Posts by Dani

Hi Nicky! :)

Hi! Welcome :)

What I've done with my site (The Friends of English Magic - about Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, the novel by Susanna Clarke - just in case anybody gets the wrong ideas about it being about English illusionists ;)) is to create a newsletter which I hope will be the first venue to release the very latest news on the book and film.

It also allows me to communicate with those that opt-in about site news and any problems or new features in which I intend to implement. These usually get thrown in at the end of the newsletter.

M.

Hey Martyn! Long time no speak. Welcome back:mrgreen:

I now use vBulletin. Wow... what a fantastic forum software it is... :)

I concur :mrgreen: Now if only JelSoft will release their CMS already ...

Hey, could you guys that use ebay take a look at this thread?

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread27870.html

I hate to do this in someone elses thread, but I can't get any replies. I just want to know a few things about signing up.

Tsk tsk shame on you.

Guys with the eBay not letting you sell problem ... why don't you try posting a HijackThis thread in our Windows forum. I'm sure someone there will be able to help you out.

I know a lot of people like Wordtracker ... Google's keyword suggestion tool (the one built into AdWords) is all I really rely on. :)

Instead of focusing on how many backlinks you have, focus on how to build up more :) Instead of spending your days tracking your link popularity and worrying that it isn't high enough ... Be proactive!

Don't be a student taking a test and focusing on time slipping away on the clock instead of the work needed to succeed!

I believe that .htaccess files are unique to the Apache web server (although I may be mistaken). Apache is the httpd server of choice for Linux ... there is a Windows port as well, but most Windows servers use IIS. I'm not sure how to do redirection on IIS.

A half hour :) Enough time for you to edit your post to fix any typos or information you inadvertently might have left out.

Seems like the problem is on your end.

Oh goodness gracious! This is such a disaster:!: :twisted:

It always works for me?? Do you use the Java client or a real IRC client? If you're having problems with the Java chat, try a real IRC client like mIRC.

Click the button that says IRC Chat Network in the sidebar.

Yay, an advocate :mrgreen:

Generally I've found PR to be at least somewhat consistant with traffic. I think this has something to do with the fact that 85% of my traffic comes from Google searches!

I haven't but I'd be interested in feedback as well. I think I've heard the name around this site before so a site search for clicksor might reveal something.

They added quite a few hundred keywords, and I gave them no minimum saying "I want at least X keywords", so I can't see it being that they just wanted to pad the list. There must be some rationale behind it we're just clueless about.

If you don't know how, then learn :) I promise, it's a lesson that will serve you well. If someone posts a statement or a non-question, reply with a comment of your own ... "That's interesting, but what about ..." ... Get conversation flowing. Think about how you would respond to a friend who just told you that statement. It will make you come off as much more approachable on the site. Additionally, people posting statements puts good factual info on the site instead of just questions, so it should be encouraged as much as possible. The only way to encourage it is to make people feel comfortable posting it ... and the only way to do that is to comment on it!

Slow down :) What type of website would you like to start? Since you're posting in the Growing a Community forum, I'm assuming a forum? If so, I would recommend starting with buying some Linux hosting space for a couple bucks a month. You could then start off with the phpBB forums for free - they're open source.

Your question is really broad and looks like you just want someone to do it for you. If you're really serious about it, do a little bit of research and reading, and then come back here and ask more specific questions. I gave you enough to get started.

Or go to Internet Marketing conventions :) Those are fun ... plus, it's a good overview of a little of everything, and a good place to meet contacts. If you're really serious, I strongly encourage going to at least one Internet Marketing convention.

What is GL?

I don't like writing articles so my favorite way is to get in good with the bloggers. By using various incentives, you can encourage them to mention your site within their writings.

It gets me a lead or two within various news entries, articles, press releases, and other content that gets syndicated across the web.

You really don't have enough traffic to make a killing on advertising ... yet. For now, focus more on driving to and maintaining traffic within your community. Check out our Building a Community forum for some tips.

The first thing that you want to do is try to get users to visit a couple of pages per visit. At least 5 for a good community. That would effectively give you 20,000 pageviews a month with 4,500 unique visitors.

Unfortunately, forums are very rewarding, but what they aren't (right now, at least) is very profitable. For a starting out community, expect to average just $2 or $3 CPM tops with AdSense. With everything optimized right, and a steady flow of regularly visiting forum visitors, you could probably pull off about $50 a month off of AdSense alone.

AdSense would definitely be my first try. You might also wish to try Yahoo's Publisher Network and see how that performs. Some say it's better and some say it's worse than AdSense.

However ... I think with your traffic levels, a definite primary goal is to build up your traffic more before going after ad dollars.

