title: Is it a good idea to design website with HTML 5 and css3?

text: New HTML5 and CSS3 introduced lot of new features,although it is not completely supported by most of the browsers.Is it a good idea to design a website using HTML5 and css3? and for browsers which not support HTML5 display low bandwidth version of it? or there exists any library's(js) to fix HTML5 and CSS3 comparability for browsers like IE 6 or Firefox 3?


title: How to point two domains to one ip address with a sub-domain

text: I am a little stuck here I currently have a domain: www.my-site.org & m.my-site.org I want to point m.mainsite.org to m.my-site.org I already have an A record created for m.mainsite.org I need to know what I have to do to the server that my-site.org is on. I have this site on a unix apache server. Any help would do. Thanks!


title: Customize Facebook Like Box - Policy Infringement

text: I'm just about to finish up a web project, and so far I've got good social media integration into the site's theme (Youtube and Twitter)...except Facebook Like Box for a not-for-profit's Facebook Page! I would very much like to show it as is without the border and the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink at the bottom, and I've found out how to do so via the following links:   * http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-add-a-custom-facebook-like-box-to-your-site   * http://www.daddydesign.com/wordpress/how-to-customize-your-facebook-fan-box/ Both are great resources, and allow me to accomplish my goal of total theme integration, but I came across the following Facebook policy: > IV. Application Integration Points - 4.d. You must not obscure or cover > elements of our social plugins, such as the Like button or Like box plugin. By definition to _obscure_ is to conceal something, and granted that the only thing I want to conceal is the _Facebook Social Plugin_ hyperlink (and perhaps change a few colors), but I've see a lot of sites that have done what I intend to do. The last thing I want is for my client's page/profile to get banned from Facebook. So I'm asking anyone who has had experience with this particular issue, if what I intend to do **does** constitute a violation of that policy, and have you heard of pages/profiles being banned from Facebook for the same reason?


title: Is Lucida Sans Typewriter installed on Mac OS X by default?

text: I'm updating my font stacks and I'm finding contradictory information on the install base for Lucida Sans Typewriter. According to this page and this page, it is installed on 99% of all Macs. However, according to the List of Typefaces Included with Mac OS X (see Reference Links at the bottom of the page), it isn't installed by default. Lucida Sans Typewriter is included with every MS Office release since NT (see here and here), but I can't imagine 99% of all Mac users have it installed. Can any OS X users help clarify? **UPDATE:** For those who _really_ want to know, according to my research the font `OCR A Extended` is also installed by MSOffice along with `Lucida Sans Typewriter`. According to the statistics on codestyle.org, OCR A Extended has a 67% install base on Win machines only. Thus, a conclusion you could draw is that Lucida Sans Typewriter also has a 67% install base on Win machines only. However this information is probably still inaccurate because Mac users also use MSOffice, thus they _should_ have at least a small percentage install base. Hope this helps someone.


title: Why chmod 777 is not secure?

text: > chmod 777 file change the permissions of the file file to read, write, and > execute for all. Ok, so the file can be manipulated in any way by any script on the server. But why is this not secure? If you already have a script there, than the person who uploaded it has access to your server anyway... So what's the catch here?


title: How to Change the www root directory on WampServer

text: How can i change the root directory of the currently installed wampserver to some other directory.


title: Address microdata for search engines using schema.org

text:
So I'm trying to mark up some microdata using a combination of the contact vcard microformat and the microdata format for places from: http://schema.org/Place I'd love to do both at once, but I have a problem that I don't know whether microdata schemas require exact duplication of html, or whether they're entirely reliant on the attributes that they suggest. Does anyone familiar with using microdata know whether the structure of the html is important to the schema? Here is my current html attempt just as an example if it helps ??clarify?? (with php variables escaped out into the html):

Main Contact Info

                 ShermanBrothers in <?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?>
              <address class="adr" itemprop="address" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress" style='display:block'>
               <?php echo $row_rsLocation['Address1'];               if (!empty($row_rsLocation['Address2'])) {                         echo '
'.$row_rsLocation['Address2'];                     }              ?>
               <?php h($row_rsLocation['City']);?>,                <?php h($row_rsLocation['State']);?>,                <?php h($row_rsLocation['ZipCode']);?>                    USA                   </address>              <a itemprop="telephone" href='tel:<?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?>' class="tel"><?php h($row_rsLocation['Phone']);?>


I'm looking for a lightbox plugin that supports image url's, I mean a particular image or image gallery to have a specific url that I can share it. For example : www.mysite.com/imageurl.html


title: Exclude pages from search results based on device class (mobile/desktop)

text: We're currently building a new responsive website. While working on the site map, we figured that we don't want to show certain sections on mobile devices. This can be easily done by hiding the navigation parts using CSS/media queries. However, the trouble is that the hidden sites would still show up in search engine results. If a user happens to click on one of these links she might happen to see a badly formatted page as we'd use desktop/tablet only code to show images and video. Is there any way influence the search engines to exclude certain pages if the search is done on a mobile device? Do search engines crawl pages once or with a device specific view twice? Could we set a noindex meta tag for a specific device class?


title: Google doesn't recognize content

text: My website is here but when I search term "ghiasi" in google, in text preview of my site, Google shows the menu content. But it is not useful! How to let google know where is the main content, So google shows parts of the content for users?


title: Buttons in pure CSS3 or use image sprite

text:
I want to know if it would be better to make an image for the buttons that I use, or can I get away with pure CSS. Ill give you the code. html:

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      Now the CSS               ul#buttons-dev li{         color:#FFF;         font-size:10px;         margin:4px 3px;         height:15px;         line-height:14px;         text-align:center;         width:15px;         cursor:pointer;         /*rounding-border*/         -webkit-border-radius: 10px;         -moz-border-radius: 10px;         border-radius: 10px;         border:2px solid #FFF;         /*shaddow*/         -webkit-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #33454E;         -moz-box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #33454E;         box-shadow: 1px 1px 2px #33454E;         /*select*/         -moz-user-select: none;         -khtml-user-select: none;         user-select: none;     }     li#button-plan     {background-color:#CE534D;}     li#button-develop  {background-color:#E2B842;}     li#button-host     {background-color:#64B6B1;}     li#button-support  {background-color:#B7CF79;}          ul#buttons-dev li span{         display:none;         font-weight:bold;         font-size:14px;         left:77px;         position:absolute;         top:18px;         width:95px;         text-align:center;     }     span#text-plan      {color:#CE534D;}     span#text-develop   {color:#E2B842;}     span#text-host      {color:#64B6B1;}     span#text-support   {color:#B7CF79;}          li#button-plan:hover span, li#button-develop:hover span,     li#button-host:hover span, li#button-support:hover span{         display:block;     }      **Note: I am using this on at least 8 parts of a single page.** That is why I want to know if it would be better to just use an image. Maybe I am overloading the DOM with all these elements. Or can I just get away with is. I find this to be easier when I want to change stuff. Don't need to go into the whole photoshop/ftp etc.


title: Facebook applications - how to get to know page ID?

text: With Facebook API, within a custom app added to a fanpage, how do I recognize the fanpage ID? Here's what I'm trying to achieve:   * user goes to the full-width canvas app, he authorizes himself there and allows the app to add a tab to one of the fanpages he's administrating   * every Facebook user going to that fanpage, sees the tab and the tab contains content specific to that fanpage (that's why I need to know the fanpage ID)   * if fanpage administrator wants to change something, he goes to the full-width canvas and logs in to my service (here's where I store what he wants to show in his Fanpage)


title: How do I resolve this error?

text: I found my website on Google recently, and the sublinks underneath the search entity title contains a suspicious link to Viagra tablets: ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/383A7.png) Professionals are observing my website all the time. How can I get rid of this spammy link as soon as possible? Can I manually tell Google what links to place there?


title: Easiest way of submitting your website to various search engines

text: A few months ago I saw a video where someone explained a website where when you submit your link, it would be submitted to all mayor search engines. It looked like a pretty nice website. I thought I would remember it but as always I forget both what the link was, I also forget where I saw the clip. Does anyone know such a website, or an easy tool to submit your website in various places.


title: How do you remove invalid characters when creating a friendly url (ie how do you create a slug)?

text: Say I have this webpage: `http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=1` If the name of CategoryId=1 is "Dogs" I would like to convert the URL into something like this: `http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Dogs` The problem is if the category name contains foreign (or invalid for a url) characters. If the name of CategoryId=2 is "Göra äldre", what should be the new URL? Logically it should be: `http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Göra äldre` but it will not work. Firstly because of the space (which I can easily replace by a dash for example) but what about the foreign characters? In Asp.net I could use the URLEncode function which would give something like this: `http://ww.xyz.com/Products/G%c3%b6ra+%c3%a4ldre` but I can't really say it's better than the original URL (`http://ww.xyz.com/Product.aspx?CategoryId=2`). Ideally I would like to generate this one but how can I can do this automatically (ie converting foreign characters to 'safe' URL characters): `http://ww.xyz.com/Products/Gora-aldre`.


title: What are the key concerns of ECM as it relates to web developers?

text: As I understand it, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is a system of methods and strategies relating to managing and delivering documents and content in support of a business. This obviously goes beyond what the standard CMS does in a web or intranet setting, but what functionality does a CMS need to include to support Enterprise Content Management? I know that many large organizations simply use Drupal (or even WordPress) as their CMS for their website(s). So is ECM a standalone system completely unrelated to web content management, or does a web developer need to pay care to a special set of concerns when it comes to developing or deploying a CMS for an enterprise organization? Off the top of my head, the only requirement I can think of for a CMS to support ECM is to support complex permissions and allow a large number of users to update/manage content (e.g. employees at different levels and in different branches of the company). Is there anything else that we as web developers need to keep in mind?


