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[help] Coding help

2009-06-30 15:06:51

Hi guys, Using HTML 4/5, whatever, and need a bit of help with three things: 1) I'm using a table for some pictures and corresponding text. I'd like more space between the bottom of the wording and the top of the next picture, theorhetically using a height tag, but I can't find how to do it without adding a dozen tr /tr tags. 2) My site, simple as it is, has two pages. When you're on the second page, the URL stays the same and if you hit refresh it goes back to the index page. How do I get it to a) list the proper page in the address bar and b) refresh to the same page? 3) How can I code it to clear the cache every time? Thanks to anyone who can help me with this :D Edit: My bad, the site is http://www.bclphoto.com -- "While you can teach an old dog new tricks, you simply can't teach him to be a cat." "Are you my Mummy?"

cellphones, or the art of small screen friendly sites

2009-07-04 12:17:22

The other day someone complimented me on my website(the one in my signature). I laughed and was confused, since this is little more than something I threw together in a text file and added CSS to. I'm no web designer and it shows in the hideousness of the site. When I asked what made it good, he said it was the only one he found that loaded well on his cellphone. My guess was since I know nothing about good web design I couldn't implement any fancy stuff that would cause weirdness on a phone browser. Since about half the people who view my site and call are doing it on either a phone or a machine with a cracked screen, this is important to me. Are there any rules of thumb or tips on how to make a website more cellphone/small LCD friendly the more experienced designers on this forum have to offer? -- Macbook repair in NYC

Sub-contracted software developer owning software ?

2009-07-01 00:13:51

I need some info. on what ownership info to ask for with a software developer. I'm hoping there are software developers here that can guide me...regarding owning and using software written by a sub-contracted programmer. Our company owner came up with a really neat idea for a small program. He had the idea, but not the expertise to write the program. I guess it can also be called writing the code? Anyway, he found someone to work on the programming for him, and progress is being made. He thought he was paying for complete ownership of the program, only to find out a little later that the software developer apparently wants to own the program. So far everything is verbal. So if the software developer wants to own the program, what is our owner paying for? Just being able to use the program? We have clients, that we want to install this program on their workstations, and eventually put this program on the market. So how much are we being controlled by the software developer, if they want to own the program? We want to own the whole thing, with all rights to the program. What should we have said or asked for right up front, when we asked this guy to write the program for us? We probably should have asked for a non-compete agreement in addition to owning the rights to the software? Would love to hear from software developers here or anyone, who has insight on what we should have asked for to begin with. We probably should have had some paperwork signed right at the beginning. Although it might be difficult to enforce agreements, when a programmer is half way across the country. Our owner may very well want to stop everything with the original sub-contract programmer, and utilize another programmer, who will not try to own rights to the program. Thanks for any info.

[Site Check] Mac specifically.

2009-07-03 11:36:31

I've been asked to help correct an issue on this page. http://rhcrealty.com/Our_Sales_Team.html Apparently under Tiger with Safari 3.0.4 the page is wide, causing the banner to start to repeat. I've checked a number of combinations (os and browser) and haven't been able to replicate the issue. Thanks. -- http://www.toddsplace.ca

Protect myself on a Paypal payment

2009-07-01 11:39:47

I'm doing some side jobs and will be getting paid through paypal. One concern I have is if the people I work with decide to 'screw me over' and try to dispute the charge or whatever. What is the best way to make sure I don't hand over the finished scripts and then the buyer just disputes it or does a chargeback and gets his money back and a free script? Thanks :) -- {Send Secure Notes Free and Easily} :: whisperBot.com

file upload

2009-07-03 11:38:35

ultimately what I am looking for is when I take a screenshot of an area, for the file to be auto uploaded to an image hosting site or my domain; any software out there that can do that? else I need my own solution: when you upload a file, say to upload.php like one found here: http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/file_upload.php one needs to open up a dialog and select a file from C drive... is there any way to include the PATH of file on C drive right into the GET of the URL? details: When I take a screen shot with Gadwin PrintScreen it is displayed in firefox as file:///C:/_S/ScreenShot_041.jpg or so I wish I could upload it easily - I could just make a reference to a custom "search engine" which is actually an upload script and thus just by prefixing the URL in the address bar with something like "upload" resulting in "upload file:///C:/_S/ScreenShot_041.jpg" what would be activated is something like myDomain.com/upload.php&uploaded_fil=file:///C:/_S/ScreenShot_041.jpg and file would be uploaded right away... hmm I can't even pre populate type=file with a value=* must be a security thing? security thing? correct? so it can't really be done?

Password Generation and exclusion of certain letters/digits

2009-06-29 19:54:54

We are running a website that provides for a password forgotten service. A new password is being generated to get the customer back in. Unfortunately some of the passwords are difficult to read/interpret with certain letters/digits looking very similar (1,l,L,i,I,J,0 and O) especially depending on the font used by the recipient. Just wondering how difficult it is to change the output for password generation to exclude those letters and digits?

Who wants to make an instant domain search w. me?

2009-07-01 19:36:51

Good day, It's been a long that I wanted to do an instant domain name search... much like the ones found here http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=instant+domain+search&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g%3As1g3 It's a matter of setting it up and letting it run... not like a day in day out support... I could make it (programming) on my own (except for a need to tap into how to obtain / update registered domain database from domain name registry...) but instead I am looking to collaborate with someone as the main purpose of the project; * this should be more fun then doing it on my own... * we could share ideas / learn from each other and come up with a better product in the end... * I find that I am more productive and responsible toward the project when doing it with another person... What do you think... Post here or PM me... Thank you...

Does There Exist Forum Software With These Features?

2009-06-23 23:35:30

From time to time, I've considered starting a forum. Yet, I would like to have certain features. It seems that both VBulletin and PHPBB have most of the features I'm looking for, but there's a couple features that I'm hoping exists and if either VBulletin or PHPBB have these feature, I haven't found it. Banning from Specific Forums: The feature is this. On a site with forums, there's generally multiple forums available. There's also often Moderators just for specific forums. So, is there any forum software that will allow the Moderator of a specific forum, to ban a user just from that specific forum, and not from the board as a whole? There is the option of having nothing but global, or super moderators. But if they ban a user, they'd ban the user from the entire board. Even if I did go that route, it would still be great to permit some folks to grant and deny access to specific forums, and only be able to for those specific forums for which they have permission, without Administrator intervention. Both VBulletin and PHPBB have something called Access Masks or user-specific forum permissions, but only an Administrator can alter those settings, and I can tell you right away that if I run a forum, I'm not going to want many Admins. Ideally, I'd be the only one. Or perhaps....maybe one other Admin. Non-Admins Setting Other Users' Passwords: Another feature I'd be looking for is to perhaps allow one or two Global or Super Moderators to change the passwords of other users, on top of any Administrators. I'd want that to be the only "Admin" function available to them, but no other Admin functions. VBulletin does have the ability to have a "partial Admin" if you will, or one with only certain abilities. But, if you grant the privileges necessary to change others' passwords, then you'd also grant them the ability to promote and demote other users, which I don't want. Whether PHPBB has this ability, I don't know. I'll have to look. I consider this feature important for a couple reasons: A) I can see a user signing up with a temporary e-mail account, making password recovery impossible. B) For whatever reason, I could be away from the forum for a few days. What if someone can't log in during that time? So I'd like it if there could be someone else who can help them. I would also be willing to consider other forum software, though it'd have to have these abilities.

page rank checker?

2009-06-30 15:42:50

can anyone out there recommend a decent page rank checker? thanks