I'm using asp.net MVC3 to create a website,but the webpage can not adapt to different browsers and resolution though i use the % in my webpage,anybody can help me?
Not sure what is not displaying properly.
I use the css grids and fonts from the Yahoo User Interface APIs. This takes care of the basic browser differences for me. Then I just add my HTML and CSS. Go and download the framework, it is really good. It will help you get a solid base for your CSS from which you can build.
All the best.
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I need help again from the community.
I'm interested to know how to extract a preview image from a given URL in rails.
Basically, it would be a functionality like you have on reddit. When user submits a link (fills in the link field in the _form), a preview image/thumbnail is automatically pulled from a given url. (I would like to save the link of the image as a field in the model, I don't want to save the image itself).
Is there a gem for that or? What's the best way to do it?
Thanks for the help.
There is a gem
github.com/gottfrois/link_thumbnailer
that does exactly what I wanted.
I tested it, and it works as described, so I can recommend it.
You can use some wrappers around PhantomJS:
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with a JavaScript API. It has fast and native support for various web standards: DOM handling, CSS selector, JSON, Canvas, and SVG.
It's also known for its ability to make web page screenshots.
I found a couple of gems for you: screencap and webshot.
Example with screencap:
require 'screencap'
f = Screencap::Fetcher.new('http://google.com')
screenshot = f.fetch
You're also encouraged to check the documentation, it's pretty straightforward.
Pretty easy question I hope: does anyone know of a tool that will effectively scrape sites built with Microsoft Matrix? I could write the code in python, but it will take me way longer than I think I want to dedicate to the task, namely because of the really bad and ugly HTML generated by Matrix.
I have tried Web Harvey, Helium Scraper, and I tried the Web Scraper plugin for Chrome. WebHarvey choked on the HTML and couldn't load subsequent pages. Helium Scraper was able to move from one details page to another (the Next links were followed) but content from within the details pages was not lifted out. The Chrome plugin web scraper was not able to navigate links, with the popup window displaying an error page. My gut is telling me that this has to do with uniquely ASP.net things, but I could be wrong.
Any pointers or suggestions appreciated.
You know there are two completely different versions of Microsoft Web Matrix right? There's the one from 2003; i have no idea what its html looks like. There's the one from 2011 to current which uses razor cshtml source files to produce its html. In the 2011+ one, you write the html by hand; there's no drag and drop, and so it's unlikely you'll get consistent html from site to site.
I was thinking about the applications of web scraping (still quite new to it) and came up with a question. Can you get an image from a page if there are advertisements on the page (like can you avoid advertisements and only look for the correct image content on the page)? Also, if the image is also a link to another page, can you say go to the next page and get that image (and then go from there until you either reach a certain amount or get all of the images)? This would mean avoiding going to the advertisements pages.
Absolutely. If you use a tool like kimonolabs.com this can be relatively easy. You click the data that you want on the page, so instead of getting all images including advertisements, Kimono uses the CSS selectors of the data you clicked to know which data to scrape.
You can use Kimono to scrape data within links as well. It's actually a very common use. Here's a break-down of that strategy: https://help.kimonolabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/203438300-Source-URLs-to-crawl-from-another-kimono-API
This might be a helpful solution for you, especially if you're not a programmer because it doesn't require coding experience. It's a pretty powerful tool.
I think if you are ok with PHP programming then give a look into php simple html dome parser. I have used it a lot and scrapped number of websites.
Hi i'm looking for an image slider to sit full background, ideally with a nice fade effect for this site. http://www.markcoffeyphotography.co.uk
I have one in my site at the moment but i'm not so happy with it and i'm looking at recoding the site more efficiently (hey its my first CSS, html site so give me a break).
I'm pretty new to coding so any help breaking what i need to do down to get the result would be really appreciated.
Thanks.
It may serve you well to venture into Wordpress. There are many themes, plugins and lots of community help out there. Additionally, check out Twitter's Bootstrap framework to get you started on clean HTML/CSS/JS.
CodeDrops has a lot of jQuery (and other front-end) tools.
This one looks nice too.
This one has the fade effect you're looking for.
I am helping a client with an eCommerce site (runs on ProStores from eBay).
The issue is that the site's base stylesheet is breaking (being disabled) when the page is translated with the Google Translate widget. This only happens in Firefox. Chrome, IE(6-9), Opera and Safari are all fine.
Translate in FF was working prior to some changes we made recently: mostly graphical, some additions to the stylesheet. I had to tip-toe around their templates which were built with tables, outdated code etc. so I am overwhelmed when trying to troubleshoot this.
Here is a link to the site: http://www.myfantasticbags.com
(open in FF and use google translate in the header area to see the issue)
Thanks in advance!
I had the same problem and much frustration with this.
The problem I was having was that it was translating my website's font-resizers - From 'large' to 'grande' etc. which was throwing off the font-resize element and entire site.
Try adding a class="notranslate" to any elements you think may be translating and throwing off your stylesheet.
Hope this helps!
Korey
Add class="skiptranslate" to the head tag.
If you also have a link to a print preview style sheet, so your visitors can see how pages will print, try this: Putting the link to your external stylesheet inside a div with class="notranslate", may not only fix the translation in Firefox but also when flipping back and forth between your print preview and default CSS in all browsers. I know that divs in the head tags are atypical, but I don't see any problem arise from that.