title: How to determine, who to contact for transferring my Domain

text: My client's domain, `www.daccusa.org`, is hosted at `inmotionhosting.com`. They tell me though, that the domain itself, is not. I've spoken with two different customer supports at `inmotionhosting.com` and they both tell me two different things. One says "I have to get in touch with `www.joker.com`" and the other one tells me that "I have to get in touch with `webhosting.dk`". According to my _whois_ search, the registrar is _Joker_ and the name-server is _Webhosting_ , and according to the control-panel over at `joker.com`, I don't have any domain registered, but I can however login with my information (e-mail and re-generated password). (WHOIS) I want my domain transferred to `inmotionhosting.com` - which one ( _Joker_ /*Webhosting*) should I ask for the transfer?


title: Dead-simple PHP/MySQL blogging tool?

text: I need a really simple solution to build a one-person blog on a shared host: When the user wants to create/edit a blog entry, he calls a PHP script on the server which will... 1. save the raw article into MySQL 2. combine the article with a template to turn it onto a complete HTML page that will be saved on the filesystem 3. regenerate the homepage in HTML and save it on the filesystem That way, the PHP part will be very basic, and the server will serve static HTML pages without the penalty of ever calling the PHP interpreter. I'm sure there are applications like that out there, but all I can find are full-fledged CMS's like WordPress, TextPattern, etc. that are way too feature- rich for what I need. Note that I do want a self-hosted, open-source application, not an account with eg. Blogger. Does someone know of applications that would foot the bill? Thank you.


title: what tools are available to analyze mobile site performance?

text: the tool must:   1) Test the page/component load/render time.   2) Be usable on multiple devices/browsers.   3) Show results with recommendations per-device/browser


title: Open Source website performance monitoring

text: I am looking for an Open Source solution to monitor my web sites' performance over time. More specifically, I am looking for something I can run on a server that will (on a continual basis) monitor page load times including all assets. Something similar to webpagetest.org, but that will provide graphs over time to display sites performance. Now I realize I could build a solution using jMeter and Jenkins to run on a regular basis and provide me with this information, but that seems clunky, and I see jMeter as more of a load-testing tool and not a site performance analysis tool. Also I have experience with Nagios, Graphite, and Collectd, but I haven't been able to find any plugins that will load all assets, only HTML response times. I have to believe something like this exists, but my google foo is failing me. Similar Commercial Solutions:   * https://www.site24x7.com/   * http://www.neustar.biz/ Thanks in advance, -BassKozz


title: Will embedding YouTube videos vs. Flash videos make a difference for SEO purposes?

text: Looking to find a solid list of SEO benefits to using YouTube videos on my site vs. flash video or anything else for that matter? Clearly YouTube is owned by Google so that is a plus. YouTube is also a huge search engine in and of itself. YouTube also has built in features to help share it with others which could tie in... Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this!


title: Connecting to my new server

text: I have bought the hosting and now I have successfully created a database and new user and I have enter phpmyadmin from cPanel to create database. Now everything is done. But where can I find information's about my server name, port and so on... When I am in phpmyadmin in left upper corner I can see localhost. But this is not localhost I have a server hosting. Thank you and please give me some info.


title: Changing file extensions in URIs - Server Error after Apache upgrade

text: Please can anyone help to identify flaw or incompatibility in .htaccess code causing server error? In the process of changing over from static to dynamic website, I had to maintain some static files with `.html` extension, but others were replaced with `.php` extension. Furthermore, I wanted visitors to be able to access any files by file name alone without the extensions. Example: `about.html` became `about.php`, but `index.html` did not change. I wanted to ensure that browsers would return the correct files even if the uri typed was only `http://domain.com/about` or `http://domain.com/index`. The following code - implemented some years ago, and I've lost track of the source - has worked perfectly all this while, until today.               # REWRITE FILE URI TO file.php IF EXISTS     Options Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews     Options +ExecCGI     RewriteEngine on     RewriteBase /     # parse out basename, but remember the fact     RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ $1 [C,E=WasHTML:yes]     # rewrite to document.phtml if exists     RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.php -f     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.php [S=1]     # else reverse the previous basename cutout     RewriteCond %{ENV:WasHTML} ^yes$     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.html      All of a sudden, this block of code is causing a server error. Website is on shared hosting, and I do not have shell access. Server was recently upgraded. Right now my account is running on PHP 5.3.28, Apache 2.4.7. Even after the upgrade last week, everything was still okay. Only today it has ceased to work. I renamed the .htaccess file and created a fresh file, pasted in fresh code, but sure enough, this bit of code is causing the server to choke. Can anyone point out what might be the problem?


title: Webmaster Tools shows Internal Links from old site (not ours)

text: In the Google Webmaster Tools account of my latest project I can see 57 Internal Links (links to internal pages), that are not actually from our site. Since we just launched it, there are no real internal links, only these "fake" ones. My only guess is that at some point in the past, someone used that domain name, and now these links live somewhere in the internet and currently lead to 404 page in our site. So my question is, how to tell Google that these links are not actually part of our site and they have never been ?


title: Development Pipeline / Phases

text: I have been developing websites for quite sometime now, and I have now come to the stage where I want to run things properly. I am trying to put together a proper workflow for my projects. I have come up with the following and would love any feedback or additions I haven't added.   1. Discovery and Research   2. Information Architecture   3. Interaction Design   4. Visual Design   5. Site Development   6. Quality Assurance   7. Launch, Wine and Cheese


title: robots.txt could be overridden by another robots.txt in sub folders?

text: _robots.txt_ is supposed to go in the root directory, I know. But, could it be overridden by another _robots.txt_ inside a sub directory?


title: Where can I get loading .png images that together make a loading spinner?

text: I have been googling for a while and am not finding anything useful other than .gif images. But due to the technology I am using, I need 2 or more .png images that together look like an animation. Would anyone know where I can find or make these? Or maybe has a set handy? Thanks!


title: Garbled text in server logs

text: I recently looked over my server's logs and I found a bunch of garbled text. Here is a link to the full log, and here is a snapshot of what it looks like:               ¹^œÌÓûFF™ÃŒ-ôÚÏàÃÒNRs§cÝi ~F#J"|³Ôq0ã~QQbA ¼¹¦’š¶É3œßå<ú€Ç©XAwdL?R°ÝbÒt©ôÇ·Æ…÷q˜ÇÑº|     Þ,ß¯¡Êr yR¤Q¹Jêlš‘AzP\ ¦ÂY„ÉÉ,æ™ UÂ™»ì³ÔÝáCÿ42‹Ö.nŽÉ2%ÓN8i4Œ®¿‘•"-se•äŽ¿ÊÁ§€þ 8åv%'#Äpžs/ÙÍ:¡1ÑÖÃå ºu|Q®!ÏyÆ,NR@¶ËÈ¯RDkã=ÿÀÜ¸ ›¼Ô ’ð>ÓÌBftdÃ8–é}‰[øbãÝÁå˜²b¾W n´tTœpäNëëÔ ·RUÓP+ÅuKÁ£¬\âÌ®:J<ÍÁ0:Q%ª(Œ˜E-ÁI:ï™4®hæœT†«);°Çda@´#èì}‡£ü•{57ý]¼|øÓñð÷ÈÌð‡MkŠâ•C~$Óô#ÙV¾Núå.#Á]vôžóæ» V&8)%øVSž“±ÔQLåÓý1–ŽÃßQ$¹ýž")ÈûQcÄý_ÔüGP=s‹vq#Pmoo.tigertutorialscomµÐOKÃ0ð»Ÿâ‘Ã˜H“      What is this? and is someone trying to do something to my website?


title: My website's DNS no longer resolved after my hosting provider suffered a DDoS attack

text: I registered a couple of domains with a local hosting provider. I set up the records with the correct IP address. My servers are colocated in another data- center, not with this provider. After filling out the necessary forms, it said: > Your changes will be visible in the next 15 minutes. For the rest of the > world, it can take up to 24 hours. We have no influence on that. This worked OK, my servers were reachable worldwide after about an hour. So far so good, everything normal, behaving as expected. But now the strange thing happens: this hosting provider suffered from a DDoS attack. It happened two times in the last three months. The attacks put them offline for about a day, twice. My websites were unreachable during these attacks. Even a ping, from any computer on any ISP, to my domain names didn't work, returning the message: `unknown host`. My sites were perfectly reachable if the IP address was used however. To the best of my knowledge... if some user anywhere in the world wants to connect to my website, they resolve the IP address using their ISP's DNS server. But in this case they couldn't. It appears their DNS server could not provide the correct IP address as long as my hosting provider was down. Could it be that their DNS server actually has to resolve at my hosting provider to answer the request to resolve?


title: Google webmaster Index Status. Total Indexed=0

text: I previously changed my domain from `www.visualstudiolearn.blogspot.com` to `www.visualstudiolearn.com`. I had around 300 posts with the previous domain name and most of them where showing up on Google. Now that I have changed my domain name the index status shows total indexed as 0 and when I go to the advanced tab it says 304 (not selected) and 217 blocked by robots. Any ideas?


title: Unable to ping IP address between two locations

text: I have two locations office and home. From home I am unable to access my mail server and from the office I am unable to access my personal web server. Now, these two locations are about 100 yards away and share the same connection from the ISP. It's payed for on the same account. Also they both have different static public IP addresses. office is `216.248.94.xxx` and home is `216.51.158.xxx`. I cannot ping each address from each location.


title: Url redirecting/masking/proxying

text: Sorry about the title, I'm not quite sure what to call what I'm trying to do. Our university department (distance ed.) has two servers: a WordPress-only server and a main/everything else server. **Blog url** : blog.distance.school.com **Everything else url** : distance.school.com I want to create a WordPress site that lives at: blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources, but when people access it, I want them to see it at: distance.school.com/facultyresources. Is this masking? Proxying? I'm not even sure. **tl;dr:** — WP will be installed at blog.distance.school.com/facultyresources — users will access at: distance.school.com/facultyresources Thanks for any advice you might have!


