Form content not loading in Firefox 18

Since Firefox 18 was released, new users have been unable to register on our Joomla-based site. The form loads and works in Chrome, IE, and Firefox 17 but not Firefox 18. To make things even more confusing: Inspect Element in Firefox 18 shows a form element that is empty, however, View Page Source in Firefox 18 shows the entire form. Furthermore, using the Web Developer Tools, we checked the HTTP request and response. The response contains the entire form (including inner elements) but Firefox 18 and Inspect Element still don't show these. We've tried dumping the cache, installing the latest Java update, and resetting Firefox to default (i.e. no add-ons or themes.) We are completely stumped on what to do. We've put in a support request, but we're wondering if anyone else has any idea what could be the problem. Here's the site for reference: SIJHSAA -- if you click on "Create an account" in the right hand sidebar, this is the form that is not working in Firefox 18.


Possible automated Bing Ads fraud?

I run a website that generates life insurance leads. The site is very simple a) there is a form for capturing the user's details, life insurance requirements etc b) A quote comparison feature We drive traffic to our site using conventional Google Adwords and Bing Ads campaigns. Since the 6th January we have received 30-40 dodgy leads which have the following in common:   1. All created between 2 and 8 AM   2. Phone number always in the format "123 1234 1234'   3. Name, Date Of Birth, Policy details, Address all seem valid and are unique across the leads   4. Email addresses from "disposable" email accounts including dodgit.com, mailinator.com, trashymail.com, pookmail.com   5. Some leads come from the customer form, some via the quote comparison feature   6. All come from different IP addresses   7. We get the keyword information passed through from the URLs   8. All look to be coming from Bing Ads   9. All come from Internet Explorer v7 and v8 The consistency of the data and the random IP addresses seem to suggest an automated approach but I'm not sure of the intent. We can handle identifying these leads within our database but is there anyway of stopping this at the Ad level i.e. before the click through.


Comparison of phrases containing the same word in Google Trends

If I compare three phrases in google trends :   * house    * sale house   * white house I get the following numbers:   * house -> 91   * sale house -> 3   * white house -> 2 The question is: Is "sale house" and "white house" already included in the number 91? It is an important question, because if it is true, than:   * house_except_sale_house + sale_house = 91   * sale_house = 3 Which means I have to compare 88 and 3, if I compare "house" and "sale house"


SEO disasters moving domain for a high traffic website?

We're looking at moving our website from http://www.wikijob.co.uk to http://www.wikijob.com/uk as we spread our wings internationally. Our .co.uk website has a PR6 and received around 1/2 million visitors a month, 40% international. The wikijob.com domain, while registered for a while, has not been used nor promoted. I am concerned that moving domain could really haemorrhage our traffic and result in a loss of goodwill from Google, even if we use a 301, but equally, if we could transfer that pagerank to the .com domain, that would give us a massive head start around the world. Should we do it, or should we start over with .com and leave .co.uk as is?


What could artificially increase the bounce rate reported in Google Analytics?

Since deploying Janrain Engage to our website, which includes a javascript snippet that is loaded from their servers, I've noticed about 10-15% increase in our bounce rate. I think this is artificial and does not represent a true 'bounce'; what sort of factors might have caused this?


What are the causes of a 416 Error?

One of my visitors from my website informed me that every so often (quite rarely actually), when trying to visit my website, he gets a **416 Error: Requested Range Not Satisfiable** I've never heard of such an error, and don't see anything strange anywhere on my apache logs. What can cause such an error? My website is a wordpress blog, running on apache, centos.


Can I stop Google from listing my site when using keyword X but allow it for keyword Y?

I have a website. When I search keyword X or Y on Google, I can see my website at the top of the result list. Are there any ways not to show my website on the result list on Google when keyword Y was input while keeping my website at the top of the result list when keyword X was input?


Form validation - security and input specification

So I'm working on a register form and I have four fields: name, username, email and password. I pick up the values of these fields in jQuery and depending on if all the fields are filled, I pass them onto a PHP script via ajax. Is that safe for form validations? I was worried about data getting manipulated by the user. Further on in the PHP script, I check if all the posted values have data in them, only then will I proceed onto doing some validations. The validations are the parts where I'm worried that it's not the best and there are many flaws with it.               $name = $_POST['name'];     $username = $_POST['username'];     $email = $_POST['email'];     $password = $_POST['password'];          if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z '-]+$/i", $name)) {         $errors = "Please enter a valid name.";     } else if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z]+\s[A-Za-z]+$/", $name)) {         $errors = "Please enter your first and last name.";     } else if (strlen($username) <= 3 || strlen($username) > 15) {         $errors = "Please pick a username between 4 - 15 characters. Be creative.";     } else if (!preg_match("/^[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.-]{4,15}$/", $username)) {         $errors = "Please pick an alphanumeric username between 4 - 15 characters.";     } else if (filter_var($email, FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL) === false) {         $errors = "Please enter a valid email.";     } else if (strlen($username )< 6 || strlen($username) > 32) {         $errors = "Your password must atleast be 6 characters.";     } else {         echo "valid";     }      Are these validation steps secure? Are there any loop holes that the user can manipulate the data? The requirements for the fields are as follows - which I'm not so sure I hit on the head with my code:   * The username should have alphanumeric characters with underscores (optional)   * the name should have BOTH the first name and the last name


How to make parameters look more attractive

I'm making a blog site and instead of the users blogs being called /blog?display= _username_ I would like it to just be a sub domain such as mysite.com/ _username_ How would I be able to make the first URL look like the second URL?


Google Analytics: Can I target utm_term in an Advanced Segment?

I want to track clickthroughs from emails using tracking URLs (eg crafted at URL builder). I'm planning out the various terms to ensure that I have max flexibility in future, and can accommodate, and track different versions of the email (some crude AB testing). I have found that in the advanced segments panel:   * Campaign maps to utm_campaign,    * Source maps to utm_source,    * Ad Content maps to utm_content, and    * Medium maps to utm_medium **Can I target utm_term?** Is this likely to be useful, or am I overthinking this :) Tx for your consideration ![looking for the utm_term](http://i.stack.imgur.com/rT3Rq.png)


Right way for host HTML5 video

So, I have a **responsive site** that has kind of blog to show videos (in html). **For now, I am doing this in**   1. MP4 HD video - for computer users   2. MP4 SD video - for mobile users   3. WebM HD Video - for computer users   4. WebM SD Video - for mobile users   5. `poster.jpg` - poster with `width: 640px` for all devices. **My HTML5 for select a device is actually:**               <video controls="controls" height="260" poster="poster.jpg" preload="none" width="463">         <source media="all and (max-width: 480px)" src="video_sd.mp4" type="video/mp4" />         <source media="all and (max-width: 480px)" src="video_sd.webm" type="video/webm" />         <source src="video.mp4" type="video/mp4" />         <source src="video.webm" type="video/webm" />     </video>      Summarizing, having 4 files of the same video for a responsive site results in, more or less, **1GB** per video... My question is: am I doing this in right way?


Remove query string from 301 redirect URL

I'm having some trouble with redirects and I haven't been able to get this to work. I want to make `http://www.mysite.com/seasonal/christmas?p=15` redirect to `http://www.mysite.com/holiday-decor/christmas.html`. I was wondering if someone could help me with the rewrite rule so the query string doesn't appear in the redirected URL. I'm using _.htaccess_ with a Magento platform site.


Handling Pagination on WordPress?

Few days ago Google came up with a post on URLs with parameters. The post can be found here: http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2011/07/improved- handling-of-urls-with.html Now, my website uses WordPress blogging platform, and the blog post from Google is inclined towards the e-commerce sites. However, I was wondering if I should follow the pagination rule for my site to make sure duplicate content isn't picked up by the Google bots. My site has URLs for pages are like this: http://blogote.com/page/3/ Should I be worried? Should I leave it as it is?


How to get ip-address out of SPAMHAUS blacklist?

I frequently read that it is possible to remove individual ip-addresses from SPAMHAUS blacklisting. OK. Here is 91.205.43.252 (91.205.43.251 - 91.205.43.253) used by back3.stopspamers.com (back2.stopspamers.com, back1.stopspamers.com) in geo- cluster on dedicated servers in Switzerland.   The queries:   * http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=91.205.43.251   * http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=91.205.43.252   * http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=91.205.43.253 tell that:   * 91.205.43.251 - 91.205.43.253 are all listed in the SBL80808 blacklist And SBL80808 blacklist tells:   * "Ref: SBL80808   91.205.40.0/22 is listed on the Spamhaus Block List (SBL)   01-Apr-2010 05:52 GMT | SR04 **Spamming and now seems this place is involved in other fraud** " 91.205.43.251-91.205.43.253 are not listed amongst criminal ip-addresses **individually** but there is no way to remove it individually from black listing. How to remove this individual (91.205.43.251-91.205.43.253) addresses from SPAMHAUS blacklist? **And why the heck SPAMHAUS is blacklisting spam-stopping service?** This is only one example of a bunch. My related posts:   * Blacklist IP database Update:   From the answer provided I realized that my question was not even understood. This ip-addresses **91.205.43.251 - 91.205.43.253** are not blacklisted individually, they are blacklisted through its supernet **91.205.40.0/22**.   Also note that dedicated server, ISP and customer are in much different distant countries. **Update2:**   http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/sbl.lasso?query=SBL80808#removal tells:   * "To have record SBL80808 (91.205.40.0/22) removed from the SBL, the Abuse/Security representative of RIPE (or the Internet Service Provider responsible for supplying connectivity to 91.205.40.0/22) needs to contact the SBL Team"  There are dozens of "abusers" in that blacklist SBL80808.   The company using that dedicated server is not an ISP or RIPE representative to treat these issues. Even if to treat it, it is just a matter of pressing "Report spam" on internet to be again blacklisted, this is fruitless approach.   These techniques are broadly used by criminals and spammers, See also this my post on blacklisting. This is just one specific example but there are many-many more.


when will google revert back page rank after i cleared network unrechable error

1. For the past one month i was getting network unreachable error.   2. I contacted my web hosting and they said that google bots were blocked if it were causing more traffic.    3. And then they witelisted google bots.   4. Now the errors did not appear but my ranking and search results went down to more than 6 pages or they did not appear at all.   5. Now google is able to read my robots and sitemap. Just yesterday.  when will search results and page rank gets to its previous positions? like it were before a month? Most links did not appear in google search result.


