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May be yes. But I want to be dynamically and immediately notified of the online users for example. The one on the forum, we have to refresh and then have to scroll all the way down.

Lately, I was thinking of creating php script for my personal use. The script --> Using xmlhttprequest for dynamic update and cURL for processing the remote page, I would get some specific data from the forums index page, like the online users on trap, dynamically. And more stuff like the latest article (dynamically), top forum credit holders (@SM-> ) and may be even log the chats, so that at the end of the day I can find something interesting in there. All this things arranged neatly on a page. And if everything works fine and complies with the copyright issues of trap, how about converting it into Firefox or Opera plugin? Seems great/nonsense? May be both. But for a person like me who can be online the whole day but finds litle time to browse here, it is surely a god sent gift. I know it will be a lot of work like automatic logging and correctly targeting the required elements. How about if admins create one for us all. It would save all the hassles of an external script. This is a professional forum and overall its very huge. It really deserves such an application. Features this "would be" script would do: 1) Really, there are a lot of forums here. We have to scroll a lot to get to a particular section. And collapsing them wont work on next login. My simplest solution is to save the links of important forums and put that into the page Or bookmark. I still have more. But if you like it you may continue the list....

May be because you really have reached the limit! Did you have big files on server. Even 5mb? Because I had the same fate as yours with another host. I just waited, because they even temporarily closed my account. Kinda weird, Isn't it. After one month I quickly logged on to my cpanel to see what exactly happened. The first thing, I checked the logs. To my HORROR.... something called backstreet browser, a kind of bot may be, has repeatedly downloaded around 50 mb of files I had! That person would have really got that much speed to suck up the bandwidth in 5 days! .

If you want to trim down to 350mb and ready to shell 40 dollars then xplite is for you. This is what they say: I just told it because it was not in that article. But I saw something called nlite there. May be it is almost same as xplite. What I do: Apart from trimming, I disable most of the services(almost all) and still get out the os to working perfectly for me.

Joomla and phpbb3 are the best among thier respective categories. Also you can think of adding forum as a component for joomla! There are many I suppose. Just try them, if they doesn't fit your needs then you may choose phpbb3. But just remember that, it is very bloated with features. Are you hosting another Xisto forum?

Opening websites in iframes is allowed? Considering the complete link?addresses are shown above the link. And what about accessing those through xmlhttprequest and php sockets?

Even though they fall in the same category they are not suppposed to be compared. While Dreamweaver has always been in constant development whereas, Frontpage has been developed just for the sake of it.I was lucky enough to get a hand on Macromedia Dreamweaver version 1 (trial) from?oldversion.com.?The?download?link?now?has?been?removed.?I?must?say?that?for?the?technology?of?those?days(1997)?the?softwares?was?well?developed?with?even?a?bit?of?DHTML.Dreamweaver has best project management tools.I like the templating system as it helps for creating small websites and when we cannot use server side includes or php includes. The best part of it, it has the dynamic code insert function which saves me a lot of typing. Frontpage --> May be it would be useful for some beginners as it comes with default Office package. But even then freeware are better than frontpage.

Ugly??? Annoying??? It takes less space than your quick launch. And I don't think it annoys the user, it quietly sits beside the system tray taking about 10 px square area. Everything on desktop? Do you ever refresh while on desktop with tons of shortcuts? If you did then you know what it is. Now if you were talking all this just by seeing the images, I suggest you just try it. Now every new change takes some time to adjust and that's why you thought it to be ugly or something like that. I have the quick launch shortcuts like "Show Desktop" and "My computer". And everything else in my shortcut list and even organizing them in folder the way I like.

Are you bored at work today? Here's a small enhancement to your desktop. Hope you like it. I) When you have to open any program you have to click "Start" "All Programs" and then choose your selection from the programs folder. Now how would it be to achieve the same task in just two clicks? You can save all your favourite program shortcuts in a folder and view that through a tiny arrow near the system tray. Its very simple. You would tell, "Ya, I almost knew that". Here's how to do it. a) First create your folder and add the shortcuts you want to access. The folder can be anywhere as long as you know, where it is. I prefer the "Program Files" folder to save this folder. Press F2 to rename the folder. Now hold Alt key and press 255 in your Num pad (the keys at the right of your keyboard). Press Enter. The result-- the folder is renamed with no characters, its like as shown below: c) Next, right click the task bar (the bar at the bottom of the screen). In the context menu choose Toolbars-->New Toolbar. d) In the New Toolbar window choose the folder containing your shortcuts and press OK. That's it. You will see that there is a small arrow near the system to tray as shown below. When you click it a menu pops up containing your list of shortcuts. Isn't it cool? When you click, the whole menu pops up II) Most of you would be having "Show Desktop" icon in the quick launch menu. It is very helpful when you want to quickly come to desktop. Now how about a "My Computer" shortcut link next to it, so that you can open it at any time you wish no matter how many windows are open. Just drag your "My Computer" present on your desktop over to the quick launch. That's it. It would look like as shown below: These small enhancements will increase the efficiency of your work a bit. Don't you think so?

