Date: 05/31/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: web

I've been using Dreamweaver to create a rather large website. I just bought a new external hard drive, and decided that I should have a back-up of all those files. I copied the root folder from my internal hard drive and put it on the exteranl drive.

Now, whenever I try to add an image or document to the root folder in Dreamweaver, it's not showing up when uploaded. I'm sure that the problem is that there are two copies of the root folder, and Dreamweaver is confused about finding the requested document.

Has anyone experienced something like this? Would it hekp to go through all the files on the exteranl drive and rename them slightly so there are no exact duplicates?

Thanks for any advice!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1117727.html

Date: 05/31/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, php, mysql, database, asp, sql, security, web

Hi all, a quick question.

I use PHP mostly because it's the only web language I know well enough to do what I need to do on a daily basis, but my place of employment is considering redesigning the web site - and letting me have control over how it's developed and in what languages, etc. Is there any advantage of using ASP over PHP, or any other language over another? I integrate a lot with a database (MySQL) (calendars, event listings, internship databases, video archive, etc) and currently run on a Sun box, but I also need to integrate (in the future) with a SQL database on an IIS server, which required me to develop in ASP. I didn't know ASP so we had to contract it out, and I'd rather avoid doing that again in the future - unless there's an added security benefit to asp or something like that. Opinions anyone, on what language to use vs another, or any opinions on a sort of "dream set up" (including CMS - I've never used a third party so recommendations would be interesting) I might be able to go after?

Thanks everyone!

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/325474.html

Date: 05/31/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web, spam

This is an Outlook question. Well, it may also be useful if you know anything about web based email clients.

How does one insert an animated image (like in a .gif format or maybe another format?) into the body of an email message? I can insert still images, but I haven't figured out how these emails that I get from spammers have inserted moving images in the white area. Not to say attached, but inserted them for display immediately as one views the email.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/325314.html

Date: 05/31/06 (PHP Development)    Keywords: php, mysql, html, sql, java, web

I've created a site hoping to archive php coded forums from the world wide web. This way an internet surfer can login and search categorized listings of forums so they can easily find what they're looking for.

Since there are thousands of php coded forums of all different content, I'd like to set up categories and list them under it.

unfortunately I know very little php. I know how to implement MODS into my forums and that's just about it.

Here's the site I'm working on. http://phpforumarchive.com/

Any suggestions or anyone willing to help? I am sure this will be a decent site when completed and people (internet surfers) will probably use it frequently. Forum owners will like it because of the free advertising they get for their site.

I know html, some javascript, no php beyond pre written MODS that show you how to instal them. MySQL? Forget it.

Tell me I'm in over my head.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/php_dev/69050.html

Date: 05/31/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: asp, sql, web, hosting, spam

My org's website is being redesigned, and in the near future we are going to have a backend members only area written in. Because of this, we need to switch hosts, and because our hosting company is going under. These are the items that the company doing our web design/develop listed as us needing in a host.

Basically, what you'll need is the following:
1.) ASP/ASP.net capable
2.) several e-mail accounts (with Web-based access as well, which I believe is standard)
3.) SPAM filtering (we use an application called "Postini" for a small fee per mailbox)
4.) In the near future, we may need either MS Access or SQL Server for your MO area. It's not totally necessary to have this right out of the gate. I would just make sure that one of these can be added to the server if/when it becomes necessary. It will probably cost extra.

They suggested this company: http://www.irides.com but the small disk space and transfer limits concerned me.

Does anyone have any reliable hosting suggestions that they've used for business site needs?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1118308.html

Date: 05/31/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: web

Ok so I took a run over to Amazon and couldn't find anything but the latest copy of Dreamweaver (Version 8 I think) and that was going for nearly 400 dollars. Now, seeing as how I'm just a little neophyte down here trying to learn how to do web design well enough to start making some money on the side... I don't have that kind of cash.

Does anyone know where I could get my hands on an older copy of Dreamweaver for say 100 bucks or so?

Barring that does anyone have any suggestions for good WYSIWYG type programs? Preferably one that lets me work from both the visual side and the code side like Dreamweaver does?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/325834.html

Date: 06/01/06 (Web Technology)    Keywords: web, yahoo

New Yahoo Video lets people upload content and search for video hosted on Yahoo and across the Web.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6078788.html

Date: 06/01/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web, apache

The common symptom of the problem is that Apache web server suddenly fails to load as a service (on windows) or even from command line. The error message from log is as follows: FATAL: emalloc(): Unable to allocate -2103443420 bytes [Thu Jun 01 23:57:21 2006] [crit] master_main: create child process failed. Exiting. In my case the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/apache-web-server-suddenly-fails-to-load-with-emalloc-error-solution-php_exifdll/

Date: 06/02/06 (Security)    Keywords: web

Newly discovered vulnerability could cause certain Windows applications to crash if a user clicks on an overly long Web link.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6079279.html

Date: 06/02/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: cms, asp, web

Dear all,

I need some info.

