I have recently taken charge of
an old webpage that is a bit out of date on a university server. I am primarily familiar with Google Sites and Wordpress, where there's a CMS editor, but here it's just an ftp site with raw index files that require Spry to run. What do I need to edit it? Would it be relatively easy to create a redirect to a site that I control running a CMS I understand? How do I keep that from ruining all the old backlinks?
posted by anotherpanacea
on May 11, 2013 -
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I want to create an intra-company website for my co-workers to rate/review widgets. It will not be a commercial venture. Is there is a free or free-ish way to do this?
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posted by vidur
on Feb 19, 2013 -
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Please recommend me some guides about building a modern, lightweight, easy-to-maintain website.
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posted by dragonfruit
on Oct 6, 2012 -
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I have a really good idea for an online...website thing. Involving user submission. I don't know anything about programming or what-all. Help me figure out what tools I need to create this!
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posted by threeants
on Sep 3, 2012 -
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Doing some web design after being out of it a long time and my brain isn't in gear. I'm admittedly rusty and oblivious to the latest trends, codes and plugins for designing some of this basic stuff right now. Main goal: if I can make my client's dream site an awesome reality in a quick manner while remaining as lazy as possible, that would be fantastic! ;)
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posted by miss lynnster
on Nov 9, 2011 -
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Hope me! I have a Wordpress foodie blog and I have a kitchenware retail website. I want to take the blog and export it to my website. Somehow. It gets a little more complicated and I'd really appreciate some help walking me through the various procedures. Wise advise on blog organisation would also be deeply appreciated. Apologies in advance for the longwinded rambling to follow.
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posted by ninazer0
on Nov 2, 2011 -
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This weekend I'm setting up a website for an academic event. I'd like the homepage of the site to have large, clickable progress bars that display the number of posts for each of the subpages (News & Announcements, Blog, Events, etc.). As more posts are added to each of the subpages (posts would likely be sorted and displayed by category and tag), its respective progress bar takes up more screen real estate and the tally count listed on/near it increases. Basically, I want the homepage to look like a giant, dynamic bar chart. Is there a freeware (or cheap) template, widget or piece of code that allows me to do this?
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posted by iamkimiam
on Sep 15, 2011 -
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[Not-wanting-to-reinvent-the-wheel web filter] looking for a particular way of implementing blog posts onto static site. Please hope me save time. RSS question inside.
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posted by handbanana
on May 5, 2011 -
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I'm trying to help my friend put together a simple site, using wordpress as a platform for a static site/CMS. I'm having trouble moving the header (and all the content below it I suppose) to the top of the screen, 3px from the top. Could anyone help me by looking at the source code?
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posted by FireStyle
on Apr 26, 2011 -
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Are there any examples of particularly elegant implementations of "spoiler tags" out there that work well with both screen readers and touch/mobile based site designs?
posted by Artw
on Apr 26, 2011 -
11 answers
I need to slap together a website FAST that contains a map and a (sortable? filterable?) list of Wisconsin-related protest/rally events. I'd really, really like it if people could enter their own events and they'd show up on the map without a lot of intervention on my part.
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posted by desjardins
on Mar 10, 2011 -
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Help me learn how to build a modern website. I have general knowledge of basic HTML, my own domain and host, and a number of ideas. Where can I learn to make my ideas into a proper website?
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posted by filthy light thief
on Jan 10, 2011 -
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I need to make a website for a family member (a classical musician) by the end of next month. I'm familiar with basic HTML and CSS, but I need to become fluent. Any web developers on MF?
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posted by jykmf
on Sep 16, 2010 -
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Due to a fiasco involving a failed service provider, I have to put together a small (5-10 pages) website in the next 72 hours. Since the domain name is still under the contractor's control and resides on her server, I must use CMS Made Simple (which is fine, given the need to update the site regularly). Otherwise it's a completely blank slate... and so am I.
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posted by carmicha
on Sep 9, 2010 -
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I want to create a simple but dynamic Bible-reading web app from the ground up. I have very little web design and development experience. Where do I begin?
