OT: computers again - hacking question

I wonder slightly if it would be any messier than the coding I would produce by myself, even with the aid of templates and libraries, but I take the point. Thanks.

Bert

Andy Burns :

More useful than WYSIWYG is WYDSWYE (Why You Don't See What You Expect). For that you want a browser with a built-in debugger. I've used Firefox/Firebug and Safari's Web Inspector, both excellent.

They generally produce s**te html.

Oh god no, you come across as someone who takes pride and care in what you do, a true DIYer, and I would expect the same care in your use of templates and coding. I would not expect the source of your hack to be related to your previous choice of manual coding.

Yes.

The temptation is to do everything by preceding every single paragraph with a load of fixed firmat and font statements to guarantee WYSWIYG

This is absolutely the wrong approach.

The right approach is to spend time setting up a style sheet, and determining the blockk areas on screen and using tables divs or frames to set them up flexibly and THEN start formatting the text and images.

Perhaps you could just use plain textfiles? People will surely remember it in a positive way, as nearly every site is full of graphics diarrhea, which is just terribly distracting and slows down page access.

Thanks very much for that.

I'll certainly do my best. I'll investigate the various options today.

Many thanks to everyone who responded; much appreciated, as ever here.

Bert

And "clever" editors tend to be constructed to produce code that works well in a particular browser but doesn't in others. Half the battle with web pages is getting them to render more or less the same across a range of browsers.

I would be *very* worried by this. YMMV They should know how to override anything that a hacker can do to their servers filesystem.

It also hints at the possibility that your password was not broken or local website scripts compromised but their server configuration was hacked directly and they are no longer in complete control of it.

Almost certainly to spread malware and recruit more botnet members.

You may find other compromised sites containing lists of forests.

Is the correct answer.

Temporarily turning-on garish background and border colours for the blocks at the design stage, then seeing how they react to changing screen/window sizes helps ...

I rather like this idea, perhaps with the addition of a "gallery" section which would be the only area of the site with graphics and images. Thanks.

Bert

and Dave Liquorice wrote:

I rather like Johann Klammer's suggestion of only using plain text (though I think would vary it slightly with a single "gallery" section). This would both be distinctive and different, and should also go a long way towards making the site work for different browsers.

Bert

we have all done that too.. as doers looking at the source in a window that detects and highlights errors and or running it through a page validator.

Be afraid, be very afraid. Of your ISP, that is. They sound like a bunch of idiots to me.

MBQ

It was only the chap at the end of the support phone line who found that the added subdirectory and files were seemingly undeletable. He passed the problem on, and today everything has been eradicated.

Bert

He didn't have root access obviously

Except the means by which access was gained in the first place.

En el artículo , fred escribió:

I think it's probably more likely he uploaded the files with permissions that were too loose.

En el artículo , The Natural Philosopher escribió:

There's a bug (well, a stupid default) in the Apache shipped with CentOS

in /etc/php.ini:

allow_url_fopen = On

should be

allow_url_fopen = Off