Posts by Dani

I am one of those odd people who thinks that the value of a business has much less to do with how much is currently being made and much more to do with future potential and what the new buyer can do to it with little effort.

For example, a site can be getting millions of visitors but might not be well-monetized and making practically nothing. A buyer can slap Google AdSense up on the page and instantly earn a five figure a month income (on a site that was previously bringing in $0/month) with about 3 minutes worth of effort.

Hi! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

Highlight the text and then use the top left icon of an A with an X through it to strip color away.

Hi and welcome!

*ping Davey ping* <= he'll have to answer this one for you. I don't work with the blog section much.

This isn't necessarily a bug ... it's more or less intentional ... or rather, IMO the lesser of two evils when the choice is between this and just throwing in extra spaces in between a very long word every X characters (which can cause a problem with file paths, URLs, and other such things in thread titles).

Because the right sidebar layer is on top of the middle content layer, double-clicking on the arrows is actually like double-clicking on the right sidebar. And you know what happens when you double click on a paragraph of text: it all gets selected.

I can't help unless I see the entire page to see what might be pushing the content. Can you take screenshots of the entire page top to bottom?

The problem is due to a particular thread title that is all one word (such as a long URL) which stretches out the thread title column of the table too much.

For anyone who is afraid to do this ... it's worth it, don't be scared. Only 8 days later, all of the new URLs are appearing in google's index, and there has been no noticable decrease in traffic. I'm happy :)

This is the page to edit your member profile: http://www.daniweb.com/forums/profile.php?do=editprofile

This is the page to edit your member options:
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/profile.php?do=editoptions

Frames? I don't think the CSS loaded fully for some reason.

Huh? What was merged? I'm confused still. Sorry.

Referrals, you say? You're just dying for me to say affiliate programs, aren't you? Alright then, I will: affiliate programs.

Google also wouldn't include links to X-rated sites in emails they send out :)

To be honest I think the email you received is a phishing email (spam). 301 redirects are perfectly safe and won't get you banned. Google is not going to randomly send an email out to sites that are banned unless it's a reply to a query you emailed them. Also, if your site really is still in google, then you're not banned.

Randomly? Aside from eing off to the far left, that page doesn't look right at all. Could you send me a screenshot of what a DaniWeb page usually looks like to you in Opera? Thanks! (I don't have access to that web browser to test)

Do people not have the right to live? The right to food and water and air? This could sooo easily turn into a conversation about capital punishment and abortion but I'd much rather not go there.

I'm not sure what you mean? All posts are there. And posts go live as soon as they're posted so nothing is ever "pending"?

> I kind of stopped after a while because i felt my pc was slowing down.
You can set it up as a screensaver so it only works when you're not using your computer.

> pressed Search it changed the selection to "Entire Site" and produced a list of 3 pages
This is by design.

> But it will display only the first page even when I select one of the other two pages.
I fixed this bug. Thanks!

Yeah, it's preg_replace, not oreg_replace. Also read up about regex (regular expressions).

It's a well-known IE6 bug. There is a JavaScript workaround but the extra bulk is not worth it to me since FireFox is unaffected and the bug has been corrected in IE7.

He was already in jail for 5 months.

I'm very sorry about that! It was moved into the Web Design sub-category:

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum143.html

I don't think you have to worry about technology and software would give you anything to worry about - they are similar enough topics. I would start to worry when you're advertising for a shoe store :)

This might be what you're referring to (done with JQuery): http://jquery.bassistance.de/accordion/

We have never had such a forum to avoid targeting the teenage / gamer type, instead trying to focus on reaching and attracting professionals with careers in IT. However, such discussion would be welcome in the Geeks' Lounge.

Safari, which is now available for Windows too, is CSS3 compatible. I suspect the other browsers out there will be rolling out their own CSS3 versions in the somewhat near future.

Google supplemental results have been around for a very long time (at least from what I can remember). Their purpose is to have a place in Google's index for webpages that don't have enough inbound links, etc to be worthy enough to be in Google's regular index.

Make sure you have a lot of inbound links to all different pages throughout your site (not just your homepage), and make sure you have a solid linking structure and navigation among all your pages.

> If people don't want their information displayed on your site
What information? You can always delete any private information about yourself in your control panel.

3-way links :)

Check out www.jquery.com - it's the Javascript library that DaniWeb uses.

why change it when it worked ? as the old saying goes "if it aint broke dont fix it"

All the same reasons why we ditched the techtalkforums.com domain name ... too long-winded, etc.

I took the big plunge and finally got up enough courage to do what I've been wanting to do for a very long time now ... rename /techtalkforums/ to just /forums/. I've set up 301 redirects and updated my Google sitemap. Is there anything else that I should to to make sure I'm good to go?

> I think that's it for current monthly contributions anyway!
What about DaniWeb?!

Over the years, DaniWeb has migrated from YaBB SE (the predecessor to SMF) to phpBB to vBulletin. I couldn't be happier with vB.

Personally I think that $160 is well worth the time it would take to do a migration if you have plans of upgrading in the future.

I use phpbb because of the easy to use interface and best of all NO ADS

What do you mean no ads? Do you mean that it's free software you can download? Other similar software would be SMF, for example.

I think that a key element is to offer different ways for members to interact. On DaniWeb, there are the forums, social networks in member profiles, blogging, an irc chat network for live communication, etc.

Unfortunately live DaniWeb meets have yet to come to fruition. :(

A couple of weeks ago I got an email request to delete a member's account. I replied with a whole explanation of why DaniWeb doesn't allow membership deletions, and I suspect this will be useful to other forum owners as well:

Hi,

DaniWeb is an interactive community where content is generated and published by our members. While there are obvious benefits to this, there is also a high frequency of abuse. It's important to keep records of all members who register to ensure that a member who has been banned for violating our rules doesn't ask us to delete their account and then re-register, etc. (With 150,000 members, it's impossible to keep track of everyone, so one staff member can ban them, and they could ask a different staff member to delete their account).

Additionally, we are required by law to keep records of all members who we have sent email to in the past, even if they have currently opted to no longer receive any emails from us. For example, suppose you claimed that we spammed you and you never registered on DaniWeb. Because spamming is illegal, we're required by law to always keep proof that we're not spamming and that you really registered with us by keeping on record the email address you used when you registered, the time you registered, your IP address, and your activation ID # (proving you confirmed your email address by clicking the validation link that was emailed to you). …

Nevermind ... it's just really late :)

Huh? I'm confused.

Cool :)

Are you referring to three-way links or just how two sites can reciprocal link to different pages?

I know what you mean but I don't do it the way you're thinking. :)

> can you tell us how its done, dani?
AJAX, if that makes you happy. :)

Actually it's not AJAX :)

It works fine for me. Additionally, the thread has like 250 posts, which is an indicator that lots and lots of other people can view the thread fine. :(

I think that a big part of the reason why non-native English speakers talk in 1337 speak is because they learned English by using the Internet. They learned based on what they see in chat rooms and forums, not realizing it's not proper English.

The reason you're not going to get many responses is because your question is too broad. There is no miracle way to suddenly get traffic to a new site, and if there was, the person who knows it isn't going to spill the beans :)

Put a link to your site in your forum signature and post here and on other forums that have your target audience. Do link swaps. Submit to link directories. Set up a Google sitemap. Read read read :) Lots of good tips throughout these forums.

With a lot of hard work, it IS possible to grow a site from scratch without a financial investment out of pocket. I did it with DaniWeb.