title: Google displaying swf menu in SiteLinks

text: I have a website that uses a Flash based menu as its main navigation. A plain HTML fallback version is "lying underneath", the swf is embedded using `swfobject`.               swfobject.embedSWF('MENU.swf', 'menu', '1000', '600', '8.0.0', 'ext/expressInstall.swf', {}, {wmode:'transparent',bgcolor:'#666666'}, {});      Somehow Google now started displaying a link to the `swf`-file in the SiteLinks (noting `[SWF]` beforehand) which is pretty ugly as the Flash content gets all scrambled and all you see is a random string of characters and numbers (it looks "hacked" to me, although I do know it is not). Also, the link to the `swf` is plain useless as it relies on JavaScript-functions in the HTML-document. I already demoted the `swf` in the Webmaster Tools, yet in some situations the link will still show up. Is anyone aware of this problem (I haven't found too much on this on the Internet) and knows how I can keep the search results from linking to the `swf`?


title: Help with URL Rewrite

text: I have a page that selects some info from a database and displays it with a link to a second page that uses the result to query the database, something like this:               $sel=mysql_query("select id, title from thetable ");     while($row=mysql_fetch_array($sel))     {     $id=$row['id'];     $title=$row['title'];     echo "$title";     }       The issue is, in the more.php page, instead of more.php?id=5 to show in the address bar, I want something like more/title Secondly, as it obtains in most sites, I want the link on the referring page to show this friendly url on mouse hover not the more.php?id=5 And I notice in most sites some words like 'a', 'and', 'the' etc are usually removed from the url title(even if there originally), moreover how does one handle the situation where more than one record have the same title. How does one go about achieving this url rewrite with htaccess or whatever method is used?


title: Changing nameservers for a domain on GoDaddy

text: I am redoing a website for a friend of mine. The domain was purchased on GoDaddy. The hosting was purchased elsewhere. After having problems with the hosting company and making some updates I decided to switch the hosting to Network Solutions. I have purchased the hosting from NS and just want to set the new NS nameservers on GoDaddy for the domain. I tried entering in the FTP server name from NS but it said it was not registered. Any help would be appreciated here.


title: I'm thinking of moving my site to Squarespace as I have little time to manage my site

text: I'm thinking of moving my site to Squarespace, I have around 40 pages with videos, screenshots and web forms etc, my blog is wordpress and I want to move everything on to Squarespace. My worry is that I'll suffer some SEO loss, has anyone used Squarespace or moved any clients over and was there any drop in traffic/SEO issues? I have very little time on my hands for web design and would like to keep adding content to my site so it does seem ideal. I make my living from my site so I really don't want to make a mess of it. Any advice from those that are using Squarespace would be very welcome. Thanks Steve


title: Kohana with cherokee

text: How to setup kohana's index.php with cherokee webserver? Should i add a rule to redirect all to index.php? These settings don't work               Rule RegExp ^.*index.php.*$     Redirect ^(.*)$ => index.php$1


title: javascript slider

text: Help me find javascript slider. I can't find it anywhere - i just saw it one time and was shocked, how it was good implemented. So, it looks like image below:                        _____     ----.----|    |----.----       1 . 2  | 3  | 4  . 5     ----.----|____|----.----      On center (3) image is zoomed and bigger, than others


title: How to receive sensor input, eg. gyroscope? (existing technology or future proposals)

text: Is there currently a way to for a web application to receive data from mobile device's sensors (eg. gyroscope, accelerometer, compass) through its browser? If not, do any formal proposals exist for how this might be achieved in the future?


title: Is Live Chat a valuable feature?

text: Does having a live chat feature on a website increase conversions enough to cover the cost administration? Most of the data I have found comes from companies selling live chat solutions and is unreliable in my opinion. Do users find this as a valuable feature or an annoyance? Personally, I'm annoyed by sites that use live chat especially when a little box pops up without my explicit request, but if users find this valuable then I should consider implementing it. Any concrete data is appreciated.


title: Is SEO and sitemap really important?

text: Is the sitemap really important? I ask this because I couldn't see the sitemaps of big websites such as Twitter, Facebook and others... The sitemap should be at "/sitemap.xml", "/sitemap.xml.gz" or "/sitemap.gz", isn't it? How do you recommend to make a sitemap with ASP.NET MVC web site? Thanks.


title: Set up a newsletter system for my site

text: I would like to filter my registered users db, check the ones who suscribed to the newsletter and send an HTML type email. Are there some scripts out there for this? A cPanel feature maybe? Or do i have to write this with a php script? Thanks in advance.


title: Is there a "current directory" variable in .htaccess RewriteRule?

text: In a .htaccess file in the subfolder "/preview" (not in document root), I have this rule:               RewriteRule !^public/ /preview/forbidden.php [L,R]      It redirects all /preview/"something" requests that are not in /preview/public/ to the fobidden message. However, I don't like the fact that the directory name "preview" is in the .htaccess file. I would like to copy the entire website to another folder or server simply by copying the file without having to change the .htaccess file. So, is it possible to achieve the effect of that rule in some other way?


title: Do new lines in the title tag affect SEO?

text: I is common thing that if you have some login that creates the title tag content to finish with several new lines in it. For example:               <title>        Title |        Category |        My Site Name     </title>      Does this has some semantic falls? Is it bad for SEO?


title: Host Private videos on my site or use third party video hosting

text: I’m working on a e-learning startup. We are going to have recorded video lectures from professors ranging from 30-45 minutes long which are going to be accessible to students once they register and pay for the course. Hence these are private videos.   1. What is the best format to save these videos in, FLV, MP4 or something else? I’m leaning towards MP4 as FLV videos won’t play on iPads and iPhones.   2. Most importantly, where do I host these video files? Should we host them on our servers or use third-party video hosting? I’m inclined towards third party because that will reduce the load on our servers and the video streaming experience would be better for users.   3. If I go for video hosting, what are my options? I can’t use YouTube because they don’t offer domain control. Vimeo does offer privacy of domain control but I don’t think I can use that for commercial purpose. Someone mentioned BitGravity but I haven’t checked that out. What options would be good for my usage?


title: Premium News script

text: what are possible premium News script available? We are a small company that wants to shift our attention to News/Blogging service. What's the best premium script that we can buy for this?


title: Old Domain Pay-per-click

text: So you know when you go to a domain that say you want to buy, and the only thing that comes up is a bunch of links to other sites, and stuff like that? How do I set something like that up for my old domain that I want to hold onto for the right buyer but, also make some small income while I have it?


title: SSL: What are the differences between Domain Validation and Extended Validation Certificates?

text: I can get Extended Validation for cheaper than Domain Validation, yearly. What are the differences between them?


title: Migrate add-on domain olddomain.com to newdomain.com

text: I have 2 domains that are registered at GoDaddy :               domaina.com (not hosted, only domain name is registered to GD)     domainb.com (hosted at a different webhost, domain name registered to GD)      `domainb.com` is an already working site, with a different webhost, but the domain name is registered to GoDaddy (and I assume the nameservers are changed to redirect to the webhost). Now, I don't understand why this was done, but `domainb.com` is considered a subdomain on the host... meaning the files are in a seperate folder on the server.   Ex : `public-html/domainb.com/public-html/FILES` The structure is similar to this on the webhost:               HostNAME (main root folder)         domainb.com (subdomain of hostname)         domainc.com (etc...)         domaind.com (etc...)      I want to transfer the site `domainb.com` to `domaina.com`, meaning `domaina.com` will become the new website, without having to re-upload all the content and CMS. The old one will redirect to `domaina.com` once the transfer is done (using 301 redirects). Can anyone tell me how I can do this?


title: What is new in HTML5/CSS3?

text: I've seen this site and this site, but that's a lot to digest. What are the main things about HTML5 that make it different/better than regular old (X)HTML/CSS?


title: Should I focus on a Location Page or Landing Page for SEO efforts?

text: I am a franchisee with a location page (`http://example.com/locations/florida/south-brandon`) but since it isn't mobile friendly and lacks a good CTA, I created a landing page for AdWords (`http://www.myexample.com`/). I've also been using the later as the location page and directing my link building efforts there. I want to start a blog and other SEO efforts, but I'm not sure which page I should be trying to rank. Obviously I'll need to switch some links and I'll take a short-term hit if I switch; but is it better to just go ahead and do it? I'm torn and I need some suggestions based on experience to point me in the right direction!


title: payment gateway

text: > **Possible Duplicate:**   >  What are some options for taking payments on my website? What's a good payment gateway for an e-commerce shop with revenues of about 10.000 euros per week ?


title: Tracking subdomains in Google Analytics?

text: I set up a subdomain, and GA is showing traffic of the subdomain. However, going into Content section, GA is not showing pageviews of the pages of the subdomain. Instead, GA lumps all the pageviews in the subdomain. I checked the code of subdomain pages, and they're all the same as the subdomain homepage. Am I missing a dot somewhere?               <script type='text/javascript'>try {      var _gaq = _gaq || [];      _gaq.push(['_setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-85']);      _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', 'domain.org']);       _gaq.push(['_setAllowAnchor', true]);       _gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/?scid=a2412a40-1b66-4e0a-a1d5-f5b260de6ee8']);      _gaq.push(['b._setAccount', 'UA-xxxxxxx-56']);      _gaq.push(['b._setDomainName', 'domain.org']);      _gaq.push(['b._trackPageview']);      } catch (err) {}      (function() {      var ga = document.createElement('script'); ga.type = 'text/javascript'; ga.async = true;      ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';      var s = document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(ga, s);      })();      </script>


title: Force Using SSL on Site now?

