Date: 02/11/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: database, web

I'm going to be working with a graphic designer to revamp a website for a company and they've asked us to quote them a rate. They would prefer that we give them a set cost, not an hourly rate. I haven't done much freelance before and neither has she so I was wondering if any of you knew of a website or two that has good guidelines on doing this?

Basically none of the content is going to change, she's going to give it a facelift and I'm going to do the coding. They don't want anything too fancy, no Flash or database driven content, they're just wanting to update an out of date site. Without really counting, I would say the site consists of about 40-50 pages due to a lot of product descriptions. (I know, I know, but they have no interest in a database driven site...)

Any suggestions on reference materials or what you might charge for this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1058326.html

Date: 02/11/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web

I just noticed there is now an extended version of the compiled help module that can be integrated into windows based IDEs.

For example, I use Zeus and I can place the cursor on a PHP function, press ctrl-F1 and get the manual page for that function, complete with user supplied notes from the website.

The download is only available in English.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/411727.html

Date: 02/12/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: rss, xml, web

So I previously posted that issue with getting rss feeds to show up nicely on a website, and things are great save for the occasional happening of this:

Unable to open RSS Feed http://website.com/blog/index.xml with error Empty reply from server, exiting

...how do i make that happen less? or at least, in the event it does happen, not just give up loading the rest of the website?

along with that, it would be great if i'm more certain of what it even means. from the sound of things it means "we went to load this but it took too long and we gave up, sorry." is that the case?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1059048.html

Date: 02/12/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

Financial weekly predicts shares of the Web search giant could face a further 50 percent decline.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6038410.html

Date: 02/12/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: html, web

http://www.connectyourweb.com/

Has anybody used these guys before? They seem fairly cheap and that's what I'm looking for at the moment.

Specifically this page: http://www.connectyourweb.com/bargain.html

Well, thanks all, if you can offer up some words and such.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1059121.html

Date: 02/13/06 (Security)    Keywords: java, web

One initiative introduces a form of encryption to its next-generation Sun Java System Web Server.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6038422.html

Date: 02/13/06 (Apache)    Keywords: xml, java, web, apache

Hi all,

I'm a newbie to apache, my experince doesn't extend much further than .htaccess files. But I want to have a Java API for creating/managing such files.

Does anyone know of any existing java toolkits/apis?

I understand that apache configs files can be xml docs too. Managing xml docs (rather text docs) is probably more java friendly, but I don't seem to be able to find much info on xml apache config files. Can anyone suggest something?

I found a good cgi app written in perl... it's called webmin but I'd like to know if there's a java api

Thanks in advance.

Corin.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/apache/30066.html

Date: 02/13/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web

A Chinese-language version of its U.S. Web site offers full-length features and episodes of Chinese TV series.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6038671.html

Date: 02/13/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, xml, web

I was just wondering if anyone had an idea on how to go about this...

I'm running an iTunes plugin that automatically puts the ID3 info from my currently playing song into an XML file on my website, which I then parse and display using PHP. That's fine.

It also uploads a thumbnail of that song to a specific directory. Now, playing iTunes for several hours on end leaves me with a folder full of thumbnails. I'd like to write a cron job that deletes all but the currently playing or x most recent thumbnails.

I can't just wipe out all but the newest x files from the directory, as the XML file is saved there as well (the plugin is non-configurable in this respect), and the plugin uploads artwork for songs that only play for a split second, even if the XML file won't list them. So I can't delete just the x most recent files with a specific naming scheme, I've got to delete all image files except the ones listed in the XML file.

The problem with that is that the XML file does not list a file extension for the album artwork, and just lists a hash as an ID (which is only a part of the filename used to save the image when uploading). As is, I use a number of if/else statements to determine if a file exists and what file type it is.

I'm *thinking* that the best way is to collect those album artwork IDs, and unlink() all images that DON'T contain those hash IDs. I'm not sure the best way to go about this though, as while I've got plenty of experience with PHP in certain respects, it's filesystem commands are something I've neglected.

So, essentially, I'm just wondering if there's an easy PHP file command for collecting files that fall under certain criteria. Any ideas?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/412289.html

Date: 02/13/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, database, asp, web, linux, microsoft, apache

I am responsible for implementing a new company intranet. I have experience setting up Drupal on my web host for my personal portfolio site, I set up the intranet on my G4 at work, but the Windows/IIS server causes all sorts of problems and the IT dept is unable to solve them, so there goes two weeks of work down the drain for me. I even asked them before I started if it was going to be a problem. Anyhow now they've set up Dotnetnuke and it is up but seems quite buggy, ie every 6th click results in a database error page. Yes I am definitely more of a front end designer and though I work mainly on Mac, by far an elitist (at least as far as OSs are concerned).
Just for my own knowledge, what would the advantages over using Windows/IIS server/ASP vs Linux/Apache/PHP?
A friend of mine suggests its just that most IT people learn the Microsoft stuff in school and that's what they stay with.
Any insight would be appreciated.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/296144.html

Date: 02/14/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: java, web

Hi,

I'm currently developing a web application that will run on various systems and some systems will have a certain JavaScript function and others will not. I need to run an if statement to detect if the function exists, and if so, run it. I don't wish to use the onerror function because that would suppress other errors from users and unfortunately the try/catch block only runs under JavaScript 1.5. I've tried many variations of the following code, but all of them either work only when the function exists or when it does not exist. Do any of you know of a nice backwards-compatible way to do this or of a nice workaround?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/92744.html

Date: 02/14/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, spam

I'm doing a very lame thing right now at work that involves me punching numbers into web-based forms that access a company site/DB. Since I don't have access to the DB source, I want to know how to automate the process from the data going into it.

