Comment by mvark on Just really confused about setting up my site on Amazon EC2
The ASP.NET application can be deployed through Visual Studio. Yes, you would need to deploy your database to SQL Azure & then use SQL Azure connection string in your web.config to make your app...
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Son of Suckerfish Dropdowns is a popular DIY technique to build a menu with just HTML & CSS & very little JS (for IE6) - htmldog.com/articles/suckerfish/dropdowns
View ArticleComment by mvark on What are the best ways to implement cross browser css?
IE10 will not support conditional comments - blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/07/06/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on Most acceptable way to show hyper link file type to the...
I like this format - "Farming Report (PDF, 52K)" without any icons. It makes the file type evident even in low-bandwith scenarios or when viewed through mobile devices.
View ArticleComment by mvark on Looking for recommendations for Windows Web hosting...
Does this help? - webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/18964/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on I want to learn about servers, where should I start?
Although not exactly a learning resource, I suggest you follow the Netcraft website for news updates in this area - netcraft.com . Netcraft provides "research data and analysis on many aspects of the...
View ArticleComment by mvark on Why sometimes URLs are reached without the "www"'s in the...
You may also want to read this: "Why does my site only work with a www in the URL?": webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/25071/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on What is the average acquisition cost of a Facebook "Like"?
Related: How to get more Likes on Facebook by Oatmeal - theoatmeal.com/comics/facebook_likes
View ArticleComment by mvark on Why the difference in Google search result using script...
Related - webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/24783/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on My old webhost has gone out of business. How can I...
Can you share the URL of your website? Depending on how popular your site was, you may check if some of the tricks mentioned here work for you - codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on Is there a program to prevent downloading a whole site
You can make it hard to copy content and find ways to protect your IP (enforce authentication, have copyright notices, follow up on copyright breaches with search-engines, watermarks in images, disable...
View ArticleComment by mvark on How to dynamically insert a keyword in an Amazon Search...
Here's a JavaScript snippet that you can adapt for you need -mvark.blogspot.in/2013/04/…
View ArticleComment by mvark on How to redirect visitors to the server that is closest to...
You can explore the plans & pricing of CDNs offered by Cloud service providers like Amazon (aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/pricing) and Microsoft (windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/cdn) and even...
View ArticleComment by mvark on How do I set up a cookie-less domain?
"Despite doing our best to keep cookie size down, our use of Google Analytics puts the average user’s cookie size around 1 kilobyte." Useful and related -...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for How can I block site visitors using legacy browsers
You can detect older versions of Internet Explorer using the IE Conditional Comments feature. The following snippet when included in a web page will redirect versions older than IE 8 to a separate page...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Sending HTML to Gmail always lands in Spam
To prevent a programmatically sent email from landing in the Junk folder, you have to understand how spam filters operate.Try some of these recommendations -Don’t forget to add...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Including Amazon affiliate link to Amazon homepage
You can use this Amazon link builder tool to generate links with your affiliate code.
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Am I allowed to link to the movie posters from IMDB?
TheMovieDB.org& RottenTomatoes.com provide APIs that let you grab posters under relatively liberal conditions.Generally speaking, you have to provide attribution to the site you're getting the...
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Answer by mvark for Vendor reliability and Privacy reputation
SiteShow appears to be using the WOT service to find the Internet Reputation of a site. Over at the WOT website, they explain what these terms mean -Trustworthiness reflects the overall trustworthiness...
View ArticleAnswer by mvark for Has Microsoft stopped offering the free Internet Explorer...
MS keeps updating the list of Windows Virtual PC VHDs of different Internet Explorer versions so they MAY provide it during their next update cycle.There are multiple options to test web apps in IE6....
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