ♥ ♥

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1350617.html

Date: 01/09/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

China is shutting down about 200 Web sites for carrying illegal sex drug advertisements, state media said Wednesday, marking the latest in a string of measures to clean up the Internet. About 6,000 Web sites have been found carrying illegal, sexually suggestive ads involving sex-related drugs or health...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2110-9588_22-6225299.html

Date: 01/08/08 (Security)    Keywords: technology, web, hosting

Computerworld chronicles the tale of Web hosting firm C I Host Inc. and details how its data center was robbed. Meanwhile, the technology manager working the graveyard shift was held hostage as the robbers stole computer equipment. The story's point can't be more clear: Data centers aren't...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=789

Date: 01/09/08 (See my site)    Keywords: web, google

my free google website
Originally uploaded by geozila.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/see_my_site/112935.html

Date: 01/10/08 (Java Web)    Keywords: software, security, web

You never worry about your site security until after your site has been hacked for the first time. It is always a moment of truth, when you first realize how vulnerable you (your site & your data) truly are. You have probably dozens of scripts running on your server ranging from weblog software, comment form, [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/understanding-intrusion-detection-system-samhain/

Date: 09/08/06 (Data Management)    Keywords: web, yahoo

DAN FARBER: Now Yahoo! is definitely one of the companies that's been pioneering the web as a platform innovating in many areas along with the rest of the industry. So, in your mind, you do you think of innovation? How do you define it? LARS RABBE:...

Source: http://video.zdnet.com/CIOSessions/?page_id=14

Date: 01/10/08 (Data Management)    Keywords: web, linux

Having followed computing and politics since 1996 I have long been fascinated with whether scaled Internet-based computing can, in fact, cut the cost of campaigning. This year represents the best test yet of that proposition. Every Presidential candidate has a Web site. Most run Linux. By...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1872

Date: 01/11/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: php, css, html, web

i'm looking for a code/script or whatever that will allow me to use multiple different hit counters on the same page/through the entire website. (i want them to all count different links being clicked) i think i found something awhile back and it was php? i 'm not familiar with anything other than css and html. LOL i can do a little bit of other things with a tutorial or so form of instructions or help.

i also want it to be a text counter, where i can change the size and font. no images!!
does anyone have any ideas or links?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1353024.html

Date: 01/11/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

On average travelers visit the purchase website 2.5 times, according to comScore. Customers make 12 travel-related searches, visit 22 websites and take 29 days from the first time they search until they make a purchase. 45% of transactions occur 4 weeks or more after the first search. Most shoppers visit...

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/ITFacts/?p=13619

Date: 01/11/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I need to set up a customer's website to serve out linked MP3s. IOW, one MP3 plays then triggers a second one to play. And multiple people need to be able to play the same ones at the same time, but not synchronously. I'm stumped as to what server/web package I should use to accomplish this. Any suggestions/recommendations? Also, is it possible to disable fast forwarding of the fist MP3?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1353651.html

Date: 01/12/08 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, security, web

I have a file /home/me/xml/email.xml that is created via PHP running from within stub-executable (/xml folder only permits "cgi" user to write to it).

Problem is that I normally use TCL to write XML files, but because of my need to use $_SESSION for security reasons, I am having to do the entire program in PHP.

/home/me/xml/email.xml is there when I do echo file_get_contents('/home/me/xml/email.xml'); however, I can't SEE the file no matter what tool I use.

