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Thanks for pointing that out! We should also have a forum for Software marketing or just one for both web and software marketing..
No, it should have it's own forum. It is still part of the developer's world, but not the actual coding of the site.
Rocky <><
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Rocky Moore wrote:
No, it should have it's own forum. It is still part of the developer's world, but not the actual coding of the site.
I have to disagree. Web Development doesn't have to be restricted to coding. It would seem the perfect place to ask the questions about SEO. The forums outside of the big 4, are already diluted without splitting them further. (Although Chris says he's working on an idea to avoid this problem)
Rocky Moore wrote:
We should also have a forum for Software marketing or just one for both web and software marketing..
A forum for the business side of Software Development is not a bad idea, although I think sites like Joel's[^] already do a good job.
Michael
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Contentious issue this....
Actually I think that it would also be a good idea because there are many people here making websites and so on who are excellent developers, probably have a really good idea, but ultimately fail because marketing isn't their strong point. After all, who is going to visit a web site they don't know about.
The only other comment I would have is that there would have to be rules about promoting spaming products and the like. That would quickly degenerate the forum if it got filled with posts about spamming software or services.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
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Yeah, but it is about the same as spamming any forum. I think it would be great to have a marketing forum for software and web site promotion discussions could happen. While it may not be a high traffic forum, it would be a nice archive of help for those that have to market or product or site.
While there are many sites that cover this, it is nice to have some of those conversations here where all developers can benefit from others hard trails.
This came to mind when I say an article about SEO and it was started to get flamed. Marketing is a big section of many developers lives.
Rocky <><
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www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33
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Hi. Dunno if this is the right place for this question, but here goes. I wish to print out some articles from this site but am thwarted by having the rightmost inch cut off. I've tried firefox and IE browsers. I've tried two different printers and I've tried modifying the text size (I was getting desperate!;)
No effect whatsoever.
What (boneheaded) mistake am I making? What's the problem? Or better, what's the solution?
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codeproject noobie. 
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Did you try the "print version" link that appears at the top left of articles?
You're one microscopic cog
in his catastrophic plan...
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Doh! That did it! Thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou.
Now I've got some fine reading material when I heads off to the "reading" room. 
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Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
-- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
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iss3man wrote:
when I heads off to the "reading" room
Too much information 
"One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a
certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how
many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my
memory."
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Any plans to make the articles on the site, take into account the browser specified Text Size. It certainly doesn't work in IE, I've not tried it in Mozilla yet.
I realise it is probably a big ask, but it would be a great help.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Yes
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Increase/Decrease text size works fine in Mozilla. Until it's implemented on CP, you may want to see this for use with IE.
You're one microscopic cog
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Shog9 wrote:
Until it's implemented on CP, you may want to see this for use with IE.
Interesting.
I'll stick with Mozilla for when I want to increase the font-size. It's only really for when I'm on my laptop which doesn't like running anything less than 1600x1200, that the articles can get hard to read.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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1. Why don't the RSS feeds list all of the the articles posted? For the last few weeks I thought there was very little C# content being added to the site, until I visited the site and realised that the RSS feeds are being limited.
2. Why don't you protect your members from spam? I setup a special email account purely for CP, and it's just breached 60 spam emails a day - which is about 60 more than I would have expected. Not only are they spam, but they are personalised using my CP member name.
The blogless coder
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1. The RSS feeds are specific to the main topics on the homepage. Click on the 'MFC' tab and the RSS feed will be MFC only. Click C# and you get C# only. Click all topics and you get the full meal deal.
2. We do. Your email address is not posted on the site. If you can find your email address exposed then please let us know. The only time someone else will see your email address is if you reply to a message of theirs, or use the 'Email' link in a message posting. Your adress is then sent with the message but only to that person.
We cannot protect you if you post your address in forums or articles. CodeProject is very heavily spidered by all types of search engines, even email harvesters.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Hi Chris,
On the RSS feeds, am I correct in assuming that the c# homepage http://www.codeproject.com/index.asp?cat=3[^] should match the C# RSS feed: http://www.codeproject.com/webservices/articlerss.aspx?cat=3[^]?
