User:	gothic_babes (posted by artosthebear)
	Date:	2009-12-16 10:36
	Subject:	Modern Citizen Photos
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	User:	webdesign (posted by elegantenigma)
	Date:	2009-12-15 12:53
	Subject:	Font Help
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Does anyone recognize this font?

	User:	webdev (posted by stumblingrose)
	Date:	2009-12-15 00:34
	Subject:	I make really, REALLY simple websites...
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	Mood:	frustrated
	Music:	Celldweller - Louder Than Words

A lot of the posts I have perused in this community are VERY advanced compared to my skills. I have limited knowledge on how to build websites, but I like to think they are mostly functional for what I build them for.

I am a roleplay geek, and make websites for an online MUD I play, so a small, free website is all I really need for guilds and stuff, and well...I've come across a problem. No one else that I know in the game or elsewhere has been able to help me, so I figured since it is such a simple problem (a matter of html and some css), maybe someone here could tell me where I went wrong.

The website link is: http://theassemblyofjudges.webs.com

My problem? When I click on the image map in firefox, it works and the text shows up just fine in the iframe. When someone tries to access it in IE, they click the links on the image map and it says it is loading, but the text never shows up.

I am completely baffled, and any help would be greatly appreciated!

	User:	webdev (posted by elveneyes)
	Date:	2009-12-14 20:57
	Subject:	A Question on Domains...
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	Mood:	confused

This is more of a question concerning the actual domain registering process versus website development itself, but I assume most of the people in this community are somewhat familiar with getting a domain for a client or themselves so I thought I would ask here.

I am not new to purchasing and transferring domains; I have around a dozen at the moment. While the majority of my domains are the common .com, .org, or .net endings, I have a few others that are not so common. Though they seemed like good ideas at the time, my purchases have really come back to bite me.

In the past 2 years, I have registered four .nu domain names (via GoDaddy and NameCheap), and one .us domain name (via NameCheap). When I registered these domains, I had every intention of actually putting them to use. Two of the .nu domains were for very "niche" websites, and the .us name was going to be for freelance work. Unfortunately, I got hit with two heart surgeries and a minor stroke in 2008, and now am possibly facing surgery and/or radiation. Thus, I had to completely drop my ambitions for the two .nu sites and the .us site early this year.

So I was stuck with two .nu domains and a .us domain that I had no use for. The .us domain was not a "big" purchase at $8.88 from NameCheap. However, each .nu was substantially more. I bought one via NameCheap at around $59 ($28.88 x 2 years), and the other three at about $45 (two year registrations for each) using GoDaddy coupon codes. I know people sell their domains via marketplace or auction, and luckily I was able to sell the NameCheap .nu to a friend even though it was for a great loss. The GoDaddy .nu names, though, are a totally different situation.

Apparently, you cannot transfer .nu domains between any registrar (except to the official .nu register at NuNames). Another big problem is that WhoisGuard protection cannot be applied to any .nu domain name. The third issue is that GoDaddy charges a separate subscription fee to use their online marketplace/auctions for domains. I have one, maybe three maximum, names to sell; I don't really want to pay a year's worth of subscription fees for something I am only going to use in maybe only a month.

As you can see, I am in a confusing situation with all of my .nu domains. I am using two of the domains actively because the sites were established a long time ago. The other .nu is currently sitting as a redirect to another domain. However, all of them have my personal information listed publicly on their WHOIS lookups. One of the .nu domains expires in May 2010; the others do not expire until late 2011.

I don't really know what on earth to do with these names. Obviously I would prefer to sell them in some way, but it would probably be more costly in the long run with GoDaddy auction subscriptions. I originally would have redirected them to other domains, but the WHOIS information is a concern because it's still out there.

Am I stuck with these domains until they expire? Is there no other way to protect my personal information until the domains run out?

Sorry for the extremely long post! Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

	User:	php (posted by sophiaserpentia)
	Date:	2009-12-14 10:41
	Subject:	poorly formed JSON - options?
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Hello everyone!

For a project I'm working on, I'm writing a screen scraper. Unfortunately the material I am attempting to mine is poorly-formed JSON (probably parsed with proprietary code). json_decode() returns NULL.

My first thought was that I'd just parse it with regular expressions. Here I've run into a question I can't seem to work out. Much of the data I'm trying to parse looks like

name:'blah blah blah'

So I thought perhaps I could use
/name:\'([^'.*]*)\'/
to grab the stuff between single quotes.

Unfortunately some of the data has escaped single quotes inside, like this:
name:'blah\'s blah blah'
in which case my regex returns only "blah\".

So is there a way to say in regex speak, "stop at the next single quote, unless it is escaped with a slash?" I've not been able to find any reference to a way to write a regex which has an exception to a character negation.

As an alternative, I'm wondering if maybe there's something like Tidy, but for JSON. So far I'm not finding much.

Thanks!

ETA: After much trial and error I found a solution:
name:\'([^']+\\\'[^']+)\'|name:\'([^']*)\'

But I'd still be curious to learn if there's a program like Tidy for JSON.

	User:	gothic_babes (posted by iansokoliwski)
	Date:	2009-12-13 18:56
	Subject:	Gothic Photography part 10
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	User:	webdesign (posted by girlknees)
	Date:	2009-12-13 19:27
	Subject:	the basics
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alright, i'll start by saying i know next to nothing about coding and webdesign, other than tweaking LJ layouts, my question is in regards to a ready made stylesheet.
recently, i downloaded this wordpress theme: textback, by amy&pink which i would like to add to a blog - but i don't understand how i should put the .css and .php files together.

would any of you be able to explain to me how i'm supposed to go about it, or point me in the direction of a good tutorial?

thank you!