I got exactly the same message you have shown from the same sender. But the mail was thrown in the spam box by my hotmail account. It seems that the spammer is targeting the hosted members emails from the hosting applications. I have separate mail account for Xisto and till date all the spam messages were from fake persons claiming to be a lawyer and would want to share the money of his dead client and so on... It is evident that only these type of spammers are targeting emails from trap. Just thinking why don't the admins do something to clear of all those emails in the Hosting applications forum.

If you mind some software that would do the work for you, then I would recommend Renamer. I have used this utility in many similar situtations as yours. And this software is very useful to rename files in large quantities. Also it offers a variety of features like regular expressions and so on. Just check it to be sure if it works for you. Believe me, I myself didn't get the time to completely explore its features.

Can we use wildcards for file names in htaccess? What I mean is whether we can denote a file paths name to something like "/myweb/myfile-*.html" so that we ask the server to process any file with the name "myfile-COMPLETENAME.html"? Still didn't get the point? Consider a link linking to something like "/folder/". When a link like this is opened it will search for index.html or index.shtml and so on. To override this default behaviour we use the following code in servers .htaccess file: DirectoryIndex index.html article.html With this the server first searches for index.html in any folder and if it is not found it then searches for article.html to send it to the browser. Now the problem --> Assume this partial site structure: /tutorial-1/article-tut1.html/tutorial-2/article-tut2.html/tutorial-3/article-tut3.html...These folders neither contain index.html nor article.html. But as you see, it has files starting with "article". My question is whether we can use wildcards something like "article-*.html" in DirectoryIndex directive to tell the server to search any file which starts with "article-" with .html extension and display it when somebody opens a link to the folder? Patiently waiting for reply...

With Google Chrome Browser, web developers have been thrown extra work of testing and debugging. Although, I think Chrome would be supporting the latest w3c rules. And its open source nature can make good competition for Firefox (now, should I mention IE here!). But one thing is that, Google has been very bold to make its debut right in the middle of browser wars.Two giant opensource browsers competing. Something different. Don't you tkink?

Yes, I agree with you. All this was possible only because of people and those browsers who allowed people to code for it. Now if all the browsers were completely closed source like IE, we wouldn't have seen the innovations and creativity. From What you express is that, you want new face for web browsers. Even though the web is changing, there is nothing much to do in browsers, as they are limited by HTML and W3C. And when people, company want more features, compatibility, it has nothing else but to do with second browser war which has already started. Firefox: My opinion: The cosmetic changes is all that is taking me sometime to adjust with. I have no other issues as I don't use it for browsing but only to check compatibility of our webpages. Many people say firefox is nothing without plugins. Agreed! But FF's intention of focusing only on the core of its browser is what holds out. It is open source, there are tons of people to create plugins and update it for latest version. Moreover, I don't want to see FF loaded with all plugins. After all each person has different tastes and want to customize it the way they want, and FF kept my wish.

Sooo many questions!!! Alright, you are on perfect track on your setup with XAMPP! Although if I was in your place I would use PHP Fusion for beginners CMS. Its perfect, stable ( v7), Amazingly fast... First you should copy the localhost files of your cms to the server htdocs folder and the other files of Truppentool. Which ftp program are you using. Filezilla Ftp uploader would be fine. You would have better numbered your questions. Anyway I will give steps for your problem. Now for the database. You can use the PHPMy Admin. You can find in XAMPP default index. 1) select the name of database of your cms which you initially gave at the beginning. 2) Then choose export. There at the bottom, choose save to file checkbox. 3) Now save the text file which it produces to any directory. 4) Now in your Xisto cpanel, create the database (any name, I will give reason for it soon). 5) Now import the saved sql file form your computer. You will see that the database name has the format "username_yourdbname". 6) Now go to your server cms folder and find something like config.php. Open it and change your database details. Thats it. When you're playing with your locahost cms, my opinion would be to have another setup in your computer for that. For the cms on server, the htdocs folder contents won't change a lot (mostly images would be added). So at beginning one backup would be fine and then as per changes. And for database, you can take its backup almost all the time you can think . . Anyway, weekly backup would suffice. For databse setup check this article by OpaQue