If so, it's not the case - give it a try..
Here's the article titles currently listed on the C# homepage:
* A control class for browsing through the network neighborhood
* Analyse IL and say hello (or goodbye) to your memory
* Treaps in C#
* A Simple ASP.NET Server Control: Message Box & Confirmation Box
* Adapting GRML
* Creating Custom Configurations
* Creating some cool buttons and groupboxes
* Drag-and-Drop in UserControls
* Inline (Single File) vs. CodeBehind
* MasterPages reinvented - a Component Based Template Engine for ASP.NET
Versus the article titles on the RSS feed:
* An Treap implementation in C#
* Creating some cool buttons and groupboxes
* Creating Optical Character Recognition (OCR) applications using Neural Networks
* A flexible line graph class library in C#
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The RSS feeds use new (.NET) code that takes advantage of the upgraded article attribution, whereas the homepage uses the old (ASP) version. I'm gradually moving bits and pieces over to .NET and this is one of the few cases you'll notice a difference.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
The only time someone else will see your email address is if you reply to a message of theirs, or use the 'Email' link in a message posting. Your adress is then sent with the message but only to that person.
Personally, I don't like that either. Is it possible to prevent this as well?
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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On the spam issue - to be honest I just don't have the time nor inclination to go through the CP website looking for holes. What I'll do is setup a new email account for my CP profile and see how it goes. If/when I receive any spam in it, I'll let you know.
The blogless coder
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Furty wrote:
I just don't have the time nor inclination to go through the CP website looking for holes
Sorry - that wasn't the intention of my comment. I meant that if you *do* see anything, let me know, because we do try our best to protect members from spam. Remember that spammers are always using brute force attacks against ISPs so why not try setting up 2 accounts: one you use on CodeProject and one that sits there as a control. If they both get hammered then it's not us. If the CP one gets abused then we look further to see what's happening.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
so why not try setting up 2 accounts: one you use on CodeProject and one that sits there as a control. If they both get hammered then it's not us. If the CP one gets abused then we look further to see what's happening
Have done, will let you know how it goes..
The blogless coder
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Chris Maunder wrote:
2. We do. Your email address is not posted on the site. If you can find your email address exposed then please let us know. The only time someone else will see your email address is if you reply to a message of theirs, or use the 'Email' link in a message posting. Your adress is then sent with the message but only to that person.
The only place I've found that spammers pick-up CP email addresses is from the Industry Contacts page... but I doubt there is anything you can do about that without negating the whole point of the page.
Of course, I'm a little unhappy that the email address is sent with each reply notification as I've received a number of unsolicted questions and cries for help because of it. An option to not show the email address would be great.
Michael
CP Blog [^]
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Furty wrote:
Why don't you protect your members from spam?
From where I'm sitting they do. Also, that kind of interogation is likely to raise the heckles a bit.
Furty wrote:
I setup a special email account purely for CP, and it's just breached 60 spam emails a day
Me too. And it isn't. I never received spam on that email account until I signed up for a YahooGroups list on the same email account. I've now switched email accounts again and it is spam free again.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell
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Colin Angus Mackay wrote:
that kind of interogation is likely to raise the heckles a bit.
Nah, it's cool. I hate spam as much as the next person and I'd want to know that the person I give my email address to is looking after it.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
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How about moving the public forums to one or two servers and use the rest for everything else? It looks like there is around 300-1,000 new posts per day in the forums. There would be quite a number more for people reading them, but if they are one their own series of servers, the system would not slow down when someone tries to archive the entire site. The forums would continue to run at full pace.
Rocky <><
www.HintsAndTips.com - Now with GMail Queue
www.MyQuickPoll.com - 2004 Election poll is #33
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Is it possible to provide an option whereby our email addresses are not shown to the people we respond to? Currently, an email-notification response includes the email address of the person who sent the reply. It would be much better if the email address was not provided, or at least an option to remove it (permanently or per-post maybe).
Ryan "Punctuality is only a virtue for those who aren't smart enough to think of good excuses for being late" John Nichol "Point Of Impact"
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