Questions tagged [websites]
Questions about software development for a web site.
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When to use PHP or ASP.NET? [closed]
I have worked extensively in developing web applications using PHP and ASP.NET, but one of the questions that I'm constantly asked by customers is whether to move forward with a php website or an asp....
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What is the best way to design a web site to be highly scalable?
For websites that need to be highly scalable, such as social networks like facebook, what's the best way to design the website?
Should I have a web service which the site queries to get data that it ...
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Is having your own website important? [closed]
How necessary or important is it? I try to keep a running list of blogs or sites to follow, but a lot of the time I pull up someone's profile and notice there isn't anything there. Is it really ...
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Should you always program server side for a website?
I'm about to start creating a music project website for a friend. It should be pretty simple for now: no dynamic content (tour dates, etc.), and nothing more than a few embedded sample songs or ...
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My software is hosted on a "bad" website. Can I do anything about it?
Edit: Thanks for all of the answers, guys! I think I'm just going to include some kind of text on my webpage telling users to only download from the links provided. The thing is that there have been ...
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How can you learn to design nice looking websites? [closed]
I am a moderately capable web developer. I can put stuff where I want it to go and put some JQuery stuff in there if I need to. However, if I am making my own website (which I am starting to do) I ...
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Providing friendly URLs for a website vs. realities of database IDs
We have a database of resources, be they products, blog posts or something. We need to design a URL scheme to address them, for the public website.
Here are two examples that are database ID bound:
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How to learn Agile as a Solo Developer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What good book shoud I buy to learn Agile from scratch?
It seem that Agile for the solo developer is a good idea.
But how to learn it?
Is there any good book, web reference ...
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Alternatives to OAuth?
The Web industry is shifting / has shifted towards using OAuth when extending API services to external consumers & developers. There is some elegance in simple....and well, the 3-step OAuth ...
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How do you update live web sites with code changes?
I know this is a very basic question. If someone could humor me and tell me how they would handle this, I'd be greatful.
I decided to post this because I am about to install SynchToy to remedy the ...
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Has anyone ever claimed a warranty on an SSL certificate? [closed]
SSL certificates often advertise varying amounts of warranties or guarantees, for example $500,000 or $1m.
My question is, in the history of SSL, has anyone ever actually successfully claimed one of ...
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In a legacy codebase, how do I quickly find out what is being used and what isn't?
I've been asked to evaluate what appears to be a substantial legacy codebase, as a precursor to taking a contract maintaining that codebase.
This isn't the first time I've been in this situation. In ...
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My client wants me to add background music to a site. How do I tell them this is a terrible idea? [closed]
I'm having a rather Oatmealesque experience with a particular client's website. The latest 'feature' they have requested is that background music play automatically when the site loads. What should I ...
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How Do News Websites E.g. Forbes / Zdnet Seamlessly Merge One Webpage into Another?
If you go to E.g:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/06/12/why-technology-has-to-be-continuous/
OR
http://www.zdnet.com/article/if-you-want-those-cool-ios-9-features-its-time-to-buy-a-...
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Is there a universal date format that anyone in the world can understand?
In Canada, everyone is familiar with the date format YYYY-MM-DD. In Europe or South Africa, they prefer DD-MM-YYYY. There are users from South Africa who get confused with the YYYY-MM-DD date format....
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Why are requests for static content being sent to another site?
Whenever I login to stackoverflow or some sites I see lots of requests for sites like http://cdn.sstatic.net/. Why is this done rather than serving directly from the actual site? How does it help to ...
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Good at Backend, but bad at front end
I want to start web development, I have been learning php.
I have experience in Java, Python, and C++
This experience has made me good at the back end side of web development.
But I am terrible at ...
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Are breadcrumbs still a viable way to navigate web sites and web apps?
I'm currently working on the following types of web sites and apps:
ecommerce like Amazon
Reservation system (think of a hotel receptionist checking rooms availability)
Invoice management like ...
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Should we compile our website to a single dll, or a dll per page?
We're developing a new project that is to be deployed on a large number of client sites.
The project contains a web-based GUI as one of it's "access points".
Speed of the web interface is a priority ...
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Should I parse XML on the server or provide a proxy and let the browser parse it?
I need to interface with a 3rd party API. With this API I make a GET request from within the end user's browser and receive an XML response. This data is to be used in a browser based application ...
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Where to master HTML, CSS and Javascript? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What should a developer know before building a public web site?
I gotten interested in web-development lately. I am still a student. I learnt basics of HTML, CSS and ...
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Why do modern websites still insist on archaic username/password requirements? [duplicate]
I was signing up for a website last night, and once again was greeted with the fact that my username cannot contain certain characters (including spaces), and neither could my password.
Is there a ...
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Who should write the test plan?
I am in the in-house development team of my company, and we develop our company's web sites according to the requirements of the marketing team. Before releasing the site to them for acceptance ...
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Why is it so hard to find anything on MS site? [closed]
I have always had this question in my mind and I would really be happy to get an explanation for this.
