WebDevelopForum All posts http://www.webdevelopforum.com/index.php Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:01:51 +0000 1 universally acceptable website http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/398-universally-acceptable-website/ that is universally accepted. on the otherhand if the site is catering to needs of the niche
audience then the site can be designed according to the niche audience expectations but if a site
needs to be global then let it to be according to the expectations.]]> Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:01:51 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/398-universally-acceptable-website/ What takes a website to its intended audience http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/397-what-takes-a-website-to-its-intended-audience/ the online competition, the website still fail to pickup and stand up to
the competition. Well even now there are still websites that don’t follow
certain standard practices that makes them to feature in search engines.
When a website is developed everything should be done that takes it to
the intended audience.]]> Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:59:57 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/397-what-takes-a-website-to-its-intended-audience/ Free PSD Template http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/396-free-psd-template/ Internet is more and more becoming a place where things are shared this is another example, take a look at it,web design fan dot com Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:39:02 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/396-free-psd-template/ lets go back to basics http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/395-lets-go-back-to-basics/ while some sites has been trailing on sucess ride other sites do not even come in the race, well a study says that sucessful websites have greatly focused on the primary purpose of the website this is quite important because a site which is centered around its primary purpose greatly ranks in the usability features. Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:40:12 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/395-lets-go-back-to-basics/ Rhinoe. http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/364-rhinoe/ Posted Image

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Hey everyone,

Could anyone critique my WIP logo, please? Any comments would be appreciated :)

Many thanks,
Gareth]]> Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:02:45 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/364-rhinoe/ HTML5 Video Players http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/362-html5-video-players/
What do people think about the new players? Will you be joining the betas?

(http://www.youtube.com/html5)]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:24:41 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/362-html5-video-players/ League Gothic http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/361-league-gothic/
Just wondered what free fonts all you designers recommend!

I've recently downloaded the League Gothic font found at http://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/fonts/7-league-gothic. Amazing font!

Posted Image]]> Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:22:24 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/361-league-gothic/ jQuery 1.4 is out, and damn, what an improvement! http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/359-jquery-14-is-out-and-damn-what-an-improvement/
http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2010/01/15/jquery-14-performance/]]> Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:16:27 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/359-jquery-14-is-out-and-damn-what-an-improvement/ HTML Emails http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/357-html-emails/
A bit of Googling helped me find the following "cheatsheets".

Style elements support in email clients: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/
Unnecessary Elements in HTML Email (Source: www.pageresource.com - currently down, but could still view through Google Cache)

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Unnecessary HTML in Your Email
In this chapter of our continuing discussion on HTML email, we are going to talk about the different elements which are not really all that necessary in your mailings.

The following are not necessary for HTML email and should be stripped out before you mail. This will reduce the overall size of your mailing and increase the speed in which it is delivered, rendered, and received by your customers. While this may not seem like a big deal for a hundred piece mailing, imagine send 5 million or so emails in a single day.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
All Meta Tags, including Refresh Cache & Pragma
Many systems will disable some of these by default, however when Outlook receives a refresh command it will merely display blank content in both the preview and open message. Web-based systems will usually only display context taken from between your <BODY></BODY> tags.
<TITLE></TITLE>
The subject section of your email message takes care of this element.
Long comments or commented -out sections.
<!--Nuff Said-->
Programs that export to HTML
Dreamweaver, FrontPage, or Adobe - Any references to extensions, styles, or Fireworks/Image Ready tables. This is most common with Front Page extensions, which reference IE only styles quite often. If you have a document which uses a library item, such as Dreamweaver, you will have to break the library item apart and insert your code as raw HTML in order for your mailing to work correctly.
Redirects
Since many Web-Based email clients place their own redirects on your links (for whatever neffarious reasons..we cannot say) if you place your own redirects on urls, turls, or query strings, they may break, or show up as plain text in the middle of your email.
Extraneous Style Sheets
Make sure if you use style sheets, only the elements you will be using for a particular mailing are included. This helps cut out bulk & unnecessary code from your mailings. This is most often found when a mock-up contains the entire style sheet for a website, rather than the styles used in the mailing. While this may not seem like a big deal for a couple hundred emails, it adds up if your doing, let's say, a Million emails in a day.