I have something to tell in there. Once upon a time I was the person who installed a lot of softwares because I was getting lot of cds and dvds from magazine etc. Once you (un)install this much,?a?PIV-2.2?cannot?handle?it.?I?can?tell..?-?I?have?used?all?types?of?registry?cleaners?and?especially?Regtoy-X(freeware) which does extreme cleaning (Very Dangerous) and even Restructures the whole registry hive. Even after this I couldn't find any performance improvement. Also I am the person who considers?services running, defragmentation very seriously. Yes Animator you are abolutely correct, and thanks for pointing out. I didn't review my article. we have to copy(archive) the files too using another OS like SLAX(bootable cd), its really good. Ok now here I am with another method... How many of you have another windows OS apart from XP (you?can?do?it?with?only?xp,?but?I?fear?it?will?create?licensing?issues). Suppose you have win98 and xp, you can install 98 on C: drive and Xp on D:. This can be life saving particularly if you have poor hardware. Here, basically you work on xp. You can install software for web development like dreamweaver, Nuweb, php, apache etc. Then you log on to 98 and copy paste the whole xp partiotion to another folder. Now you can work on xp any way you like, ?installing themes,?meddle?with?registry,?because?if?anything?goes?wrong?you?can?log?on?to?98?and?delete?the?xp?partition and copy replace it with the copy you saved previously. Whats more.. like this you can have different versions like one xp for photo editing softwares one for browsing and one for....

I reinstall (restore) windows almost every 2-3 months. What about you??? Seeing the title some would say "I do it daily" and some others "How to reinstall?". Let's see the poll results. Linuxers, see you in other post. Reinstalling windows is a daily chore for the students studying computers. They have to switch a lot of softwares, compilers etc etc. Windows as we know, will not tolerate a whole lot of (Un)installations and will ultimately slow down the whole system. This is not the case with Linux. Just consider this, I installed Red Hat WS 3(the older version which was lurking around with me) a year ago, full installation (4GB). The boot time initially was terribly slow. Because by default Linux runs everything during startup, even the sendmail daemon(it takes around 10 seconds) which is not needed for normal use. Then I read articles about linux and disabled all those stuff. The change was just superb and still haven't reinstalled it. Back to windows.. I actually wanted to give you some tips on reinstalling windows. Especially the professionals, say web developers using dreamweaver, flash, local apache, php. They setup nice settings to suit there needs. After this why reinstall??? Forget those students, what if your system gets virus, ok you're using the anti*** but they don't always help. For example some days ago my system was hacked by some .scr scripts. The result, my whole folders in root of every drive(even C:) was hidden and also creating there respective blank folders(basically .scr extension with folder images). I knew it immediately because I always keep the settings "Show hidden files", "show system files", "show extension of known file types" checked. Amazingly the script took back its work after rebooting. But now I wasn't able to see hidden files and extension. It did all sorts of registry edits. I had to reinstall... Oops again off track, now back to the tips... Reinstalling Windows (The good way): First method:This one is a common one. You install some software like Norton Ghost and make up a backup of freshly installed system (Fresh windows with essential softwares installed) and burn it to dvd. Now whenever the system crashes you just restore it with dvd. Check those tons of articles for more info on this. Second method: I worked out this trick which I thought will never work. The basics are same you install fresh copy of windows with essential softwares like antivirus. Now you archive everything in your C: drive like .zip(it takes time) and either move the archive to another drive or burn it to dvd. NOw when odd thing happens you just pop in some live cd distros of linux which support the fat partition viewing and format the C: drive(you can use win cd's fdisk for formating) and restore it with the archive which you placed in other drive or dvd. Voila! Isn't that fantastic. It saves you money buying software like Norton Ghost. Any opinions, help request about this trick are welcome. If you don't want to reinstall windows there are some rollback softwares available which restore windows to previous state in case of power failure (hoping this is not your case) or other problems. There is also one software (anybody point out that please) which disregards any changes during a session including folders created or softwares installed. This one is very useful for internet cafes. That's enough from me. Now its your turn to tell everything you wanted to about this topic.

