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  2. Killersites.com Origins

    in Open Forum

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    Hi,

     

    Some of you might know that KillerSites.com was first founded (in 1995) to support the best selling book on web design: 'Creating Killer Web Sites' by David Siegel.

     

    Anyway, I wanted to post the book's cover as the first image in this forum, as a sort of homage ... I'm cheesy that way sometimes!

     

    The book:

  3. CMS intranet question.

    in Blogs and CMS

    Posted

    I just reread the first post; if your server is an XP box, then you must be running a limited version of IIS (if it is IIS) ... I think it can handle only 5 simultaneous request ... it is not designed for real use, just for testing.

     

    Unless you have some IIS specific stuff you are doing, you might be better off just replacing it with a Wamp install ... wamp just installs and configures Apache, PHP and MySQL for you.

     

    Stefan

  4. CMS intranet question.

    in Blogs and CMS

    Posted

    Ah ... the answer is maybe.

     

    If you already have a web server going on the network, and then trying to run another (wamp will try to run Apache) ... this will cause a conflict because both web servers will be trying to use port 80 - the default web server port.

     

    So, if you already have another web server, you can just get wamp going on another port (say 8080) .. the problem is that then everyone would have to manually append that port number to the URL.

     

    So for instance, if your server was running on the following internal IP: 127.0.0.5, you would have to have people use the following: 127.0.0.5:8080 ... and then the Wamp installed Apache would respond.

     

    That said, all this is not really required 99% of the time; just install PHP in your current web server and then you can run your CMS there.

     

    ... I am making A LOT of assumptions here, so my suggestions may not apply. For instance, I am assuming:

     

    1. you are already running a Windows based web server - IIS

    2. you are running this server for an intranet only.

    3. your web server doesn't have php installed.

     

    Stefan

  6. CMS intranet question.

    in Blogs and CMS

    Posted

    I was wondering if a CMS system like Wordpress or any other wouldn't be better.

     

    It would probably (I'm being polite) be much better! If your guy was using Frontpage to create things, I have a feeling that the quality of the work is probably less than perfect.

     

    ;)

     

    Anyway, don't forget the first three rules of programming:

     

    1. Reuse

    2. Reuse

    3. Reuse

     

    .. Never, build anything from scratch unless you are doing something truly unique - this is rare.

     

    I've been at web design and programming for 15 years and through that time, I've noticed that the more experienced the programmer, the less likely they would try to write code from scratch. Only greenhorn junior's are that arrogant.

     

    To use a CMS?

     

    Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla and any other established CMS' will be a much better because there has been thousands of man hours already put into these things. This means:

     

    1. They all have lots of refined capability.

    2. They probably will have far more solid (less buggy) code than anything you could build.

     

    The trick to modern web programming and design, is to leverage what is out there.

     

    Stefan

  7. Is this right?

    in Beginners Web Design

    Posted

    I've heard different things lately about meta data ... some have said that Google does look at it a little.

     

    :/

     

    ... Only Google really knows for sure.

     

    Since meta data can be used to cheat, there will never be that much weight put into meta information. I think thought, the description meta data can be used for display in the engine results - at least this is what I've seen in the past.

     

    As others have said, the key is in page titles and page content.

     

    Stefan

  10. Contact Form

    in HTML/XHTML

    Posted

    My client's contact form is being hijacked by spam and automatic submissions. The form is processed with PHP. Does anyone know a simple way to add an anti-spam "are you human" type question to the HTML form? I also read somewhere that you can prevent form comments from containing hyperlinks. Does anyone happen to know what the code would be for that? Any advice would be appreciated.

     

    Hi,

     

    This has been discussed before ... check out this thread on preventing spam.

     

    Stefan

  15. Web Designer's who are New to Wordpress

    in Blogs and CMS

    Posted

    Thanks for the feedback.

     

    I think modern web designers have to learn at least 1 blog or CMS to base their work on; Wordpress I feel is a good choice because:

     

    - easy to learn

    - lots of themes

    - lots of plugins

    - mature: works well and it's hard to find bugs.

     

    I wrote this beginners article a while back that has a diagram and an explanation of how the wordpress theme engine works.

     

    ... It may give you another take on things.

     

    That said, I think there are several worthy options besides Wordpress.

     

    Stefan

  16. How to use phpmailer instead of the PHP Mail() Function?

    in PHP

    Posted

    Hi,

     

    PHPMailer is a PHP class (basically a bunch of code packaged up the OOP way) that allows you to do everything that the PHP mail() function does, but also a whole lot more. From the official site:

     

    PHP email transport class featuring file attachments, SMTP servers, CCs, BCCs, HTML messages, word wrap, and more. Sends email via sendmail, PHP mail(), QMail, or with SMTP. New PHPMailer for PHP5 released!!

     

    You can download the free PHPMailer from sourceforge.

     

    Let us know if you have trouble using it.

     

    I hope that helps.

     

    Stefan

  18. Our new forum is just over I year old.

    in Web Design News

    Posted

    'Active posts' was buried and hidden away, as was the forum's RSS feed - sadly, like so others many things on killersites!

     

    :(

     

    I'm working with Ben and others to try to bring this stuff forward. BTW, I also have some new ideas for additions to the forum that I think will make it more fun.

     

    Anyway, I'm glad to hear you guys like the changes.

     

    :)

     

    Stef

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