Posts by Dani

That's why I can say with no problem exactly what works *for me*. :)

Because when I buy text links, I do so one at a time, and wait a couple of months before purchasing a different one. So, in other words, I'll buy a homepage-only link, and notice just a small benefit. A couple of months later, I'll buy a sitewide, and notice a big improvement within a month or two. Then I'll wait a little bit longer, and cancel the homepage-only, and not notice a decrease in seo benefit over time. Ya like my systematic approach? :)

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

Do you have any proof in this? To this day, sitewides perform better for me in Google than a homepage-only link by far. I still think it has to do with the niche, vertical, type of site, and lots of other factors that influence how Google counts a backlink. :)

Are these database error messages I am experiencing related to the change?

Yes, they are.

People say thanks for lots of reasons. I just said it in this post :) Saying thanks doesn't necessarily mean that the thread started as a question and has now been answered.

But not every single thread is a question with a specific answer that can be solved. Many of them are open-ended discussions.

Only the thread starter or moderator can mark a thread as solved. This is the only way to essentially keep it fully functional. Otherwise, anyone who thinks their post was helpful could mark someone else's question as solved, even if their solution didn't work.

Hi,

Thank you for bringing these to my attention. I was not aware of either problem. However, until IE7 is officially released, it is nearly impossible for me to debug. I don't have IE7 on my system, and trying to fix CSS issues that pertain to one browser and not another would require multiple IE7 testers to validate that this issue is not related to a personal setting on your computer, for instance. Right now, all of my CSS validates by the W3C, so without playing around with IE7, it's hard to figure out what is going wrong. I will look into these issues as soon as I can! :)

Too much on my mind right now. Did a massive move of the site to a different server, and now in the process of upgrading to vBulletin 3.5, which should be completed sooner than later. With vB 3.5 come many, many added features, which may shed some light on the subject. Not to mention, I don't want to introduce any new hacks to vB 3.0 right now while I'm in the process of porting everything to 3.5. Expect the upgrade to go live before the end of this month.

Hi there! Welcome to DaniWeb :) I hope you enjoy this place.

Remember ... when you send traffic to us, we list you on our forums, as well :) http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum26.html#links

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 :)

Of course Firefox supports CSS. If none of your CSS is working, you might have some weird setting configured in your FireFox. Unfortunately, however, while both IE and FireFox support CSS, their standards are a bit different, and sometimes you have to jump through hoops with your code to get it to display exactly the way you want on both.

This *is* the PHP forum after all. :) Check out the official PHP docs for sessions and that will give you a bit of insight. More information is appreciated to help further.

Getting in good with the bloggers is definitely a big help. Many tech bloggers have a devoted following and many blogs are well indexed in the search engines. Getting a link every so often in a blog entry will get you traffic, a good backlink within an article (high quality link), and will definitely help spread word of mouth.

I think that a middle ground is to have one area of the site where general discussions can take place with no specifics, and another area of the site to make industry contacts and have discussions about improving your specific site. Here, for example, while this area of the site has a no tolerance policy, we have a separate Marketplace category to advertise various services available, websites for sale, and what have you. We also have a forum to ask for Site Reviews regarding various aspects of web design, usability, navigation, and other factors. Plus everyone can have a forum signature in all of their posts.

Oh goodness gracious oh me oh my! :)

Hehe :)

Hi NEM :) Welcome to DaniWeb! :)

Oh, you know you secretely want one of those new Intel macs that will let you dual boot OS X and Windows :) Welcome to DaniWeb!

Hi :) Welcome!

Hi Sandra :) Welcome to DaniWeb!

Thank you so much for your feedback! It's appreciated and I'm glad you're enjoying our community.

I'm confused with what you mean by point #1. Let the subforums be there? Where do you mean, exactly?

Thank you for alerting me to this. I became aware of the problem mid-afternoon and it has been fixed (as far as I am aware of). :) It would be most appreciated if you could try resubmitting your site into our directory.

This is dependent on the platform you are writing your program for, Windows/Linux/Mac. There are forums for this indiviual platforms if you go to the forum index and scroll down a ways. You may get an answer here, but you are much more likely to get a response in the forum for the specific OS you are writing for.

Actually, our Windows, Linux, and Mac forums are geared more towards end-user technical support, so this is the place to be if you're looking for programming help.

I heard that the latest version of Community Server is pretty good, actually. You might want to give it a closer look.

I just contributed a little :). Guess your a lil' closer to that database server ;).

Thank you so much :) The new server that we were in dire need of was actually set up two days ago. I decided to keep the database on the existing server, and move Apache and all of the php files onto the new server. Sometime this weekend I'm going to strip the old server of Apache and all of the excess bloat other than just MySQL.

