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Just seen this thread which might help. http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/22915-create-grayscale-images-on-the-fly/

I'm working on a website which takes it's data from an external xml feed and dumps the content into a database. The product images are referencing an external source using a full http url. My problem is that most of the images are much larger than need be and although I'm sizing the images using css the download speed has dramatically been affected. I'm looking to try to use some sort of image resize on the fly to reduce the images but I'm struggling to find a solution that handles images that are held on another url. My php isn't fantastic, the hosting is a shared host. Has anyone any recommendations for scripts that will could do this job?

Hi, I have produced a website in several different languages such as french, german, italian etc but now a version is required in chinese. Does anyone have any experience or advice on how I go about converting the site into chinese? The bulk of the site runs from a database so I can export out the uk data and get it translated into chinese but what do I do regarding text embedded into images? What font do I use? Also what html encoding setting do I need to use for the html text? I always thought chinese was read top to bottom, if this is correct how do you handle this? or would it revert to left to right for the web?

Has anyone had good experiences with Heart Internet? We use them at work and at first they seemed ok but their technical support (only via email) seems a bit weak when it comes to coding configuration issues. I would give them 3 or 4/10 at the moment. We are currently having problems with random wordpress plugins not working and crashing our blogs mainly due to the way Hearts servers seem to be configured. This is where our issues over their support come in. Until now I was considering setting up my own reseller account with them but now I'm not so sure. I would be interested to hear from other people of their experiences with Heart. Good or Bad. Would you recommend them? What would be your score out of 10? Our other host is fasthosts. Need I say more? 2/10. Slow servers, dodgy up/downtime, recent flakey email problems, pricey add ons and I heard the telephone support is now going out to romania or the phillipines ( and not to mention last years security hack).

A client has asked for several webcams of his factory to be added onto his website. The url for the webcams is a static ip address with a port number for each webcam. My question is how to I add them to the website?

A client has asked for their catalogue to be turned into a flash flip book. A bit like this http://www.marksandspencer.com/gp/browse.h...=A2BO0OYVBKIQJM I have found a free product that does the job but its quite restrictive especially on quality and with the zoom option. Does anyone have any recommendations for packages that will do this sort of effect?

As well as the Google Keyword Tool I also use Wordtracker. The paid for version offers UK orientated results. There's also a free trial version

Thats perfect. Thanks a lot

I'm putting together a website using Wordpress. I have added several pages, the links for these appear at the top of the page in the main navigation. However, I would like a couple of these links (terms and privacy policy) to appear in the footer. Is it possible to stop the page links to these pages appearing in the main navigation? I have looked for a page exclusion plugin in but had no luck. The other alternative that I can think of is to manually hard code the links into the appropriate places in the various files.

I use Dreamweaver myself. It has the code and design view options. It does php and .net although I think there are other programs that handle .net better. Price wise I'm not sure but I would expect it's a bit on the lumpy side I'm afraid. A good program though.

I've been trying to get to the bottom of performing ISAPI Rewrites and redirects. Having finally found a host that supports ISAPI I now need to get to grips with writing the syntax. Having done many google searches I seem unable to find any basic beginners guides. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

To be honest I'm not expecting massive amounts of traffic but like with any discussion forum it will take a lot of work for them to get it running and administered well. Forums don't tend to look good to new visitors if there are no threads or no replies to existing threads.

A client has asked for a discussion forum to be added to their website. Does anyone have any recommendations or advice on the best solution to use. IP Board which this forum uses seems to be ok as does phpBB which is open source.

Thanks for that. I think it'll work a treat. What we are trying to do is an SEO test by getting some important links that use keyword anchor text to the top of the code. This is so we can see whether the links at the top of a page are given more weight than those further down the page.

