Security Issues

Here I am hoping to collect information with regard to security issues, such as protection of your images and page content. I will add new web links as they become available, and any suggestions that CoffeeCup users feel may be useful.

http://boardsmith.netfirms.com/index.html

Please note that these are only suggestions, and it is up to each individual to investigate further as to the correctness or validity of the information contained in the postings before relying upon them for data protection. Feel free to discuss other users' experiences in the appropriate forum areas.

It is important to remember that not all servers will allow you to store sensitive information so you should check this out before you collect this kind of data from your web page users. There are also legal implications which you should research carefully beforehand regarding user privacy rights and your own responsibilities in the handling and storage of private information.

Here are a couple of articles regarding UK companies and transparency in web information:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21 … egulation/
http://www.out-law.com/page-431

Language "filler" for pages under construction

Ever wondered where Folks find the language "filler" you sometimes see in pages under construction? Here is a site which will generate some "padding" for you whilst your organize your content spaces and find the time to write the copy for your pages.
This one generates typography filler in several languages other than the most commonly used Latin "lorem ipsum". If you go into Google and insert "lorem ipsum" you will come up with the addresses for a couple of other sites which will give you the history, background, and translation of the Latin version.

http://www.lorem-ipsum.info/generator3

Firefox add-on for dummy filler
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2064/

An easy to read font

Think of using "Verdana" font for your site. It is very professional looking and easy to read.

Flash Photo Gallery and remote image folders

I think this is the right place to post this, Tips and Tricks might have been an option, or even perhaps even feature request, but here it is.

As a long time blogger, I have learned to keep my site nice and tidy - nothing is worse than having to dig thru layer after layer for the one image I know I posted on my site sometime, but don't remember when... I'm sure we've all been there before at one time or another.

I use Movable Type, which includes a method for posting pictures in pop-ups, but requires lots of hand coding to make it work. The method is time proven and reliable, but can be very time consuming for anything more than onesy-twosey posts.

Imagine my delight when I found that CC's Flash Picture Gallery (FPG) was so stupid easy that I had a gallery running in all of three minutes! Then I saw how fast it could clutter a well organized site, what with all the .swf, .xml, and image folders files for each album. Yikes!

Being the self reliant self taught user I am, I looked for documentation, RTFM, STFW, and posted a help line at this forum, where I found I wasn't the only user who wanted to keep some things seperated. There was indeed a method posted similar to what I wanted, like you were installing a FPG on Ebay - but it required hard coding. Oh great, just what I wanted, MORE drudgery - and to pay for it even, no less.

I went back to the old bag of tricks and after a few frustrating evenings, found one that seems to be working pretty well, an iframe. I'm no professional web designer, so I know not the hazards of compatibility issues, but all I care about is FireFox, and Explorer for my wife. In the manner below, with just a few simple lines of code I can copy and paste into my CMS, and a dirt simple .html file for the iframe source, I have 'tricked' the browser into gathering the images from the same folder as what the Flash object is loaded from, thereby allowing the use of many different albums with little clutter - each one goes into a different folder, in a master folder at the public html level of the site..

So, without further adieu, here's the code.
The following goes into your entry:

HINT: If you code a hard path in your iframe, it works great with a CMS that moves relative paths when something from the archive is called for.


The album name .html file will be a completely seperate .html file that has to get on your server into the proper folder - the same folder that will hold the .swf and .xml files. I use an FTP program. I suppose I should probably say that I use the CC HTML editor, DirectFTP and nothing else, but... um... I'd be lying to you. Er... where was I? Oh, that's right, the code.

Shake your .html maker, and paste the following code:

Save it, upload it, and there you go.

Two simple steps - that's it.

See it in action at http://furryelectrician.com/junk/002059.html#002059

EDIT: I still don't see where to put the subject. Mebbe if I start IE...
2nd EDIT: Not in IE either.
3rd EDIT: Oh, I think I just bold up the subject.. Fixed a bunch of typos and grammer issues, too. Where'd I get my spelling license? Sears?

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 together

If you would still like to be able to check out your web pages on both versions of IE but are afraid that updating is going to overwrite the previous version, this might be the answer for you.

http://www.tech-recipes.com/internet_ex … s1188.html

Keep several browsers installed on your computer in order to check out how your pages look in each of them. The most popular are Opera, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome and Safari.

The W3C browser statistics will tell you which are the most popular versions of each of these browsers. Here you will also find information regarding screen resolutions.
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Call JavaScript from an external file
This post was to help with an issue involving JavaScript and a Flash Object. But this is a good suggestion to follow when you have multiple scrips for a page:

Google and YouTube videos under Win7

I was using moviebox by dutchmoney to display my google and youtube videos, but since ie7 come out, it didn't work. I found this one and its pretty cool.

http://videobox-lb.sourceforge.net

To see a demo:

http://videobox.abcomputered.com

update!!! The script doesn't work properly in VSD, but there is a work around:

1) open videobox.css in notepad
2) go to edit>replace
3) In the 'find what:' field, put "}"(no quotes)
4) In the 'replace with:' field, put "z-index:105;}"(no quotes)
5) click 'replace all'
6) close and save.

Now the script should work!

Website language translation
I designed a site for TigerGear.com and the owner wanted to provide translations in multiple languages to help with global sales. I found an EASY way to do it. Google has a FREE java script that can be placed on the site to allow users to pick from MANY languages. It is a single line of code. Grab it at http://translate.google.com/translate_tools?hl=en

I placed the code in a FrontPage Shared Border so that the gadget shows up on every page. Works great except that some of my text on the site is displayed as a graphic images which don't translate. Haven't added my alt text labels to my graphics yet. Maybe that will work???

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