This is our company website. It is a big old mess structure wise. There is no CMS or anything useful like that and the architechture/navigation is terrifying. It's a serious nightmare to update (especially for me trying to navigate asp!!) and it needs to be more user friendly.

I am trying to recommend a course of action that is going to be cost effective (ie. the lower cost, the better) going forward. I think that it would be great to get a content management system in place since we're hoping to use the website a lot more extensively in the future. This would not be difficult since it's barely been touched since it's creation.

My questions are:

- A good, basic, cheap CMS - can someone recommend one?
- Having a quick look at the site, would we benefit having an Information Architecht help?
- Any other suggestions

Thankee!
Dominique

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/326249.html

Date: 06/02/06 (Asp Dot Net)    Keywords: html, asp, security, web

Hi folks...long time reader, first time poster.

I have a piece of code that SHOULD be working. It is simple and straight forward, creating a directory.

The code:

Dim tmpfldr As String = secret.buildFLDR() ' Build a 10 character, semi random string for a DIR Name
'This is the URL that will be used to create the links
targetfullpath = "http://" & cfg.serverURL & "/" & cfg.RootDBFolder & "/" & tmpfldr
filesysfullpath = cfg.filesysFLDR & "\" & cfg.RootDBFolder & "\" & tmpfldr
Me.lblUploadStat.Text = Me.filesysfullpath
'filesysfullpath = "\" & tmpfldr
Dim tdir As DirectoryInfo
Dim usr As String = "Current executing thread is " + System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity.GetCurrent().Name
Try
If Directory.Exists(filesysfullpath) = False Then
' Create the directory.
Directory.CreateDirectory(filesysfullpath)

....

It gets to this line and throws an error:

System.IO.DirectoryNotFoundException: Could not find a part of the path "e:\". at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String str) at System.IO.Directory.InternalCreateDirectory(String fullPath, String path) at System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(String path) at mjbears.drpbox.loadcfg() in C:\Documents and Settings\Jim\VSWebCache\sandbox.pixieproductions.com\default.aspx.vb:line 100

The "filesysfullpath" resolves out to "e:\web\public_html\username\sandbox\dropbox\BUILDFLDR" where BUILDFLDR is the random string. I have read/write privileges in "dropbox" folder, so I should be able to write/create a directory there.

Help! I've been hacking on this code for hours!

Peace,

Bear

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/aspdotnet/69908.html

Date: 06/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: cms, asp, web

Dear all,

I need some info.

This is our company website. It is a big old mess structure wise. There is no CMS or anything useful like that and the architechture/navigation is terrifying. It's a serious nightmare to update (especially for me trying to navigate asp!!) and it needs to be more user friendly.

I am trying to recommend a course of action that is going to be cost effective (ie. the lower cost, the better) going forward. I think that it would be great to get a content management system in place since we're hoping to use the website a lot more extensively in the future. This would not be difficult since it's barely been touched since it's creation.

My questions are:

- A good, basic, cheap CMS - can someone recommend one?
- Having a quick look at the site, would we benefit having an Information Architecht help?
- Any other suggestions

Thankee!
Dominique

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1119664.html

Date: 06/02/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: web

I have added a contact me section on top of each page of this blog. It allows you to contact me directly by either: 1. Filling out a web form 2. Sending me a voice message 3. Emailing me ( angsuman[at]taragana[dot]com ) Your feedback is appreciated.

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/contact-me-section-for-simple-thoughts-added/

Date: 06/02/06 (WebDesign)    Keywords: css, web

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me, I am creating a website in css. This is my first non table layout. It looks great any resolution over 800 x 600 but add space on the right to anything below it. http://www.designiquewebsites.com/pgp/

heres the css:

/* CSS Document */
body {
background-color:#4D4F1C;
text-align:center;
}

#header {
background: url(headerbg.gif);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-color:#666633;
}

#container {
margin: 0 0;
width: 90%;
border-style: none ridge;
border-color:#996600;
background-color:#666633;
}
.style1 {color: #CCCC33; width: 65%; text-align: center;}



#footer {

}


.bl {background: url(bl.gif) 0 100% no-repeat #666633;}
.br {background: url(goldleaf.gif) 100% 100% no-repeat;}
.tl {background: url(goldleaftl.gif) 0 0 no-repeat; height: 150px;}
.tr {background: url(tr.gif) 100% 0 no-repeat; height: 150px}
.clear {font-size: 1px; height: 1px}



thx a bunch

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdesign/1119791.html

Date: 06/02/06 (Security)    Keywords: browser, security, web

Update to popular open-source Web browser addresses a dozen security vulnerabilities, five of which are deemed critical.