Here is the code that creates the email.xml file:

	if (!function_exists('submit_email')) {
		function submit_email($sessionName = '') {
			global $userPath;

			if (is_file("$userPath/xml/email.xml")) $contents = file_get_contents("$userPath/xml/email.xml");
			if (!$contents) { /* NEW CONTENTS */
				// DON'T FORGET YOU CAN'T HAVE < OR > NEXT TO ? ANYWHERE IN PHP UNLESS IT'S A COMMAND BLOCK DELIMITER!
				$contents = '<' . '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?' . '>';
			} else {
			 	// YOU WILL HAVE TO LOB OFF THE  CLOSING TAG ELSE YOU WILL HAVE MALFORMED XML
			 	$contents = preg_replace('/<\/emailalert>$/i', '', $contents);
			}
			$contents .= '';

			// RE-INSERT INTO email.xml
			$isSuccessful = true;
			//@unlink("$userPath/xml/email.xml"); // FOR SOME REASON IT DOES NOT CLEAR OUT CONTENT USING 'w' OPTION
			if (!file_put_contents("$userPath/xml/email.xml", $contents, 'w')) $isSuccessful = false;
			if ($isSuccessful) chown("$userPath/xml/email.xml", 'ppowell');
			if ($isSuccessful) $msg = exec("chown ppowell:users \"$userPath/xml/email.xml\"");
			if ($isSuccessful) chmod("$userPath/xml/email.xml", 700);
			if ($msg) print_r($msg);
			if ($isSuccessful && !is_file("$userPath/xml/email.xml")) $isSuccessful = false;

			// REMOVE SESSION (OPTIONAL) AND RETURN FALSE
			if (!$isSuccessful) {
			 if ($sessionName && isset($_SESSION[$sessionName])) unset($_SESSION[$sessionName]);
			 return false;
			}
		
			return true;
		}
	}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/609267.html

Date: 01/13/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: security, web

Hey, security breaches, incompetence and corruption. Sounds like government IT. The Post reports: A government Web site designed to help travelers remove their names from aviation watch lists was so riddled with security holes that hackers could easily have stolen personal information from scores of...

Source: http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3600

Date: 01/15/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

Right then I have a website I need to design for a villa in Barbados and looking for similar sites so i can get ideas of what kinds of things do to. I've never done a site like this. Its only gonna have 3 pages at most i think, splash page, information about the villa's rooms and facilities, bookings & rates page with contacts details.
Supplied pictures are not so good, trying to talk my way into getting a free holiday to take them myself. They have already said that they wanted to have 360 degree views of the rooms which are interactive which i will have to go and photograph myself ;)

anyone know of any other type of website as the one I'm describing and looking for inspiration too

cross posted to: graphicdesign & webdesign

--
~ B ~

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1354196.html

Date: 01/15/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

Question/Problem: Photobucket, and other sites, not loading (weird code errors, like code 300, etc). The images show up everywhere, BUT in the actual Photobucket page. I can only make changes in Opera, and some of my paid emails through SendEarnings and InboxDollars won't load, but everything works just fine in Opera (I dislike Opera)

Operating System and VERSION: Windows XP SP2

Web Browser and VERSION: Firefox 2.0.0.11; I also have Opera 9.2

Your level of experience: Intermediate, I think

Duration of problem: Started Friday, I think it was

Any steps you've taken to troubleshoot? Well, I've removed any plugins/extensions for FF that would have a problem (or ones I don't use).

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/855070.html

Date: 01/15/08 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: templates, software, web

I'm thinking WAY ahead here, but I'm about to start graduate school and I will eventually run a private health practice. Thus far, I only have experience with the student edition of MS Office. I'd like to familiarize myself with all the programs I need to run my own small business. I'll need to manage at least the following:

*Contacts
*Data/records
*Personal finance/book keeping
*Promotional material creation
*Presentations
*Professional document templates
*Website creation/management

Would you recommend a more advanced edition of MS Office, a different series of PC programs altogether, or a combination? I'd like to keep things as streamlined and simple as possible, but be sure I also have the skills to work with common PC software if I end up in a group practice.

Suggestions? Thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computergeeks/1142947.html

Date: 01/16/08 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Amazon has run the book seller's site since 1991, but Borders is finally ready to do its own thing. Its beta site includes a "magic shelf." Borders views the launch of its new Web site as a chance to control its own destiny and help spur a turnaround...

