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Hi guys, So I've been working on this off and on. Looking for comments and general impressions on appearance. http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke.eu/ For the blog entry, I may have it only showing an excerpt so it won't extend downwards. The About Me and Portfolio divs will remain the same size. Thanks. -steve

When directories/folders contain lots and lots and lots of files, the size of a folder can increase. The first thing I would try: Get another FTP Client. Try a few of them. I use FileZilla myself. Try copying/downloading the folder on to your computer. I myself would try using ncftp or similar ftp on the command line and going "ls a*" (this will only list files with a as a first letter). It could be that the graphica clients are trying to do a ls (list) on the folder, and because there are 1000's of files its timing out. Fail all that, your going to have to get in touch with your webhost (whoever runs cpanel for you) and get them to look at the files directly if possible. -steve

That script wont work. Your going to have to prompt the user for a password in bash, and then send the password into useradd. useradd username -p password -steve

A quick google led to: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/gnome-with-no-fontsonly-squares-511501/ http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-907278.html You might be much quicker to: apt-get remove gnome apt-get install gnome. You could also do: dpkg -l | grep fonts then go apt-get remove and install. Google hopefully will give you some more leads. You could always go apt-get install kde and go with that and see. -steve

Was just about to create a new topic when I saw it was already here on phpfreaks. Came across it on digg. Very funny. -steve

Can you install a different internet browser and test with that. Try it on firefox and see if you have to refresh the page a few times. Try opera etc. You need to confirm that its an issue with apache. Also, 64bit, you would want to be sure you have the correct version of apache. -steve

This is with IE8. See: http://burkesys.com/stephen/phpfreaks/jcombs-1.jpg Also I noticed when I resized the internet window that an overlap of the bottom background image occurred. See: http://burkesys.com/stephen/phpfreaks/jcombs-2.jpg (I think it only happens at a certain spot, so it might be nothing). -steve

The "Current Highlight" heading on the home page is a little hard to read with the background. Perhaps you could tone down on the meteor trail for this heading. I'm not sure about the icon before the Copyright 2009 on the bottom left. The gallery looks good. Would 9 be a better number of images to show on one page? A search option for the gallery would also be cool, seeing as there are a good few images there. I did not see the image categories list on the right the first time. (Could just have been me). -steve

It can be done with ldap auth and password auth. I took a look, at your query: limit by ip and password auth. I think there might be a way, but not easy. It would involve a regex match. I.E. if !IP then password auth. There are still issues with that however. You could always do: /var/www/website Create a symlink from /var/www/website to /var/www/website-ip Then put in a rewrite rule based on IP. So anyone coming from the IP will be passed into the /var/www/website-ip directory, and as a result not have to enter a password. Thats the method Id go with, on linux. -steve

I recommend Xen highly. I use them all the time. I have munin monitoring scripts to give me graphs of usage of each VM in terms of IO/bandwith/cpu usage. -steve

See: http://www.php.net/manual/en/reserved.variables.server.php <?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?> -steve

See: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,117475.0.html -steve

Looks well. The cooliris flash on the home page didn't work. Small images for each div at the bottom of the index page would be nice and help the user see what they want quicker. You might want to look at the news page and finish the wordpress install. -steve

I'd like a bigger/stronger header. The background image is quite nice. I like it. In the Fashion Weeks div, the links are a little hard to read over the image background. The quick links tab looks a little out of place/character with the rest of the divs. Looks quite well overall. I'd really like to see it with a taller header/logo/image on the top. -steve

I think the white background stands out a little too much. Perhaps make it a light grey. Some extra padding and line-height required for the main content. I would like to see a bigger background image. You have the purple swirls and grey dots. I think you should add more of these and have them showing moreso on the left and *right*. This should improve the left/right balance, which is currently out of balance (towards the right). I'm not too keen on the yellow for the navigation, nor the gradient from yellow to white. Use: http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp to get matching colors to the purple. -steve

I agree with the others. The website is a little too narrow. You could increase the text size a little. You could also put the Facebook div on the right-hand side of the Youtube video. You could tidy up the left column. Make the 3 links it a Navigation area. Again, you could increase text size and add some extra padding. The header image looks good, however it looks a little stretched down. If you increase it in width, it will look better. -steve

Try adding: allow from ip.address.of.server -steve

What happens if you try and access a simple php page? <?php phpinfo(); ?> Save that in a file called test.php and see how it works in IE and Firefox. It looks as if it is a mime type issue/config required for IIS. -steve

What size are your log files in /var/log? Logrotate also starts and stops services when it rotates logs, so you might want to look into that. Logrotate, afaik, rotates apache logs only once a week. You need to look in: /etc/logrotate.conf and /etc/logrotate.d/* and look at the config files. The cron job which runs logrotate is stored in: /etc/cron.daily/logrotate Ive rarely seen logrotate to hang a system. Its much more likely that there are other tasks running from /etc/cron.daily/* What you could do is: In /etc/cron.daily/ remove logrotate for a day to see if it makes a difference. -steve

Well if its a VPS you have, its already virtualised no doubt. If thats the case, you may not be allowed to run your own kernel. I'd ask your VPS hosting company to be honest, or look on their wiki (if they're any good they should have one). There are many other options to UML, such as vserver and xen and virtualbox or kvm. See: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Virtualisation Vserver is different and might work if you cant change the kernel. See: http://linux-vserver.org/Welcome_to_Linux-VServer.org -steve

Jcombs: Thanks very much for your comments. They really helped. I made the page wider, which gave the grid layout more room. The portfolio will always be that size as I probably put it in a dhtml slide. I added a dark blue color to some of the elements and it helps a lot. Getting close: http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/index-3.html If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.

Made some more mods. 1, 2, or 3. http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/index.html http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/index-2.html http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/index-1.html (original) -steve

Thanks very much for your comments. noober: thanks for your comment on the text in the header image. noober, mrMarcus: thanks for your comments on the 1px black border. I wanted to focus attention down into the content, but I didn't think enough on it. maddude100: Indeed. The reflection was out of character. Yes! the brown in the nav was a little faded and pastel. I changed it to a deep brown. I know about the resolution. It should show ok for most people. People with a large resolution will just have a light grey surround. Simple and easy to use are what I'm looking for, so thanks for that. I made changes. See what you think of the following: http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/ An improvement over the old? The brown too dark? The left border too much on the content divs? The Nav will have a:hover effects when in html. P.S. Old one at http://burkesys.com/stephen/webdev/sburke/index-1.html Thanks for your comments already and any more thoughts you might have. -steve

I agree with the earlier comment on http://blog.andz.co.uk/ It needs a little spicing up. Perhaps some images. I know its a blog type website, but it could do with some colors, maybe a dropshadow or something similar. You could make the calendar icon red and bring some other colors into the website. http://www.andrewodendaal.com/ is better. A little sparse and could do with some text. It looks to be a wordpress template "slate theme". The search box could do with a search button instead of having to hit enter on the keyboard. -steve

I think it looks good. I like the font for the header image. No major criticisms. Perhaps the "Game Name" listing text color is too much of a light grey. -steve