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Alternative for non-Flash surfers?

2009-11-22 12:27:51

Was fooling around with creating some Flash banners, but they are a pet peeve of mine when used on a site in which they contain important info (such as a site banner) because I, and many, for security reasons surf with Falsh set to prompt and usually say "no" until I know the site. So it occured to me that there should be a way to have the browser show alternative content (either a text message or, even better, a static image of the banner) if the user has Flash off. So I started to fool around with this, and discovered to my surprise that if I put the alternative content within the or tags I use to insert the Flash, in IE, it would show perfectly if I checked with Flash off, and with Flash on, the Flash showed and not the alternative content. I was thrilled---til I checked in FireFox and found that FF displays BOTH---the Flash AND the alternative banner below it! So that won't work, with more and more surfers using FF. Is there another way to have alternative content show if Flash is off that works cross-browser? If it helps, here's the code I usually use to insert an .swf; I put the alternative content before the closing tag and also tried before the closing tag---both worked great in IE and didn't work in FF. -- The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. -- Stanley Kubrick

Search Engine Optimization

2009-11-21 13:09:23

Can someone please explain the idea behind Search Engine Optimization? How does one go about making a web site easier to crawl by the search engine crawlers? Do URLs have something to do with it? -- Tom

Anyone on the Google Wave invite list?

2009-09-30 11:05:04

Working in the 'innovation' group at a communications company, I'm intrigued by Google's latest communications tool; and would love an opportunity to see what it's capable of, and what sort of things we can develop on top of it. It might be a long shot, but is anyone here a member of the lucky 100,000 who received an initial Google Wave invite ... and willing to pass on one of their 5 free invites? If so, please drop me a PM or email. Thanks in advance! -SaskSurfer

Whats a good hash value size?

2009-11-16 20:53:33

I have 4 values 2x 32-bit 2x 16-bit. I am currently sudo hashing the two 32-bit values into a 64-bit value. Each hash links to a list where the data is actually stored. I dont think that this is the optimal setup because I am getting a very large hash table/list, and pretty small lists for the actual data. I am thinking a much smaller hash value would probably reduce my hash look-ups a lot. Probably something much smaller like 16-bits would actually be better. I dont have any way of really testing how it does when say there are 32k hash entries. -- sk_buff what? Open Source WAN Accelerator http://trafficsqueezer.sourceforge.net/

Bad code? Get an offset and forget about it.

2009-11-19 19:37:26

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Managing Mulitipule Affilicate accounts

2009-11-20 11:48:15

Hi, Is there a site or program that will allow me to manage multiple affiliate accounts? I'm signed up with about 20 affiliiate sites, and it takes forever to check them all to see if I have any money in them. Would be nice to have a service that shows me the balances of all the accounts on one page

Listing of CMS / Forums for Webmasters

2003-09-14 08:57:30

CMS - Portals AWF http://liquidbytes.net bes-cms http://bes.nerdzland.com DCP-Portal http://www.dcp-portal.org Drupal http://www.drupal.org/ E-Xoops http://www.e-xoops.com e107 http://www.e107.org eNvolution http://www.envolution.com ezContents http://www.visualshapers.com/ Geeklog http://www.geeklog.net LDU http://ldu.neocrome.net Mambo http://www.mamboserver.com myPHPNuke http://www.myphpnuke.com Ovidentia http://www.ovidentia.org/ PHP-Nuke http://phpnuke.org phpSlash http://www.phpslash.org/ phpWebSite http://phpwebsite.appstate.edu phpWebThings http://www.phpdbform.com PHPX http://www.phpx.org Postnuke http://postnuke.com PrattCMS http://prattcms.sourceforge.net Props http://props.sourceforge.net vportal http://www.vortexportal.net xaraya http://www.xaraya.com XOOPS http://www.xoops.org CMS - Blogs b2 http://wordpress.org Movable Type http://movabletype.org MyPHPblog http://www.myphpblog.org Nucleus http://www.nucleuscms.org pmachine http://www.pmachine.com CMS - e-Commerce Lizard Cart http://lizardcart.sourceforge.net MyMarket http://mymarket.sourceforge.net osCommerce http://www.oscommerce.com/ CMS - Groupware Moregroupware http://moregroupware.sourceforge.net phpCollab http://www.phpcollab.com PHProjekt http://www.phprojekt.com phpWiki http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net Tutos http://www.tutos.org CMS - Forums Beehive http://www.beehiveforum.net Invision Board http://www.invisionboard.com/ openBB http://www.openbb.com Phorum http://phorum.org phpBB http://www.phpbb.com Splatt http://www.splatt.it/ vBulletin http://vbulletin.com W-Agora http://www.w-agora.net XMB http://www.xmbforum.com CMS - e-Learning ATutor http://www.atutor.ca Claroline http://www.claroline.net Moodle http://www.moodle.org/ Segue http://segue.middlebury.edu None of the Above APB http://lbstone.com/apb/ Gallery http://gallery.menalto.com Owl http://owl.sourceforge.net Source: opensourceCMS -- Zhen-Xjell.com | My Secret Desires

Multiple tools that use cookie auth - single login?

2009-11-16 01:24:59

Conceptually, I can't think of any way to do this without somehow combining a bunch of tools into one, but perhaps I'm missing something clever. In short, I have a number of standalone php applications that already share a common auth backend (sql query) and all use cookie/session authentication. I would love a way to re-use that cookie across all these applications. That sounds like something that's not possible, but thought I'd ask... Thanks -- with every mistake we must surely be learning

Subversion dumping, retain properties?

2009-11-16 18:20:10

Hi all, When restoring a Subversion dump, does the dump contain properties information like svn:externals and will it exist in the new repo? Thanks!

Blogger vs. WordPress

2009-11-15 03:34:53

Right now, I've got my entire blog on Blogger.com. It's quite antiquated, since they had the FTP stuff (way before the "New Blogger") with widgets and such. There is also no way to move from the FTP version to the New version and still maintain my FTP-ness. So I've spent the last couple of hours moving to a test blog on the WordPress platform. This is fully hosted on my own domain & hosting package (like with the FTP Blogger version). Can somebody give me the pros & cons of moving? Which one looks nicer? I already know that if there's a theme update, it'll erase all of my customizations. Here are the two sites: http://www.gbcue.com http://www.testword.gbcue.com/ Thanks! -- My BLOG!Black Friday Ads