Is there a way to make Alexa's ia_archiver slow down its crawling of my website?

Alexa's ia_archiver bot is the main contributor to the Internet Archive's "Wayback Machine" web collection, and there are advantages to having my website included in that collection. There are other robots that do other useful things too. What's a quick and easy way to make ia_archiver crawl my website more slowly, in order to put less load on the server? I haven't tested the Crawl-delay directive: if you have, and it works, please tell me so. If it doesn't work, please leave a comment. If you've never tested Crawl-delay, then instead please recommend some other solution that takes fifteen minutes or less to implement. Maybe there exists some easy-to-implement software-based solution which will let me throttle too-rapid hits from ia_archiver? Please assume my website is running on Apache 2.4.3 on Debian Linux 6.0.6 on a dedicated server which I administer.


free lightweight mobile webmail

I'm looking for a free lightweight mobile webmail. Something like squirrelmail but for mobile phones. roberto


SEO impact of server errors

Our website is up and running fine but a WordPress plugin is broken (we can't fix it very quickly) so a few hundred pages show server errors. The pages would load header and page of the page body but stop halfway and does not load sidebar/ footer at all. These pages are not 404. My question is how big the impact of these servers errors are in terms on SEO and traffic.   There are 500+ pages with server errors according to Google Webmaster while we have 14,860 index pages.


Find child domains of a URL

Is there a way to find all the child domains of a URL? e.g. parent url: www.example.com Sample child domains:   * www.a.example.com   * www.abracadabra.example.com   * www.zoo.example.com


Duplicate content issue on product review page

I have a product review page that defaults to showing all reviews. On this page I have 5 links which link to showing only the 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 star ratings. If I have a product with 1 review which is a 5 star review, the 5 star review link then gets flagged for duplicate content as my URL changes from `www.example.com/Review/CODE/0` to `www.example.com/Review/CODE/5`. But the content doesn't change (as there is only the one review). My initial thought is to add `no-index` to the review page that lists everything and only allow the search engines to index each star rating page individually. Is this the correct approach?


"Pay what you want" system

I'm looking for a "pay what you want" system like www.humblebundle.com had during their last software bundle action. Where can I find such a system? It only needs to support PayPal and should send a link with the download path to the user. Any ideas welcome.


Google analytics - vistor path to specific site destination setup and monitoring?

I have a website which I am using google analytics to track visitors and track our banner campaigns. We're are promoting 'Purchase Ticket' buttons on our website which push visitors to a third party website who sell and distribute our tickets. The url on all the 'Purchase Ticket' buttons are the same through out the site... Example: **http://ticketmaestro.com/events/my-event-2012** In the analytic control panel, is it possible so set something up, where I create a path-to-destination using the above example url? ...and then after this is setup: I want to be able to monitor the path visitors are taking from when they reach the site - to when they click the 'Purchase Ticket' button. Graphs will show...   * Start Destination   * Path to Final Destination   * Final Destination: http://ticketmaestro.com/events/my-event-2012 Any help, suggestions, terminology would be great thanks. Josh


Should OpenID clients accept adding WWW to the domain?

For a long time I've used OpenID delegation on my site: `http://example.org/` delegated to: `http://example.openid-provider.com/`, so I logged into OpenID-consuming sites using the former as ID. Recently I added `www.` to my site's canonical domain so `http://example.org/` now redirects to `http://www.example.org/`. **Should I be able to continue logging into existing OpenID accounts using`http://example.org/`?** StackExchange sites say "yes". I can use either URL. At least one other doesn't recognize my existing account. **Who's "right" (perspec) and is there anything I can fix on my end?**


Can I have users share images from my site on Instagram?

Is there a way for me to suggest that my users share the images from my website on Instagram? I've found share buttons for other sites like Facebook and Pinterest. I ask because a user was uploading screenshots from the website to Instagram and getting a fair amount of interest in it. I would like to make that process easier for users.


Should I host my site with the same company I bought a domain from?

I feel like I heard advice once upon a time that one should split these "services" between two companies. I cannot for the life of me figure out why this should be. For example, what would the downside be having my domain name and hosting done by GoDaddy, under one login and password.


SEO Domain Name Optimization

Quick question: I'm trying to decide on the best domain name for my niche. I have it narrowed down to the following options: keyword.co mykeyword.com keywordnetwork.com Which of these domain names will perform the best from an SEO perspective?


Why is ww35 used in some URLs?

A question asked on my website here http://www.wrangle.in/topic/av5b5ymlhoyc/what-is-the-difference-between-www- or-ww I want to give them answer but I didn't find anywhere on google. So I thought better asking it here.


Hacking resources

I'm currently developing a web application which has a lot of javascript working behind it. Before I deploy it (which will take a couple of months), I want to make sure that it is atleast a bit secure in terms of attacks. I saw this link already but it doesn't have any resources that I could use to learn the 'art' of hacking. I don't want to exploit other sites, I just want to learn it to make my site safe.


Redirect domainname.com to sites.google.com

I have a `domainname.com` and want to redirect it to Google Apps, `sites.google.com` or iGoogle via the CNAME. How can I achieve this?


configuring loadbalacing with nigix

Hey guys i am trying to loadbalace my website with ngix..I have seen many tutorial and i have found one..According to tutorial i have seen that i need to add               upstream myCloud{          server s1.domain.com;;       server 10.0.1.2;       server 10.0.1.3;     }      those lines to my configuration file ..so my question is that can i add a subdomain like something.domain.com to the server place ..Hope you guys can help me out


How does the customer edit there own website once I have created it for them?

I am relatively new to HTML and CSS programming, but in the future I'm Hoping to create websites for clients. How does the customer (who I suspect has no knowledge of HTML or CSS) edit there own website once I have created it for them? Will they have to rely on me to constantly update there website for them? or is there a program which the HTML and CSS code can be entered into which makes future editing possible without having to manually alter the code?


How long does it take a whois server to update?

I added two NS records to my DNS record four days ago. I did this to use a service provided by the name servers that I added. In order to get them to enable their services, they need to verify that they are name server for my domain by doing a whois on my domain. It has been four days and whois still does not show the two new NS records. The whois server that gets checked is whois.rnids.rs. Is there something special I need to do to update whois? I've verified that the new NS records have propagated to many DNS servers by `nslookup -q=NS <my domain>`. Indeed, the two original and two new NS records are returned.


Are blocks of text that repeat on different posts considered duplicate content?

I optimized my links using a _.htaccess_ and made sure there are no duplicate URLs, but what about the content? For example, if I have on a newsletter widget some text, an author paragraph, and some featured items that repeat on every post, would this be treated as duplicate content by search engines like Google?


Anyone know a way to find out the number of Twitter followers for a particular account on any given date?

I manage two corporate Twitter accounts and two personal Twitter accounts, and it would be really useful to know how many followers each account has at the end of each week. I'm using TweetStats.com to gather statistics at the moment, but the follower stats functionality isn't granular enough to determine the precise number of followers. Does anyone know of any useful and free tools that can provide the exact number of followers for a specific Twitter account on any given date?


Cheaper alternatives to 99Designs.com (outsource CSS design)

I'm designing my own website as a side project and I want the site to look professional. (Read, not designed by a programmer.) I don't mind spending a little money to have a professional do it, but design sites like 99designs.com cost way to much. (~$500+) Is there a cheaper (~$100 - $200) alternative for getting a designer to improve an existing site? (Things like updating the CCS or suggesting better ways for laying out the navigation.) Or is my best bet trying to pick up a freelancer on Craigslist?


I want to add adsense for my blog

I made a blog few months back,I wanted to add adsense for it but yesterday I found out that the e-mail address I use is blacklisted by google adsense,I have applied for google adsense some years back but they replied back that the site did not had much content.Why would they blacklist my email address?Can I have a new adsense account?


AdBlock users statistics

**Are there statistics of internet users that use AdBlock or other ad blocking plug-ins?** Are there some statistical breakdown, for example, per country (I assume it must vary a lot)? I was unable to google the information I am looking for. The reason I am asking is because I have just signed up for the "Amazon Partners" program and see that this affiliate program is listed on the AdBlock blacklist.


How to change registrar?

Currently I have a domain with godaddy as the registrar, and I have received many threats from them about losing it (for random reasons, like they always seem to do) So I started looking for another hosting and registrar, but I don't know how to change my domain registrar without being at risk of someone else buying my domain. Is there a secure way to do this? Also, which registrar would you recommend?


What are some good feeds/blogs/twitter accounts to follow if I want to learn more about web development?

