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LOL :) Maybe this is some preview of an AdSense improvement? ;) Hopefully something bigger than extra o's

Update: I just found this again in a skyscraper ad. This time I took a screenie. (sorry for double posting - don't follow the admin's example)

I wish I had taken a screenshot, but I just noticed a 728x90 leaderboard Google AdSense ad on one of these pages. And instead of the usual text "Ads by Google" it said "Ads by Goooooooogle" ;) Looks like someone's playin' around ;)

Hi John from Sunny Fla!

I'm not sure right now of any existing TOS helper tutorials or that sort. However, your site is yours, and you know what you want to get out of it and what you don't want your visitors to get away with. What I would do is go around to various popular websites and read their TOS. In your case, read the TOS for sites such as Burst! Media, ValueClick, Google AdWords/AdSense, and the like. See what they say and for each point they make, note whether you agree or disagree with it. Create a bulleted list, so to speak. Once you think you're confident with the list, translate that list into words.

It's hard for us to help you any further as you haven't provided us with the details of your advertising program. Every site on the net that works in a different way needs to be protected against different things. i.e. a TOS from my site most certainly won't work on yours.

What I would recommend doing is checking out other TOS's out there. Create a bulleted list of points you want to make. And then post that here along with a brief description of the program you're building. I'll then be able to offer more assistance.

First of all, this is the wrong place to post questions. Second of all, we don't help with homework problems unless you show some effort on your part. Check out the C++ forum. Post your question there. Show us what you've done on it so far and where you're stuck. And we'll be more than happy to help you. Just not here in this forum/thread.

By default, all of the pages in an Invision forum are along the lines of index.php?showforum=XX and index.php?showtopic=XX

This is not too search engine friendly because of the query strings in the URLs. It's better to have clean URLs such as /showforum/XX/ or /showforumXX.html

I really don't have much experience personally with Invision to be able to help you do this. What I will say is that you need to use mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file to rewrite the URLs. Check out some other threads on mod_rewrite here to figure out how to do that.

Then, you'll have to edit your Invision forum templates. More specifically, the forum index and the actual forums showing the threads - and wherever it has a reference to go to index.php?... edit it out to look like threadXX.html or forumXX.html

Did that make sense? If not, I'll try to offer more assistance.

Hey there Sean and Alcides! I hope you find what you're looking for in DaniWeb. We're here to help :) Sean, lots of people around here who are in the I.T. field and I'm sure willing to help you. If you have any specific questions, please post them in the I.T. careers forum :)

I agree on both accounts Canistota.

I don't want anyone to feel like this site is exclusively for experienced computer users. Perhaps I could offer some assistance?

I have always left the default vBulletin emails that my forum sends out. (i.e. to activate a new account, inform a user of a new private message, etc.) However, I finally took the time to customize each e-mail - and I can't believe how much it's helped!

The vBulletin forum system is so common nowadays, I guess I never realized how many people get the exact same sterile e-mail from so many forums. Customizing the e-mail makes the forum more welcoming and has really increased the number of new registrations that actually post.

Just a helpful hint ;)

Since you were able to create this thread, you're account has been activated. Your activation ID was built into the URL that you clicked on. Only if that link doesn't work do you need to fill in your activation code.

As far as having to login everytime you visit any page, that's definitely not the way it is supposed to work. Are you using Internet Explorer? What version? It seems like a cookie problem to me. Do you have cookies enabled - that's probably the problem. When you login, do you check off the "remember me" checkbox?

If you are using OS X, the gcc compiler comes with the BSD subsystem. It's an optional component to install during OS X setup.

PHP version 5 is the latest version of PHP. PHP4 or PHP5 needs to be installed on the web server that executes the php code. If you're not serving web pages from your home machine, you don't need it.

It's horrendous practice to keep all three URLs active. First choose one URL you want to use from now on. Preferably it would be with the www, but bink.nu has a high PR without it, so I would go with that. Use an .htaccess file to 301 Redirect www.bink.nu and winxp.bink.nu to bink.nu. At the end of google's next update, it will take into consideration it's the same page, and PR will (I believe) be forwarded, along with all backlinks. Check out [thread]7965[/thread] for more info.