Hi, We have a site which we are carrying out some SEO on. At the footer of the page we have added some anchor text links which target our main chosen keywords. We would ideally like to move the code for these to the top of the page in code view but have them displayed at the bottom of the page in the browser. All div's on the page are positioned relatively but if I position the footer links absolutely they will then be removed from the document flow and this will cause problems with the positioning on the page due to different page scrolling lengths. Below is a simple version of what I am working on. <div id="outer"> <div id="box1">Links go here which would display below box 2 in the browser</div> <div id="box2"> <p>Content Here</p> <p>Content Here</p> <p>Content Here</p> <p>Content Here</p> <p>Content Here</p> <p>Content Here</p> </div> </div> Box 1 needs to appear in the browser below box 2. Is this possible to achieve? Hope I've explained this ok.

I run a blog on my own site about Search Engine Optimisation, Web Design and Photography. It uses Wordpress which I house in a folder called blog which sits within the root directory. Wordpress is so simple to install and run on either linux or windows and uses a mysql database. You can get hundreds of free themes to customise the look or if you're a coder you can easily adapt the html and css to your own design. There are also plugins for every possible thing you can think of making it, in my opinion, a very good option worth considering. There's also a good support network for it. Hope this helps

The attacks are using SQL injection to insert a reference to a javascript file on external sites. Admittedly it's sloppy coding on the part of our designers/developers but lessons have been learnt. ALWAYS FILTER ANY PASSED PARAMETERS. That said I have been working in the internet industry for about 7 years now and have never experienced anything like this. On a weekly basis one site after the next is being attacked meaning extra work during an already busy work schedule. With such sustained attacks this now seems beyond anthing that is random, leading us to wonder whether it is malicious towards our company or whether these attacks are being experienced by other fasthosts customers. Hence my enquiry on this forum. When I raised the issue with Fasthosts they responded with the usual security is your responsibility answer and offered no insight into whether this is a common problem experienced by other customers. After checking the log files the ip addresses of the attacks change so I don't think we'll be able to block them via their ip address. That said I'll start to log the ip addresses and see if a pattern emerges.

The fasthosts support forum was taken offline and never re-instated around the time of their security breach and subsequent mass password fiasco.

Hi, Just giving this one a bump up again. These attacks are continuing to happen and on a regular basis. We have been producing and hosting websites for many years and have never experienced these sorts of continued and sustained attacks before. We are beginning to wonder whether it could be a disgruntled ex employee or someone with a grudge or whether these attacks at generic to websites hosted with Fasthosts which could tie in with a major security breach they had last year. Any info from other fasthosts users would be greatly received.

Hi, We have a fasthosts reseller hosting account and have noticed over recent months that there have been a number of sustained hacking attacks on the sites we host. Initially it was only the sites that use MS SQL databases but now those which use access databases are being targeted. My gut feeling is that these attacks are related to the security breach fasthosts encountered at the end of last year as they seem it be to targeted to be just random attacks. I'm wondering if anyone else out there has been experiencing the same?

My advise would be don't use flash. If the SEO aspect is important to you and your site I would always opt for an anchor text link.

I'm just wondering if it is possible to use ISAPI rewriting on dynamic url querystrings (in classic asp on a windows server) to rewrite the url into a format that is a bit more search engine friendly. I have a feeling that a certain amount of access to the server level IIS settings will be needed in which case our current shared hosting would not be able to provide this. Has anyone had any experience of ISAPI rewriting and setting it up. Are there any hosting companies that offer this service? Cheers

I recently found a video about google analytics which I posted on my blog which might help. A few searches on Youtube may well show more.

Hi, I would start by manually submitting to search directories into relevant categories, posting on different forums (have a look at WebProWorld) and include a link to your website, comment on blog posts particularly ones which don't have the nofollow tag on the link (try googleing "no follow list"). You could also think about adding a blog of your won to your site and regularly posting topical articles to it. If a post is good and eye catching enough it will gain backlinks from other sites naturally. I think reciprocal linking is pretty much dead but from experience as a site climbs the SERP's the link exchange requests will come to you. You can then pick and choose the relevant ones. Hope this helps

In other words, one to avoid I think. Does anyone have any recommendations for a good business broadband provider especially one with unlimited bandwidth.