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[QUOTE=Phaelax;1082115]Find compassionate hobbyists willing to help, or start researching what to do yourself. Depending on the type of website, I'm guessing you have in mind a rather large dynamic site, you'll probably need help if you have no technical background at all. The time it would take for you to …

I started writing about [URL="http://www.ecosia.org"]Ecosia[/URL], the new, "green powered" search engine, the very first week it launched. I can't help but admit that I'm a bit envious that [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story244378.html"]Davey Winder wrote the very first article about Ecosia[/URL] the very first day it launched. But, hey, if he hadn't written about …

Earlier this week [URL="http://www.daniweb.com/news/story244378.html"]I read a very interesting article [/URL]written by my colleague Davey Winder about the new search engine[URL="http://www.ecosia.org"] Ecosia[/URL]. After reading Davies article, I decided to do some research comparing Ecosia vs. the monster search engine [URL="http://www.google.com"]Google[/URL]. Ecosia claims that one search via Google uses around the same …

good blog but you gave the definition of white hat a bad rep. A white hat protects sites and servers. what this "uno" fellow did was grey hat neither protecting or attacking just exposing the sites vulnerability. In my opinion Uno is more black hat than grey he had no …

[QUOTE=canadafred;946782]I agree with her highness on this one. It's really her call anyway. There's already too much discussion of unrelated matters already (especially the recent surge of social networking marketing ideas) that don't really belong in the Search Engine Optimization sub-forum of the Internet Marketing forum. It's my opinion that …

Yes most young people and ignorant older people are window-holics. I'm on Windows right now but I spend most of my time on my Ubuntu with WINE installed so I can run some of those programs. A good OS for those who want to be free from windows but want …

Have you put any other CDs in your CD drive? It may be your CD drive that is bad.

[QUOTE=persianprez;1067125]I need to install these 3 tools in order to run Agriya Volume, but how do I? I'm running on a basic plan (linux) on securesignup. I don't have root access. Is there anyway? Or do I have to buy a VPS?? The three tools are: Mplayer + Mencoder Flvtool2 …

I'm not sure if your referring to ruby or ruby on rails. Anyways great tutorials for Ruby on rails are [URL="http://www.guides.rubyonrails.org"]guides.rubyonrails.org [/URL]and awesome videos with explanations would be [URL="http://railscasts.com"]http://railscasts.com[/URL]

Hey; How do you figure out how much you should be able to charge advertisers to advertise on your site? I am not going to use adsense or any of the other "pre-made ad systems" so any feedback would really be appreciated.

Hey; I have 6 months of work done in PHP and I really don't want to re-invent the wheel but I want to use some Ruby in my site. Is it possible to "mix languages" like PHP and ruby or will I run into some major problems? I would really …

Is it possible to overwrite internal javascript? I am working for a non profit as an internship and they want to escape a template that almost all of the non profits in that organization have to use, the catch is the template is written in Javascript if it is possible …

I think that working with Diggs ad system may be a good idea. Digg is the 122nd top site on the internet according to [URL="http://www.alexa.com"]http://www.alexa.com[/URL] advertizing on a popular website is usually good for business. I only see one con in the alexa information. Most users stay on the site …

I am a Web developer, I know HTML 4.0 and I am learning 5.0, I know XHTML 1.0 and plan on learning 2.0 very soon! I know CSS, Aural CSS, Photoshop,Flash, and Actionscript

I'm on Vista and haven't ran into that error. I am not using instant rails I downloaded a different version of ROR and than integrated it into my xampps INI file.

I found this very interesting since I just installed ROR into my XAMPP using the guide I found in this article. [URL="http://www.grapethinking.com/getting-rails-to-work-on-a-windows-machine-running-xampp"]http://www.grapethinking.com/getting-rails-to-work-on-a-windows-machine-running-xampp[/URL] I couldn't get the gem update to work in MS-DOS so I skipped that and ran gem install rails --include-dependencies.

have you tried lowering your firewall or customizing it? Oh I also just remembered something about Vista! if you have it as a secure network and you have selected wep you have to use wep-2 or wap for Vista.

[QUOTE=MktgRob;982176]As I said in a previous thread, thiefs are monitoring Facebook and Twitter for people who post that they are away on vacation and targeting their property for robbery. It's like chumming the water for sharks.[/QUOTE] Yes people do need to realize this, especially tweeters! You may think it is …

[QUOTE=newo2020;983688]Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily …

Hey I started this thread hoping that others may add in helpful free resources of websites that help websites. I got the idea from the free directory thread and thought that we could expand on that. I would also encourage people to post SEO tips since that is part of …

All hail the queen of DaniWeb! LOL just playing around Dani. Welcome zac :)

I was watching the show and the response by Taylor Swift was not staged nor was Beyonces as far as I can tell. I could see that they were both upset... and the crowd was even more upset even when kanye's name was mentioned as a nomination Radio City was …

I personally don't think adsense is the way to go. I would rather run a private ad system and have my own algorithims and ways of deciding what ads show up where than using Google Adsense. I've seen regular users go crazy with sites that use adsense... and understandably so... …

I have always used Alexa's free compare site feature on there front page. [URL="http://www.alexa.com"]http://www.alexa.com[/URL] you can put in three URLS including yours and compare against each other. It will show you all the analytics of your competitor and of your site and how they rank against each other on search …

Hey welcome to DaniWeb. You accidently posted in the wrong forum but thats cool-- i've been on here for a long time and I still make that mistake. A moderator will move your posting to the introductions area :). I don't have that power I'm just a regular user.

What very few people fail to realize when they use Skype is that it is using a small portion of your bandwidth to make Skype well Skype. Each user contributes a small portion of their bandwidth while they're online which can be disastrous if you don't have that much bandwidth …

Okay... let's make sure this is conficker... a few ways to test if you have the conficker virus is to try to go to legitimate websites like microsoft updates or an anti-virus site. If you can't get in you've been confickered. I have to agree with the above poster no …

[QUOTE=InsightsDigital;983013]Many online ads nowadays have a social media component to them. It can either be the voting of hands up or hands down on Facebook ads. Or it can be tweeting about a rich media ad. So how do you take this into consideration when you are strategizing for your …

I can see both sides of the fence. Links are very good but if you were to rely only on links you probably would get more spiders than humans. SEO should be looser than most people use it. Search Engine Optimization in my opinion is anything that helps out your …

[QUOTE=icu222much;982070]Backlinks? Do you mean going onto other websites and advertising about my site through threads?[/QUOTE] Welcome to Daniweb and the wonderous world of SEO and the world of search engines. Some sites have been said to be "sandboxed" by Google for up to 6 months meaning they don't really show …