Hey there. Yes, red_evolve, those DHTML menus have actually always been there (maybe I should make them a bit more noticable) ... and it's also those that I've been having problems with - with somewhat older versions of Mozilla in Linux.

It's actually funny - about an hour after I posted my question, I bought the subscription to plasmadesign.co.uk - nice designs and it's a lifetime membership instead of the renewing annually thing. Exactly what I was looking for :)

Tusky, please don't post nonsense posts. Thanks.

Hello omol! Welcome :)

Just to clarrify about the Marsupial Moderator, colleagues as well as moderators have access to custom user titles, where they can enter whatever they want in that spot.

I'm in a very giving mood today ;) Usually I don't just give the answer to homework problems outright like I am now. I'd rather see some effort put in on your end. So consider yourself very lucky. The following is the pseudocode for the program. Think about what each line means, and then translate it into Java syntax line by line.

input student's grade
if grade < 100 AND grade > 75 { student got an A }
else if grade < 75 AND grade > 60 { student got a B }
else if grade < 60 AND grade > 50 { student got a C }
else if grade < 50 AND grade > 40 { student got a D }
else { student got an F } // didn't fit into any of the above scenerios, so must be an F
print to screen what the student got

Currently I have an Apple 23" Cinema HD display monitor - at a resolution of 1920x1200. Does anyone know where I could find high resolution, widescreen desktop wallpaper? The only place I know of that offers any right now is www.digitalblasphemy.com but you need to purchase a subscription in order to have access to it. When I first got the monitor I purchased one, but my year just ran up, and I really don't want to put out another $100 for another year.

I'm not a fan of WindowBlinds and the like (I use StyleXP) but I have to admit that's a pretty good knock-off.

If Page A has multiple links to Page B, does that show any more weight than a single link? Is Page A's PR spread thinner to every page it links to? Does Page B receive any more PR than it would have with only one link? Thanks!

I had heard somewhere though that Google doesn't dance anymore. Instead, it's just a constant flow of small updates. All that happens is every X weeks the backlinks we see are updated and the google toolbar is updated with a newer PR - but in reality, G had been taking those things into consideration long before we got to see them.

Does anyone have any ideas that worked for them in making a site sticky? By that I mean very good at producing repeat traffic - and drawing first time visitors constantly back. Forums are of course a good way of doing this. We need to go back to see if there are responses to our questions, after all. But any other suggestions?

Please don't double post. Someone knowledgable in what you're asking will get to you as soon as they can.

Are you installing as an administrator? Some programs (for some reason) require you to be logged in as root to install. If you don't have a root account enabled, you can do so by going to /Applications/Utilities and then to the NetInfo manager. In the Security dropdown menu, select Enable root User. Type in a password you want to use for root. Then log in as "root" with the password you specified. And try to install the drivers. Using a root user is NOT suggested for regular computer use.

Hmm, computer science is a lot more than programming. There is a lot of math and theory behind it. The main differences between computer science and computer engineering are that comp. engineering also includes more digital circuitry and electrical engineering than comp. sci. does.

Thread marked as solved. :) And DMR, I thought that Alex was the cookie moderator? ;)

The most widely used languages vary with the type of programming you want to do. If it's application programming (i.e. commercial software) - there is C++, C#, Java, etc. If it's web development programming (i.e. software that powers interactive web sites such as this one), then PHP is a big one.

Hi. First of all, thank you so much for your comments about the site. I'm a bit confused what you mean by the most widely used software. Are you referring to development tools such as Microsoft Visual Studio .NET? Do you want to know which programming language to go with? Or what are some small programs you can start off writing?

I've never used Invision so I can't help you unfortunately. I only have phpBB and vBulletin experience. What I can say is that it seems it's a cookie/session problem - do you have any hacks installed?