Who are some of the big names out there (besides Jeff Atwood/@codinghorror, of course) that I should be following as a resource if I want to stay on top of what's new as well commentary on what exists? _**Please consider simply editing this question, rather than posting another answer if you have something to add that is not listed here. Additionally, feel free to add descriptions to items already listed._** Twitter accounts:   * @codinghorror   * @smashingmag   * @shanselman   * @scottgu   * @haacked   * @jquery   * @jeresig   * @slicknet   * @paul_irish   * @trentwalton   * @sarajchipps Blogs:   * Coding Horror   * A List Apart   * Fabulous Adventures in Coding   * StackOverflow Blog   * FriendlyBit   * Fiftyfoureleven   * Paul Irish Feeds:   * Reddit Programming Feed   * Y Combinator


fault tolerant uploading tool

I'm setting up a wordpress site for a friend who has some large audio files (around 150M). He's on a bad connection and it'll take him a while to upload those files using the normal wordpress upload tool. I'm looking for a tool that I can install on the server that allows uploads and is also fault tolerant (for example if you loses his connection, or power, or whatever it'll pick up where it left off). I realize normal web technologies probably don't do that, but perhaps flash or something similar will work. Any ideas?


Good SEO information (NO MARKETING)

Where can I find information on SEO without all the marketing crap? Googling always results in "learn SEO fast!" or "buy our SEO training program" I can never find something that is "free". I know much already but because I see no "organization" in SEO I cannot verify if what I know is everything (in IT that is almost never the case but you can get close); so is there at least a good book for SEO or something rather than marketers opinions? I'd like official information from Google, Yahoo/Bing or a reputable book. But no website that is trying to sell me something (unless it's reputable for having information that I do _not_ have to buy). _SEO is not a trade secret is what I am trying to say..._


Multiple 301 redirects, do search engines/viewers see them all?

I've put in place lots of different 301 rules to deal with numerous url changes. And for certain URLS there are 3-4 different 301 redirects landing the visitors to the new URL. I heard that 301 loses pagerank/linkjuice. ALl the 301 are onsite for the same domain. With a mix of php 301s and htaccess 301s. so for instance articles/news.php?id=2 ---> articles/blog.php?id=2 [filename change] articles/* ---> /* [subdir to root] /blog.php?id=2 ---> /title-of-post [mod rewrite url change] so if you were to visit /articles/news.php?id=2 there will be two 301 redirects until you land on the /yellow-wellington-boots/, my question is does google see the intermediate redirects, or just the final page the 301's redirect to.


software for managing ads on site

Could you recommend software to manage ads on a website? I'm talking about self managed banners, not adwords or anything like that. what are some of the commonly used ones? Thanks


Can a site recover by itself after dropping google page rank for 404 errors?

Recently redid a website and changed the directory / URL structure. I did some .htaccess redirects for the main landing pages - however when reviewing web master tools received 404 errors for the rest of the changed URLs and noticed that Google dropped my site from the #1 position to around the 5th page. I corrected all the 404s by providing redirects in the .htaccess, resubmitted the site map and tested the google crawl bot. Will my page regain its rank by itself - or am I going to have to put some time into like I originally did?


Should home page be just domain name or can it be in a folder?

I am working on a website project and the client has requested (for reasons of hosting convenience) that the new website be located in a specific folder. This means that all pages will be in www.domain.com/folder instead of just www.domain.com, and they will have a meta instant redirect on the default page for www.domain.com which will redirect to www.domain.com/folder. I am wondering from a SEO perspective if this is a good idea? I believe that the meta instant refresh will be treated as a 301 (permanent) redirect by the important search engines so I presume that www.domain.com and www.domain.com/folder will be treated as the same page, and also be considered the same page for link popularity too. Is this correct? Is there any arguments (preferably with some sort of proof I can give them) that I can use to argue against them doing this?


CSS reduction for faster loading / less bandwidth

Is compacting CSS / Removing unused rules for a specific page worthwhile in terms of bandwidth or can we rely on caching (headers/last-modified) to remove this overhead in the wild? Cheers Also, good luck with the beta everyone!


What are the Consequences for using Relative Location Headers?

According to the spec, Location headers used in a redirect require a server name               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     ...     Location: http://example.com/foo/baz/bar      However, in 2012, most web browsers will recognize a relative path and redirect you to the new location using the original server name               HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently     ...     Location: /foo/baz/bar      Are there any negative/surprising consequences to using the relative URLs in the Location headers? My particular concern is how Google/search-engines will interpret this, but if there's anything else I'm not thinking about I'd love to hear it.


Google penalty recovery

I have a site, which is a spiritual site and has nothing to do with commercial or business thing. It was in the first page with the keyword `RADHANATH SWAMI`. Then suddenly, in sep'13, the site went out from google search. When I checked my WebmasterTools, I saw that there were 40,000 backlinks from a site named http://freeguestbooks.net.   But manual action section in WebmasterToolssaid "No Manual webspam actions found" and till date, it shows the same. Then I contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and requested him to remove the 40K odd backlinks and he very kindly removed it. The WebmasterTools now shows 21,777 backlinks from this site. But since 2 months, the decrease rate of these backlinks is very slow, almost zero. Again, I had contacted the webmaster of freeguestbooks.net and he confirmed that there are no backlinks pointing to his site. I am also told that my anchor text is over-optimised... Total backlinks to my site as per WebmasterTools is only 24,937 out of which 21,777 are the links from freeguestbooks.net as shown in WebmasterTools. Can you suggest a way out to get back into google?


Allowing Google to index auto generated sub domains

I have a web application where each new customer using the application has their own unique subdomain. This allows them to link to the products they create on our site. If my website is `www.example.com` then my customers get the domain `customer.example.com`. These subdomains are auto generated when the customer sets up their account. What can I do so that Google will index these subdomains?


WordPress login broken when using WooCommerce and Theme My Login

I am running WordPress with WooCommerce and Theme My Login plugins. When a user registers on my site it sends them a confirmation email and then they can click to activate account. Problem is when the user goes to login they get an error of incorrect password. If the user uses the forgot password link and resets the password then they can login without any errors. What might cause this problem? Is the password being encrypted with the wrong method? I went through the registration process and checked the string in the php users table. Password in php table after registration:               $P$BF/gIt6dFfBBuNx6rP41Qv3i71TUie1      Password in php table after change password to same password:               $P$BxpByDbNU3vr3sytTOcbzttp1tOodH1      Do Theme My Login and either WooCommerce or WordPress use different encryption methods?


Canonical links for huge websites

Let's say I have 5 products that are identical but the product code, the product color specifications and the product image. The title, meta and description are identical (by the way the color is in a select form). I made 4 products link canonical to the 1 that is the _master_ based on many factors. If the _master_ becomes inactive or without a stock one product from the other 4 will become the new _master_ and the rest will become canonical to it. The question is if that by becomeing _master_ from canonical will the site suffer a penalty from Google or it will work just fine? What will Google think about this strategy?


Robots.txt to block a parameter instead of a directory

It's my understanding that URLs are of the format example.com/something/somethingelse. It's my understanding that parameters follow the URL with a question mark example.com?l=fr_FR My CMS website has language translations that use parameters. The example above is for the French language version of my site. I would like to block all non english translations from Google Index using robots.txt. In the blocked URLs tool in GWT I tried to test this:               # robots.txt generated at http://www.mcanerin.com     User-agent: *     Disallow:      Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: ?l=      Against the following URL, which appeared as one of the duplicate page titles in HTML improvements.               https://example.com/reports/view/884?l=eu      This is my first time fiddling with this tool in GWT so I'm not sure if I'm using it right. The test results for Googlebot says > Allowed by line 3: Disallow: I wanted the code to prevent Google indexing any URLs that contain the following string > ?l= Here are some examples of URLs I'd like to block from the index. These URLs generate duplicate titles according to GWT. /reports/view/884?l=km /reports/view/884?l=ne_NP /reports/view/884?l=te /index.php/page/index/12?l=fr_FR&l=hy_AM /index.php/page/index/12?l=ht_HT&l=bn_BD /index.php/page/index/12?l=hu_HU&l=hy_AM Can I tell the robots to exclude URLs with tags that contain > ?l=


Does internal link in-page placement (up-down) effect crawl likeness?

I'm trying to encourage Google to crawl more of a specific dynamic section in my site which he's 'neglecting'. I have internal links from my more popular section to this section, but those are at the end of the page. Does the placement location (up-down) of such inner links make a difference when Google tries to focus his crawlers on the more important content?


Good security practice for writing a php/mysql web app

I'm about to create a web app that is php/mysql based. It should contain multiple users and two levels of admin accounts. It will most likely not be very likely to be attacked in any way. Still I am concerned about safety since I'm nowhere near an online security expert. What are some good basic security practices for writing such a program? I will rent space at a web hotel which I assume keeps the basic installation at a reasonably safe level.


Lost permission for anyone to access my websites

Yesterday I mysteriously lost the permission to remote desktop to my Windows 2008 server as Administrator. At the same time when trying to access my website I got a window up prompting me for a user name and password to view the website. Anyway, my hosting provider believe I've been hacked. Ok now, I have remote access, but what setting must I change in IIS to allow anyone to view the websites hosted on the server.


Facebook connect And Yahoo.. How and what exactly happened? Is there way to import facebook friend's email id?

I have seen that yahoo now enables their users to import facebook friend's email addresses into their yahoo addressbook. As far as i know, facebook doesn't allow any API to fetch email addresses of any user on external websites. I have also seen that Yahoo imports email addresses only when the friend's have chosen not to display their contact email to themselves only. Many people in the world trying to implement applications using facebook's API to import email addresses of friend's (Only those email addresses which are visible on user's facebook profile) but API calls always return NULL to their requests. So i would like to know what exactly happened between facebook and yahoo? Does facebook have provided any concessions to Yahoo's addressbook importer application to import facebook user's email addresses? Is there any working API/method/way available to fetch email addresses of facebook friends who have chosen to display their contact email ids on their profile with 1: only visible to friends, 2: visible to everyone privacy settings? I have also seen that, facebook API page clearly listen that email/contact_email field's can be fetched using FQL. Nevertheless there is no official explanation on this issue of returning NULL when email/contact_email is requested from any API call. Regards


Put files outside of directory, so none can access it (Apache, PHP, MySQL)

I have a file structure like this:               public/admin     public/some folder     includes/        I set up a sub-domain `page.mysite.com` and I pointed the directory to be `mysite.com/page/public/admin`. I thought that it would work ok, but it seems that it's not loading contents that are outside of admin (in this case target folder), so it can't see any files outsite admin. What could the problem be? P.S. I have a shared hosting, so I can access only Cpanel and FTP (just in case you know).


