davej

As a beginner I find this list pretty intimidating. Third party software? Social Media? Blog/News? And all this added to a CMS? I've only begun to look at CMS's and they look like a mess to properly configure. I can't imagine adding a bunch of stuff to a CMS.

So if you can identify a spammer by ip as soon as a page is requested you could give him a 404 error, right?

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47849023/ns/technology_and_science-security/ I thought this was interesting.

When someone asks you how they should select a hosting service what do you tell them?

Apparently that doesn't always work.

I suppose e-mail is often offered in a masked/blind manner -- but if that sort of feature is there I just don't see how it works.

Why does the profile contact information seem to omit e-mail? You can list various instant message services. You can list a website. But I don't see e-mail -- or at least it isn't obvious to me.

Since it is not in English I don't know what is there, but I think the duplicate photo of the reflection in the sunglasses should be removed from either page 1 or page 2 -- it should not be seen twice. Also there are not enough photos and especially not enough closeup photos. Also since I am a whitewater kayaker I am surprised that there are no helmet-camera videos. A helmet-cam video would complement the other videos. Also where are these rivers? There should be good maps of the rivers and maps to find the location of this outfitter. Also a calendar? Days of operation? Schedule? Pricing? Equipment? Discussion of safety?

Hello Ms. Opti, Welcome! Yes Javascript is pretty deep when you add the DOM and the fact that anything can be done several different ways. The usual way to start learning javascript would be to write a fancy feature for your static webpage, such as a slideshow. You should step through the W3 tutorials to get the basics.

In some forums elsewhere I see people who are very eager to lock and end threads. I think this is generally a bad thing. Even a very old thread can continue to accumulate useful information. The problem is when a thread gets very long and filled with generally useless back-and-forth banter rather than useful information.

Yes, but I guess my question is really: "Does anyone here use an obscure special-purpose browser for anything?" Actually I've been wondering about what might be used to observe attack websites. I constantly receive e-mails that are obviously hoping that I will visit their poisoned "attack sites" through the links provided, and I think it would be neat to have some program that could pretend to be a popular browser (but actually be absolutely impervious) so that these sites could be safely exercised and their tactics observed.

I happened across this old article... http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/top-10-specialty-web-browsers-you-may-have-missed-026?page=0,0 So are there any "special purpose" web browsers that are worth a look?

Yeah, it sounds like a class to teach you to take a plain HTML page and add lots of gadgets to it.

So the HTML page calls a PHP script? I've never done that. Looking around the web I see these page counters are essentially "mystery code" that people add to their webpages with no understanding of how they work.

I looked up a local "Advanced HTML" course offering and the description was: "Use of tables; creation and use of frames; construction of forms; imagemaps; working with external media (sound and animation): incorporating counters, guestbooks, and search engines; use of "meta information" tags; and a discussion of HTML editors and converters will be presented." Now of the above, I've never implemented a page counter or a guest book. So what is the standard approach for an HTML page? A Perl script? Thanks.

I don't have a system worthy of mention except that I have been very happy with my two trayless sata bays. I can easily swap out disks and this provides a very flexible scheme. I'm not sure but it might have been this one... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817990001

THAT is something I want to experiment with. I came across an article several years ago that seemed to be written by someone who really didn't know what he was doing, but he had a detailed plan... http://ezinearticles.com/?E-Commerce---How-To-Prevent-Download-Theft&id=201853

Well, I think encryption prevents anyone from easily modifying the data for any devious purpose. What about the topic of file security and system configuration? If a filename can be guessed anyone can download it, right?

Well, SQL injection can be fed in through a cookie.

I try to filter user input to allow only characters that are really necessary, and I use parameterization, and I limit the lengths of input fields, and I use a data access layer. They say cookies and session variables need to be encrypted so that is the next thing I need to learn how to do. Also I wonder if there are any vulnerabilities related to system configuration or guessable filenames.

Reminds me of Arianna Huffington. Hey, help me launch this website so that your donated effort can make me a rich person. Also, I hate abstract art. Also there are already countless websites that sell abstract art.

I've never bothered with an html page for the full-sized images. I just use the back button. <a href="myphoto.jpg"><img alt="myphoto.jpg" src="myphoto_thumb.jpg" width="200"/></a>

It is possible to evaluate these things without installing them? Can I just go look at a typical installation somewhere? Thanks.

Is SMF simpler than some of these other alternatives? It looks plenty complex to me.

I am on the hook to provide my club with a website. I think all my club needs is a log-in, a message board, a photo album, some simple file storage, and a calendar of events. At what point do you decide that an open source CMS is justified, and if so how would you even choose from the dozens of such offerings? Thanks.