I am looking for the ability to enhance the appearance of the directory listing pages of a very basic corporate intranet I developed for use by our employees. I am using Windows Server 2012 R2, and the site is deployed in Internet Information Services.
I did not use anything like Visual Studio to create this, and I have already handwritten all of the CSS and HTML for the index page that serves as a jump-off point for the rest of the site so that users can get to the content they need; however, the directory listings pages where the users land leave quite a bit to be desired to say the least.
I just want to be able to add some quick styles to these directories, such as modifying the font family and perhaps the link styles. Nothing major, really. The site already functions perfectly for what it was designed to do, and has been for years. This is just something that's always kind of bugged me but I never devoted any time to it. I'd like to do that now. Ideally I'd be able to just add something in the web.config file like inline CSS, or perhaps link it to a .css file that will house the styles. The latter is probably preferred, actually, but any way is fine.
Any help is greatly appreciated. To get this out of the way early: yes, I have done lots and lots and lots of searching on this topic — I'm talking hours. I have not been able to find a solution that seems to meet my needs. I consider posting here as somewhat of a last resort because I understand that it's a free resource and users here are usually quick to let other users know when they didn't find a particular article that seems to offer the solution they're seeking — which is usually a result of not knowing exactly what keywords to use — and I don't want to waste anyone's time. Just know that I have tried everything I know to find the solution, and that I'm genuinely stumped and looking for help from some pros.
Thank you!
Since the directory page is not HTML, you can't directly style it with CSS. However, there are a few options for changing the way it looks.
Write a script to point to your own, custom-styled, directory page. See this forum thread for tips on how to do that and a sample script.
Create a custom page using this module that you can further customize yourself.
Use the DirectoryListing open source app, which allows for customization of the directory page.
Either one of those solutions should give you more control over how the directory page looks.
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I am a newbie in Web designing. I learnt about templates that are available online that people can purchase and change the content according to their requirements.
One thing puzzled me. Why do people purchase themes when they can copy the code using VIEW SOURCE option. I have tried searching the answer but google has failed me.
Also, If I am not using Wordpress, can still I use Wordpress themes for my website.
Thanks!!
Because, while often technologically possible, that's still copyright infringement.
Because WordPress themes usually are more than just their raw HTML/CSS/JS. The PHP logic is frequently pretty complex and important.
1.) Copying source code is stealing. If you're copying the html/css, you'll probably copy the images, too. Definitely could be legal issues in that.
2.) If you decide to try and steal it anyways, you'll notice in a lot of cases they've used Iframes or JavaScript to pull the code in from elsewhere, where you do not have access to it.
3.) Copying CSS and HTML wouldn't do much for a Wordpress site. You wont' be able to copy any of the server-side stuff.
4.) You can't really use the theme because a Wordpress theme comes with functions and much more. You could use the CSS with a lot of hacking.
We can only copy the Html form either full encoding of the sites ie, ref style sheet.
According to the law, copy web design structure, encoding is a crime and Definitely could be legal issues in that.
If you are a newbie in web designing, I suggest you some of the top web designing blog that you should follow.
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/web-design-tips
https://blog.techreshape.com/5-web-design-tips-for-a-better-website-user-experience/
I need to make a website for my hockey club. My main purpose for this site is allowing people to sign in and post articles and training schedules in their section. Eg Mens, Womens, Juniors and Masters. I want to have some kind of upload manager that will allow them to choose where they post the info too (eg, Mens, Masters and Homepage).
This is the main functionality I'm looking for at the moment.
The clubs previous website used Joombla which I have hated. I found it to be way to restrictive. Its on a old version of it so there are probably many improvements in the new version but from what I've read it seems like it still has a lot of restrictions in how content is managed. I am open to trying it again tho.
I've used Wordpress before and liked it but that was on a small scale projects and I'm not sure it really fits what I'll be trying to do here, since it mostly deals with blog posts and I'll need to have functionality to upload and display files.
I've had a look around at some other ones like Squarespace and Silverstripe. I'm really liking the simplicity of silverstrip(one thing I hate about Joombla is the clutter on the opening page) and am leaning towards it right now if I can find a nice way to have people post news to multiple pages at once.
If anyone has any suggestions they'd be very welcome. I know html, css, javascript and a bit of php. I'm learning Ruby atm so wouldn't be against using it so I could learn more but it might be a bit much for a sports website.
First off, its nice to see someone that likes hockey too :) You can't use Squarespace, you'll need an Apache server for what you want. You will need some way to store information, so you'll need a MySQL database, probably some advanced knowledge of PHP (I'm assuming you don't know how to connect to databases and do some other functions). Wordpress is too limited, so you can't use that. I have never used Silverstripe personally, but it seems like the best of your options here. You'll probably need some more knowledge of PHP before you attempt to make a members system.
This is kind of an odd question and I didnt know where to post it, but here it is.
I have an ASP .Net website used by internal company employees. The site pages are pretty basic and has various tables, divs, css and some sprinkles of javascript/jQuery.
Some of the site pages are often used for presentations. And sometimes, the users need to copy the content offline.
I got a request that when trying to copy certain pages off IE/Firefox and onto Word/PowerPoint, it does not carry the layout over correctly. Well, I know obviously why this is a problem but the users dont and are asking to make it possible.