Facebook likes Influence SEO ranking

I have seen some data that shows strong correlation between number of Facebook shares and Google ranking position. It makes sense. But I am wondering how does Google know number of Facebook shares. Viewing my html page source doesn't show it because the number is printed with javascript. Do I need to make any other step or is enough to just put like button?


Dreamweaver: Overlaying an image so it makes it easier to adjust CSS and positioning items?

I have a website i have created in Photoshop, i am exported everything i need. I now need to set things up in dreamweaver and position thing using CSS. I want to ensure that i align my items in HTML exactly how they are in the PSD. Does dreamweaver support Alpha overlays or something similar ?


SEO sitemap submission

I always assumed SEO was simply a buzzword that meant "using content that makes sense". Obviously it gets a little bit more complicated than that, using realistic search terms in header tags and things, but that was a far as it got. I was speaking to someone today about this, and they said how there's a second aspect to web design. Submitting sitemaps to Google. A weekly sitemap submission to Google was a way to seriously boost rankings. Is this true, and how can this process be automated?


Google Analytics Unique Events count discrepancy for dependent events

We have a web page using Google's new analytics.js Event Tracking with the following user flow:   1. User lands on home page   2. User is presented with a visible "Play" button    3. User clicks the Play button, a Google Event is captured: `ga('send', 'event', 'videos', 'play');` and a previously invisible "Stop" button is now made visible   4. User clicks the newly visible Stop button, a google Event is captured: `ga('send', 'event', 'videos', 'stop');` Our Google Analytics stats are showing that the **Total** count of `play` event actions is greater than the **Total** count of `stop` event actions. Almost a 2:1 ratio. That makes sense as clicking 'play' is required to present the 'stop' button, and not every user will ultimately click the stop button. Some may watch until the end of the video. The problem we're seeing is in the count of **Unique** events. The count of **Unique** events for the `stop` event action is greater than the **Unique** events for the `play` event action. Almost 25% higher. How is this possible when a click of the 'play' button is required in order to see and click the 'stop' button? The videos are not longer than the standard Google Analytics 30min visit session so it's not an issue of session timeout between the `play` and `stop` event interactions.


Email sent via Google via relayhost being marked as spam

Company email hosted by Google Apps. Company PBX in-house is Elastix. All voicemails received on the extensions of Elastix are supposed to be emailed by the CentOS server (Postfix) to the email address of the employee. Using relayhost on postfix, I am sending those emails through Google Apps (smtp.gmail.com), but some of these voicemail emails end up in the spam. Sending it through Google, and sending it to an email hosted by Google - yet there's spam. Email sent from the Google Apps interface - no complaints of it going to spam - just from the Elastix server. I've just asked our DNS domain guys to add spf records, but is that all that's needed? Some help please!


301 redirect from "/index.html" to root if index.html not exist

Can I create 301 redirect from "index.html" to root directory if file "index.html" not exist? For example: link "`http://example.com/index.html`" show "404 Error" page. I need 301 redirect to root directory: "`http://example.com/`" in .htaccess I add rule:               Options +FollowSymLinks     RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^.*/index.html      RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ http://example.com/$1 [R=301,L]      but it doesn't work. Can you help me solve this problem?


nofollow links on jQuery interaction

Is it important to use `rel="nofollow"` on jQuery interaction links? `<a href="#" rel="nofollow">jQuery interaction link</a>`


Deleted user content, 404, Webmaster Tools errors

I have a website with a lot of user content. This content can be deleted.   Right now, when someone lands on a deleted content, I send a 404 with a custom page telling "this content was been deleted, here's a list of other content you might find interesting". All of this is fine for the user perspective. When I open up Google Webmaster Tools, I often get a bunch of items in the error report telling me I have 404 pages. I kinda don't like having items in that list. I'm I doing this right? Should I really send a 404 on deleted content? (are there alternative)


Revamped Joomla site to Google search engine

I am about to upload a revamped site of Joomla (update from 1.5 to 2.5 + changes). I currently have a test bed subdomain that I am currently working on. In few days I am about to do the swap and replace the old site with the new one. I am worrying about Search Engines and specifically Google. The site currently has a very good rank (appears 2nd in the search), what actions do I have to take in order to be updated and preserve the rank? (except submitting the new sitemap I guess). It's not a difficult task but because I don't have the option to be wrong or mistakes to be done I an asking for a more "expert" advice.


Can a website require search engine robots to support cookies?

Sometimes I pretend to be a search engine robot to get access to "subscriber only" web pages, or just to get a plain and simple view of a page that isn't cluttered with moving animations and other irrelevant crap. Lately I have noticed that some web sites require cookies to be turned on, even if you are a bot. What is the purpose of this? Why would a search engine robot need to accept cookies? Or is this just because the guy who designed the web site screwed up?


"Syntax not understood" error in Google Webmaster Tools robots.txt analysis when I use RewriteRule

In order to redirect my `www.site.com` to `non-www`, I employed this bit of code found somewhere on the web.               RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://website.com/$1 [L,R=301]      Although the site redirects fine, I get the "syntax not understood" warning in Google Webmaster Tools under: _webmaster tools-> Crawl-> Blocked URLs->robots.txt analysis_ Google Webmaster Tools detects the sitemap just fine. I guess not much is wrong because of this, but is there a way to correct this, as I am getting errors like below:               Line 20: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website.com [NC]     Syntax not understood     Line 21: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://website.com/$1 [L,R=301] Syntax not understood      * * * This is how it displays when I visit the robots.txt directly.               User-agent: *          Disallow: /cgi-bin/     Disallow: /jwp/     Disallow: /wp-admin/     Disallow: /wp-includes/     Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/     Disallow: /wp-content/cache/     Disallow: /wp-content/themes/     Disallow: /trackback/     Disallow: /feed/     Disallow: /comments/     Disallow: /category/*/*     Disallow: */trackback/     Disallow: */feed/     Disallow: */comments/     Disallow: /*?          # REDIRECTING WWW. TO NON-WWW     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.website.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://website.com/$1 [L,R=301]          Sitemap: http://website.com/sitemap_index.xml


Using Pragma header on HTTP 1.1

would like know your opinion about using Pragma header when script is called in HTTP version 1.1 I don't know is good to return both Pragma and Cache-Control or rather return only Cache-Control and at HTTP 1.0 return only Pragma ???


How to edit the pages on your domain on Godaddy?

I bought a domain from godaddy.com and I was wondering how to I edit the information on the webpage? Like html FTP and such. And sorry if this isn't on the correct stack website, but this seems like it would be the best to post this question on.


How frequently does Googlebot fetch sitemaps? Does it depend on PageRank?

How frequently does Google fetch sitemaps? I am now working with a high traffic website that normally has 30 new posts per minute. It currently it provides a sitemap which only includes the 100 newest posts (3 minutes).   1. Is this method is enough? Do bots fetch sitemaps every 3 minutes?   2. Does the site need sitemaps to list all 5M posts? How would providing these sitemaps change traffic and PageRank?   3. Will Googlebot remove URLs that were previously listed in sitemaps but now are not?


Wordpress plugin for syntax highlighting

What nice syntax highlighting plugins do people use for Wordpress?


Why are we being twitter spammed?

This is a search relating to us: https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/scirra We're getting a of of new accounts tweeting: `The Layers Bar - Scirra.com` Firstly this is not us doing it as we're quite proud of doing everything completely whitehat. Also this tweet doesn't make any sense, "The Layers Bar" seems to be referring to a manual entry of ours. They all seem to be new accounts with no followers and no prior tweets coming in like clockwork every hour.   * Does anyone know why this could be happening?   * Could this harm us?   * It it possible to find out the source of this? I should mention I'm hesitant to report them all as spam because it could look like we are the culprits.


How to make a printer-friendly version of a webpage?

What solutions or techniques exist for offering users a printer-friendly versions of a webpage?


Replace %26 in htaccess to %2526

I would like htaccess to rewrite example.com/something_%26_else into example.com/something_%2526_else. I'm importing a bunch of pages that have ampersands in the title from Mediawiki. These are encoded as %26. Drupal, for various reasons, has decided double encode the url it to have it become %2526. I simply can't create the alisis within Drupal so I have to use htaccess This is what I have as my rule so far as RewriteRule ^w/([^%26]+)\%26(.*)$ w/$1\%2526$2 [R=301] I asked this question three months ago on stackexchange and was not able to get it working. I tried hiring a contractor for this but was unable to find one. So this my last ditch effort before I completely give up. I really appreciate the help. All the best, Patrick


What payment gateways fit my website?

I am building an image hosting website and users will pay for extra storage, this means that for example: each 1GB over the first 3GB, I will charge the user for some money per GB. I want to integrate in my website a payment way so that I can let the users pay through and also let me to collect these money later either getting them through ATM or to get it in my bank account. I can't user paypal because it is not working in my country Egypt. Can you advice me with a service and some tips about how users will pay and how I will get the money from.


Are there any online tools that can help me find problems with my website?

I can run lots of performance tools on my server, but what is with problems that are only visible from the outside? Are there any tools that can help me with this?