It sounds like a cookie problem. Are you using vBulletin, phpBB, invision power board, or your own creation? Also, are you using session IDs in the url?

Check out a bunch of other posts on this forum about google PR. After any major changes such as this, I'd also give it about 2 weeks before you see any real Google effects.

I was creating an AdWords ad for our SEO forum and I tried using:

SEO Forum
Google News and Techniques
Free Webmaster Community

and it came back with an error message saying: You may not use the word "Google" in the text of your ad.

Heh :)

Hi there Ben :) and everyone else too! Welcome.

You did a search for "daniweb" because you couldn't remember the URL was daniweb.com? And I always figured that the only way you could forget the URL is if you forgot the site was called "daniweb" ;) Sorry, don't mean to tease hehe

Take the PHP forum for example. I am afraid that simply targeting the keyword PHP is not within the scope of reality ;) So therefore I want to target either "php development" or "php help" :) But my question is if I leave the title just as "php" will that also improve rankings for "php dev" and "php help" as they include the word php?

My reason for currently having: PHP at DaniWeb computer help is because I thought I would be able to target the keywords: "php" "php help" "computer help" all in one - bad idea I guess ;) Live 'n' learn. I'll agree that DaniWeb is excessive because no one is going to do a search for "daniweb" ;)

Thanks Dave, I actually do use strong tags as often as I can. :) Any other comments?

Glad I could be of assistance. If Quickbooks Pro 6 says that it will work natively on OS X, there is no reason to install the classic environment. Otherwise, throw it in ;)

Every few months or so, I like to send out an e-bulletin to forum members. However, the vBulletin built-in script just isn't robust enough as it constantly will time out every few pages. I've also tried sending mail directly from Mirosoft Outlook, but the sheer volume of emails made that nearly impossible as well.

I'm looking for a mailing list script that will let me throw a good 20K addresses at it - and it will run behind the scenes on my server. In other words, I don't want the actual sending to be via a web application that can continuously time out - nor do I want to have to keep a webpage open for so long.

Any recommendations?

Mac OS X comes with Classic which lets you run OS9 applications. However, I'm pretty sure that the latest version of OS X, 10.3, doesn't include Classic. If you don't install the Classic environment, you won't be able to run any OS9 applications - only the newer OS X applications. What software is it that you're not sure if you'd be able to run?

Well check out this page, for example: http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum17.html

Notice how at the top it says PHP and then there is a description of the forum below it. Would it be better to use one keyword for the forum titles and try to incorporate 2 or 3 other keywords as the description? The way it is now, the forum title is wrapped in an h1 tag and the description is wrapped in an h2 tag.

hehe - well what I'm trying to say is it better for (the purpose of on-page SEO) a page on a forum to target the keyword PHP - or is it better to target the keyword PHP scripting or PHP help, etc. Those more detailed keywords are more limiting, but they are probably easier to get onto the SERPS with.

If I go with "PHP" alone, like I have now, is it still a viable goal to be listed on the SERPS for "php scripting" AND "php help" AND ... I feel that if I went with "php scripting" for example, I would be limited to great placement for that keyword, but it would be impossible for me to score good with other php-related keywords.

I just noticed that forums.devshed.com name their forums as keyword phrases. For example, instead of forums such as C++, PHP, or Java they will use C Programming, PHP Development, and Java Help. All three of these phrases are really hot keywords on the search engines. Is it beneficial to do this? Does using PHP alone have more possibilities to grow SEO-wise? (PHP help, PHP development, etc.)

One of the sites I linked you to did say that women cannot hold positions on the High Council.

Oh goodness lol. In any case, I was informed by blud that I was wrong and that Klingon women are allowed equal opportunities aboard starships.

Thanks red_evolve :) something else I changed was to add the title of the forum you're currently viewing in large font in the navbar. Hopefully this will reduce people posting in the wrong forum, and perhaps make site navigation a tad easier.

new version = http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/forum64.html
old version = http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/search.php?do=getdaily