I'm assuming that the easiest way to do this is have a "printable" view. But as some of these pages are still being developed, are there some techniques we could follow that would make these pages somewhat copyable to word/ppt?
There are online guides to doing this like this one.
I am working with a pre-existing zen-cart site has been worked on over the years by multiple teams. Backtracking through all of the teams is not a viable option. Some of the development teams implemented some hacks, one of them being replacing how zen-cart normally creates links, and I am stuck as to how they did it. For example, zen-cart normally links to a product through a link such as the one below:
http://yoursite.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=67&products_id=823
Instead, this zen-cart installation is doing the following:
http://yoursite.com/item-name-here-p-45-.html?cPath=1_26
I have figured out that the number after p-, in this case 45, is the product ID. However, I am stuck as to what that .html file is actually referencing. I am guessing that it is somehow feeding that data back into the index.php file, and it was done for search engine optimization purposes. The server is using nginx if that makes a difference. I would rather use apache for this site, but I am fine with nginx.
Additionally, there are also links such as:
http://yoursite.com/sitemap.html
but there is no file called sitemap.html on the entire system. However, there is a file called sitemap.xml
For a myriad of reasons, I can't link to the actual site and I hope you fellow developers can understand that. However, if anyone has any idea as to whats going on here, I would be very interested to know. I will provide what other details I can.
I just figured this out, and I want to share my answer for anyone that stumbles upon this. This was caused by something called Ultimate SEO which masks urls with html links to make them more search engine friendly. The reason there are no actual html files involved is because Ultimate SEO creates a .htaccess file that reads the filename from the URL, and converts it to parameters to be passed to a php file. I just simply disabled Ultimate SEO from the zen-cart admin page. Furthermore, Ultimate SEO is something that is used outside of Zen-Cart, so if you are having the same issue I did, this might be it, or something similar.
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I often have to work with fragile legacy websites that break in unexpected ways when logic or configuration are updated.
I don't have the time or knowledge of the system needed to create a Selenium script. Besides, I don't want to check a specific use case - I want to verify every link and page on the site.
I would like to create an automated system test that will spider through a site and check for broken links and crashes. Ideally, there would be a tool that I could use to achieve this. It should have as many as possible of the following features, in descending order of priority:
Triggered via script
Does not require human interaction
Follows all links including anchor tags and links to CSS and js files
Produces a log of all found 404s, 500s etc.
Can be deployed locally to check sites on intranets
Supports cookie/form-based authentication
Free/Open source
There are many partial solutions out there, like FitNesse, Firefox's LinkChecker and the W3C link checker, but none of them do everything I need.
I would like to use this test with projects using a range of technologies and platforms, so the more portable the solution the better.
I realise this is no substitute for proper system testing, but it would be very useful if I had a convenient and automatable way of verifying that no part of the site was obviously broken.
We use and really like Linkchecker:
http://wummel.github.io/linkchecker/
It's open-source, Python, command-line, internally deployable, and outputs to a variety of formats. The developer has been very helpful when we've contacted him with issues.
We have a Ruby script that queries our database of internal websites, kicks off LinkChecker with appropriate parameters for each site, and parses the XML that LinkChecker gives us to create a custom error report for each site in our CMS.
I use Xenu's Link Sleuth for this sort of thing. Quickly check for no deadlinks etc. on a/any site. Just point it at any URI and it'll spider all links on that site.
Desription from site:
Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) checks Web
sites for broken links. Link
verification is done on "normal"
links, images, frames, plug-ins,
backgrounds, local image maps, style
sheets, scripts and java applets. It
displays a continously updated list of
URLs which you can sort by different
criteria. A report can be produced at
any time.
It meets all you're requirements apart from being scriptable as it's a windows app that requires manually starting.
What part of your list does the W3C link checker not meet? That would be the one I would use.
Alternatively, twill (python-based) is an interesting little language for this kind of thing. It has a link checker module but I don't think it works recursively, so that's not so good for spidering. But you could modify it if you're comfortable with that. And I could be wrong, there might be a recursive option. Worth checking out, anyway.
You might want to try using wget for this. It can spider a site including the "page requisites" (i.e. files) and can be configured to log errors. I don't know if it will have enough information for you but it's Free and available on Windows (cygwin) as well as unix.
InSite is a commercial program that seems to do what you want (haven't used it).
If I was in your shoes, I'd probably write this sort of spider myself...
I'm not sure that it supports form authentication but it will handle cookies if you can get it going on the site and otherwise I think Checkbot will do everything on your list. I've used as a step in build process before to check that nothing broken on a site. There's an example output on the website.
I have always liked linklint for checking links on a site. However, I don't think it meets all your criteria, particularly the aspects that may be JavaScript dependent. I also think it will miss the images called from inside CSS.
But for spidering all anchors, it works great.
Try SortSite. It's not free, but seems to do everything you need and more.
Alternatively, PowerMapper from the same company has a similar-but-different approach. The latter will give you less information about detailed optimisation of your pages, but will still identify any broken links, etc.
Disclaimer: I have a financial interest in the company that makes these products.
Try http://www.thelinkchecker.com it is an online application that checks number of outgoing links, page rank , anchor, number of outgoing links. I think this is the solution you need.