I maintain a website for a resort and need to update the activities daily. Some days activities go later than I am at work.
Is there a way to automatically publish a page in Dreamweaver at a certain time? I am currently using Dreamweaver CS 5.5
There's no way to do this with Dreamweaver. You could use another FTP client, like Core FTP and then schedule an upload.
http://www.coreftp.com/
http://www.coreftp.com/docs/web1/Schedule_FTP_transfers.htm
There may be other FTP clients that can do this, too.
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I am wondering if there is any user back-end manager in Joomla.
I have developed a website and the homepage need to be updated time to time. What my client want is to update it by himself. But I have used a little more HTML tags and he doesn't know about HTML. So is there by chance a non professional user interface so that he can update homepage without knowing the HTML. Or any alternative if possible.
Your client can use the Joomla back-end, depending on the version here is some tutorials :
Joomla 2.5
Joomla 3
Database of the website was created in WAMP (phpMyAdmin) and I need the database and the webpage in Webmatrix. Is there a possible solution or I need to re-write the webpage all over again?
I wouldn't do this, but I have to do it for my school project, because the teacher won't accept the web site in Dreamweaver.
Unless you are using DW templates then your teacher wouldn't know if you used DW or a text editor to create your site.
If you are using templates then these can be removed before submitting your work. From the menu select Modify -> templates -> Remove template markup
You might want to backup your files before doing this.
I have an android app which successfully reads .json files from my localsever, however when the application runs on a mobile it is unable to read the files. I have had a nightmare trying to resolve the issue so I've given up.
I figured that perhaps uploading the .json files to an online web server would be an easier option. I have no previous experience with online web servers and wondered if someone could recommend a website?
I would only be using it to upload 5 .json files that are no more than 5KB and would probably only need it to be hosted online for about a month, I'm not sure if there is an alternative to a monthly subscription.
There are a lot of free web services. However, if you want to make it fast and easiest, try google sites. It gives you an evaluation time of about a month and it should be enough for you.
However, if you just want few files, you can go with any cheap web host such as bluehost and if you just want subscription on monthly basis.
You can also use amazon EC2 which provide you services on hourly basis so if you do not want to use it, just turn it off.
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/
A customer of mine asked me a better and faster solution to update it's real estate web site as he and his employees don't want to connect to the web site and update one by one the ads as they don't want to loose time waiting the normal latency of the internet.
I firstly solved the issue by building a PHP script that imported an Excel file into the web site's MySQL database and it worked greatly. But the problem were pictures that have still to be uploaded separately. I then wrote a PHP script that uploaded the pictures using ajax and drag&drop so the user could select multiple pictures and upload them at once. And this worked too, but the customer is still not completely satisfied as he says this solution is quite 'patched'.
I then thought about a desktop application - a kind of local database (could be SQLite) - that the user keeps updated locally and only at the end of the day the app connects to the remote server and updates the db and uploads the pictures.
My question is: what EASY desktop high level programming language I could use to do the job? Do you know any RAD (visual IDE) programming language able to connect to a remote mySQL server and upload data via a simple custom GUI?
I tried RealBasic and PureBasic but I did not work it out. I thought about building the app in PHP and then convert it to EXE but I did not tried yet.
Please don't suggest me Java, C or Delphy as I'm looking for something very easy.
Thank you
Have you considered a client side javascript/html app that syncs with the server, since you're already familiar with the platform? If one browser better supports what you want to do (Firefox has some extension perhaps vs Chrome, or whatever), than mandate that to run this app (rather than worrying about being portable across browsers).
All of the browsers can have client side storage now, and you can just do things locally, and finally push them to the server "all at once".
If your client is using a Windows platform, you could use IronPython (.NET), VB.NET, or C#. These all allow you to create windows/forms visually in Visual Studio. If you're not already familiar with the .NET platform I'm not sure how 'easy' this will be, but I think that's going to be true for most other platforms as well.
That being said, it sounds like your existing solution is probably the best idea - perhaps if you can make your solution feel less like a "patch" they will be satisfied.
No reason you can't use Purebasic if that's what you're comfortable with. There are HTTP file upload examples on the PB forums.
I've used Purebasic for years but I'd recommend spending the time to get to know C#/.NET - it's a world of difference and once you learn it stuff like this is pretty easy.
Could you recommend me some tool (not online one) to monitor html changes in website or to get complete snapshot of a website?
My task is to migrate current website to the next version of CMS. Migration requires code changes as well, because of new API. The idea is to make snapshot of the website before migration and after. After that I will compare two snapshots and see if migration went OK.
Thanks
Screen grabs (images)
As your web pages may well extend the visible area of your browser window, you'll need a specialized tool for this. For Firefox, I have made some good experiences with Fireshot. It's not fully automatic though.
Copy of the full HTML structure
For an automated solution, have you considered downloading a complete mirror of the web site? I don't mean the old CMS, but the generated HTML output including all style sheets and scripts. Any dynamic functionality would be lost of course, but it should be possible to create a running, local HTML copy of the whole thing that way. I have used GetLeft in the past. Just be sure everything gets downloaded and there are no references to the online version left anymore.
Why don't you make a copy of the entire website folder and after making the changes use beyondcompare to see what has changed. It has a filter to show only differences which will give you what you need (files that changed).
If you're migrating from one CMS to another, then content is most likely in a Database. Just dump the DB at the desired points, then build quick import script to pull in content and map any changes in DB fields.
Not too long ago I moved a site from an old PERL based CMS to a much nicer Zend Framework-based custom CMS. While the DB tables were quite different, every CMS seems to have commonalities such as Title, Content, Blurb, etc fields. It's just a matter of identifying what matches, building the import script, and running. Once the quick script is written, you could pull in updates in the same manner, allowing you to run a beta of the new code and quickly importing updates that might happen between first import and immediately prior to launch of new codebase.