I've never bought into the whole duplicate content thing. If Google detects mirror pages, it might filter one of them out, but I've never witnessed firsthand anything more than that.

I think it has to do with each and every individual community, as each one has its own ettiquette and ideas of what is and what isn't acceptable. For example, I would probably consider it spamming if you went through the DaniWeb memberlist and started contacting them to advertise your website (even if it was computer related). On the other hand, there might be other [more informal] communities that have members who would welcome it. I really can't comment on your particular scenerio because I'm not a MySpace user so I don't know about their community.

The best advice I could give you is to browse around and get a feeling of the type of community atmosphere you're dealing with. And if you're still not sure, then don't. There's nothing more damaging to an online reputation / persona than coming off as a spammer. And, remember, usernames and website URLs follow you from community to community. I'm known as 'cscgal' on a good 50 or more tech forums, and I'm careful with what I write wherever I go because, in the end, it all affects DaniWeb's reputation.

Oh cool. Enjoy it :)

Awesome ... always good to turn a lurker into a member.

Hey there! Welcome to DaniWeb. I hope that you enjoy this place and stick around for a long time to come. If you see anything you don't like, please be sure to make suggestions in our Feedback forum.

> This is John, a fellow student from Hofstra (Graphics, Bioinformatics).
Hi there :mrgreen: I never took Graphics though - I dropped it because a week into the semester I caught the flu and missed nearly a month of school.

> I joined this site principally to thank you for helping me resolve the "Port 25 blocked by Optonline" issue.
Better late than never ... seems like you dug up an old thread. What have you been doing for email the past couple of years since the port 25 block went into effect?

> Above and beyond my little issue, let me say that I am impressed with your site. I am sure I will be back.
Thank you :)

Hey Dani

Don't you know if you know, but the problem I mentioned occurs only if you're logged in. If you log out, everything works fine.

Hope this helps.

That's simply because unregistered users see an additional Welcome notice that pushes the ad down far enough below the menu that the menu can't cover it. I'm still stuck trying to figure out why my CSS menu gets covered up by an IFRAME with Flash and not with an IFRAME alone, despite the fact that I have the transparent property set for the Flash object as Adobe suggested. GRR ...

From what I understand, there are no features gained or lost using connect() vs pconnect(). The difference is strictly related to how the server manages its memory resources. With connect(), every request from Apache to MySQL needs to open a new connection (and if you have your web and database servers on separate machines, this involves the whole network handshake thing). With pconnect(), you're keeping a persistent connection between Apache and MySQL open, along with multiple threads, which can eat up your RAM, but bypasses the overhead of constantly establishing and closing new connections with each request.

I use pconnect() simply because my web and db servers are on different machines, each with 2 gigs of ram.

Awesome, thanks :) That answered my question.

I'm confused between LEFT JOIN and INNER JOIN - the differences and when it's appropriate to use one over the other. I tried to wrap my mind around it but it seems to me that INNER JOIN statements can always be rewritten as LEFT JOINs?

Hi Brian :) Long time, no speak. What I was primarily getting at was SEO for SEO's sake. I'm getting tired of seeing people spend 10 hours writing a single intro paragraph just to make sure it has the "perfect" keyword density - and yet it fails as a "perfect" introduction to website visitors.

You're definitely right in your statement that once you get a good userbase, you forget that SEO gave you your start. I will have to admit that I mod_rewrote DaniWeb for the SEO benefit. But I can't help but admit that it has usability aspects as well ... thread123.html is very easy to remember and type in, encouraging word of mouth marketing.

It's for this reason why I just despise the latest craze of keyword stuffing forum thread URLs for SEO benefit. I highly doubt that there is any benefit to naming a forum thread URL is-seo-a-part-of-your-business-plan-t123.html instead of just thread123.html . The only difference IMO is that the first is a huge hindrance to site usability and word of mouth marketing. It's wordy, long ... and is the 'a' included or is it 'your' business plan or 'my' plan? Users certainly won't remember! And you still need to include the numbers anyway to accomidate for multiple threads with the same pagetitle. Completely ridiculous and unnecessary!

Design your site with usability and accessibility in mind ... use descriptive titles to stir user interest, wrap an article's title in <h1> tags, description in <h2> …

Well that's what I'm trying to say ... that all of the SEO hype is just that, hype. It's the false impression that using sitemaps and copywriting with your keywords in mind and all these other techniques will really do a lot more than they actually will. Copywriting should be done for the enduser - not the spider :)

I'm thinking (theoretically) you could accomplish this using only CSS (no JavaScript) by encasing the menu in a <div> and absolutely positioning relative to the top left coordinate of the browser window? Not entirely sure if it will scroll with you this way though ... I guess you would need to introduce DHTML or JavaScript or such.