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posted by joshrholloway
on Apr 22, 2010 -
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Looking for a puzzle site from a few years back whose navigation forward was achieved by solving a series of hacker-type problems. Maybe 2002 or so? Not entirely sure.
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posted by vizsla
on Feb 12, 2010 -
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How would I go about hosting a website (I have my own .com domain) on Amazon S3 (two files, one html and one css)? Is this even possible?
posted by nam3d
on Jul 21, 2009 -
5 answers
Is there a simple way to convert a multi-page website to a mobi-format book for reading on a Kindle? The site contains html-text plus graphics, but no interactivity.
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posted by grumblebee
on Apr 10, 2009 -
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I made what I think is a great website for my company using Microsoft FrontPage. However, I have received a few complaints about accessibility and am wondering how to proceed.
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posted by 2bucksplus
on Mar 17, 2009 -
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My old website still gets a lot of hits. But many of the outbound links I posted years back are no longer valid, are dead or have changed location. Is there any way to integrate the
Wayback Machine Internet Archive into my site's code so that links are redirected to the archive for the date they were originally posted?
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posted by bollockovnikov
on Mar 6, 2009 -
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The pesky Plesk favicon from hell won't leave me alone. If you're using vista and IE, can you spare a moment?
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posted by fontophilic
on Feb 23, 2009 -
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I designed
this website on my Mac. The problem is that it looks slightly different on the PC (or Windows in VMWare) and my skills aren't advanced enough to figure out this problem on my own. More inside.
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posted by pantheON
on Oct 6, 2008 -
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Can the hive help me get a web site started? I have very specific ideas, but I'm a dinosaur when it comes to everything about the insides of websites.
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posted by indiebass
on Sep 24, 2008 -
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I want to take an Excel spreadsheet and just make it a dynamically sortable table I can put in a webpage or blog. I want people to be able to click a column, and have the table be sorted by that column. Best solutions? Also, if the table included locations, is it possible to make them selectable, and have the selected locations display on Google maps? Thanks.
posted by Malad
on Apr 26, 2008 -
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I built a website for my business. I want to sell things from my website! My hosting has a CGI-BIN directory and will run scripts etc.
What do I need to know to add a shopping cart function and sell goods? What e-commerce software would be easy to use and integrate into my site? Payment doesn't need to be automated, but I would like to be able to securely take credit card numbers for processing later, if possible.
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posted by tomble
on Mar 8, 2008 -
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HTML/Javascript: I need to "hijack" website content so that it appears to be hosted by a different domain (with the full knowledge and cooperation of all parties).
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posted by jedicus
on Aug 15, 2007 -
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I'm starting a new tourism website for my local area. It's a mash of google maps, with photos and information of a given area featuring some of the neat stuff happening, or that has happened. And now I need some help with the wordpress theme.
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posted by sethwoodworth
on Aug 12, 2007 -
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Having made myself dependent on Dreamweaver and CMSes, I suddenly find myself ignorant of the basics of reusable site content. Help.
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posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Jul 26, 2007 -
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Help me find books/sites to help me learn how to make good-looking websites!
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posted by LoopyG
on Jul 23, 2007 -
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In making a gallery page for a website, what is the easiest way to have a scrolling area for clickable thumbnails that bring up a larger image, as well as some information about the image, in a table cell above? Specifics, examples, many self links, and my (mangled) code so far available inside.
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posted by ztdavis
on Apr 22, 2007 -
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posted by padjet1
on Sep 14, 2006 -
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I'm going to start a site to
petition a board to keep a local public official in office. I want the site to include facts about why he should stick around and links (obviously) this stuff can be done easily with Wordpress (as we
learned yesterday), i'm guessing. But i also want to incorporate a petition that can keep some information private (like e-mail addresses) but make other information public (neighborhood, city, state). Ideally, I'd like to be able to print the content once the numbers get up. What's the best way for me to do that?
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posted by kenneth
on Aug 29, 2006 -
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HTML woes: How can I make Amazon ads play nice with Google ads? Also, why is my web site's layout screwed up in Internet Explorer on Windows?
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posted by jdroth
on Apr 25, 2006 -
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