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6226390.html

Date: 01/17/08 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

A bit of code I worked on is giving me grief. The problem is in the padding: I can't figure out where it's coming from or how to get rid of it. I don't want such huge gaps between buttons and the next arrow.

div.process comes with 5px of padding, and when I set that to 0 only the actual buttons lose their padding, but I don't get rid of the padding all around each of the buttons. I have been looking at it too long maybe and someone else can easily spot what I'm missing. If anyone can spare a moment and fill me in on what's wrong - besides the fact that coding shouldn't be left to me - please do tell. Thanks!

[x-posted to webdesign]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/459253.html

Date: 01/17/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

A bit of code I worked on is giving me grief. The problem is in the padding: I can't figure out where it's coming from or how to get rid of it. I don't want such huge gaps between buttons and the next arrow.

div.process comes with 5px of padding, and when I set that to 0 only the actual buttons lose their padding, but I don't get rid of the padding all around each of the buttons. I have been looking at it too long maybe and someone else can easily spot what I'm missing. If anyone can spare a moment and fill me in on what's wrong - besides the fact that coding shouldn't be left to me - please do tell. Thanks!

[x-posted to webdev]

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1354373.html

Date: 01/18/08 (WebDesign)    Keywords: browser, css, html, web

Hey everyone, this is my first post here. I'm redesigning my website, or I guess just trying to "upgrade" it. I'm going from all HTML to CSS/HTML, and I've run into a problem.

For some reason my external stylesheet isn't working. At least, it's not changing anything in the design view mode in dreamweaver. This is all i have on my style sheet so far. the sheet is named style.css:

/* CSS Document */

body,td,th {
font-size: 12px;
color: #999999;
}
body {
background-color: #faf4da;
background-image: url(newbackgrounds.jpg);
background-repeat: repeat-y;
background-position:center;
margin-left: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-right: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
}

So, it should show the bg color as well as the background image, right? this is what the code looks like in html:

<*head>
<*meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<*meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" />

<*meta name="Keywords" content="Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, GWTW, Gone with the Wind, Pretty, A Streetcar Named Desire, Hamlet, Wuthering Heights, Waterloo Bridge, Classic Film, Photography, Vogue" />

<*meta name="Author" content="Kendra" />
<*meta name="Copyright" content="©2007 by Kendra. All rights reserved." />

<*link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.vivandlarry.com/css/style.css" type="text/css" /*> (this isn't actually bold, I just made it that way to point out where i linked the style sheet for the purpose of getting help on this question)

<*title>Viv and Larry {dot} com | a Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier Tribute | v2.0 | Anything Goes



Am I doing something wrong? I've been looking at other site's page sources, and it appears the same as what i posted above, so I'm confused as to why nothing is showing up on my site, even when i preview it in a browser, it's just a blank page.

any help would be appreciated. thanks!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1354636.html

Date: 01/18/08 (Computer Help)    Keywords: asp, web, shopping

Dear LiveJournal,

I'm getting a new computer. When? I don't know. It's not going to be right away, maybe in March. I'm definitely getting one, though.

The problem is, I'm not sure what products I should get. I don't want an all-in-one computer, because, for the most part, they normally suck. I decided to surf around today for some ideas based on this data:

• Most of my time will be spent surfing the web, using online word processors and email clients.


• I'm going to be using the lightest IM client I know (AIM Lite).


• My music/video/image collection is very extensive (no more than 80GB, though).


• I'm a Windows guy, and I don't hate Vista.


• Since I'm not a big gamer, that's not a big priority (though I do play from time to time).

• Acer Aspire Desktop with Intel Core2 Duo Processor E4500: I don't know much about Acer products, but this is very close to what I want. It has 3GB of RAM (I don't think I ever use more than 200MB), has a 500GB hard drive (double what I was initially looking for), and comes with a keyboard and mouse. It has Windows Vista already installed.


• Dell 22" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD Monitor: Not much to say about this, I just find it appealing. I'm not in a hurry to find a new monitor, but I do want one.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/856795.html