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What's the Best way to let people know that a site can also be viewed in mobile devices?
Am thinking about putting something in the footer for computer users, that is hidden for mobile devices with display: none;, but what to put in there is the question? I've been searching google, and don't really see any images that say Mobile-Ready or something that would be unobtrusive to computer users that could let them know that the site is also optimized for mobile devices as well.
For example, what do other sites do about this? Should I even bother with worrying about this?
Also, we are using a mobile script in Javascript from this site here: http://detectmobilebrowsers.com/ that returns a boolean value false, if it is not any mobile devices that it searches for.
I wouldn't bother, people will see (and hopefully not notice) that it works when then visit your site on a mobile device.
Letting people know you have a mobile website isn't needed. Also a mobile-device website a part from the normal website isn't really '2013'.
I should go for
CSS #media-queries.
So in this case the people who visit it on desktop have no clue it's responsive, and people that visit the mobile-site don't know it's the same website, because of the #media-queries.
I see you have tagged the Q as CSS but if you have control over the backend you could first decided on what is a "mobile device" and then send back different data.
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I have searched quite a bit and haven't found an answer yet. I am learning to develop websites and am ready to put together a portfolio of everything that I have been building. My question is, what is the best/most cost effective way to display my work? I have bought several domain names and hosting for them but it's getting expensive. I want to be able to make a portfolio of my work without buying a domain name/hosting for each of them. I know I can take screes shots but this doesn't show many details of the site. Maybe host them on my own computer since they won't have much traffic? I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Thanks for the help!
Having a personal website/portfolio is great, and you only have to pay for your own domain, which is usually about $10/year. A great free option -- that also has the benefit of showing off all your code -- is hosting projects on GitHub Pages.
I think what you are looking for is something like DigitalOcean. Digital Ocean offers very cheap and reliable server hosting so that you can do exactly what you want with your hosting. Also, with a click of a button you can install something like LAMP (Apache, MySQL, PHP). This can show your full completed projects and all of your code, unlike GitHub Pages. Also, I know 512MB of RAM my not seem like much, but it is plenty for a basic web server. And 20GB Should be good unless you also are looking for a filesystem.
Good Luck!
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Can someone explain what the XMLConnect extension is and what it is used for? I know that in general it can be used to develop a mobile friendly site, but that's about as far as I've gotten with my Google searches. Does anyone have experience working with this extension and can provide some details and/or examples?
Thanks!
XMLConnect is, essentially, an XML service. One way to think of a "normal" Magento website is
Backend code adds things to carts, fetches products from database, etc.
Execution is handed off to the layout system
Layout system makes HTML/Javascript/CSS
Magento has a product called Magento Mobile, which lets you create an iPhone or Android application to sell products from your Magento system. Magento Mobile works something like this
Backend code add things to carts, fetches products from databases, etc.
Execution is handed off to an XML rendering system
XML is sent back to the phone
The binary application sitting on the phone processes the XML and makes the pixels on the phone look and act like a store
XMLConnect is the module that lets Magento do this. It creates XML requests/responses.
Additional Reading: Develop your own Magento mobile application
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For 9 months, I've been having reCaptcha problems. Craigslist is the main problem. It sometimes happens in Hotmail too. Anytime I go to post or respond to a CL ad that requires Image Verification (recaptcha), neither the challenge words or the box to type the words into pops up. Refreshing does not help. Hitting "new image" or "audio words" does nothing.
I end up forfeiting placing or responding to certain ads. As you might imagine, CL's Help Forums has amounted to no answers whatsoever. Some suggested I go to Google reCaptcha links. That did not help because anything Google-related was blocked even though in the Toolbar Google was activated. Both posters and staff alike venture all manner of solutions, none of which actually helped. It's mainly guesswork.
Many told me it was a scripting error and to disable javascript. Others claimed it was Norton (somehow) blocking any sites using reCaptcha. Norton comes with my Comcast X-Finity account. I could be wrong but I didn't see anything specific in Norton that might be blocking reCaptcha imaging. One person even swore it's a simple as fully rebooting the modem. Nope. Another said try another browser. I downloaded Mozilla Firefox. Firefox works great for everything but reCaptcha. I've even went to other tech sites. Again, no answers. 9 months and not one person or site can tell me how come CL's reCaptcha image words challenge won't pop up or how to fix it. If fixing it involves typing in code, I have no idea how to do that.
Surely there must be a fix for this as reCaptcha isn't rocket science. As specific as I've been seeking help, you'd think there'd be a solution?
Would someone kindly help?
"That did not help because anything Google-related was blocked" -- there's your problem. reCAPTCHA served from Google servers, so if you can't access anything Google-related, you can't access reCAPTCHA.
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Are there any services that allow you to place advertising in Windows software? I want to give away my software for free but still need to eat!
Check out OpenCandy, they have a really nice concept IMHO:
only a single, opt-in ad - in the installer (so your application remains ad-less). There is an interesting post about them # DonationCoder.
It is, of course, trivial to put a fixed collection of adverts into your code. The trouble comes if you want to sell eyeballs and have the ads change. Then the code has to go talk over the network to get new adds.
Many people would have a name for this: adware. If people find you making network connections behind their back, as it were, they are likely to break out some more negative terms.
However, if you are completely open and honest about it when you offer the code for download, then your conscience might be clear.
Practically, you need to have code that makes a network connection to some site of yours, pulls the ad content, and displays it in some sort of annoying popup.
Check with individual affiliate programs to see if they allow links in applications.
You can also try the Freemium model: Turn on some extra features if they pay for your program.
Or link to your website for support information, instructions, etc., and place ads there.
Or offer an e-mail newsletter with updates, news, etc. Advertising in these is easier.
You can also ask this over at http://www.startups.com
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Are you planning in requiring Google's Chrome Frame in production for your own websites?
Have you tested it?
Would your opinion on wether to use it or not change if Google were to require it for Youtube? (It will be required for Google Wave)
I wish they would require everyone who views YouTube to use it. I hate programming specifically just for IE... If it were required for YouTube I don't think that any of the users I care about would lack it.
I had a hard time finding info about big sites that require GCF, so I was a bit worried about requiring it for IE 6 and 7.
But I went ahead with it on a site with 6-digit number of monthly users, and the results were great.
IE 6 and 7 usage bombed, and about 90% of that usage was picked up by GCF. Only a few complaints from annoying users, but telling them to "just click install" has been a good enough solution.
The users lost were also less likely to purchase than those with better browsers.
I am aware of at least one site that now points to it rather than saying they don't support IE6.
If you've made the decision to not support IE6, for whatever reason, it at least gives the opportunity for more users to maybe* access your site.
*I say 'maybe' because if users aren't able to upgrade their browser it's quite unlikley they're able/allowed to install such extensions/plugins either.
I always wait a bit before picking up new technologies such as this. I'm a patient person and don't feel the need to rush out and get the latest thing first.
Once the consensus is that it looks ok, runs ok and won't hurt me or my nearest and dearest I'll have a look.