	User:	gothic_babes (posted by pyrotech_c3h8)
	Date:	2009-12-13 02:40
	Subject:	Film screen captures...
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	User:	gothic_babes (posted by salad_barbarian)
	Date:	2009-12-12 21:47
	Subject:	I don't take many pictures of myself.
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	Mood:	chipper
	Music:	Anno Domini by Trans-Siberian Orchestra

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	User:	gothic_babes (posted by zerovixen)
	Date:	2009-12-12 21:37
	Subject:	Newish Pictures
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	Mood:	sick

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	User:	gothic_babes (posted by enemy0finfants)
	Date:	2009-12-11 19:20
	Subject:	EOI
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	Mood:	cold

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	User:	gothic_babes (posted by gothicity)
	Date:	2009-12-11 13:36
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	Mood:	artistic

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	User:	gothic_babes (posted by lustc0il)
	Date:	2009-12-11 15:41
	Subject:	i have a girlfriend and she is so blue
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	User:	webdesign (posted by sunofhorus)
	Date:	2009-12-11 10:42
	Subject:	Open to Document?
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Hello, I'm working on a final project for a history course and it requires me to upload information onto a blog at Word Press.

I created a survey and in the survey I had 100 responses, and I want to put these responses into a text or Word document, and then somehow get it uploaded and link to it off the Word Press blog because the blog is too thin and cluttered to throw all this information into a blog post:

What I want it to look like:
So on Word Press you would see a link "Survey Results" and when you click it it will open a text file or Word document, and NOT another page off Word Press.

So my question is, how do I link to a text document? And also, does anywhere know where I could upload and host this document to link back to?

	User:	gothic_babes (posted by ravenethier666)
	Date:	2009-12-10 23:23
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	User:	webdev (posted by tactful_cactus)
	Date:	2009-12-10 15:59
	Subject:	MySQL dump error
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Help! I'm getting so frustrated here. Database admin is not my thing. But I'm just trying to do a dump of a Drupal database into the MySQL database on a new server, and I keep getting the following error in shell:

ERROR 1064 (42000) at line 26: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '"access" (
"aid" int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
"mask" varchar(255) NOT NU' at line 1


Here's the corresponding text in the dump:
-- --------------------------------------------------------

--
-- Table structure for table `access`
--

CREATE TABLE "access" (
"aid" int(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
"mask" varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
"type" varchar(255) NOT NULL DEFAULT '',
"status" tinyint(4) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY ("aid")
) AUTO_INCREMENT=1 ;

--
-- Dumping data for table `access`
--


-- --------------------------------------------------------

I exported this from a MySQL 5.1.37 database
The server's database is MySQL 5.0.81

Any ideas?

	User:	gothic_babes (posted by nemesis2207)
	Date:	2009-12-10 20:26
	Subject:	Is it too early?
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	Mood:	cheerful

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	User:	webdesign (posted by skirtigo)
	Date:	2009-12-10 11:38
	Subject:	How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell
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I will certainly buy this designer a cup of coffee! bravo! :)

...but I think it brings up a good point about how difficult it is to not let clients walk all over you. because they would not attempt to change a doctor's diagnosis or the structural planning of an office building..

	User:	webdev (posted by frazer)
	Date:	2009-12-09 19:31
	Subject:	htaccess help
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Hi,

I am playing with some htaccess voodoo, and would like some help

I am converting a static html site on to a symfony CMS.
Almost everything is working fine, except for one issue.
The site had some redundant pages that had been remade over the years, so now I want the old page names to link to the new version.

for example:  there was a page called  thinking.htm   which was remade as  thinking-big.html  and now on the cms  it is just thinking-big

I have managed to redirect all the *.html  pages to  *  using

.htaccess:
RedirectMatch 301 ^(/[^/]*)\.html?$ $1


but, when I change it to make the redirect for thinking.htm to thinking-big I tried

RedirectMatch 301 ^thinking.* thinking-big
RedirectMatch 301 ^(/[^/]*)\.html?$ $1

and a few variations around that, all of which broke the page.

AND

RedirectMatch 301 thinking\.htm the-magic-of-thinking-big
RedirectMatch 301 ^(/[^/]*)\.html?$ $1

just redirected to  thinking


Any help would be appreciated

I will need to make 5 of these pages redirect


and below is the rest of the htaccess file doing symfony voodoo

<lj-cut>
  # we skip all files with .something
  # comment the following 3 lines to allow periods in routes
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} \..+$
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.html$
  RewriteRule .* - [L]

  # we check if the .html version is here (caching)
  RewriteRule ^$ index.html [QSA]
  RewriteRule ^([^.]+)$ $1.html [QSA]
  RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

  # no, so we redirect to our front web controller
  RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [QSA,L]
</lj-cut>

Thanks

Frazer

	User:	webdesign (posted by perfect_for_u)
	Date:	2009-12-07 23:35
	Subject:	Examples of Campaigns
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Hi guys,

After my job interview, I was asked to create a Campaign: 2 Banners 728x90 & 300x250 (no more than 25k), landing page, & email newsletter.

Are there are any good websites where I can find examples of campaigns like that.

Campaign Details: Holiday Photo Contest. "Company" is giving away $1000 for the best holiday photo on our website. People would upload their photo to us and then users can vote on the best. Because this is a fake contest, feel free to make anything up that you would need to complete this (rules, graphics, ect..).

Thank you.