What is the most semantically correct structure of a blog page using HTML5 tags?

I'd like to _grok_ the ultimate nature of `<aside>`, `<section>`, `<article>`. What is the best, most semantically correct structure of a blog page using HTML5 tags? Should I put the sidebar inside an `<aside>`? Or does this rather belong into a `<section>` (as `<aside>` should be used for advertisements, short quotes and such)? How should I present the main feature, the blog post? How do I use `<article>` correctly? How should I mark-up the article tags?


Alternative Advertisers for my web site

I have a website where I have many of the programs I host, and I am looking for alternatives for publishing ads. The reason why I'm asking is because traffic on my site has more then tripled the ad revenue has gone down. I know about google adsense and adbrite. Requirements are:   * Control over the ads   * Regular ads   * (bonus) Ability to control the ads via "type" like automaticly block moving/annoying clash ads My site has over 20k pageviews a month. ## AdSense   * +No minimum requirements for traffic.   * +No adult ads   * +Some times gives out free ad money, so you can advertise you site.   * -Very limited control over the ads ( You can block specific domains where the ads come from).   * -Many "scammy" ads over products that seems to good to be true (IE download X to fix your computer). ## Adbrite   * -Can't really say much about them, I "gave" them 250k page views and I got less then 1 dollar in revenue back. **When adding information about an ad publisher, please provide some basic information to help others viewing this topic. And if your willing provide personal experience also.**


Running a single web site on multiple hosts across the world to improve regional performance

Currently I have a web site that is hosted in the US, however there are people from all over the world that use it. Due to the site serving high bandwidth content, certain areas in the world experience a slower service than that in the US. The website relies heavily on all its content which is stored in a database and which is contributed to by its user base. Therefore the database content is always changing everyday. I have optimized the site for speed e.g. gzip, caching.   * Is it possible to setup the site on multiple hosts around the world and force users from certain regions to direct to their closest server?    * How would this be achieved?   * Are there any pitfalls to watch out for?   * Should I have separate domains for each area e.g. .com .co.uk etc or should I have: e.g. www.domain.com; www.domain.com/uk/ ?   * Do I have a database per host? A single one would still require the data to be fetched from a far away location.   * How would I keep the databases up-to-date? Thanks for any help.


Handing back-link SEO value to another site

The company I work for hosts several websites - one of these is a UK brand that's been around for years, another of them is a bit newer and is basically a white-label/affiliate site that re-skins itself - the idea being that we can go to company A or company B and say "Hey, would you like to sell our products? Here's a free micro-site, just link to it from yours..." Some of the people who have taken us up on this are quite large firms and and as a result this affiliate site is now out-ranking our main UK consumer brand (we think due to the high quality back links). Our top brass aren't really happy about this and are asking if there's any way we can take the value of those back links and transfer them to our main consumer brand. Now, I personally don't agree with this ethically, but I have been asked the question and I honestly don't know the answer. If it helps, the affiliate site and the main consumer brand share a CMS, so the copy is the same. Is there any way of (as my managers have started describing it) me "juicing" one site from the backlinks of another using meta/canonical tags?


301 or 302 redirect for mobile/non-mobile pages

I'm setting up redirection for mobile/non-mobile pages. User agent is detected and redirected appropriately, but the `?mobile=1` or `?mobile=0` flag can be used to force a switch. When that flag is used, I always do a 301 redirect because the `?mobile=` links should not be indexed, just their targets. Is this a correct assumption? Additionally, there is the case of redirection by trying to visit the mobile link `/m` with a non-mobile user agent and vice versa. In this case I want to do a 301 redirect as well (mostly because it makes the code simpler), but I think it also makes sense to me semantically; the target URL for your user agent is the correct one. A coworker is insisting that `/m` visits by a non-mobile user agent should do a 302 redirect because the `/m` link is valid. However, the only way to make it valid is to either visit `?mobile=1` at the same time (which would already do a 301 redirect to `/m`) or to have something else on our website that sets the session to mobile, which is something we either rarely or never do. Google's documentation seems to indicate that it actually doesn't matter if you use 302 or 301 for mobile/non-mobile redirection (at least if you have the `Vary: User-Agent` header and/or `rel="alternate"` link specification; we currently have neither, though). My arguments for the 301 are:   * Simplifies the code a bit   * Non-mobile spiders will not index the `/m` link, so theoretically it should not show up for search results which spares non-mobile users an additional redirect when they visit the link (similar situation for mobile spiders/users) However, he does have a point about both of the URLs being valid. Which status code would be better to use in this case?


Toggling between hidden divs instead of two links

For each entity in my site I have a 'joint' section (~30%), and a sub-section (~70%) which has two different options, meaning I only display ONE of them at a time. Currently I have two different links both about the same entity, with a different sub-section. There is a toggle menu that moves from one link to the other. The SEO problem I see here, is when searching for an entity, search engines will have two competing pages from my site, instead of one higher ranked page. I understand the best solution would be to create one page that has both sub- sections, but it's an hard UX task. The solution I want advice on, is pre- loading both sub-sections, making one sub-section 'hidden' and toggling between them through the menu (instead of making it change the url) and mention that with a # in the URL. Considering this toggle is changing most of the page (~70%) would Google Index both sub-sections? Should this improve SEO?


Multiple calls for mutiple Facebook, twitter buttons

If a page has multiple facebook/twitter buttons for multiple stories (24 buttons for 24 stories), its creating 24 files for fb likes and 24 folders for twitter where count is saved. This is making the page heavy unnecessarily. Can we store it in single file? Please help.


POST data to another form with php

I want to create a form on my page to get information this is easily done and the problem. I want to 'POST' information to my own php-page, creating a new id and saving the information to my database. And then this page should redirect to the external page via 'POST' with id, price and so on. The external page is a page to pay, so the customer should get this external site and should be able to use it like a normal page(maybe target="_blank"). **In Short** :   1. Customer provides information such as item to buy, purchase amount, shipping address etc.   2. Information will be saved into the database and will need to generate a new customer id.   3. Page redirects to external payment page, sending id, price, payment information via 'POST'. My problem is, how to redirect to the external page but sending custom information via 'POST'.


301 or 302 for url that changed but new page might exist in old url

I have pages for usernames. e.g. `http://mydomain.com/user/<username>` I'm trying to handle the case a user changes his username. What kind of redirect from old username url to new username url should I do? I would want a 301 to keep link juice but am concerned about what will happen when another user uses the same old username making the url live again.


Open-Source cPanel alternative?

Are there any decent (i.e. stable and mature enough to use on paying clients) open-source alternatives to the cPanel web hosting control panel system? I'm fine with paying for it, but it must be open-source so that I can add Python/Django hosting features.


Using Schema logo markup with SVG images

I've made a logo which is awesome and I've saved it in AI and SVG format. I wish to use the SVG file on the a site as the logo will appear many times all over the site and would be better than saving the logo in PNG format and having unnecessary server-side requests. Now, this works great using:               <svg id="my-logo" height="60" width="60"           xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >       <g transform="scale(0.1)">         <image x="0" y="0" height="600" width="600" xlink:href="my-logo.svg" />       </g>     </svg>      Now the problem arises when using Schema logo markup. Using:               <svg itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization" id="my-logo" height="60" width="60"           xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" >       <g transform="scale(0.1)">         <image itemprop="logo" x="0" y="0" height="600" width="600" xlink:href="my-logo.svg" />       </g>     </svg>      As I expected it fails w3c validation and I am greeted with the following error messages:   * Attribute itemscope not allowed on element svg at this point.   * Attribute itemtype not allowed on element svg at this point.   * Attribute itemprop not allowed on element image at this point. Now I know that W3C validation isn't an essential thing but I'd prefer to have a solution which does satisfy both Google and W3C. I'm sure that some W3C guru will be able to point me in the right direction, I'd perfer not to use DATA URI if possible as I know that could be one solution but correct me if I'm wrong or not DATA URI's are not-cachable.


Will Google AdSense punish me for having 100% width banner ads?

I'm using Google AdSense and I've read that they don't like people changing their Ad code. I'm using this code:                if ( adWidth <= 625 )      google_ad_size = ["100", "50"];  /* Banner (468 x 60) */      else if ( adWidth >= 626 )      google_ad_size = ["100", "90"];           document.write (      '<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;margin-top:45px;width:'        + google_ad_size[0] + '%;height:'        + google_ad_size[1] + 'px" data-ad-client="'        + google_ad_client + '" data-ad-slot="'        + google_ad_slot + '"></ins>'     );      I've added a margin-top and a width of 100%, now will Google punish me for doing that? I don't want to end up a few weeks after launch with Google banning my account.


Fake links cause crawl error in Google Webmaster Tools

Google reported Crawl Errors last week on my largest site though Webmaster Tools. Here is the message: > Google detected a significant increase in the number of URLs that return a > 404 (Page Not Found) error. Investigating these errors and fixing them where > appropriate ensures that Google can successfully crawl your site's pages. The Crawl Errors list is now full of hundreds of fake links like these causing 16,519 errors so far: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/Gqs80.png) Note that my site does not even have a `search.html` and is not related to any of the terms shown in the above image. Inspecting sources for one of those links, I can see this is not simply an isolated source but a concerted effort: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/8i9lP.png) Each of the links has a few to a dozen sources all from different, seemingly unrelated sites. It is completely baffling as to why would someone to spending effort doing this. What are they hoping to achieve? Is this an attack? Most importantly: **Does this have a negative effect on my side?** Could it negatively impact my ranking? **If so, what to do about it?** The few linking pages I looked at are full of thousands of links to tons of sites and have no contact information and do not seem like the kind of people who would simply stop if asked nicely! According to Google Webmaster Tools, these errors have appeared in a span of 11 days. No crawl errors were being reported previously.