Yes, google should have done like this. By the way here is another one desktoptwo.com?but this one is purely flash based and it is really good. I have been using it for over two years since its beta stage. Features include playing of mp3 player from your web hard drive(they give you 1gb space to store any kind of files), blogging, website builder, IM, and lots more...Even if google starts to build one it would never come to top level any time soon,?because there are many other similar services too.

There is no problem with css code. Its perfect, I validated it. I didn't understand what you wanted to say. What content of adsense or adword you want to use and how? It would probably not effect google search. It depends on how the technique is used. I think google sees the structure to index and the structure contains the text. Ok, then I need to research about it. But the code, in strictest sense is not trying to fool it. What do you think? Thanks for bringing forth those important issues. Update: I just verified that even XHTML is perfectly valid and that to in strict doctype.

Ok I will do that. First your question: Ans: <span> part of the code with image makes the background image appear instead of the text itself. Basically here you are not styling alt text ! Actually you are not defining alt at all. because the image text is set as background using css. And hence it doesn't require alt tag and thus you are not violating xhml standards. You see that second line in css code: The image is assigned to span element, that is it stays as background for span. And also observe that it is inside h1 element, so by making the background size equal to h1 you are overlapping the text heading. Now always the image appears to the visitor. The text behind it sits tightly behind the image. And in the case if the image doen't download as when the user has disabled viewing of images then the styled text will be shown. I think you understood now. I will post a working example shortly. Update: I brought you the example(Click) as promised. (Don't blame me for that font, that was the only one I could find in my trash box). Just see the source code it has both css and html. I have given explanation in that itself, because you wont like bits of pieces of code here Now the instructions for what you can see in the page: 1) First view with images enabled in your browser. 2) Now disable images, If you are using Internet explorer go to Tools > Internet options... > Advanced. Here uncheck Show pictures. If you are using Opera there should a show pictures button, just click it to disable. In Firefox you can disable in Options, I dont know exactly, just check it. Now what do you see? Ans: Text headings. Important Points to be noted: The text can be styled using h1 selector. I didnt do, so as not to confuse you. When you are using this technique and when you zoom in, the text behind wont come out (as required). Dont use transparent gifs as the text would be seen. You can use this method for paragraphs (<p> tags) or whatever you choose. Dont just use it for just headings, you can try for navigation buttons. Talking about accessibility. It is friendly, but in the case when using for real images alt tag is best. As screen readers will clearly tell the alt tags content and describing the image. Now all that remains is to make best use of ..it. Help! Can anybody tell me having slow internet connection that whether text is shown first while image is downloading? I think it should as the span is inside h1. That explains everything. Any more doubts...

Example(Click) The concept behind this article came a few days ago when I was chatting in the shoutbox here. I was thinking about whether we could include fonts (.ttf) on server and with the help of some frameworks we could display text in browser. Unfortunately, after much chatting and pleasing google (it just didn't show any mercy that day), I finally understood its not possible. I actually wanted headings (h1, h2... you get it?) in a webpage to use a nice font which I have. The problem is visitors won't have that font installed in thier system. The second idea was to convert those headings to gif. The alt attribute to the image in case of text browser or browser disabling images would not look good (it's a heading right?). So, what I found at last was a technique using css. I am explaining that in detail here so you save time luring google to throw you the best Ok, I assume you know basic css. The idea behind this is to display the image (created using unknown fonts) in the place of text. In addition, you want the text to be present behind the image so that it becomes visible only if the image fails to download or the user disabled images shown in his browser. The trick is, I placed an empty span inside a heading. I relatively positioned the heading so child p elements can be absolutely positioned relative to it. I assigned a background image to the span and absolutely positioned it in front of the text in the heading element. I sized the span and the heading to accomodate exact size of the background image. The end product is that the background image of the span covers the text in the heading, and if the image fails to download, the styled css text is shown in the heading. Now!!! Is there any better way? So, Here's the HTML and yes it is legal w3c: and here goes the css: Just remember the width and height should be same for both, replace those numbers with yours. And for the validity of code, I only processed in my brain while writing, please post any mistakes if any. I would put the end result if you want and if I too get the time. Using_image_fonts_in_webpage.html