Source: http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6079504.html

Date: 06/02/06 (IT Professionals)    Keywords: web

What do you people think of salary websites, like http://salary.monster.com ?

Do you think they are accurate?

Just asking because I'm entertaining job offers in a different geographic area, and I'm not sure if this data is reliable to base my expected salary on.

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/itprofessionals/39015.html

Date: 06/03/06 (Mozilla)    Keywords: browser, web

The font within my browser has changed and I cannot figure out how to change it back. I have a Mac OS X and have the latest version of Firefox. I was downloading fonts a couple of days ago and the next time I opened my browser, I realized that most of the text on pages I visit would change to this new font. I wouldn't mind it so much but the font it has changed to is a very funky one that is difficult to read on a webpage. I went into the Preferences to see if I could fix the problem within the Fonts options, but all the settings were still the same and looked like they hadn't changed. The only way I can get my browser text to look normal is if I uncheck the box under the Advanced font options that allows webpages to use their own fonts. (This is also screwing up webpages a little bit.)

Does anyone know what is wrong or how I can fix this?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/mozilla/364455.html

Date: 06/03/06 (C Sharp)    Keywords: sql, web

I'm getting an error on my sql INSERT statement where I’ve bolded.
I just want to update one field called subject, and it keeps giving errors during debug.
Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?

Also, without using stored procedures, is this a good safe way to do an INSERT?


protected void Button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
string conn = string.Empty;
ConnectionStringsSection connectionStringsSection = WebConfigurationManager.GetSection("connectionStrings") as ConnectionStringsSection;
if (connectionStringsSection != null)
{
ConnectionStringSettingsCollection connectStrings = connectionStringsSection.ConnectionStrings;
ConnectionStringSettings connString = connectStrings["defaultConnectionString"];
conn = connString.ConnectionString;

using ( SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(conn))
using (SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand("INSERT into POST (subject) VALUES (@subject)", connection))
{
connection.Open();
command.ExecuteQuery();
connection.Close();
}
}

}

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/csharp/64748.html

Date: 06/03/06 (Web Development)    Keywords: asp, web, linux, apache

I've been doing some contract work for my former employer, who has been having some major difficulties. Their webhost migrated them with little warning and no support from a shared account on a Linux Apache server to a shared account on an Windows IIS server running Plesk. They rely heavily on Perl/CGI scripts, and the migration naturally broke all of them, despite assurances that it would not.

So my job has been to get their scripts running again. However, this hit a major snag when I realized that their new server provides no server error logs. I've never worked with IIS before, but this seemed very wrong to me. Without the error logs, how are they supposed to debug their scripts? Numerous calls to the webhost's lackadaisical tech support were met with only incompetence (people who didn't know what server error logs were) and weak denials ("I don't think we can let you see those").

So I told my client that these people were incompetent, that their server was grossly misconfigured (a lot of other things that ought to have worked didn't work), and that the way they were being treated by the host was totally inappropriate for the price they were paying (as I understand it, an expensive corporate rate). I get 24-hour tech support with almost zero delay from my $10-a-month shared host, yet it takes these people several days to return a call about even the simplest of questions, usually with inadequate, unhelpful responses. It seems to me that these people migrated to IIS without having any clue what they were doing, and wheedled their ill-informed clients into following, despite their not having any need for IIS, ASP, or anything else related.

I managed to fix most of the scripts through blind trial and error, ugly hacks, and brute force. But I don't think they should be having to deal with this. However, I'm well aware that I don't know anything about IIS, and before I push the matter further, I wanted to make sure it wasn't my own incompetence that was getting in the way. Is there any reason why an IIS server shouldn't provide server error logs to shared clients? Is there some other way to debug scripts that I'm missing? Am I correct in assessing that this webhost is a sinking ship of fools, and in advising them to jump overboard before they go down with it?

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/webdev/326423.html

Date: 06/04/06 (Javascript Community)    Keywords: html, java, web

hello,
maybe it is a lame question, but anyway...
i am making a website in more than one language version and i have put the html files of every version to a separate directory. the names of files are the same in every directory.
now i would like to have links on every page to switch to another version of this page easily. i think about using javascript [written in separate file], if it is possible.
is there a code meaning "the name of this file"? so that i could write "../nameofdesireddirectory/" before it and have a link to the file with the same name but placed in another directory?

could you help me?
thanks in advance! :)

Source: http://community.livejournal.com/javascript/101546.html