How to fix thousands of 404's?

The business I work for recently migrated our e-commerce site from Celerant to Magento. Despite using a robots.txt file and a 301 redirect extension, webmaster tools is reporting that our "not found" errors are increasing by the day- actually 200,000+, all from our old site. I've tried 301 redirects which don't seem to be working and then blocking the URLs with the robots.txt with Disallows including wildcards but the errors continue to increase. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Here is an example of one of our 404 URLs. This is how we tried to block it in our robots.txt. Is this correct? Originally we used:               Disallow: /category.cfm      A few days ago we decided to try:               Disallow: /*category


Domain, Hosting and DNS management on 3 seperate providers - is this possible?

_**I wanted to know if its possible to do the following:_**   1. Buy Domain from GoDaddy.   2. Buy Hosting from HostGator.   3. Buy DNS Management from DNS Made Easy.


Google Analytics: What is the limit of tracked pageviews per month?

I have been looking around to try and find some confirmation and clarity on the limit of pageviews that Google allow per month for a Google Analytics account. I have read that the limit of **hits** per month is 10,000,000, and the limit of pageviews is 5,000,000. Putting 2 and 2 together I am thinking this is to allow the other 5,000,000 for events and social clicks and the like? Google's documentation states 5 million, but the hits/pageviews is a bit of a grey area as I've read suggestions that the limit can be considered as 10 million.


Multiple Sitemaps Doesn't Index Quickly - How To Get Quick Index

I have a serious problem in my site: http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com I will create multiple `sitemaps.xml` with all terms & conditions of Google Webmaster and some other search engines. I have 37 sitemaps each average 25.000 links, but totally index that 15.000 links only. My sitemap link is http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com/sitemap_index.xml


How does duplicate Google Analytics tracking code affect a site?

I have a site where I can see that the tracking code has been added twice (once in the Drupal GA module, and once added manually in the template file). Both scripts are pointing to the exact same account. What are the consequences of this? I am looking into the issue since the bounce rate seems to be extremely low over the last few months compared to usual. Would this be a reason for that, or is something else causing that issue? Would double tacking code produce double the hits in Google Analytics?


Recommended approach for implementing breadcrumbs

I want to implement breadcrumbs on a website, now I'm struggling on how to best implement them. Users can search for products but can also navigate to a product category to find a product. On a product page the user can click on a product category to find similar products. So the users has different paths to reach a specific product / page. I think I have two options to implement breadcrumbs **Option 1:** Add every visited page to the breadcrumb. For example: Home > Search Results > product 1 > Category 2 > product 2 Disadvantage: breadcrum can become very long **Option 2:** Specify for every page a specific fixed breadcrumb for example: Home > category 1 > product 1 Issue: what to do with products that are in multiple categories? What are you opinions? Is there option 3 that I have overlooked?


Running a Python CGI Web App off of a DVD

I have run into a rather unique situation. I need to deploy a web application that uses Python CGI on a DVD. No software can be downloaded onto the computer of the user. Does anyone have any ideas for how this can be accomplished?


fully encrypt website using SSL

I had been trying to use SSL for the following site http://bit.ly/e8Lj32 , although the SSL certificate is signed properly by networksolutions , each time the pages are loaded it still displays an SSl warning in browser warning "Some parts of the site are not using SSL" , in I.E, its even worst if you hit "no I dont want view unsecured part of the page" site does not display properly (as it blocks some of the widgets) screenshots upped at http://i.stack.imgur.com/fm5GO.png


I am 16 and want to learn how to develop websites (complex sites with video and members).. what language do you suggest I learn?

I am trying to get into programming for web development and PHP seems like a good language to use for that. I want to make complex sites with videos and member logins like a YouTube. I didn't know whether I should learn another language before I learn PHP or if I should just start with PHP. I have been trying to learn PHP from this book and have been having a difficult time starting. I just don't know what to do with the info in the book.


Analytics - Where do my drop offs go?

I have a website set up with Google Analytics (through the Wordpress plugin "Google Analytics for WordPress" by Joos de Valk). When I check out the visitors flow in Google Analytics, it shows something like this:               (home) - 43% drop-offs      /page-2/ - 10% drop-offs      ... etc ...      I have also set up events for external links. My main "goal" of the website is to drive traffic to my Android app on Google Play, so I have a couple of different links to that that are all set up as events. Everything seems to be working, my events show up when I go to Content -> Events in Google Analytics. However, it seems to me that some percentage of the users that are reported as "drop-offs" in fact have clicked on one of the external links. But there's no info about the reason of those drop-offs in the Visitors flow-chart. I can of course check out each specific event category, event action and set "other" to Content/Page, which (I guess) shows the number of visitors who triggered a specific event on a specific page. It just seems like such a complicated way of going about this! So, is there a way to get a more detailed picture, including events, in the Visitors flow chart? Something like:               (home) - 43% drop-offs                 Event Action: "Google Play"=50%, "Youtube"=10%, (not set)=40%


Getting the filename associated with a sample in the "Downloadable Information" area in Magento

I'm working on a customization of the "Samples" block on Products. Basically what I need to know is how to get the file name from a sample. So, I can use the following code in my view to get an array of samples:               <?php $_samples = $this->getSamples() ?>      ... and I can iterate over those samples well enough. What I'm trying to figure out, is, how can I get the name of the file associated with that sample? I basically want to do a customization to the view where, if the sample file is an MP3, I display an embedded player. For all other file types, the default behavior (a link is shown, which when clicked, opens a new window and displays the sample) is perfectly fine.


Remembering CSS left, top, right, bottom

When using CSS what little tricks have you done to remember (perhaps a saying?) the order of left, top, right, bottom when defining combined CSS attributes such as border, margin and padding. I'm forever forgetting and Google seems populated with crap like W3Schools.


IIS 7.5 setting error page with iis stopped

Can you set a custom Error page if IIS is stopped or recycling for an extended period of time?


Why is my cache manifest failing?

I have created the following cache maniest file-               CACHE MANIFEST     CACHE:     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js     http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.10.0/jquery-ui.min.js     http://bharath.lohray.com/scripts/jquery.jsPlumb-1.3.16-all-min.js     http://bharath.lohray.com/scripts/jqui-ui-smoothness/jquery-ui-1.10.0.custom.min.css      When I call it in my HTML Page, certain other resources fail to load without a 404 error. Below is the screen shot of the network tab from the chrome developer tools. removing the `manifest="app.mf"` attribute from the `<html>` tag and clearing the application cache makes everything work as expected. What could be wrong? ![Network Tab from Chrome Developer tools](http://i.stack.imgur.com/QKL5G.png)


Apache/ISS equivalent

I've always used Apache for all my web development work and I'm struggling to get my head around IIS. I've got an API that re-routes all requests to one particular file: 'api.php', how would I do the following in IIS:               RewriteEngine on     RewriteRule ^/.* /api.php      My server only allows web.config files to achieve this so I have no access to IIS manager, or anything of that nature. I'm using IIS 7.5.


Asp/asp.net Hosting Info Page

As I know there is a phpinfo() function to view php hosting as a info page. Is there a asp/asp.net info page for an asp/asp.net hosting?


301 redirected an entire website 4.5 months ago; still showing up in Google search results?

Consolidated two websites on December 9, 2013; a site wide page-to-page 301 redirect was implemented which redirects site A to site B Website A (the one being redirected) is:   * Still showing up in Google search results (the link properly 301 redirects to the new site)   * Still showing up in our site B Google Webmaster Tools (GWT) site links report as a top source of inbound links I don't know how to "jog" Google into recognizing that this site is gone; we do still have site B Thoughts:   * Site A still has a GWT entry, deleting this might help   * We could turn off the redirects... Any other suggestions/answers? **Updates:** I disabled the redirects, used the Change of Address tool and then reactivated the 301s The index for the nonexistent site is continuing to drop at a pretty steady pace (no indication that the Change of Address tool helped or hindered) Now if only I could get them to remove mention of the "links" from the nonexistent site to the main site in the main site's "Links to your site" report Considering disabling the redirects and allowing the old site to be truly "gone"


Public data about a website I do not own

I am looking at a competitors site. The site is technologically advanced but I do not believe it is efficient in converting visitors to customers. I would like to look at any publically available data about the website so that I can get a grasp on how the competitor is doing online. Where can I get the data?


Can't Make Changes via FTP on my Ubuntu Server

I'm very new to server management, I literally just set this up for the first time a couple weeks ago, no idea what I'm doing. In order to allow WordPress to run updates, apparently everything needs to be owned by `www-data`, but if everything is owned by www-data, I can't FTP with the user `revxx14`. When I try, I can't make any changes (deletions, additions, updating files, nothing. I get permission denied errors across the board). Is there a way to give my user the same permissions as www-data, so that I'll be able to keep www-data the owner, but still be able to make changes via FTP? Thanks.


Moving blog posts from one Wordpress site to another - will Feedburner resend out old posts?

I'm moving Wordpress blog posts from one domain to another and I wanted to know if Feedburner will resend the old blog posts out to my subscribers when the transfer is made. If so, how to I stop Feedburner from sending out the old blog posts while ensuring that Feedburner still sends out only new posts?


How to show content for logged-in vs logged-out users?