I don't experience that problem in Firefox for Windows. Can anyone else comment?

Hello there HappyGeek! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

goldeagle, aware of the problem already, but can't seem to figure out a solution :( CaliVagabond, not exactly sure what you're referring to? I can't duplicate the problem.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Analytics yet :)

I am not an EE user but I was under the impression that the "experts" don't get paid. Instead, from what I understand, someone asks a question. Then, multiple people respond to the question. The person who asked the question then chooses which reply was the most helpful to them, and that person receives points for having the best answer. "Experts" then accumulate points just to earn good reputations on the site.

Please post what you have so far. Thanks!

You're right - there is a 15 minute window after initially being posted. However, I'm pretty sure this only applies when it's the original poster who edits the post. Don't quote me on it though - I might be mistaken.

If that were the case, vBulletin would automatically insert a little "Edited by XXX" beneath their post.

I know I'm late, but I just stumbled upon this thread and couldn't resist ...

[tex]glove*2[/tex] ... there ya go, some LaTeX gloves

Better late than never:

#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include <math.h>
using namespace std;

enum run {TERMINATE=0, LOOP, NoRoot, HighIterations};

double f(double x, double k, double n, double l) {
return (((x*(1 + (k*n))/((1 + (k*x))))) - l);
}
double derivative(double x, double k, double n) { 
return 1 + ((k*n)/((1+x)*(1+x)));
}

run newton(int NIterations, double TOL, double& x, double k, double n, double l, int summation) {

for(int iter = 1; iter <= NIterations; iter++) {
double derivativex = 1 + ((k*n)/((1+x)*(1+x)));

if(derivativex == 0.0) {
return HighIterations;
}

double deriv = -f(x, k, n, l)/derivativex;
x = x + deriv;

if(fabs(deriv) < TOL) {
return TERMINATE;
}

cout << "Iteration " << iter << ": x = " << x << ", dx = " << deriv << endl;
} 
return LOOP;

double sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < summation + 1; i++) { //perform the function
sum = sum + (x*(1 + (k*n)/(1 + (k*x))) - l);
}
}

int main() {
double zero;
double tolerance;
double k;
double n;
double l;
int iterations;
int summ;

cout << "please enter a value for M, the number of different binding molecules: ";
cin >> summ;
for (int q = 0; q < summ; q++) {
cout << "please enter a value for k, the equilibrium constant(s): ";
cin >> k;
}
for (int z = 0; z < summ; z++) {
cout << "please enter a value for n, the total concentration(s) of the …

Embarassed Dani says she forgot to install LaTeX on our new webserver. :)

I'm reading but have been purposely avoiding posting a lot in this thread because it does me no good to constantly come between bickering members. :)

Over the last few days, I've kept to my word and have been checking on the Software Dev forums twice daily and adding code tags to new posts when needed. We average about 70+ new posts within 30 threads in the Software Dev forums daily, and of those, I've needed to add fewer than 5 sets of code tags each day. If you ask me, that's not terrible.

Like I said, I don't want to go the way of JavaScript or any other type of parser unless it's a last resort. Currently, less than 10% of our posts in the programming forum forget code tags, and so far it hasn't been a problem at all for me to add code tags in a reasonable amount of time after a post is made. Certainly not the huge problem you're making it out to be.

You also made reference to when I said that if I am going to do something, I want to do it right. Adding a very rudiamentary JavaScript parser to look for curly brackets to some of the programming forums and not to others is very "messy" so-to-speak. Frankly, it's a little cheesy (IMO), it's a drastic hindrance to usability, it has the possibility of going off when code tags aren't necessary (it's not foolproof by any stretch of the imagination), it …

Swap links :) Get your site visible to spiders crawling other sites and finding yours. A big misconception is that a Google sitemap will let Google find your site and know about your pages. Simply not true! The only way to get Google to spider your site is by building pagerank through incoming links (known as backlinks). The higher your pagerank, the more frequently googlebot will return to your site and the more pages it will spider at a time. If you find that google isn't spidering your most important pages, a sitemap will lend them a helping hand by allowing you to specify what pages you give a higher priority to. But, remember, you need backlinks to build pagerank, and pagerank dictates how many pages they'll spider ... a sitemap will just let you tell googlebot which of your pages are more important and should get first dibbs at the googlebot.

By integration functions do you mean stuff like this:

[IMG]http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/1562/int4kv.png[/IMG]

where the the upper and lower bounds are defined?

iamthwee, DaniWeb actually has built-in Tex functionality by using the tex bbcode. There is no need to hotlink tex from an image upload service

iamthwee=x^2