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Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 7th, 2008
Replies: 36
Views: 3,673
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Daniweb Vs DP

Thanks for the shout out, rixius.

I was intrigued by the revenue sharing concept, but it seems like the problems it creates outweighs the benefits.
Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 7th, 2008
Replies: 36
Views: 3,673
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Daniweb Vs DP

I took a look at their site and I agree with you Dani. There is a lot of volume, but not a lot of quality. And as you noted, the concept depends on an audience that already has an AdSense account.
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 636
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Where is the DaniWeb Hall of Fame?

Ah, are you thinking of using the new "social groups" functionality?
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 636
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Where is the DaniWeb Hall of Fame?

Hmmm.. interesting. Is there something in the new version of vBulletin that would make this easier or ??
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 636
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Where is the DaniWeb Hall of Fame?

Thanks for the quick reply! Now I know who I need to impress. ;)
Forum: Growing an Online Community Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 36
Views: 3,673
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Daniweb Vs DP

I don't know about DP, but from a philosophical point of view, is that a bad thing? I can see how some people might post just for the sake of making money, but if moderators do their job, wouldn't...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Mar 6th, 2008
Replies: 10
Views: 636
Posted By BigBlueBall
Question Where is the DaniWeb Hall of Fame?

I get the DaniWeb newsletter each month, along with an interview of the latest Member of the Month. The interviews all refer to this member being the latest member of the DaniWeb "Hall of Fame," but...
Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Oct 30th, 2005
Replies: 2
Views: 1,832
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: LAN Instant Messaging(Final Year Project)

Maybe you and bondito should team up. He posted very nearly the same topic (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread34689.html).
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Oct 30th, 2005
Replies: 18
Views: 3,516
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: New layout comments

Wow, this is a radical change! But once I got over my intial shock and poked around, I have to say it looks good. Nice, lean and clean looking. I'm not particularly enthralled by the curved corners...
Forum: Java Oct 30th, 2005
Replies: 2
Views: 1,392
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Instant Messaging System (Project)

I suggest starting by looking at an open protocol -- namely Jabber (http://www.jabber.org/). There are plenty of code examples and you'll have the added advantage of being able to add multi-network...
Forum: DaniWeb Community Feedback Jul 27th, 2005
Replies: 13
Views: 2,661
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: I love the new style

Actually, I love the new style as well. The new graphics might make the page a little heavy for some, but they look really great. Very nicely done!

The ads aren't overpowering -- they fit perfectly...
Forum: *nix Software Jun 25th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 1,533
Posted By BigBlueBall
Need help upgrading TCL 8.3 to 8.4

I have a Linux webserver with TCL 8.3 installed, and I need to upgrade to TCL 8.4 in order to install Eggdrop. I have installation instructions for TCL 8.4, but do I need to uninstall 8.3 first?

I...
Forum: Linux Servers and Apache Jun 19th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 1,743
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: mod_rewrite newbie needs a little help

Anybody here know mod_rewrite?
Forum: Linux Servers and Apache Jun 17th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 1,743
Posted By BigBlueBall
mod_rewrite newbie needs a little help

I'm trying to do a very basic per-directory mod_rewrite.

I have an old URL that points to a file that no longer exists:

http://www.bigblueball.com/im/msn/tab/default.asp

and I want to redirect...
Forum: Networking Hardware Configuration Apr 15th, 2005
Replies: 1
Views: 1,276
Posted By BigBlueBall
Problem with spam and spoofed email addresses

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum--Moderators, please move if appropriate.

I have a vexing problem with someone sending spam with fake "from" email addresses supposedly at my domain (i.e....
Forum: PHP Apr 15th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

You don't really need to make this work with multiple styles, just your default style.. Remember the purpose of this mod is so that search engine spiders will index the keyword-rich URLs this mod...
Forum: PHP Apr 13th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

This post (http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showpost.php?p=93824&postcount=58) addresses the question marks in thread titles. There is still a problem with forum titles that use question marks,...
Forum: Growing an Online Community Apr 5th, 2005
Replies: 81
Views: 15,558
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: What Forum Do You Use?

