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wierdo · 07-01-2009, 01:34 PM

I think this should go here, but if it's inappropriately placed, feel free to move it mods.

Ok well I have a website that has HTML tutorials, a hosting tutorial, some IP tools, a few scripts (not very good), a few templates, etc. But now I have run out of ideas on features to add to the site. What do you guys think I should add to the site? Like is there a particular computer tutorial, script, or tool that you guys would need?

I won't add the link for fear of spamming, but I will say that it isn't hard to find.

Thanks guys.

Boss2 · 07-01-2009, 01:38 PM

Many people have trouble using programs like Photoshop, or have trouble editing settings, like power settings, time settings.. ect.

This may not have revelance to what you are trying to do but hopefully it may help.

wierdo · 07-01-2009, 01:40 PM

I personally have never used Photoshop. I do have a great knowledge of Windows XP though. Great suggestion, I'll work on it.

More suggestions are always appreciated.

**Wild Cat** · 07-01-2009, 02:24 PM

You can always add the link to your signature

wierdo · 07-01-2009, 02:34 PM

The link currently in my signature is to one of the pages of my site.

hkstchk · 07-14-2009, 12:40 PM

You may use/record some videos to help people make their first homepage or answer their questions with illustrations.
I mean... there are many videos talking about HTML usage, Java usage and so on on youtube.

This will make your site more dynamic and user-friendly if you make some.

wierdo · 07-18-2009, 09:19 PM

I can't do videos.

no2pencil · 07-18-2009, 09:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wierdo

is there a particular computer tutorial, script, or tool that you guys would need?

I think a lot of folks would find useful a tutorial for securing their home network. Setting up Mac Filters & Wep keys, along with examples & screen shots. Explaining terminology like Broadcast SSID, netmask, & so on.

wierdo · 07-18-2009, 09:57 PM

To tell you the truth no2, networking is my weakest point.

shadwickman · 08-02-2009, 02:40 AM

Methinks a tutorial added about setting up your own server at home to handle your webpage would be cool :P

Then you only need to buy + register a domain name and point it to your home server. This adds complete and utter customization at your disposal. One could download Apache, or go with coding a webserver from scratch. A drawback of course is the cost of good hardware for building a decent server, and the electrical bill for running it 24/7 hahah

EDIT:
Add some tutorials on the basics of PHP perhaps? But what I think is more pressing are CSS tutorials

Nice site though!

no2pencil · 08-02-2009, 02:48 AM

Apache has very well written documentation for installing & configuring your server. As well, a low end 1U (or desktop) ATX power supply should only run $12 a year for power.

Good luck with your ISP allowing traffic on port 80, 443, 110, or 25 though

Most residential services disallow these ports. Check your TOS.

shadwickman · 08-02-2009, 02:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by no2pencil

Apache has very well written documentation for installing & configuring your server. As well, a low end 1U (or desktop) ATX power supply should only run $12 a year for power.

Good luck with your ISP allowing traffic on port 80, 443, 110, or 25 though

.

The power consumption was somewhat of a joke :P Although I'm too sleepy to figure out my cost per year for my 500 watt ATX PSU...

Anyways, couldn't you forward a port (like 7500) on your router and just have your server running on that port or something? I know there are those aforementioned ports for FTP, HTTP, etc connections, but can't you technically use other ones? I wrote a very basic web server in Python but I haven't actually really bothered to try accessing it from a remote location. It was just out of curiosity really...

no2pencil · 08-02-2009, 03:02 AM

Yes, you could forward your ports to bypass your ISPs restrictions. But then you would also need to have everyone whom is connecting to your server (http service) to also pass in that port. Since port 80 requests would be blocked at the ISP level, that means they are blocked before arriving to your modem, where they are handed to your router, & then forwarded to your server. Rather than www.example.com you'll be listening to www.example.com:7500 & I don't know too many people that can identify with adding port numbers to their web addresses manually.

Even thought you are changing the port you listen to, web browsers will use port 80 by default. Ftp client applications will use port 21 by default, & so on. You'll be expecting the end users to alter that manually.

shadwickman · 08-02-2009, 03:11 AM

Yep, the one time I had accessed my server I had to pass it the port my server was listening on using the colon after the address. You have a perfect point though - users obviously wouldn't know about adding the specified port tacked onto the end. So I guess the next step would be changing contracts/ISPs to allow for free-up ports so that port 80 could be used by default for HTTP requests? :P

Anyways, I'll stop spamming this thread now, sorry!

crimsyhs · 08-02-2009, 05:23 AM

Video tutorials. If you have a computer, you can do video tuts.

-crimsy

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