text: I am starting to see a majority of websites starting to use SSL as a standard practice for viewing the website securely now thanks to the revelations of Edward Snowden about the NSA surveillance that is happening. **Should we make it a web standard to make all websites to use SSL for security, viewing, payments, and everywhere?** I own a simple personal blog, and I have people say I need to use it because of me voicing my opinion, concerns, and ideas regarding the subject of the NSA, and they say they are starting to feel less secure without HTTPS...


title: Should I use a domain name registrar's free DNS hosting, or host DNS servers with another company?

text: Should I use my domain name registrar's free DNS hosting service, or host DNS servers with another company? (or both?) What are some advantages to using a DNS hosting company separate from the domain registrar?


title: Difference betweeen hidden links and blogroll link kept hidden?

text: I was reading about hidden links. I had a question in mind that when I use WordPress's blogroll option, it asks me to either show the link or keep it hidden. How is it different than the hidden link tactic? Please help out. Thanks ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/xYbJy.png)


title: Paypal and holding payments

text: We are looking to update the way we deal with subscriptions on our news site. We offer the chance to allow people to subscribe. We also want to have management services to allow people to add their own events and job ads to the site. This would carry a charge and we want to have payments through this. The idea is we have the following process:   * User puts their ad online    * User inserts payment details (we don't really want these on our server)   * Editorial get a message regarding   * the upload Editorial checks and edits the article and approves it   * Client is informed and asked to check they are happy.   * We make the item live and remove a hold on the payment   * Payment goes from clients account So we want to know if there is a way of incoming payments being held in paypal by default and us having to approve them (alongside any hold paypal make for themselves). If not with Paypal, is there another system that would allow this?


title: Google crawling old non existing pages

text: I noticed in my Webmaster Tools account that Google is crawling old site URLs that no longer exist. Can anybody tell me where GoogleBot is getting these URLs?


title: Should I indicate that the user exists or was deleted on the error page?

text: On an ordinary public website, the user's profile is always publicly visible to all visitors (such as Stack Overflow), where they can limit certain pieces of information via privacy settings or just removing the information. Now the user has decided to delete their account (in my case deactivate) so that their account doesn't technically "exist" anymore. The way my system is set up, when their account is deactivated, their username for any content connected to them just becomes "Anonymous User" as if it were a guest that posted. I feel like this could cause some confusion for other users. I'm also concerned about what kind of error to display when someone attempts to view their profile page. My gut tells me to just display a standard 404 page to hide the fact that they ever existed, but then you also have to consider that, since usernames must be unique, anyone can go to the register page and type in the username to see if it _really_ exists or not. I have a similar problem with another website, which gives users the ability to hide their profiles from the public and only allow registered users to view it. Again it's with the dilemma of what kind of error message to display when an unregistered users attempts to view their profile with invalid permissions. So, would it be acceptable to display basic errors such as "user has been deactivated" or "you must be logged in to view this profile" in order to give other visitors some idea of why the page can't be displayed, or should I attempt to cover the user's privacy a little and just display a standard 404 without indicating in any way that the user might exist? Are there any other issues that I'm not realizing about either route? To go back to the beginning, should I even bother changing the user's name to "Anonymous User" when their account is deactivated? Would it be acceptable to just display a non-linked version of their username in place of the normal linked display name?


title: Infinite scrolling without losing "Page Views" in Google Analytics

text: Let's say "Page Views" is a very important metric on your website (KPI) but you want to introduce the nice looking infinity scrolling on certain heavily used pages. What are the possibilities in order to introduce infinite scroll without losing page views, e.g. is there a legal way of resubmitting a page view to Google Analytics?


title: Edit robots.txt on google sites

text: Getting many 404 errors on my website for the following URLs:               /system/app/pages/admin/revisions*      I was going to put Disallow in robots.txt, but it seems there is no way to edit robots.txt in google sites. Did I miss an option? If it's not there, is there a workaround using Webmaster tools?


title: Troubleshoot connectivity to certain site

text: This is related to this problem of mine: cannot access my own web page The question is: Are there any tools or actions that I can try to determine what is blocking my computer from opening a certain website when other computers can open it normally?


title: WAMP alias point to IP instead of directory

text: WAMP allows us create alias that can point other drive e.g. point to external dive (G), moreover, can I point to IP instead of point to drive? Example point to `http://xxx.xxx.xxx/test` (Note: this is the same LAN network just different PC).


title: Will replacing 'to' with 2 or 'for' with 4 improve my site's PageRank

text: Is it true that replacing words such as "to" and "for" with numbers (2 and 4 respectively) help increase my website's PageRank. Is it a useful SEO technique and if so why does it work?


title: How to create an own domain name servers

text: i bought an domain from bigrock ,which has dns1.digrock.com and dsn2.bigrock.com as name servers . but some website have there own domain name dns1.domain.com. Is it possible to create an own domain name for my domain ,? and what are the requirements for creating own name servers?


title: Domain name servers connecting time and details

text: According to Ping reports my web browser is looking up DNS information in 180ms to connect my domain. I registered that domain name from godaddy.com. At the same time it takes 10ms for connecting to another domain. It is bought from bigrock.com. As my uncle said, all the domains are registered in networksolutions. **Then why is this much time difference?**


title: Redirecting image hotlink to the article the image was used on; where/how to store the connecting information?

text: I have an app in node.js and I want to make a route that redirects all hotlinks to images to the article/URL the image was used on. But since all the images are stored in `/public/img` directory and article URLs are generated programmatically, how do I tie down each image to its article? ..in a way that would allow me to redirects all hotlinks to the images to the article/URL the image was used on? For example, My article is               http://www.site.com/blog/archives/2013/article-slug/      and it uses the image               http://www.site.com/img/that-image.jpg      because all images are stored in `/public/img` dir. Then if someone hotlinks to the image `http://www.site.com/img/that- image.jpg`, how do I redirect to the article it was used in `http://www.site.com/blog/archives/2013/article-slug/`? (I can check whether it was hotlinked probably by checking the `referrer` header) But how do I store the relevant information about which image is used in which article, and how do I use that information to do the redirect?


title: Should my blog be directly on my website?

text: I have my newly launched website at `www.slicify.com` (redirects to a secure subdomain). I currently have a separate blog on WordPress: `slicify.wordpress.com` for a couple of reasons:   * I don't really want to mix my site code (it's a complex ecommerce site written in ASP.Net) with blog code, for ease of maintenance etc.   * WordPress is already great at blogs - seems silly to reinvent the wheel by trying to integrate blog functionality into my site However is keeping my blog on a separate domain going to hurt me in terms of PageRank or traffic? FWIW: while it's early days, I can see from Google Analytics that a good deal of referral traffic is already coming from my WordPress site to my main site, so at least that seems to be drawing potential users in.


title: Authorship-verified website not included in "Author Stats" of Google Webmaster Tools?

text: In Google Webmaster Tools, is it normal for a website for which the Structured Data Testing Tool shows that "Authorship is working for this webpage" -- to **_not_** be listed in the "Author Stats" section (under "Labs")? I already understand that successful verification using the Structured Data Testing Tool does _not_ guarantee that Google will actually display authorship in the SERPs, and that Google decides this at its own discretion. However, shouldn't such successful verification at least guarantee that the website _is_ included in the "Author Stats" section (which purportedly covers "pages for which you are the verified author")? I would have assumed that, if Google is not yet displaying authorship for that site, it would show both its Impressions and Clicks as being "<10". Are my assumptions incorrect?


title: Chrome recent change to password field handling breaks my page

text: Our site has a profile update page which allows the user to change their password and other basic information. This page has been in production since 2006. Recent changes to Chrome have broken the way the page works, and I don't see any easy fix for this. Here is the situation: when the user goes to this page, there are among other things fields for an email address and confirmation email address, and a password and confirmation password. If the user wants to change either the email or address or password, she enters new values into the desired fields. If they don't want to change them, they leave them blank. That is how it is supposed to work. However, due to "autocomplete", the browser may try to populate these fields. This is very bad in this case, leading to confusing the user. The main reason is because it appears that the user is trying to change their email to one that is already in use, and they get an error message about the email already being in use. This is very confusing, because they did not even enter the email address; the browser did. In addition, of the four fields, Chrome only populates two of them. Thus the user is told the fields don't match and they start struggling with that. I can see a lot of user frustration in this picture. Up until very recently, there has been a simple solution: use autocomplete="off" on the four fields (the two email addresses and two passwords). And it has worked fine since around 2006. And still works fine in the other major browsers. At some point I moved the autocomplete off into javascript, due to compliance issues. Then when that started failing, I moved it into jquery, to make sure the DOM was loaded. At first the jquery solution seemed to work, for a while. But now Chrome insists on autofilling those fields no matter what. I have tried changing the id of the field, but for some reason Chrome sees through this as well. I have seen discussions elsewhere about Chrome ignoring autocomplete="off". And usually the discussions tend to be "anti-autocomplete-off" as though it is a bad thing because it causes unpredictable browser behavior. I do not dispute this viewpoint. But is becoming a real problem in our current design for Chrome users, and I don't see such a simple solution anymore such as using autocomplete="off". I am afraid I am going to have to make a significant change to deal with this problem. I might for example have to hide the fields and only have them appear upon clicking a checkbox, or something like that. (But I am guessing Chrome is going to defeat that as well.) Apparently the simplicity of autocomplete off, or obfuscating the id of the field is not going to work. So my next approach would be to create my own password entry field using a text field, and using javascript trickery to obfuscate the entry with asterisks, to provide the functionality of the password-type field. Seems like a colossal waste of effort. And for Chrome only. Worse of all, Chrome is not even populating the fields properly as you can see from the screenshot. Can anyone suggest a relatively simple approach? ![Chrome populating fields that should be left blank](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DOYRo.png)


title: Dealing with human spam accounts

text: My site has lately been targeted by human spam... meaning people taking the time to carefully complete my registration process, confirming via email, and then letting the member account sit dormant for a week or two... before invariably filling the profile space with advertisements and links for handbags and luxury watches and the usual crap. The most recent sleeper account popped up this morning, where an odd but not quite nonsensical username caught my eye. Checking the server logs, this person registered from Jiangsu, China and the browser referrals were other sites' login pages, so it was clear this person was working down a list. Anyways, the anti-spam account literature I've read focuses on strengthening the first line of defense - your registration system. But what can I do to clean-up those few who can run the gauntlet?