We have a set of pages with the following urls:               www.mysite.com/info/page1.html     www.mysite.com/info/page2.html     www.mysite.com/info/page3.html      Each has a structure as follows:               ----------------------     |          A         |     |--------------------|     |  |                 |     |B |        C        |     |  |                 |     ----------------------     |          D         |     |--------------------|          A: is the "header" area     B: is a list of menu items which show a bunch of menus, sub-menus and the         currently selected sub-menu     C: is the content, shown depending on what is selected on B     D: is a common footer to all       Our current solution is to manage everything not as html files, but as entries in a database table and to generate the html page depending on the url sought... For example a mod_rewrite rule sends:               www.mysite/info/page1.html      to               showpages.php?url=page1      and that fetches the html for C from the DB table and shows the page properly. I want to break away from this model because it is VERY slow on fetching large pages ("C"). My problems are two-fold:   1. The above pages need to be shown to a "logged-in" user, in which case the header ("A") is dynamically created.   2. With a view on maintainability, I DON'T want several copies of the same code (whether html or php to float around). If I simply use pure html / js along with iframes I shouldnt have a problem displaying pages 1 to 4. However, I dont know how to manage the scenario when the user is logged in. * * * > Can you provide more info to help us understanding the problem? Are you > using a Content Management System? no its a custom php website > Are you using frames? actually we're not using iframes in our present setup, but am not averse to doing so if its makes sense in the ideal solution > How do you do the login now? we have the login form on the "header section" (A) and when the user is logged in, it customizes the header. > Why is it that your current method is slower than other methods, if the > content is the same? Our current system picks up the content "C" from a table. Since the content is rather large, it slows the page load. I'm trying to move the html content from the db to an actual file on disk. If i just had to deal with logged-out / anonymous users, i would have used iframes to display (A), (B), (C) and (D). And with javascript, navigated to a different page and change contents of (C). One more perteninet fact - I currently have a php script userheader.php which generates the html for both logged-in and logged-out users (ie "A").


Domain mapping / aliassing to subdomain

We have a VPS (cpanel/whm) for hosting several website, each site is created in subdomain   * one.domain.com, two.domain.com, three.domain.com, etc. now we want to have unique domain for every subdomain   * www.web-one.com -> one.domain.com, www.web-two.com -> two.domain.com, etc how to configure the domain masking/mapping/aliasing so when customer visit the url bar shows:   * www.web-one.com/folder/one.html instead of one.domain.com/folder/one.html


SEO: h1 with text vs. h1 with bg image and hidden text

Having an h1 with "real" text in it is just as good for SEO as having that h1 with an image background and the same text, but set to be indented to -9999px and ltr?


What is best for SEO: 2 domain names or 2 sites under same domain?

I have a site www.product.com and another site www.productblogg.com. The content is different on the 2 sites but they "talk" about the same product. and... the www.productblogg.com use a multi-blog-system so there are about 20 blogs under that domain that all link back to www.product.com Is it better to have www.product.com/blog istead of having 2 domains?


For good SEO does my company's name need to be in text on each page or can a logo suffice?

If I have a website that is for example MyTerrificBrand.com, then for good SEO do I need to have the words MyTerrificBrand (the name of the company) in the header as searchable text (on the top left, styled to be large and to stand out, of course) alongside the logo, or can I have purely an image containing MyTerrificBrand plus the logo? The reason for my question is that our graphic designer styled the "MyTerrificBrand" in a unique way that we can't approximate through the stylesheet, so we'd prefer to use an image for MyTerrificBrand plus the logo. But SEO is more important to us than a perfectly drawn company name. Amazon.com and eBay for instance use an image on the top-left containing their names, not styled text. Is that okay for SEO?


Same sitemap submitted for .com and .co.uk domain

Not to sure why I did this. But I submitted the same sitemap for our `.co.uk` and `.com` domain. Looking to put the `.com` domain on different hosting and create a new site for international customers using `.com` domain. Should I remove all URLs in Google Webmaster Tools for the `.com` domain, guessing this won't have a negative effect on `.co.uk` stuff and add _robot.txt_ to make sure the `.com` domain is not crawled?


Tool to check non-SSL calls?

Is there a tool that will scan all elements on a webpage and report which item is making a non-SSL call? My webapp keeps showing the mixed use icon and everything I can see is good. :/ Thanks!


How premium ad networks calculate the payout?

I'm wondering how premium ad networks (The Deck, Carbon Ads, Fusion Ads, etc..) calculate the payout for publishers. The problem is they have a fixed price for a fixed timeframe (30 days or a week) instead of the classic "for N impressions" price, so how they assign the payout to the whole network? They have usually 15-30 sites in a network and costs about 1500-2000$ (a lot more for The Deck) for a 30 day campaign. How they could give these high payouts everyone is talking about, even if (I suppose) their cut is 20%-30%? And suppose if they don't fill all the available ad slots for one month, the payout will depend on how many paying advertisers they have for that month? Could be possible it's so variable?


What causes a website's alexa page-rank and traffic data to display highly regular sine wave patterns over a period of 30 days?

At first I wondered if it was due to the traffic difference between day and night, but that turned out not to be the case, since the period of rise and drop in traffic was about a week, not overnight. The website I'm looking at is this one (it's not mine). Looks weird, right?


Is website visited by search engines?

How can I find out that my website which is actually uploaded on webhosting for about two months is visited by search engines like google, yahoo and others? Which ranking sites should I regularly check to see how my web is in according to other websites?


Googlebot fetching lots of URLs with a "workaround" parameter

A certain page on our website keeps generating entries like the following on our IIS6 logs:               2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707368055555 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707277777777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707347222222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707291666666 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707263888888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707326388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707437500000 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707451388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707340277777 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:34 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707270833333 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707381944444 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707284722222 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0     2011-08-16 00:53:35 W3SVC943830190 10.20.101.146 GET /abc workaround=407707201388888 80 - 66.249.85.65 - 200 0 0      Doing a reverse DNS lookup, these IP addresses making these calls seems to be a Googlebot. What does "workaround=" on this line mean? We always seem to be getting "workaround=" calls on 1 particular page only, sometimes multiple times within a few seconds like this example. What is the cause of this and how can I prevent it? This specific page does make AJAX calls via jQuery to a 3rd party service and they are reporting a spike in calls being made and I am suspecting this bot calls to be the issue.


Moving domains with webmaster tools - dropped serp

I had an application on a domain while it was in development, for around one year. During that time content grew steadily but the application was buggy and google found plenty of errors. Four months ago I moved the complete application to a new domain but I did not use google webmaster tools to change the address. Recently I have started to do well for my main keyword and decided that I would 'move' the old domain to the new, in order to give the site increased age. Today I find myself dropped from position 18 to 34 for my keyword which is rather disappointing to say the least. Not having changed anything else, can anyone envisage my being penalised for this change of address. Should I cancel the request or might it fix itself? Advice is appreciated.


Can I block requests that have no user agent because they cause 404 errors?

Is it OK to block requests that contain no user agent? I am getting random 404 errors on URLs I have never used. These requests have no user agent. If this is the case, will it affect any of my SEO?


What could make Google search strange URL in Google Webmaster Tools?

In my Webmaster Tools console I can see that Google tries to access very strange URLs, receiving a 404. For example: http://www.example.com/vacanze-hotel.html/vacanze-parchi/vacanze- sicilia-villaggi/vacanze-offerte/vacanze-parchi/vacanze-toscana- villaggi/vacanze-piemonte-villaggi/vacanze-liguria-villaggi/vacanze-marche- villaggi/vacanze-emilia-romagna-villaggi/vacanze-basilicata-villaggi/vacanze- campania-villaggi/ It's a very long URL indeed! and it's not listed in any _sitemap.xml_ , or linked from anywhere in my site (I suppose! it's a very big site) What could make Google search that strange URL?


Most used Free (a in Open) Joomla Extensions

I've just come back to using Joomla, and the number of extensions that claim to be Open Source, but then offer a 'free' and crippled version to tempt users to the paid proper version is a little gutting. What are the trully Open extensions most in use, and for what ? (One extension per answer)


Looking for a modern payment processor which accepts adult sites

I love how easy authorize.net is to use, but they don't accept adult sites. I am lanching an adult site soon but I can't find any good credit card processors I can use. Most sites use CCbill or Epoch but they are both terrible since the customer is redirected to their external site which also has an ancient 1990's look. It's not like authorize.net's API that you can query and get the result back as to whether the payment went through or not. This makes authorize.net blend seamlessly with the product. But since adult sites are against their TOS and also paypals, what is a good alternative? I am looking for one that won't redirect the user from my site, is big enough to be reliable and trustworthy and has fairly low rates. Any help is appreciated!


Redirect AFTER Initiating download

I have a question - is there any way to initiate a download and AFTER the user has confirmed the download then redirect to another site? Is something like that possible via ASP or another language commonly used for websites? Bad PHP "user experience" scenario (In use right now)   * a) User comes to site, clicks download button    * b) Users sees "download" landing page, gets redirected after 5 seconds   * c) Download starts on Thankyoupage Good "user experience" scenario: (my dream solution, what I want)   * a) User comes to site, clicks download button    * b) Download starts immediately on landing page    * c) Download confirmed, redirects now to thank you page Any programming language is a go for this.


Google analytics tracking www and no-www domains

Our website is set up to direct all traffic for `www.example.com` to example.com with a line in the htaccess file. With Google analytics new in page analytics feature we are thinking of removing the line and allowing people to visit `www.example.com` as well to play with the new features. My question is this. How will this change affect our analytics data.   * Will nothing change and we can start using the new feature with our existing data   * Are the two domains tracked separately and we will have to start over with `www.example.com` Any help would be great, as I can find nothing on Google help sites covering this. Let me know if you need further explanation.