Can anyone suggest a tutorial or pre-fab program that will fill out web forms automatically? (and no, I'm NOT using it for spam!!) If I were to write such a thing myself, what language would be best to use?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/297275.html

Date: 02/14/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: web, microsoft

Anyone have experience with SharePoint?

I am using the MicroSoft BI Portal Sample Application for Windows
SharePoint Services. My site is something like http://myserver/bip

I have created 3 document libraries, one each for 3 different groups
within the company (Marketing, Sales, and Finance). I have also
created 3 site groups, so that each site group has access to only their
document library.

All of the default groups remain in tact.

I have assigned users to each of the groups, some users are in multiple
groups.

The problem is that some users cannot see any of the document libraries
at all. They authenticate and are taken to the BI Portal site, but
then can see no data beyond that. (They can see the web parts, but no
data linked to those parts).

Other users, who are set up identically to the first users, can see
exactly what they are supposed to see.

I have had users reboot, clear cache/cookies/history, and there is no
change in behavior. I have even put some users into the administrators
group to see if that would work, but still no change. It's as if
SharePoint is ignoring the site groups for some users, and not for
others.

Anyone have any ideas on how to clear this up?

Using Windows Server 2003, SharePoint Services v2

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/33190.html

Date: 02/15/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: php, web, shopping

I've been asked to develop an online store from scratch for a client. I've never done this before. They want to do it all in house and not use a 3rd party system for credit card transactions, shopping carts, etc. Can any recommend any good websites and/or books that I should check out? I'll be writing it in PHP if that makes a difference to any of the recommendations.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/298889.html

Date: 02/15/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Hello there!

I'm not *really* a web developer (I do my own stuff) but I've been given the task at work to design our intranet site using DreamWeaver. I've never used DreamWeaver before but it is seeming easy enough. An issue I am running into is with the Pop-Up menus. First off it kills my system every time I use it (depleting all memory) but I understand this was a common bug. The latest issue is that when I put the pop-up menu on a button it makes the height of my page basically go on forever... I think I could scroll forever.

Any ideas on why? Even with the fixed height it does it... when I view it in DreamWeaver it's fixed and doesn't do so.

Thanks for your help!

Update: After deleting and re-doing and deleting and re-doing multiple times it finally worked. Must be a bug or something.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/298363.html

Date: 02/15/06 (PHP Community)    Keywords: php, web, shopping

I've been asked to develop an online store from scratch for a client. I've never done this before. They want to do it all in house and not use a 3rd party system for credit card transactions, shopping carts, etc. Can any recommend any good websites and/or books that I should check out? I'll be writing it in PHP if that makes a difference to any of the recommendations.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php/415148.html

Date: 02/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: php, templates, mysql, database, sql, web

MyDBO is an object-oriented code generator for PHP-MySQL Web application developers. It is designed to automate CRUD operations when creating Web applications. It creates code for accessing database tables without bogging down the developer with connections or SQL queries. It uses templates to generate code. You can create your own templates. I think it fills a [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/object-oriented-code-generator-for-php-mysql-web-applications/

Date: 02/17/06 (Computer Help)    Keywords: browser, web

I've got a problem with my browsers on my laptop. I can't surf the net with any of them. I have IE and Mozilla Firefox installed. I had Netscape 7.2 installed but I uninstalled that in frustration. Before that, I could reach a couple of websites with Netscape, but that was about it. My browsers quit working a couple of days ago.

Can anyone offer any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/computer_help/588864.html

Date: 02/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: xml, java, web

Java SE 6 Beta offers the first feature complete version of next major release of the Java SE platform. Sun expects to ship the final release of Java SE 6 in the fall of 2006. The key new features (I care about) are: New Smart Card I/O API New Client and Core Java Architecture for XML-Web Services (JAX-WS) [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/java-se-goes-beta-feature-complete-download-now/

Date: 02/17/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: java, web, yahoo

Yahoo released an UI library for web applications, developed using Javascript and AJAX. It provides some nifty components like dual-calendar, tree, drag-and-drop, slidedrs etc. Very much worth adding to your toolkit. Personally I found the performance somewhat sluggish. DOJO is another alternative (better?). Link

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/yahoo-ui-library-javascript-ajax-is-worth-looking/