title: When to upgrade your web-hosting? Advantages of VPS?

text: Right now I'm using shared hosting from ixwebhosting. As I've developed more websites for clients and continue to receive more visitors each month I have experienced a lot of "lag" and slow load times from the server. Most of the time I'm using wordpress and jquery so basically I'm running linux, php, mysql and all the basics. I know wordpress can be resource intensive so i'm looking to upgrade. How do I know what specs I'll need? Are there any good benchmarking tools? Basically I just need some suggestions on how to move forward with upgrading my host to something that is able to handle 5-10 website with 5k-10k visitors a month.


title: Extra configuration needed after installing SSL certificate?

text: * We recently developed two rather simple PHP applications for AXA (European bank). URL's are `axa.tfo.be/incentives/cipres` and `axa.tfo.be/incentives/zrkk` (access to both sites is restricted to visitors with cookies with encrypted passwords)   * On a previous security audit by an external company several security issues have been found. All these issues have been solved by a colleague PHP developer.   * However, one last requirement has been added - all data should be transferred over HTTPS.   * My PHP colleague is on holiday, however - and unavailable at the moment. So I contacted my host, and asked for installing SSL certificate. I myself have no knowledge or experience with SSL. I'm a bit at loss for the following problems.   * Comodo SSL certificate + unique IP address has been installed today by my webhost for subdomain `axa.tfo.be` (by `www.combell.be`).   * However, it doesn't seem to be working. I posted a question about this earlier today, and was told not to worry, see link: http://serverfault.com/questions/339320/what-happens-if-you-install-an-ssl-certificate   * Current problems:      * the web applications aren't accessible over HTTPS, HTTP works though (if a valid cookie is available)     * there's a static HTML page at http://axa.tfo.be/incentives/cipres/static.html, even that page is only accessible over HTTP   * My webhost is telling me that 'my application probably doesn't support SSL', and has asked me to set an SSL variable to true in my PHP code. So **my questions** :   * I have basic knowledge of PHP, but don't know where to start regarding the 'PHP SSL variable'. The sites have been online for some time, and have been developed for regular PHP access. (Google didn't bring me any help, either.)   * Can anyone point me in the right direction, or give me some clues about whether/what I should ask my webhost for further assistance?   * (I'm a bit on a tight schedule, the sites will be audited again on Monday, and it's a customer i wouldn't want to lose...)


title: Firefox plugin to learn about technologies used by other web sites

text: Is there a FireFox plugin that tells you what web server (httpd, Tomcat, IIS), platforms (Drupal, WordPress, Rails, PHP, .NET, Java) and client-side (JavaScript, HTML5, Flex) technologies a particular web site uses?


title: How to pass GET parameters to rewritten URL?

text: I have an `.htaccess` rewrite rule like this:               RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENME} !-d     RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} !-f     RewriteRule ^search/(.*)$ search.php?q=$1      What this does is, if someone visits `http://www.mysite.com/search/test` the URI that is really processed is `http://www.mysite.com/search.php?q=test`. Now, if I try to pass an extra random GET parameter to my rewritten URL, the parameter is ignored. So if I try to do visit here: `http://www.mysite.com/search/whatever?extra=true` The parameter `extra` is ignored. It doesn't seem to get passed at all. Can this problem be fixed? If so, how?


title: Magento - Add to cart error

text: I have set-up a Magento cart system and got everything working the way i want, but somehow in the process this error has came up. > The address total model should be extended from > Mage_Sales_Model_Quote_Address_Total_Abstract. This error only comes up when i try to add things to my cart. Has anyone else encountered this error or know how to fix it?


title: find adsense earning from different websites

text: I am going to add my Adsense code to one new website I've created recently. The problem is how to find out which site earned what in final earning. I need to share the earning of second site with my partner. I can setup different channel to see what each site earned but the final earning may not be the same. So how can I find out which site earned what in final earning page. Thanks in advance.


title: Point subdirectory to seperate website in IIS7 (hosted on same server)

text: I have 2 websites on the same server in IIS7. These websites are required to be separate (Application Pools will not suffice). I have a single domain and am not able to create subdomains. Because of this I am only able to access Website A. Can I point a subdirectory in Website A to Website B?


title: International Domain Names - Can I just register the punycode with any registrar?

text: I'm thinking of getting a non-ASCII Internationalized Domain Name (e.g. `thé.com`). However my current domain registrar doesn't do IDNs. Their web form reports an invalid domain name when I try to enter it, and they claim they don't support it. Could I just register the puny code (in this case `xn-- th-cja.com`) with the registrar? Or do I need to go to a special IDN 'aware' domain registrar?


title: is there any way to tag more than 50 people in facebook photo?

text: i stuck in problem. my friend tag his wedding invitation to friends.... he have a lot of friends...now there bcome disput in friends that y they r not tagged?? so Please tell me is there any way to tag more than 50 Persons on a photo.. Please responde?? do have to mail to facebook for this....


title: Self-hosted collaborative document editor

text: I'm looking for something like Google Documents, but that our company can host ourselves (for security/confidentiality reasons). I'd like something where multiple users can edit a word-processing-like document from the web. Ideally it would be able to show the history of revisions, and maybe compare them. Wiki software doesn't really fit the bill, since the syntax is too complicated for some users. Does this exist?


title: Help! My articles are not indexed correctly by search engines

text: **Something is seriously wrong after I updated my site with new templates, moved to a new server and started writing on English rather than Norwegian.** * * * I know from Google Analytics, that most of my readers comes from Google. I do a quick test by googling (google.no) `Oslo Fashion Fair 2009`. This is the name of the article and is the title of my page. ( http://www.google.no/search?hl=no&q=Oslo+Fashion+Fair+2009&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai= ) The page that I trying to find is this: http://www.norwegianfashion.no/news/oslo-fashion-fair-2009/ This used to be one of the first pages in Google. Now you don't see my site until Page 4, and that is a link to something completely different. On page 4 in the google search, you see this: > Designere - Norwegian Fashion   >  Norske designere Når man tenker fashion,tenker de fleste på designere som > Yves Saint ...   >  Fashion Week Guide 16-22 august 2010 · Oslo Fashion Fair 2009 ...   >  www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere There are a few problems with this:   1. The headline says `Designere - Norwegian Fashion`. I no longer have a page called `Designere`. It's now called Designers.   2. The link points to `www.norwegianfashion.no/blog/designere`. But I've never had that a URL with that name. The page does not exist.   3. When you click the link, a completely different page opens. I also noticed that I ahve lost Page Rank. My Page-RAnk add-on in Firefox will no longer rate my site, and Googles own Page Rank checker can't check my site for page ranking. **So what kind of SEO have I done?**   1. I've put the `<title>` tag at the top, followed by the meta tags `<description>` and `Keywords`   2. For new pages, I use my intro texst in the description field.   3. I've made sure to use appropriate H1 - H3 tags   4. I've got relative content in headline vs intro and main body text, as well as appropriate keywords.   5. I've added my site to Google   6. I've used Google Webmaster Tools to optimize my site   7. I've added a sitemap.xml  I don't know why I'm suddenly not being indexed by any search engines. What have I done wrong? **UPDATE** Using Google Webmaster tool, I can see issues Google encountered when crawling my site. Thre are a lot of `404 Page not found` errors. **Example of 404 errors:**   http://www.norwegianfashion.no/2009/nyhetsarkiv   `nyhetsarkiv` is now called `news` http://www.norwegianfashion.no/author/marianne   I have deleted marianne ase user in Wordpress. This author do not exists any more http://www.norwegianfashion.no/category/fashion-report/page/40/   Not sure what this is. I'v enever used this permalink structure.


title: Content of html snapshot for Search engines

text: I've asked this before on Stackoverflow, but I figured moving it here would be appropriate. For presentational reasons, I'm currently build an Ajax/parameter driven page. I'm trying to figure out how to present it to Google properly, which brought me to Google's page here. The backend of the page would allow me to present a "static" version of the page with php. This raises the following question for me: What does Google want/allow in the html snapshot? Do I need to present it with the excessive styling I use in the user version, or can I simply serve it the plain text/image content I dynamically get in the user version? Also, can I have different metadata in the Google version? (that is, specific metadata for every parameter based url, since altering it with javascript on the page itself would not be visible to Google?) I hope i have made myself clear here. Thanks


title: can we predict website traffic?

text: Can we predict website site traffic ? For Example, I am writing blog about web development. I like to find out how many web developers are in the world. How many of them working on related to my hot tags. How can we predict maximum traffic for the site. Is there any tool or any formula to find this.


title: How to prevent Google from finding my admin index page?

text: I am running a website but for some days i stopped it and put the under- construction page because the Index of admin page is visible to the outside world through the Google search. One of my friend told me that your websites index is visible and its one step away to access the password file and he shows me that very simply using the Google search. How can i prevent this and i am hosting my site with a hosting company and i report about this to them but they simply replied to me still its secure so you no need to worry... am i really don need to worry and continue my site with the visible index of admin page?


title: the right way of specifying website files in html

text: i specify my website's internal files like this for my website: www.mscaspian.com ` but when i validate it with w3c it says there is an error in the last part, '>' . i don't understand why this is wrong. is there anything i'm missing? it says: > Bad value ../Nexus components/css/component.css for attribute href on > element link: Illegal character in path segment: not a URL code point.Syntax > of IRI reference: Any URL. For example: /hello, #canvas, or > http://example.org/. Characters should be represented in NFC and spaces > should be escaped as %20. i read the NFC link they provided but Really couldn't figure out what's wrong with it! Using HTML5 and CSS3


title: domains without email

text: Usually when I buy a domain, i can forward all the emails to that domain to one of my email accounts. Buy now one of my providers don't do this, they just offer to set domain name servers. What will I have to do to get my mail? What will it cost me?


