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Remove Filter  | If you read people's posts, you'll notice that some people have stars under their name. One star for every 1,000 posts the person makes. What I"m thinking of adding is a second ratng system that illustrates the number of posts a person has in the current forum. For example, Narue …  |
| | As you guys may already know, we have our own IRC network at irc://irc.daniweb.com - Visit [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/chat/"]www.daniweb.com/chat/[/URL] for more details. What I would like to do is start holding regularly scheduled chat sessions, perhaps monthly, or if the chat grows large, and I can get a bunch of people to …  |
| | I was just wondering what ad placements work the best for everyone. For me, a left sidebar skyscraper ad used to perform the best, but I'm running a right sky at the moment. A leaderboard beneath the first post of forum threads also did very well. |
| | What day of the week has worked out best to send newsletters or digets to your members? Right now I have them set to go out on the first Monday of every month. However, I'm wondering if Monday is not the best day because people are in the whole "back … |
| | I am currently running one script between two databases. This means that halfway through the script, I need to run [inlinecode]mysql_select_db()[/inlinecode] and then farther down in the code, run it again to switch back to the original database. My question, essentially, is if the overhead in doing this is hideously … |
| | I was discussing with NBF how I want to raise participation rates here on DaniWeb, and she pointed me to the following blog entry that she found: [URL="http://www.martinibuster.net/2006/06/growing-forum-participation.html"]http://www.martinibuster.net/2006/06/growing-forum-participation.html[/URL] She said it reminded her of me. So ... what do you guys think? Valid points or just BS? |
| | I've added some features to member profiles worth mentioning, in an attempt to add a social networking aspect to the site. The overview: Every member profile includes ... - a listing of the member's favorite forums (which forums they post the most in) along with how many posts they have … |
| | La de da de da ... I just haven't been able to get that out of my head all day. And you thought you folks who couldn't get catchy tunes out of your head had problems! I can't sleep either - way too addicted to the computer to pick myself … |
| | I just noticed from within the finder that the root of my drive has a file, with no extension, called 0, that is a 0 byte file. Does anyone know where this could possibly have come from and whether it's save to delete? It should be, no? I'm thinking maybe … |
| | Has anyone noticed disabling email activation upon registration resulting in a significant increase in new member activity? |
| | I currently use Zend Studio for Windows while I use XCode on my mac to do my php developing. However, it would be awesome if I could get Zend Studio's autocomplete and autosuggest featurs in XCode. Is there perhaps a PHP plugin for XCode that would let me do this? …  |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Add Administrative Tools to Your Start Menu[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=2]If you are an administrator to your Windows XP Professional machine, you might want to be able to perform administrative functions. Yet, it is sort of a hassle …  |
| | [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff][i][size=2][color=black][font=Verdana][color=black][i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i][/color][/font] [/color][/size][/i][/color][/size][/font][font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Make Sure Downloaded Files Are Easy to Find Later [/color][/size][size=2]With Windows XP, it's easier than ever to download software updates, games, sounds, pictures - just about anything. But sometimes it's hard to find them again … |
| | This is something new to me. Oh goodness! I think I figured out what dataware is talking about ([url="http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/showpost.php?p=70590&postcount=16"]in this thread[/url]). If you browse around Alexa's site, you'll notice colored boxes that represent the old style of Google Adwords boxes, labeled "sponsored links". When you click on it, it takes … |
| | Is it possible to have a particular 10.4 widget permanently docked on my desktop? |
| | How many forums is too many? Can you validate having 100+ forums if every one of them is at least getting a few posts per day? |
| | You've probably noticed page by page is changing over here! Well, I'm basically hand-editing ALL of the PHP code... stripping out unnecessary potions, condensing the HTML, etc etc etc ... I'm working page by page ... well, back to work I go! |
| | For those of you who pay close attention to your traffic statistics, how many pageviews does the average visitor view per session? (Remember, no site details, but it would be helpful if you included whether it was a blog, ecommerce site, forum, etc) |
| | How has April been for everyone traffic and revenue-wise? Pretty slow for me here but I assume it has something to do with spring break. |
| | A new feature at DaniWeb is the ability to use [tex] bbcode. I feel this is a necessary feature if our Computer Science forums are ever to succeed. However, I want to be able to include some links to tex tutorials in my formal announcement on this feature. Does anyone … |
| | ** CAN A MYSQLD EXPERT PLEASE HELP ME OUT ON THIS ONE ** I am having a problem with my MySQLd on db2.daniweb.com going through periods of 1-2 minutes every couple of hours where it refuses connections from Apache on web.daniweb.com. The error being thrown back is: mysql_pconnect(): Can't connect …  |
| | How important is keeping in contact with your members via email? |
| | Is it necessary to add the plural form of keywords into an AdWords campaign? In other words, would I need to have keywords: widget, widgets, blue widget, blue widgets, red widget, red widgets, etc? |
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| | From a usability standpoint, is it alright for a dynamic website to require the use of browser cookies in order to be fully operable (ie is it still necessary in 2006)? Or do messy session URLs still have a necessary place in Internet land?  |