Is it only me or do you also feel the same way that it's hard to find anything on MS site.
For ...
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What are the differences between a website and a web application?
How do you differentiate a web application from websites? It's language/platform agnostic.
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How will we be able to produce websites without using cookies with the new law? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I comply with the EU Cookie Directive?
Under this new EU law we are not allowed to use any cookies without asking first,
I for one need to use a cookie to register ...
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Math model for a webpage layout? [closed]
While web-programmers surely know CSS/HTML rules by heart, and web-browsers have algorithms to render web-pages, what interests me whether there are any mathematical/theoretical models or at least ...
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Percentage or Pixel for layouts?
What will you use for a webpage layout? Percentage or pixels?
When should one use one over the
other?
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is GAE an infrastructure capable of hosting an app used by millions of active users?
I would like to know with the restrictions of GAE listed below, is it even possible to build a great social app (like Facebook) by hosting that app on GAE?
In other words is GAE an infrastructure ...
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What is it called when a website URL replaces WWW with something else, and what purpose does it serve?
What is it called when a website has another word in place of where www usually goes? For example, images.google.com vs google.com/images. I know the latter is a file on the server that the browser ...
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Learning graphical design as a developer [closed]
I'm mostly a developer and have been offered a job as webmaster. It's likely that I'll be asked to make some cosmetic changes to a website every now and then.
Has anyone made this transition? If so, ...
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How to avoid micro management from a client? [Design Job]
Hello fellow designers, I need your help yet again.
As you all know from my last question that I am new to the design industry (and a recent graduate). This is turning out to be an obstacle in my ...
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When to use event.initMouseEvent for simulating mouse clicks?
I wonder if there are benign use-cases for simulating mouse clicks using event.initMouseEvent. I found that it is used for creating pop-under ads in the following way:
var e = document....
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Fluid VS Responsive Website Development Questions
As I understand these form the basis for targeting a wide array of devices based on the browser size, given it would be a time consuming to generate different layouts targeting different/specific ...
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Best practice to authenticate third party to a website?
I've a website built with ASP.NET, and uses Cookie based Forms Authentication to protect it self from unauthorized access.
It also has a REST based API which uses API key based Authentication. (Key ...
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What kind of image should be used in a web page? [closed]
I have a site that will have lots of images of large size. What is the best format that I should choose for displaying these images?
I need the website to load fast. I am jumbled with different ...
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How to legally protect yourself from malicious and/or dumb users?
When building a public facing website that allows visitors to post comments, link to media and/or upload media (e.g. audio, video, images) ... what should I do to protect myself legally in the case ...
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What is a programmer's role in error-checking text content?
As a primarily web-based programmer, a lot of my projects involve significant amounts of text content.
In my previous job, I frequently worked with a project manager notorious for his unwillingness ...
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What do you do about content when someone asks you to build a website
I am an experienced asp.net developer and asp.net mvc and I have my own CMS that I have written but starting to think there should be another approach.
When someone asks you to develop them a website ...
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Setting up and syncing a developer (local) version and a public version of a website
What is the best and most efficient way to set up two versions of the same website?
I want one version that is online and open for everyone to use but I also want a developer version where I can ...
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Http handler for classic ASP application for introducing a layer between client and server
I've a huge classic ASP application where in thousands of users manage their company/business data. Currently this is not multi-user so that application users can create users and authorize them to ...
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Overloaded high transaction SQL Server database Solutions
The current sql server database is overloaded and many transactions are failing. The powers that be have a proposed solution to build a separate database to handle/store transactions and then ...
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Testing of personal projects
I'm developing a web based personal project that will hopefully be used by thousands. Obviously prior to releasing it in the wild as Beta I was wondering, are there any communities out there that ...
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How to outsource the UI of a dynamic Web application?
I have a web application developed using Spring and Hibernate, which uses a REST API and Javascript to display and update content. The project is nearly completed, but I want to enhance the look and ...
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My work isn't being used... what can/ should I do?
Several months ago I was approached by a small business, who had seen my work previously and asked me to create a website for them.
Since then, the website hasn't changed one bit and I haven't heard ...
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How does a website like Mathway work?
I recently found a website called Mathway
Basically, it works by allowing you to choose your "level of math" (which it uses to determine what tools it should provide to you) and then allows you to ...
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How does having assets saved on a secondary domain(s) reduce the load time of the website?
I went for an interview yesterday where I was asked this question:
"How does having assets (images/videos) stored on a secondary domain (assets.example.com) reduce the load time of example.com?"
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Do logged in users need to browse a site over https?
I've never thought it was necessary, but a client has requested that all webpages served to logged in users be delivered over HTTPS.
Aside from the implementation standpoint, which I don't think I'm ...
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How to check a solution method submitted by a user?
I am developing a website somewhat like leetcode, however, it will be for website testing using Selenium WebDriver.My service will provide different websites, along with various tasks that describe ...
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How do I keep controversy in check?
I'm working on a new project votEm. The goal is to give independent candidates a platform to introduce themselves to get elected for a political office.
My main reason is that today, it's too ...