Google page events monitoring and analysis

I have read the Google page event documentation, but I am not sure I understand it correctly. I am new to Google analytics, and I have two questions:   1. Once I have google analytics enabled for my site (i.e. I have inserted the tracking code in my pages etc), do I need to set anything else up (at the Google end - i.e. in my Google analytics account)   2. It is not clear to me how the event data particularly, relating to how the data can be aggregated and analyzed. For instance, if I want to track an event under category **category** for click action **action** , I will use the following code snippet: `<a href="some-uri.htm" onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'category', 'action', 'label']);">Do Something</a>` For the sake of simplicity, lets say I am interested in monitoring click events in my header and footer, and I want to find which pages the header and or footer is clicked most often. How would I set things up so that I can analyze the header/footer clicks aggregated at the page level?


Research about best way to present multiple products on one page

I am updating a webshop page. This is a fairly simple page that displays all the products that we currently sell. The page in development is visible here ( https://www.ortho.nl/wwebshop ). Now I was curious, and since I can't find anything via google etc..(probaly don't know the right keywords) what the best way is to present multiple products on one page. Should you use borders? Should you use colours? Which colours? what kind of tweaks will direct the customers attention to the right place? Does anyone know from experience or via research(and could you point me in the right direction to find that research) what the best way to present products is so conversion/clickthrough is optimised?


Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works same as Airbnb?

Is it possible to create website on Drupal that works something like Airbnb ? Specifications:   1. Reserving houses with online calendar and calculation of total sum of reservation.   2. Gallery of houses pictures.   3. Ability to pay with Visa/MasterCard and etc. In other words, this website should work as simple hotel website. I'd really appreciate if you'd give some examples (hotel websites).


CNAME cross subdomain mapping problem

I have the exact same problem as this but I don't understand the solution. I have 2 different domain name(with different hosting/provider) domain-one.com and domain-two.com which I want sub.domain-one.com to point to sub.domain- two.com using CNAME. All have been setup and propagate correctly but now when I go to sub.domain-one.com it goes to basic page of the server. If I go directly to sub.domain-two.com the page load correctly. I've tried to add the subdomain using Addon Domains on cPanel but the problem persist.


Google Analytics Report For Weekdays Only

I would like to create a custom report in Google Analytics that will measure weekday performance only over a period of time ie week 01 (Monday to Friday) verses week 02 (Monday to Friday). Is this possible and if so how.


Targeting US market, is there anything specific that should be included?

We've been tasked with building a website and the customer wants to specifically target the US market (North America). In terms of build, SEO and wording, is there anything specific that should be included to target the US market? If it makes any difference the site will be built on Wordpress. We're UK based and tend to build websites that are either targeting locally or at most the UK. I know certain keyword terms such as US locations would need to be included but is there anything else? I'm trying to think out of the box with this such as US spelling e.g UK - realise, US - realize. **UPDATE:** The general consensus within the office is that wording and language plays a big part. American's tend to shorten phrases and get to the point!


Problem with missing JSON functions on PHP 5.2.6 / Plesk 8.4

I have a vserver running openSuse 10.3, Apache 2 and Plesk 8.4. I can update/upgrade neither, as it is apparently not recommended to upgrade openSuse 10.3 (and an update to the EOL 10.4 does not seem to make much sense) and Plesk fails to update no matter what version I try (even fails to upgrade to 8.4.1). Still I can live with that somehow, primarily because I don’t have the time to do a fresh remote install on the vserver. What really is a problem is, that though the installed PHP is 5.2.6 it has no zip library and no json functions. The first is probably because PHP was not compiled with --enable-zip. The second is a big mystery though. As I understand it, it always comes with PHP unless its compiled with the --disable-json configure option. This is however not the case. And the json extension module is just not there. I even tried to enable it with extension=json.so with no luck either. the configure options of my PHP are (as shipped with Plesk 8.4)               '../configure'      '--prefix=/usr'      '--datadir=/usr/share/php5'      '--mandir=/usr/share/man'      '--bindir=/usr/bin'      '--with-libdir=lib'      '--includedir=/usr/include'      '--sysconfdir=/etc/php5/apache2'      '--with-config-file-path=/etc/php5/apache2'      '--with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php5/conf.d'      '--enable-libxml'      '--enable-session'      '--with-mm'      '--with-pcre-regex=/usr'      '--enable-xml'      '--enable-simplexml'      '--enable-spl'      '--enable-filter'      '--disable-debug'      '--enable-inline-optimization'      '--disable-rpath'      '--disable-static'      '--enable-shared'      '--program-suffix=5'      '--with-pic'      '--with-gnu-ld'      '--with-system-tzdata=/usr/share/zoneinfo'      '--with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs2'      '--disable-all'      '--disable-cli'      As I understand it, PECL is not an option with 5.2.6. Or am I mistaken? Even if I was not, the openSuse repository only goes as far as PHP 5.2.4. The openSuse install even came without zypper, which I had to manually install. So is there a way to get ziplib and json running in PHP 5.2.6 without having to recompile the binary?


SVG images grow and create scrollbars when on the server

Okay so I embedded some SVG images into my page and opened it locally on Chrome and it looked fine. I upload the same file to the server and look at the page online and the SVG images have grown by maybe 5-10% and are surrounded by scroll bars like they are overflowing. I think it probably has to do with my lack of knowledge on how SVG and Embed work. What's really puzzling me though, is that it works fine locally. (I have cache disabled.) Help? Thanks. Edit: code HTML:               <embed type="image/svg+xml" src="content/web-logo.svg"/>      There's no CSS on the image. I'm not sure if I was just wrong before or if I changed something I'm not aware of, but it doesn't appear to be actually changing size anymore. It just decides to stuff it into a scrollbox. pic: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wt1aufi7nl1fpyi/svg-problem.png


Why are users logged out when they toggle compatibility mode in IE?

On the PeoplePerHour website, If a **Internet Explorer** user toggles the compatibility mode - they get logged out of the website! What are the possible reasons for this? I was thinking perhaps the browser is clearing cookies and therefore the users session gets lost. Is this possible ( _seems unlikely!_ )? _Test environment: IE8 on Windows Vista._


How do I know this blogspot is working?

I am not sure if this is right place to ask this question... I am not sure how this blog is working, I want to make a blog just like this: Search tk blog In a blog, I thought the only thing you can do is put text, pictures and videos


Google Analytics - tracking across sites

We have two websites, A and B. A is tracked with Google Analytics. Users arrive at site A and log in to site B from there. We have teasers for content on site A on the log out page of site B. So: A -> B -> A My goal is to track how many visitors respond to the teasers on site B and visit A. I understand that after 30 minutes of inactivity a pageview starts a new visit. Am I right in assuming that if the user is done on site B **in less than 30 minutes** his original visit to A is simply continued? If so, would all traffic source info be "carried over"? For example, the user arrives via Google on A, logs in to B, logs off, goes to A. Would I then see Google as the traffic source when I look at the traffic sources of the landing pages on A? What would be a good way to accurately track clicks on the teasers? Tagging the links on B would be my preferred solution. We cannot install GA on B. Many thanks for your help! **UPDATE:** I decided to dig into this subject myself as I found a lot of contradictory info. Here's what I've found out so far:   * The Firefox plugin Firebug (to look at request headers) and its extension Firecookie are useful tools for research on this topic.   * GA's utmz cookie contains info on the referrer in its utmsr value.    * During the **same** session, referral info is not overwritten by a second referral. So if the user takes the following path X -> A -> B -> A, utmsr is X upon the second arrival on A (again, same session).   * Sidenote: utmsr is overwritten if the second arrival is coming from search/organic.   * When __utm.gif is requested, one of the GET variables of the request is utmr. utmr contains the page referrer, i.e. B in the path example above.   * GA seems to use utmz for referral reporting and not utmr. This is based on preliminary research. However, it would also explain why you sometimes see referring sites which don't have links to the specific page you're looking at.   * I'll do some more research and post it here.


Question about my public_HTML folder permissions

I have a shared hosting account that uses cPanel and I think su_php. By default, the permissions for my public_HTML directory are set to 750, which allows my site and all folders/files inside public_HTML to be viewable by anyone who visits the site. I'm assuming this is because su_php allows the server to run as my user, thus being able to process php, read files, etc, and serve them to site viewers; rendering any permissions for "other" unnecessary. But if I set the permissions of any folders within the public_HTML directory to 750 (instead of 755) and I try to visit a page inside that folder, the browser gives me a 403. I'm having trouble understanding why my public_HTML folder can be set to 750, but folders inside it need to be set to 755. If anyone could help me out with this, I'd really appreciate it!


Website performance tips?

I'm kind of having some troubles with the loading of my website. It sometimes loads fast, then when you refresh it, most of the time, it will just keep trying to load images. It will keep doing that for a minute or so, and none of the JavaScript will execute. I have followed most of the tips given by Yahoo, except caching, which I couldn't get working properly. Does anyone know how to do proper caching of image and JavaScript files using _htaccess_? Most of the code I found online won't work.


Extraction of whois data for country level domains( .us/.uk etc)

I'm using Domaintools.com whois api to get the whois info about domains. But they don't have data for country level domains like .us/.au etc. Is there any place I get the whois info using some api for many country level domains?


Expand/Collapse Animations

Are expand/collapse animations (such as jQuery's `slideUp`/`slideDown`) a good idea for the categories or refinement hierarchy in an ecommerce site or are they too distracting? Should the expand/collapse just happen instantly when the user clicks? Most major retailers seem to just show and hide the content instantly (many even incur a navigate/postback and redisplay).


How to set up a 403 forbidden

I've recently set up my first commercial website for someone, with godaddy hosting. I want to set up a 403 forbidden on several directories (and their contents) that are referenced to through php only (e.g. /includes, /txt). How can I set this up firstly so it's forbidden, and secondly, so it redirects to a custom page? Also on godaddy I can't seem to get to the root of my server, it simply takes me to the 'html' folder, but I believe the .htaccess file is located at a higher-level directory. How can I access this?