I've used Snitz (ASP), phpBB, IPB and vBulleting on different sites. I currently prefer vBulletin, mainly because it is very full-featured and there is a very extensive support network with great...
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Mar 31st, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 1,318
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: LAN intercommunication

Yep, MSN and Windows Messenger both use the Internet as a sort of switchboard to establish the connection, but once you've made the connection, you go PC-to-PC.
Forum: Windows NT / 2000 / XP / 2003 Mar 28th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 1,318
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: LAN intercommunication

You can use Windows Messenger on a LAN just fine, or you can use a commercial program like Trillian Pro (http://www.gotrillian.com/?98-20) which supports Apple's Rendevous protocol for LANs.
Forum: PHP Mar 9th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

Good suggestion! I'd also like to hear if anyone has ideas on the question-mark-in-forum-title bug.
Forum: PHP Feb 26th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

There's still a bug with forum titles that use a question mark. Any ideas?
Forum: Windows Software Feb 22nd, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 16,823
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Yahoo! Msnger Chat

Assuming you are in fact behind a router, have you opened up those ports?
Forum: PHP Feb 18th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

My changes are working on index.php for forum titles with question marks in them, but it's not stripping question marks from the nav. Any suggestions?

I'm also still trying to sort out changes...
Forum: PHP Feb 17th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

The fix I posted above strips out question marks, so the resulting URL now looks like:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f128-what-makes-you-laugh?.html (no more question mark).

Yes, it...
Forum: PHP Feb 17th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

I fixed the problem with question marks in the forum title. I had to make the following changes:

forumdisplay.php - Added regular expression to strip out special characters
// ################...
Forum: PHP Feb 17th, 2005
Replies: 238
Views: 71,879
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: vBulletin mod_rewrite

After reading the documentation, I concur that L and R do mean different things. But I don't understand why [L] would be better for SEO. In fact, according to the Apache documentation referenced, it...
Forum: PHP Feb 17th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

I found a bug. If the forum name has a ? in it, the resulting URL fails. For example:

http://www.bigblueball.com/forums/f128-what-makes-you-laugh?.html doesn't work.

I'm also getting...
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Feb 16th, 2005
Replies: 16
Views: 6,716
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Add management with Phpadsnew

Thank you so much Dani! That did the trick. I mistakenly assumed that the phpAdsNew generated invocation code would be correct. I guess the ? tripped it up. :)
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Feb 16th, 2005
Replies: 16
Views: 6,716
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Add management with Phpadsnew

Ok Dani, sorry for being so dense but I think I'm getting it.

Banner Settings
On the Delivery Options tab I set Source is equal to and supply the integer representing the forum I want the ad to...
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Feb 16th, 2005
Replies: 16
Views: 6,716
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Add management with Phpadsnew

Yes, I'm using vBulletin, but I'm a little confused on how to use the source delivery option to retrieve the forumid info. I thought source looked at the URL of the current page.
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Feb 16th, 2005
Replies: 16
Views: 6,716
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Add management with Phpadsnew

I would love to be able to serve targeted ads based on the source, but would like to do that not just for the forumdisplay, but also all topics within a given forum.

For example, if the forum was...
Forum: PHP Feb 16th, 2005
Replies: 131
Views: 37,154
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: [Revised] vBulletin Mod_rewrite Tutorial

Would it be fairly easy to modify this a bit so that the URL for topics also included the forum title, but make it look like a directory?

Basically, something like this:

...
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Jan 24th, 2005
Replies: 5
Views: 4,722
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Online Launch Party

The launch party went very well. The IRC channel was very busy all day, and has remained active ever since. I awarded everyone who signed the "guestbook" on New Year's Eve with launch party badges...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 11th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 6,323
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Help with inline lists for horizontal navigation

UPDATE:

It's all fixed now.

I had to add the margin and padding as follows:#nav-two ul {
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}Thanks again for your advice.
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 11th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 6,323
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Help with inline lists for horizontal navigation

Thanks Dave. It all validates now, but the problem persists. It appears that the problem is the "broken box model" used by IE, where padding and borders are inside the DIV boundaries rather than...
Forum: HTML and CSS Jan 10th, 2005
Replies: 6
Views: 6,323
Posted By BigBlueBall
Help with inline lists for horizontal navigation

I'm working on an update to my site header using no tables and lists for the navigation. It renders great in both IE 6 and Opera, but breaks in Firefox.

Here is a link to the test page:...
Forum: Advertising Sales Strategies Jan 5th, 2005
Replies: 16
Views: 6,716
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Add management with Phpadsnew

I still don't think Javascript is really "messy." :)

I see the option to specify a source. Does this work with the vBulletin querystring (i.e. f=127) or do you need to first install your...
Forum: Promotion and Marketing Plans Dec 31st, 2004
Replies: 5
Views: 4,722
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: Online Launch Party

We'll see. The convient thing is that it's always turning midnight somewhere in the world, so even if you have plans in the real world, you can join in the online celebration with other folks on the...
Forum: Growing an Online Community Dec 30th, 2004
Replies: 6
Views: 2,586
Posted By BigBlueBall
Re: How did you create the message for guests?

Along with the guest message (which is contained in the variable I mentioned above), new members with less than 10 posts see this message: I've searched and searched and finally found an excellent...
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