Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Why Web Sites Display Advertising

Few people actually like seeing advertising on web pages so why are there ads displayed on so many pages? Well the thing is that the cost of creating and maintaining the pages needs to be paid by someone and the alternative ways by which it can be paid for are not necessarily ones that people who dislike advertising would prefer to see instead. Perhaps advertising isn’t so bad after all provided that it is done in an appropriate way.

Why Web Sites Display Advertising

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Monday, January 5th, 2009

ISP Extra Feature Offers

One thing that makes comparing plans from different ISPs more difficult is the different extra features that they might include with the different plans. You will need to put a value on the different features in order to be able to compare a plan with the feature with a plan that doesn’t have it. Where you must have the feature then the value of the feature is what it would cost to get it separately. Of course if it is a feature you would prefer to not have then the value may even be negative.

ISP Extra Feature Offers

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Sunday, January 4th, 2009

Automatic Tabbing

The addition of a small piece of JavaScript can set up a form so that our visitors can’t enter more characters than required in a field because as soon as the field is full the cursor tabs to the next field (assuming they have JavaScript enabled of course).

Automatic Tabbing

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Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Default Program

Windows by default just asks you which program to open a file with if the file type is one it doesn’t know. By making a small change to the registry we can add a default program that will be used to open all files of unknown types. Setting this up so that unknown file types open in notepad will make it easier to figure out from the file content itself as to which program it really belongs to.

Default Program

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Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Capitalization and Replace

Unlike many of the other programs that have a find and replace option, Microsoft Word attempts to retain the same calitalisation for the relacement content as you had with the original.

Capitalization and Replace </p.

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Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Relative Address Quirks

One possible cause for problems if you use relative addresses to link your pages on your web site together is “relative to what?” Depending on where you have the reference and how you define it you may or may not get what you expect. Figuring out how to get your relative links working correctly is important though as they are a far more efficient way of connecting the files in your page together than using absolute addresses would be.

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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

How Fast an Internet Connection Do You Need?

Many ISP’s offer a number of different internet access plans that offer different connection speeds. Usually the faster the connection the higher the price. Not everyone needs the fastest plan though. Depending on what use you intend making of your internet connection you may be able to save money by selecting a slower plan.

How Fast an Internet Connection Do You Need?

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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Search Engines

The main way that people use to locate information on the web is to use a search engine. Many however do not use them properly. By typing your search query the right way you can more easily obtain the results you really want.

Search Engines

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