| | Is SEO a big part of how you do business online? If so, stop! The number one piece of advice I could give anyone is to design and develop your websites for your target audience - for your users - instead of for the search engines. In fact, doing so …  |
| | I just found out about a shell script /etc/daily that mac users recommend running daily or weekly. It supposedly removes old system messages and junk. Does OS X invoke this script automatically every so often or must it be manually invoked? Is it very necessary?  |
| | There's a new feature for Google AdWords ... You can essentially pick various demographics you wish to target, and the system will create a list of Google Network sites that are popular with that audience. The demographic information comes from comScore Media Metrix.  |
| | For those of you who don't know, fink ([url]http://fink.sourceforge.net[/url]) is a debian-based package management program for OS X which ports a number of *nix programs to the mac. Using fink, I installed mc (Midnight Commander), my favorite terminal-based file management utility for linux. During the install, it told me it … |
| | As most of you know, Apple's Mac OS X uses a custom version of Unix (more specifically, a BSD variant). This makes much of the operating system feel like home to many Unix and Linux people. (For example, you can compile code using gcc, and have full acess to a … |
| | Hopefully there is a way to do this. But basically, I would like to use Panther's built-in firewall. It works perfectly, except I would like the other computers on my home network to be able to always go through the firewall, and have firewall rules only apply to machines outside … |
| | I'm experimenting with a new advertisement spot to compensate for the two new servers we had to buy this month. It's a Google text link spot and it's displayed below the first post of a thread. Does anyone have a big concern with it being there or is it pretty …  |
| | As some of you may already know, if you're not getting very relevant AdSense ads, you can use [inlinecode]<!-- google_ad_section_start -->[/inlinecode] and [inlinecode]<!-- google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) -->[/inlinecode] to direct the MediaPartners bot to focus on your content areas. Has anyone has a very noticable increase in AdSense revenue after implementing this? How … |
| | This is very strange. However, I can't get the [INLINECODE]overflow: auto;[/INLINECODE] and, more specifically, [INLINECODE]overflow-x: auto;[/INLINECODE] behaviors to work properly on any of the Mozilla browsers (Firefox, Camino) on an Intel mac and yet they work fine on a PPC mac and in Windows. Regardless of whether scrollbars are needed … |
| | [i]I found this in a few different places around the 'net - hopefully it's helpful:[/i] [font=Arial][size=5][color=#0000ff]Skip the Recycle Bin Confirmation Message [/color][/size][size=2]When you delete items by moving them to the Recycle Bin, Windows displays a message confirming the deletion: "Are you sure you want to send FILENAME to the Recycle … |
| | I apologize for the downtime we've experienced over the past couple of days. We were in the process of moving servers, and it's finally compete :) Sorry for any inconvenience, Dani |
| | I have an all-CSS drop down menu with a z-index set to 100. However, it still appears behind some form elements and flash advertisements. What can I do to fix this? Thanks |
| | I created a thread in the Viruses and Spyware forum earlier today giving recognition to a couple of the members who frequently post there, and it got me thinking. So now, below each thread listing is a table of featured members within that forum who deserve special recognition. It's solely … |
| | When is it appropriate to use KEEP ALIVE (persistent connections)? How come my Apache comes with this setting off? |
| | It's been said time and time again that one of the best ways to promote your website is to post in other forums and link to your site in your signature. Many other people, myself included, frequently visit various webmaster forums out there (such as this one) and ask for … |
| | Does anyone know anything about Google's payment system, which will operate as a PayPal alternative of some sort? |
| | For those of you out there who purchase text links for SEO ... Which works better for you? Sitewides or homepage / section specific links? For me, I've always had much better experience with sitewide links on relevant sites that generate a lot of traffic and have lots of pages … |
| | Up until a few days ago, DaniWeb has been run entirely off of one dual Xeon server. We just completed separating out Apache and MySQL into a web server and a database server, both identical Dual Core dual operon machines :) |
| | Has anyone had any luck with the AdSense Affiliate Program where you refer other publishers to AdSense and earn commission? Just about all publishers nowadays have heard of AdSense already, so I'm not sure how much potential it has. |
| | Do you think it's alright to have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to self-promotion, spam, or even the posting of any and all links - in a webmaster-oriented community (ie WebmasterWorld, DaniWeb)? On one hand, it seems good to have a black and white policy - and on … |
| | As community owners and administrators, we often have the least opportunity to actually sit back and enjoy our own communities. When we post, it's either to deal with some behind-the-scenes administrative issue, or for some other reason such as welcoming new members, getting postrate up, or the alltime favorite, keeping … |
| | How well do the google link bars work? Anyone with positive or negative feedback?  |
| | [b]Necessity for Repetition [/b]Loops allow particular segments of code to be executed over and over again. For example, suppose a program wants to keep doubling the value of a number until a boolean condition is met. Or suppose one simply wants code to execute a set number of times. Repetition … |
| | When using a third party ad server, do you use the IFRAME or JavaScript method? Usually the JS method is more robust and offers more features, but it can slow down page rendering times. Currently struggling with this battle right now. |
| | I always get asked this privately, so I thought I would take this time to share with you guys my views of banner advertising for once and for all. Basically, I feel that if you want traffic, that's what PPC campaigns are for. Banner campaigns are for branding, branding, branding! … |
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