Talking about <font> tags, I think we should?never?talk?about?about?it?in?future.?It?is?now?just?a?relic.?Its?officially?discarded?from?html5?and?finds no?place?in?any version of xhtml.?<font>?is?purely?presentational?and?it?makes?the?code?look?horrible!?Css wins over it any situations. In past people complained lack of support for css in brosers, bu now what even IE 6?has?more?than?enough?support?for?it.?css?is?easy?to?maintain.??I?am?surely?for?the?css. Even beginners should not be taught about font tags. Most often they would just confuse with?its?code?in css. Ok if you are talking about changing specific attributes for text do it via css why you want to go for font tags. I only use css no matter what. In hml of course i sometimes use those codes but only for testing purposes, as you already told it is easier.

Well, almost all of you would have experienced redirecting pages while you were downloading something on the net. Redirecting users to new pages is a fact of life when programming dynamic websites. The primary reason is that you often need to redirect a user after making session state changes. For example, when you add an item to a shopping cart, you want the user to go to a page such as the current shopping cart, and you don't want to add another one of the same item to the cart again if you reload that shopping cart page. The same case if you developed guestbook where page refresh can lead to multiple posts. And in other case if a user came from search engine and the page was moved you still want that page to be accessible. Most sites achieve this with a script that processes the state change and then redirects to the page that they want the user to see. There are essentially two ways to do it: First Method: (preferred and best way) This method uses the HTTP Location header, like this: The header() function sends raw HTTP headers to the user's browser. Therefore, you need to do this before sending any other output to the browser, just as you would when setting a cookie. There are two advantages to this method. First, it is instant, and the intermediate script does not appear in a web browser's history. Second, because it is HTTP based, it does not require a web browser to process; automatic web crawlers and programs such as wget understand it. Second Method: However, if you would like to show an intermediate page to the user with a delay, you need to use a different method that uses the HTML <meta> tag. It's pretty simple; to send a user to a different page after displaying the current page for five seconds, put the following in your HTML header: All web browsers understand this, but automatic page crawlers sometimes do not. In addition, this intermediate page will show up in the user's browser history. Beware, page refresh in meta tags may be considered spam by search kings like google and yahoo. Redirection's use when shifting domains: Ok, so you were using a free subdomain like .co.nr or others. You have developed your site well, attracted some good traffic, and even probably earned some money through advertisements. You are now thinking to buy a cool .com domain. Yes! you even masked your .co.nr address to just show the same link in every page so that when you change domain your old links just dont throw page not found error on visitors face. But wait! What about the traffic which you would be recieving on the old address. If you were using a .co.nr address you had to show thier ad link on the first page, but you have your own domain right? So, the first idea of directly updating your .co.nr address to the new domain is not nice at all. So you already know that you can use a page in between containing "This site is being redirected to new address" and redirect after five seconds. But .co.nr people are smart and wont allow you to do this neither direct redirecting using php method. In addition to bots they manually check the users subdomains. So what you can do??? Simple. Just create an exact replica of your main index page and add the ad link which they want you to show. Change every link on that page with thier respective address in your new domain. Now link this page to your old .co.nr address. That's it. Now your visitors coming from new domain won't be seeing any .co.nr ad link. And in the process also taking care of the visitors from the old address. Also you can host this page on your current host and can even add a statistic logging code to this page to see how many people from which place are still coming through your old address. These things would not have been possible if you directly linked to your new address. Was it? I have seen majority (even myself) of people using .co.nr domains and this may be the only method you would use for this major change.

Sorry I couldnt understand that sentence. Normal one means??? I selected yahoo (selected from majority) for recieving mails from my contact form. And also because I use Opera and hotmail just doesn't work in that, even though everything looks cool as you login but after that you can't open any messages. Hotmail doesn't even atleast tell that if my browser isn't supported. Anyway, I decided I will settle with Yahoo.

electriic ink, I really couldn't believe that this page was indexed in just one day. And that quote, I wasn't talking about this forum, but was talking about cms in general.Thanks a lot for your reply, I was almost abolishing the idea of giving neat names to files. And to point out search users will be more attracted to clean names?(I?myself?was?when?I?looked?at?those?two?at?the?top)?rather?than?some?cryptic?code?urls.