So a simple example for extraneuos style sheets would be if you had 100 lines of code to define 25 styles from your website, but you were only using one style for your HTML email. You could either mark up the style in HTML code, or you could just define one style and apply it to the entire email.
Special Characters
You must be mindfull when you use special characters in you HTML email. Special characters include those which must be generated through an escape sequence (ex: © = © in HTML) and many email browsers will have some trouble reading them.

One character sequence to be especially careful of is the non-breaking space character (  ). Many WYSIWYG editors (like FrontPage & Dreamweaver) have fallen in love with this character.

Furthermore, many WYSIWYG editors use the Non-Breaking space to wedge open <TD>'s. These will usually close up when viewed by the majority of Netscape browsers. A spacer GIF should be used when you absolutely have to keep a <TD> cell open in order for your design to work.
]]> Wed, 20 Jan 2010 10:41:57 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/357-html-emails/ Forum Design Critique Please! http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/351-forum-design-critique-please/ Posted ImagePosted Image]]> Wed, 13 Jan 2010 00:21:32 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/351-forum-design-critique-please/ WebDevelopForum has 2 new administrators! http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/349-webdevelopforum-has-2-new-administrators/ ]]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:39:24 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/349-webdevelopforum-has-2-new-administrators/ Mark As Read http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/347-mark-as-read/ ]]> Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:05:53 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/347-mark-as-read/ Server Performance and Security http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/345-server-performance-and-security/
Looking for some lengthy answers here. Basically what are your views in general on Server Performance and Security. What issues do you think there could be with both of these, and how can they be defended against?

For performance, things I had in mind that can be part of a servers performance is the type of hosting the website has, higher demanding websites will require more from the server, if there server isn't a dedicated, or doesn't have the power behind it to cope with the millions of queries running on it, the performance will suck.

For security, I was thinking of things like software patching, vulnerabilities in code, operating systems in use (and their weaknesses and patches) and weak security (brute forces, injections etc..).

These are kind of things running through my mind. What's your opinions on the things I've listed, and what ways would you go about defending against them.

Look forward to seeing what you have to say.

:)]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:03:20 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/345-server-performance-and-security/ Cookies/ Keeping logged in http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/339-cookies-keeping-logged-in/ Anyone else had this problem?]]> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:31:55 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/339-cookies-keeping-logged-in/ HELLLLLLO? http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/335-hellllllo/ Anyone here?! Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:53:19 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/335-hellllllo/ What book(s) are you currently reading? http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/333-what-books-are-you-currently-reading/
A recommendation from me would be: The Magic of Thinking Big - by David Joseph Schwart. Really motivates you, in a way that I thought a book wouldn't be able to. :)]]> Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:55:56 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/333-what-books-are-you-currently-reading/ Links in Posts http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/328-links-in-posts/
I think its kind of annoying when you're reading a thread and it takes you to another site when you click a link.]]> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 18:46:10 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/328-links-in-posts/ Happy New Year! http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/327-happy-new-year/ ]]> Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:58:13 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/327-happy-new-year/ Nested sets http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/325-nested-sets/ http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/hierarchical-data.html

After reading it all, it looks pretty clever! Thought I'd share the link for programmers that aren't familiar with this yet, I might just start using this for all Hierarchical Data. The idea behind it is not to use nodes like some of you might already be use to doing, but to use containers instead.

Also a good link on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_set_model

I will keep you all updated on my progress and share my completed test code & database. Who already here has experience with nested sets and what's your opinion on it?]]> Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:44:47 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/325-nested-sets/ jQuery XML problem http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/324-jquery-xml-problem/
What the XML looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ping>
    <pong>Hello world</pong>
</ping>


What my jQuery looks like:
$(document).ready(function(){
    var userStatus;
    $.ajax({
        type: "GET",
        url: "/ping/user_status/",
        dataType: "xml",
        success: function(xml) {
            userStatus = $(this).find('pong').text();
            $('#userstatus').html(userStatus);
        }
    });
});


Any clues where I might be going wrong? :mellow:]]> Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:35:06 +0000 http://www.webdevelopforum.com/topic/324-jquery-xml-problem/