title: Confusion over W3C POWDER standard (PICS alternative)

text: Now that PICS is dead, I still need an easy way to tell users that my website is for mature audiences only. I intend to use PICS tags, but POWDER is said to be the new standard. Is it really used? And how do I set it up? Are there simple example XML files which I can copy for my own use?


title: Is there any system in place to recover a domain that expired and someone else has registered?

text: There was a domain name that was registered for many years for a DOS based software package. The original owners of the domain and software package passed away several years ago and at the time we had no way of supporting the software. So thinking we'd never need the domain name we let it expire. i also thought we'd be able to register it again since this was a pretty old site that got next to no traffic. Today we're considering updating the software and when i went to re-register the domain, i found someone else registered it and it's just being parked with a bunch of ads on it. The ads aren't even remotely relevant to what the site used to be. I don't know why someone would bother registering a site with almost no traffic with a name that is not similar to any other high traffic site just to park it. Anyhow, is there any sort of recourse for me to get the name back? I'd be willing to pay $100-$200 if they would be willing to sell it. But before I even contact them I want to know what my options are. The domain name is the same as the software package and I believe it was trademarked by the original owners. I'm friends with the son of the original owner. Everything passed over to him when his parents died. And he'll give me whatever paperwork i might need. I could have sworn i read somewhere that if someone is just sitting on a domain and you have some sort of legal legit claim to the name, you could get it back.


title: Language prefixes

text: Based on other discussions on this site and elsewhere, using flags to identify languages is the path to madness. Nevertheless, I need an easy way to identify the language of individual content items on my site. I was thinking a bracketed 3 letter prefix might do the trick:               [ENG] - English     [FRE] - French     [FRA] - French (better?)     [ITA] - Italian     [SPA] - Spanish     [ESP] - Spanish (better?)     [GER] - German     [JPN] - Japanese     [CHN-S] - Chinese Simplified     [CHN-T] - Chinese Traditional     etc...      Apart from the special case for Chinese's two distinct systems, would I run into any problems sticking to a 3 character prefix system?


title: Where do I get sports information for web app development?

text: I'm creating an application for personal use and will be needing sports related information such as previews, scores, and recaps. My question is, how do I get said information? Are there syndication services? How do other sports apps on say android get this information? I would be running this in a php environment on my home web server and am fairly familiar with curl. I am however, open to other methods. I'm looking for particular methods/services.


title: Measuring user time until a specific event

text: Now I know that GA Engagement gives you an estimate of the time users spend on you page, but it's not very accurate and the max time it displays is 30 mins. I'm developing a small online game and would like to know how long people play and also what is very important how long they play until they reach a specific goal (it might take a week or so) My Idea was to use Events and Goals - but I didn't find any possibility to measure and display time until a goal is reached and time user spends daily until he reaches the goal. Is there a way?


title: How to update DNS Zone for a static domain

text: I am running this site: www.thetechnofreaks.com on Wordpress. Recently I came across a plugin that claims to increase the page load efficiency of my site. the plugin details can be found here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/installation/ Now the plugin mentions a self-hosted method for CDN which is known as pipelining. It states: > If you do not have a CDN provider, you can still improve your site's > performance using the "Self-hosted" method. On your own server, create a > subdomain and matching DNS Zone record; e.g. static.domain.com and configure > FTP options on the "Content Delivery Network" tab accordingly. Be sure to > FTP upload the appropriate files, using the available upload buttons. Now I have created a static.thetechnofreaks.com sub-domain but I don't know how to enter matching DNS Zone record and configure FTP options. Please guide me in this regard. I went to my cPanel -> Simple DNS Zone Editor. It contains: > Add an A Record > > Name:   >  Address: > > Add a CNAME Record > > Name:   >  CNAME: What am I supposed to enter in this??


title: Tracking rotating Ads with Google Tag Manager

text: So at the moment we have our ads setup using event tracking in Google Analytic (Universal) and they are implemented in this format:                     I would like to track these ads by position if possible because we have ads from same vendors displayed in multiple positions. I am trying to wrap my brain around how I can implement something like this in Google Tag Manager. I assume this will involve some advanced rules with RegEx? Is it something that can be passed through the dataLayer?


title: Embed PDF for Android and iOS

text: Anyone know a way to embed PDFs so that both iOS (iPads and iPhones) and Androids (all versions after 2.2) can view? My current site c.theborneopost.com does not support tablets... only desktop with Adobe Reader.


title: Traffic from a specific site considered as direct traffic

text: Let's say a site adds a link to my site. After that, I noticed an increase in visits to my site (and I'm sure that at least some people came to my site via this link). The problem is, when I look at my google analytics stats, I can't find the site in the traffic sources (referrals). Any ideas on why? I don't think the website in question is messing with the HTTP_REFERER.


title: Asking for user's 3rd party username/password like Facebook's Find Friends feature

text: ### Preface Facebook and other sites have features where they ask users for their credentials for 3rd party web sites (see image below). Presumably, facebook then uses the credentials to login as the user and harvest their email contacts to match against facebook's user database. ### Questions Does anyone know that kind of permission is required from a 3rd party website to login on behalf of one of their users? Or is no permission required? I suppose it is analogous to giving an apartment key to your pet sitter. The only thing that would stop the pet sitter from entering your apartment is if the complex's TOS explicitly state that no one may unlock the door of an apartment that they do not own. But would those TOS apply to the pet sitter? Or would they only apply to renters who enter into a service agreement with the complex? ![enter image description here](http://i.stack.imgur.com/4WmLv.png)


title: online store script which support multi provider

text: Does any one know a online shop script ( php - mysql) which support multi providers? I want to run a shop and some providers can login and manage their own products / sales and admin can manage all of them. Providers may create / delete edit own products and can't access to other provider information.


title: How to bulk migrate domains from GoDaddy to Namecheap without downtime?

text: I have about 5-10 domains registered by GoDaddy. The DNS on most of these is provided by GoDaddy as well. I'm using SOPA as an excuse to migrate away - I've hated GoDaddy for several years now, and Namecheap seem to be a popular alternative. What's a good receipe for quickly migrating several domains with no/little downtime?


title: Wordpress.Com blog XML/Site map download

text: Hi I happened to know that we can access the sitemap for a WordPress (WordPress.com) blog using a URL. I am quite not sure about that now, though I downloaded the XML once, I forgot the URl. Please tell me how can I download it!


title: How to log the ASP pages requested during a particular time span?

text: I have a web application build in ASP and is hosted on IIS7 windows server 2008. Each day CPU level increases and the application stops responding (ASP pages don't load for ever, however an HTML page can be loaded at the same time, same Application pool without a problem.) Then have to restart the Application pool. I want to find out which specific pages are requested which made the CPU level go that high.


title: Website hosting and deployment

text: I'm relatively new to Web Development especially when it comes to infrastructure. I have AngularJS application build and served by brunch.io locally. It uses rails-api JSON data. I'd like to deploy my angular application separately from rails server. For now, JS app is placde inside public directory of backend server and deployed together. It isn't elegant nor effective so I want to use some other hosting service. I was thinking about VPS where I could place both Angular and Ruby applications. I read about NodeJS or Nginx that can serve static files, but I don't have any knowledge or experience with these technologies. How is the best way to provide separate frontend and backend applications communicating with each other?


title: How do you create a mobile app that basically allows you to....?

text: I was wondering what the simplest and cheapest way to create a reliable mobile app (android or iphone) would be for the following situations. We are about to pick one of the following two situations:   1. If I want the mobile app to mainly contain links or buttons that direct you to specific webpages.   2. If I want the mobile app to contain an expert system, where each link is basically a question that will load you an alternate set of text depending on which link or button you chose. Are either of these simple to make and free of cost to develop? We're looking for the most simple and direct way to go about this. The final goal is to be able to make this app available in the android market or apple store (for a small, one-time fee for users who want to use it). Is this a step that can be planned out _after_ the creation of the app itself, or does this need to be taken into account from the start?


title: Differences in Gmail on BlackBerry to iPhone?

text: I've been using Gmail on my iPhone happily for a while. Now for a friend I need to set up Gmail on a BlackBerry. From reading up it seems you have to enable IMAP for the Gmail account. I thought that POP downloads emails from the server where as IMAP does not. I'm confused as on my iPhone, when I read an email it's marked as read on the server (which I see when I use webmail or Mac mail to look at the same email account). However I never turned on IMAP for my account. I went through my iPhone's default email set up, so is it in fact using POP? If so, what are the behavioural differences that my friend using IMAP on BlackBerry will experience compared to my iPhone set up, which seems nice and intuitive.


title: .htaccess directory to subdomain

text: I have been trying to make a subdomain from a directory (made by _.htaccess_ ) to be used as the main page starting like `http://domain.com/sub/2/3/4.html` and turning into `http://sub.domain.com/2/3/4.html`. The folder system goes like:               www\sub\2\3\      in `www` there is a `index.html` and in the sub folder there is a different `index.html`. I currently have this code which I found on another site:               Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks          RewriteEngine On     RewriteBase /     RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^domain.com [NC]     RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.domain.com/$1 [L,R=301]          RedirectMatch 301 ^/sub/(.*)$ http://sub.domain.com/$1      It is successful with changing the domain path to `http://sub.domain.com/`, but it is not successful in changing the page shown from the index in the `www` directory to the index in the sub directory. It is also not successful in allowing to open other pages, i.e. not allowing `sub.domain.com/2/3/4.html`. If anyone can give any advice it would be much appreciated.