No. However, you can click the Flag Bad Post to get a moderator's attention to the post in question, and we will investigate it further. However, we typically don't delete posts unless they violate the rules - especially when they're part of threads, because then they offset the flow of conversation and things make no sense anymore :)

That's not necessarily true. At first glance, you might think that a more general site has a larger pool of potential members. However, a lot of times, people are more inclined to join niche forums. For example, a hardcore PHP programmer might be a lot more inclined to join a PHP-geared niche forum than a general programming site or a general IT site with just one section devoted to PHP. I think it's more of a give 'n' take between a lot of one thing or a little of everything. In the end, it all balances out when you factor in everything about the community as a whole.

There's an ASP.NET one called ... umm ... Community Server I think.

It's hard to "reward" people though. Perhaps giving additional forum features (ie usergroup promotions) when people hit a certain number of posts for rewarding them for their contributions. Contests might also work but they're so hard to judge.

How well do the google link bars work? Anyone with positive or negative feedback?

This isn't the place to ask technical support questions. Please post in our Windows forum while explaining your problem in depth. Thanks! http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum99.html

Hi! Welcome to DaniWeb :)

Well this seems to have been a Flash problem. It wasn't working right in IE or Firefox before the fix on Macromedia's website (err, Adobe's website).

Before you go out and buy yourself a Wintel, Apple has released software to allow you to legally dual boot an Intel-based mac between OS X and MS Windows.

Ok, I'm going to lock this thread before it gets even more out of hand. First thing's first, outside this mess, welcome to our community Snakehar. No, Snakehar shouldn't have bumped his thread 20 minutes after he first posted it, and that can be perceived as rude. But it's no reason to start a flame war over. Enough's enough.

Got it working, thanks to this knowledge base article: http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_15523

Issue

A Flash movie in a layer on a DHTML page containing several layers may display above all the layers, regardless of the stacking order ("z-index") of those layers.

Reason

By default, browsers place embedded plug-in content, such as a Flash movie or Java applet, on the topmost layer. In older browsers attempts to place a DHTML layer on top of a Flash layer would fail. Newer browsers add the ability to layer Flash content with DHTML content and in some cases the ability to use transparent backgrounds in the Flash content (see below).

Solution

Make the Flash movie's background transparent using the WMODE tag. This will allow the DHTML layer underneath the Flash movie or layer to appear.

For details on creating a Flash movie with a transparent background refer to How to make a Flash movie with a transparent background (TechNote 14201).

Update: I just read that z-index only works with elements that have been absolutely positioned. Will give it a go :)

<< update: It appears I already am using position: absolute; for the div I would like to bring foreward. >>

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

Christian blogged today about how the Intel macs can now legally run Windows ... check it out @ http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry509.html

I'm stunned :) However, I'm still going to wait until Intel macs are available in towers before I get myself one of them.

Well, what I mean is you don't always get a chance to use it the same way members do. Sometimes I don't feel like posting and yet I know that I have forum duties to take care of daily. While I still enjoy my community greatly, I don't feel I can enjoy it the way that I make it possible for my members to.

Aww, hehe :) Hi and welcome to DaniWeb!

VOIP is voice over IP ... data transfer is, inevitably, from Chinese ISPs out to the rest of the world via Internet backbones. Government-run proxes and such can block unwanted transfer at its roots.

The hardcore Microsoft folks around here are going to think I'm crazy, but Apache (the great Linux web server) has been ported to Windows and is open source. I'm not sure if it supports ASP out of the box. If you're looking for a remote solution, check our Web Hosting marketplace: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum154.html

You would simply use the WHERE and LIMIT clauses in your MySQL select statement. For example, SELECT * from mytable; selects all rows from a table named mytable. SELECT col1, col2 from mytable; selects only the columns entitled col1 and col2 from mytable. SELECT col1, col2 from mytable WHERE col1 = 1; selects only the columns entitled col1 and col2 from records where col1 is the value 1. SELECT col1, col2 from mytable WHERE col1 = 1 LIMIT 10; does the same as the previous line only selects just the first ten records it finds, regardless of how many fulfill the WHERE criteria.

So what exactly is the problem? What is it you need help doing? Is it not working? Instead of using a SELECT * FROM table WHERE ... you would want to do an UPDATE table SET ... WHERE ...

I believe that if you don't enjoy your community like a regular member, then you are not in the right way to make your forum a success.

Well take a site like this one. It is typically the member who asks the questions and the moderator who answers the questions (overly generalized statement). Ho often does a staff member genuinely need help with something and request the help of the members? :)

I do every so often ... but I was just wondering what the concensus was.

Haha :)