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Back in March a book publisher asked me to write a new book on JavaScript for them. I had the book all planned out and had written draft copies of several chapters before deciding that I just wasn’t going to have enough time to write the book in any acceptable amount of time. I therefore ceased working on the book but had a whole lot of material from the introductory chapters which I had been working on. I am now gradually converting the content of those chapters that were closest to their final form into a series of online tutorials instead. The material on decision making was intended to be chapter three of the 23 chapters in the book.

JavaScript Making Decisions

Often when processing files under Windows, you want to perform the same action on more than one file. In this tutorial we look at how you can select all of the files you want to perform that action on so as to do it all at once.

Selecting More than One File

I named the newsletter for my site “Behind the Scenes” because when I first introduced it back in September 2001 it was the only thing related to the web site which would give people the opportunity to go behind the scenes and read comments that I made regarding what my plans for the web site are and anything else regarding what I am doing. The main site itself was and still is basically a collection of tutorials, reference materials, and answers to questions about computers. Now of course you also have this blog where you also get a less formal approach to what I am writing and more of an opportunity to interact.

My newsletter gets sent out regularly on the 22nd of each month to everyone who has subscribed to it. Everyone else is able to read the newsletter on the web site itself eventually although exactly when depends on how long afterwards that I remember to add it to the site. For example I just decided to add the December newsletter so that it can be read on the site and discovered that the November newsletter hadn’t been added yet either. This irregularity of adding the newsletters to the site of course gives people a better reason for signing up to receive it by email but I assure you that the varying delays are not deliberate on my part.

This is one of the most commonly asked questions for people just starting out with creating their first web site. There are a large number of reasons why images might not appear on a new web site but some of them are far more likely than others. The obvious place to start if this happens to you is to check that you haven’t made one of the more common mistakes that are the most likely explanations for this problem.

I’ve Uploaded My Images but they Still Don’t Appear

Not all of the links on a web page necessarily need to go to other pages on the web. Sometimes it is convenient to be able to place a series of links at the top and/or bottom of the page that will take people to a point part way down the current web page. To do this means both marking the spot where you want the link to jump to as well as using a special code in the link to identify that it needs to link to part way down the page and not the top of the page as is usually the case.

Linking to Elsewhere on the Same Page

Altering a photograph to add yourself (or anything at all for that matter) into the foreground of the photo is a trivial exercise with PhotoShop. All you need is a copy of the photo to be altered in electronic format along with a photo of what you want to add (also in electronic format) with a plain colour background.

Put Yourself in the Picture

The second of two quik reviews for Christmas. This one is PDF editor software called NitroPDF.

NitroPDF

A couple of quick reviews for Christmas. This first one gives a one paragraph review of several of the different tools provided by Google.

Google Tools