title: Static page generator quazi CMS

text: Are there some mainstream software packages that generate static pages? Sort of like CMS, but without all the fluffy parts. I'm perfectly fine with editing pages using a text editor, but I would like to edit something more user friendly than HTML (markup, wiki text, etc...). I'm just redoing my personal website, and the layers of layers of Drupal modules I need to install is just getting crazy.


title: Will adding "www." to my domain setting in Google Analytics impact already collected data?

text: I have a profile in Google Analytics (GA) that has been collecting data for a year. The domain setting in GA is "http://example.com". The site, however, will redirect any non-www request, to www.example.com, via a typical .htaccess refinement. The source problem I'm trying to fix is that In-Page analytics does not load. When accessing In-Page analytics in the new GA, I get the following error: > We've identified problems in your setup. These may cause problems loading > In-Page Analytics. Your site doesn't load ga.js from Google. If you host the > Google tracking code on your own servers, it isn't updated automatically and > can miss important changes. We didn't find a tracking snippet on your site. > In-Page Analytics cannot load. Please make sure you have tracking installed > correctly. If your snippet is included in a separate JavaScript file, you'll > have to manually check it is being loaded correctly. When loading In-Page Analytics in full screen mode -- visting the domain directly -- I get: > Access denied. Please try relaunching In-Page Analytics from the report. After researching the issue online, I've found the following proposed fixes:   1. Log out of the target site when using GA, in the case your site doesn't load the tracking codes for logged in users (our current Drupal configuration indeed does this)   2. Clearing cache   3. Clearing cookies - specifically the GASO cookie   4. Ensuring your GA domain setting uses www if your site redirects to www forcefully I've tried items 1-3 and the have not addressed the issue. I would like to try #4, but want to make sure this change won't impact data I've already collected and that GA will consider all data collected before and after the change as the same site.


title: Setting up one goal in Google Analytics to be tracked by several Adwords Accounts

text: Is there a way to have one goal in Google Analytics and have it be associated with several accounts within Google Adwords. One goal is working fine for one account in Adwords, but the other accounts are having a hard time finding any goals to pull in. All the setup required by http://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1034306?hl=en have been setup.


title: why my website isn't recognised by google?

text: i have a big problem. My website is invisible by google. Why ? i have made my robots.txt and sitemap.xml and all looks pretty good. my website : (removed; potentially spam) thanks à lot Forthomme Fabian


title: Any free service like Google Apps?

text: Google Apps offers a good opportunity to host emails externally. Definitely, Google should not be alone in this market, but I've not heard of any other alternative. Is there any other company offering free email hosting?


title: How do I get rid of unwanted gaps in a horizontal navigation bar?

text: That was my question, in the form of a question. Fortunately, I've already whipped up some code and can only point you to errors in the html.. although I don't know what they are. Here's what I've got: http://cssdesk.com/uDaLg When the extra navigation links (which would normally be characterized by line breaks) are laid out in my navigation bar, my html puts a gap in the padding on the right side. I have highlighted the background in case you're overly skeptical that it is in fact my css. Of course, you can also go and view the css for yourself.


title: Fake PR of a website

text: I just saw a website, its PR 10. Now this is impossible as the websites quality is nowhere near PR 10. I know that one can change to PR to show 10 if he redirects the site but in this case, its not getting redirected anywhere. I am pretty sure something is wrong with it. Please help me out. The domain is `www.virginia11.info`


title: In creating a rich snippet (breadcrumbs and sitelinks), is there a need to markup content in more than one markup language?

text: I started tagging all of my data with their appropriate schema.org vocabulary. I'd like my site to display a rich snippet/enhanced listing in Google. Is there ever a case where you would need to include code from more than one markup language (schema, RDFa, Microformats)


title: Anywhere to get a list of referrer spammers?

text: I do my own log processing using my own self-written analyzer. That means I have to deal with the continual nuisance of referrer spammers. Is there anywhere I can get an up-to-date list of referrer spammers?


title: Does Google Analytics have a way to compare two timeframes?

text: Our site recently took a huge traffic hit that we can't attribute to anything. Is there a way to ask Google Analytics to compare traffic patterns and show any statistical changes between two timeframes? (Or 3rd party software)


title: What's the quickest/cheapest way to get URL rewriting implemented?

text: Related to another question - if you need to get URL rewriting implemented ASAP, what are some methods that you've used or know of that can speed this up?


title: What's a landing page?

text: The marketing team says I need a landing page. What is that and why should I bother?


title: RSS feed : wrong encoding?

text: I just migrated my website to a brand new server, and now i'm having a weird issue. Some characters on my RSS feed are not properly encoded, as you can see here : http://www.windowsphonefr.com/mise-a-jour-de-facebook-sur-windows-phone-8-des- performances-au-top/20392/feed The characters affected are <, >, ', and ". Accented (á, é, ê, à, è, ...) are correctly displayed. How can I fix this ?


title: If I own the .com/net/org versions of my site, can I tell customers to type simply the name of my company into the address bar?

text: If I own example.com/net/org, can I simply tell my customers to type "example" into their browser address bar to get to my site? (i.e. no http://, no dot anything)


title: What is the most secure environment for multiple CMS sites?

text: I wish to run about 50 Joomla or WordPress low-traffic websites on 1 server, or part of a server. Each website will be managed by its own, naive owner who will have be able to access the Joomla or Wordpress backend of the website. I am concerned about security and isolation as my users will periodically get into trouble by not protecting their sites properly. Two alternatives I know of exist: Run one Linux system with multiple websites under Apache. Follow current Joomla and WordPress security tips. Increase the isolation of the individual sites by using mpm-itk, which will allow each website to run as its own user. The alternative to this is to run virtualization software such as the Xen hypervisor. Each site would have its own, virtual Linux system. I lack the experience needed to make this decision and I am asking which path to take. Obviously, there may be other alternatives that I haven't considered.


title: Which should I use for mouse over tooltip for image (alt, longdesc, title)

text: Currently, my webpage images use the alt attribute only.   Users complain that their IE8 cannot show the "tooltip" bubble when they mouse over the image. On Microsoft's What's New in Internet Explorer 8 page, it says > The alt attribute is no longer displayed as the image tooltip when the > browser is running in IE8 Standards mode. Instead, the target of the > longDesc attribute is used as the tooltip if present; otherwise, the title > is displayed. The alt attribute is still used as the Microsoft Active > Accessibility name, and the title attribute is used as the fallback name > only if alt is not present. I also found that many say title should be used.   Which should I use to meet the industrial standard: alt, longdesc or title?


title: 1 click backup for my websites

text: I have a windows reseller account that I only really use for personal use. The host company doesn't currently offer a 1 click backup. I am looking for something to automate some kind of backup that does the following:   * Backups all files   * Backups all databases I know other companies offering such a tool but I am not looking. I have thought about writing a tool that does this but thought there might be something out there that does this already?


title: Has anyone been able to convert a site's media content from flash to html5?

text: I'm looking to convert a site from Flash based video to HTML5, the current video uses time marks to display slides (kind of like how youtube has ads on their videos). But the difference between Youtube and my site is that it doesn't show up inside the video, the slides are displayed next to the video. Is there any way I can accomplish this with HTML5? Or do I have to use Javascript for this? _If this isn't clear enough, please let me know._


title: Cassandra hosting

text: What is needed to host website which uses Cassandra? Are there any available options on market right now? What other NoSQL hosting plans do you recommend?


title: Site-wide redirect with Tomcat4

text: Disclaimer: My webmastering experience is almost nil. Apologies if anything seems ignorant - if it sounds that way, it probably is. My employer is in the middle of switching over from one version of their website to another, and for the time being would like for the old site to redirect to the new one, but have the pages of the old site preserved as a backup of sorts. After some Google searches, I found that an easy way to perform a site-wide redirect is by adding the following line to a .htaccess file:               Redirect 301 / http://www.website.com      Prior to this task being given to me, the site did not have a .htaccess file, so I created one and it contains _only_ that line. Once that file was saved, attempts to load the old site's URL yielded 500 Internal Server Error. I am certain that I'm missing something which might be obvious to an experienced webmaster. What more do I need to do to make this redirect hold?


title: How can I let users pay other users on my website?

text: I'm looking for a way to let users on my website pay other users on my website for goods or services and for me to take a percentage of the transaction as well as store the transaction data in database. Is there currently a service out there that will let me do this? Is Paypal capable of this? I know I can receive payments from users and send payments to users, but I want a way to directly let users pay others directly or even pay me directly and then me automatically pay the user who should be receiving the money once the payment clears. This will be a US only website for now and I'm using PHP and MySql if that makes a difference.


title: Submit to software directories

text: I'd like to submit my free software to some of the online directories like Softonic. Is there a tool to do this?


title: How to do a JavaScript redirection to the same page without hurting my SEO?

text: I did something that does that when people land on my page for the first time, they get a JavaScript redirection to the same page, but with `PHP $_GET` URL queries, then this page redirect back to the page without these queries, so the server got the screen's size of the client during this process. The thing is that this redirection is done in JavaScript client-side, so I wonder if it could hurt my website's SEO in some ways (continue reading). Here are solutions that I think could be good, but I'm not sure about what to do and what will happen if I do that. I don’t really know how Google scan sites, so I may be wrong:   * Should I put this JavaScript redirect at the bottom of my page's code, so Google will have the time to scan my entire page before being redirected?   * Should I put this JavaScript code in the `<head>` of the page so that there will be no waiting before the redirect is done, so human clients will be satisfied to not have to wait some milliseconds more, but Google will scan the second page instead of the first, or will incompletely scan the first?   * Should I detect with PHP whether or not I should echo this JavaScript code based on the type of the visitor (human or not). If this is what I should do, how to do it simply?  This is important, as this JavaScript code is on each page and is echoed in PHP each time someone (or a robot) visits the site for the first time.


title: Does description change impact the google ranking and/or crawl rates?

text: I am thinking about adding some randomization to my shopping cart descriptions and pricing. I am not talking about meta-description, but about actual product descriptions. Would content change improve any of my stats with google? I am especially interested in crawl rates.


title: Email private information appearing in Google Results

text: I've got a major problem in that emails sent to our clients are showing up in Google's search results. For confidentiality reasons, I can't post those links (for risk that they get indexed here), but the format is something like this               http://www.abc.com/xxhh1213131      where xxhh1213131 is a unique "token" that for each of our recipients. Any idea how this might be happening? We have a "view as webpage" link in our emails. Could this have happened from traffic to those links?


title: How to start a HTML5 video site?

text: So... What applications do I need to start a HTML5 based video site? ex.: an educational video site. Is it technically solvable? A pure HTML5 site? Can anyone post links about it, docs, how to create it? Server must be ex.: a Linux distro.


title: Google Analytics banner?

text: I use Google Analytics on my site... But, I would like to display some traffic info to the users, like geo localization or just a hit-counter on the main page of my site. Does Google offer something like this?


title: Sex - in domain name is this bad?

text: In short I am working with a company that does trade shows... one of their new domain names has the word 'sex' in but completely innocently. EXAMPLE: www. someproductsexpo .com (Being 'some' 'products' 'expo'). The content is completely inoffensive and I do not see there being any other things that would flag either the web or any emails sent from anyone@someproductsexpo.com as inappropriate. I was just wondering if any has experiences of any domains like this or comments to add? Thanks


I just want that if someone use my contents on their site, they should give a link to my site or some credit. For this purpose i just want to go for creative commons licensing. Would creative commons be good option for bloggers to keep owenership on their contents?


title: Where can/should I submit my sitemap.xml?

text: I know of Google and Bing, but are there other places I can/should submit my sitemap.xml? And do they support pinging?


title: How do I password protect a directory with a customizable login page?

text: At the moment, I have a directory that's password protected by .htaccess and .htpasswd. The problem with this is that when a visitor comes to my site, they get an ugly inbuilt Secure Area message rather than going through a friendlier-looking login page. The only other way I know to password protect online is using PHP files that redirect if the user doesn't have a login cookie, but the problem with this is that although it protects pages of the site, it doesn't protect other site content (such as image and PDF files). How can I make sure that all files within a directory are protected by a login while still presenting that login in a user-friendly way?


title: Intermittent SSL errors

text: I have a Facebook app hosted on SSL. Some people get "Connection not trusted" when using the app. I do not get the error. I have switched between secure browsing and not using Facebook settings, and the app is correctly configured. What else could cause this kind of intermittent SSL errors? Thanks!


title: CGI program can't access external sites through a proxy

text: We have a local "server" machine (Web, Samba, LTSP, DHCP.. etc) 192.168.0.11 running Mandriva / Apache2 which connects to internet using another machine as a proxy (Vista 192.168.0.2:6588). Browsers, wget, mcc on 0.11 are able to connect to the net without any problems. However, CGI programs running on this machine are not able to fetch data from external sites. The same programs work correctly when run under Apache on 0.2 machine. Have tried:                   <IfModule mod_proxy.c>               <Proxy *>               Order deny,allow               Allow from all               </Proxy>           ProxyRemote * http://192.168.0.2:6588         NoProxy 192.168.0.1/254         </IfModule>      in the httpd config file. The proxy module has been enabled. Is this the correct line of thinking? How to verify that the proxy settings are working? Any other config files need to be checked? Thanks!


title: Can I freely add images to my blog post from Image database websites?

text: As many of you guys have already seen the blog site like   1. http://searchengineland.com/   2. http://www.searchenginejournal.com/   3. http://www.seroundtable.com/ Use to add images to there blog post and at the end or the article they just featured the actual URL from Image hosting database website like photostocks.com, dreamtime.com. So my question did these guys had some deal already with each other for these or it's completely normal for anyone to use Images like that.


title: How to externally host a mobile website?

text: I've built a cool mobile website/app using JQuery Mobile. I want to offer that to clients, but I want to use my own hosting. # Here's what I want to do If a user uses a mobile device to visit `client.com`, I want them to see the contents of `mysite.com/mobile/?app=1`. If a mobile user visits `client.com/something`, I want them to see `mysite.com/mobile/detail.php?i=something&app=1`. ## Requirements   * The browser should still show the url on `client.com` or at least `m.client.com`.   * The redirect should not break Jquery Mobile (therefore iFrames are out of the question)   * The redirect should be easy to set-up for my client. Ideally a copy and paste of some javascript code. # Here's what I've come up with I've thought of something, but I'm not sure if it's going to work and IF it's going to work, whether it's a good solution.   * A small javascript would detect a mobile device and redirect to `m.client.com`.   * Cname `m.client.com` would redirect to `m.mysite.com`   * `m.mysite.com` would point to `mysite.com/mobile/`   * `?app=1` would be appended by PHP. I'm not even sure if that's going to work, and it requires too much effort for my clients. I am willing to use almost any combination of techniques to achieve this. Javascript, Jquery, DNS zoning, HTAccess or anything else that would be good for it. What would be the best way to do such a thing?


title: Creating a Template Like System in cPanel

text: I am creating a medium sized website using cPanel and their File Manager system and the majority of my pages are going to be the same with a different title and content section and I wanted to see if there is a system for making one general template file and then having all the other pages inherit from that file so all I have to do is have a content and title section and the rest of the links, headers, and whatnot can be changed throughout the site by just changing one file. Is there anything like this? I have used Jinaj2 in python and a few other systems for other server scripting languages but I am not sure how to implement it with cPanel.


title: How to get a domain with invalid contact details

text: There's a domain that I want. The registrant details were hidden behind Domain Discreet, which no longer exists, and none of the contact info works, email bounces etc. so I can't approach the owner and ask what they want for it. It was due to expire last year so I used a deleting domains provider to try and grab it, but several months after it was supposed to have expired it was re- registered by its current owner for another two years. Tried filing a complaint with ICANN about the invalid contact details but no dice. Advice?


title: Why is Google omitting commas from the meta description tag in its search results?

text: I've recently improved the description meta tag for my website to be more descriptive of the visited webpage. Today I decided to check Google and see if it has begun picking up these changes. It has, except it is omitting the commas from the numbers within the description. For example:               <meta name="description" content="Dar Vega lost their Wyvern worth 60,018,555,999.55 ISK.">      is displayed in Google Search as:               Dar Vega lost their Wyvern worth 60018555999.55 ISK.      However, Bing does not modify this at all. What am I missing here? Why does Google remove the commas? Is there some SEO implication I don't know about?


title: Page loading problem. Page is very slow

text: Regarding the domain http://www.pravninasvet.com, there is a problem where it sometimes loads fast, sometimes very slow. The domain is registered by godaddy, the server is in Germany. But when the page loads very slow, the is ping normal:               Pinging pravninasvet.com [91.194.91.202] with 32 bytes of data:          Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=50ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=55     Reply from 91.194.91.202: bytes=32 time=51ms TTL=55          Ping statistics for 91.194.91.202:         Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),     Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:         Minimum = 50ms, Maximum = 52ms, Average = 51ms      Can this be a problem with the server being in Germany and domain registered at godaddy? Or what else can be the problem?


title: Using a Duplicate Site During Scheduled Maintenance by Changing Document Root

text: EDIT: I am not asking about the creation of a staging environment. I need to rephrase my question for clarity: Is there a reason why I wouldn't want to change the document root for the domain of our website to point to the document root on the staging website during a site upgrade, and leave it there permanently, with the production site now becoming the staging site? Will it affect search engine traffic or the way that Google crawls the website if the document root folder changes entirely? Sorry, if there is a duplicate question with answers on this already, but I am not seeing answers addressing the change of the document root specifically, or how it could affect traffic, seo, etc. OLD QUESTION text to follow: My company's website needs to undergo some big upgrades. We want to avoid downtime for our users if at all possible. Are there reasons why we wouldn't want to create a duplicate site, and during maintenance simply change the document root for our domain name to this site's folder? This way, we could create a duplicate site, perform the upgrade, ensure everything is working, and when it is, change the document root folder. I have been scouring the web for information about how this could affect our site, such as whether this would change anything in the eyes of Google, etc. and so far, I've found nothing about it. I'm worried I'm missing something big.


title: Registering multiple domains vs. subdomains

text: We are currently planning on registering multiple domains for different parts of the website we own. For example consider that we have `example.com` as the main domain and have assigned all the sub-departments their own subdomain.   There will be `tutorials.example.com`, `videos.example.com`, `articles.example.com`, etc.   Now for marketing reasons we plan to register `examplevids.com`, `exampletuts.com`, etc.   The catch here is all these domains should somehow point to their respective subdomains. We can either use a permanent redirect or have and iframe to display the content directly from the subdomains.   Now I wonder which approach is better considering SEO rules. Will using iframes be considered replicating content by search engines? Or is it at all wise to have different domains? Thank you.


title: What could cause a drop in direct traffic (all other sources remain constant)?

text: One of my sites has shown a significant drop in **direct traffic**. Organic and Referral traffic remain relatively constant. ![Google Analytics Graph of Traffic Sources](http://i.stack.imgur.com/DTqrn.png) The only possible contributing factor I can think of is a recent DNS change (was run through CloudFlare, now AWS Route 53) but the dates don't line up. I'd like to know if I'm missing something obvious (or not so obvious). **[UPDATE: 17 Aug]** : I've run the same report in Analytics for two other related web-properties (same Google Analytics master account) with the same results. There are a number of other sites in the account that aren't showing this - but it looks to be an Analytics tracking issue. Since all three affected sites are using WordPress with the same Google analytics account, i'll be starting some analysis there...