Archive for January, 2008

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

A Healthy Computer In 5 Steps

While I write almost all of the content for the site, there are a number of pages that consist of a question that someone has asked followed by my answer. Even rarer are those pages that have been completely written by someone else, of the more than 1400 pages on the main site those written [...]

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Creating a Sub-Domain using cPanel

Creating subdomains for your web site is very easy when your hosting provides you with cPanel, subject of course to any limits placed on you by your hosting provider. You simply need to define the new subdomain that you want to create and the folder you want it to point to in order to set [...]

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Procedure Division Statements

One of the types of page that I occasionally add to the site are reference pages where I list all of the commands or options available when using a particular language. One page I wrote some time ago was one listing all of the commands that can be used in COBOL.
Procedure Division Statements

Saturday, January 12th, 2008

Three Column Template

Now that I am not so far behind with my ‘to do’ list of updates for the site, I am occasionally managing to find time to work on some new uploads of my own for the member’s Area. The latest offering is a basic three column design with a header and foote. Like most of [...]

Friday, January 11th, 2008

How to Hide a Filename

Whichever version of Windows that you are using there is an option that allows you to hide specific files from being listed. While more experienced users may prefer to have their computer display all files including “hidden” files it is less confusing for those with less computer experience if the files designated as hidden [...]

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

Welcoming Visitors to your Site

This simple JavaScript detects whether this is the first page on your site that a visitor is viewing so that you can display a message welcoming them to your site regardless of which page of your site they arrive at first.
Welcoming Visitors to your Site

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Selecting a Different Page if Javascript is Disabled

If you have a web page that is extremely dependent on JavaScript being enabled in order for the page to work properly then you really ought to have a separate page that provides an alternate way for people without JavaScript to be able to access that information. A better solution would be to use unobtrusive [...]

Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

Publishing Your Site

The initial series of tutorials on using NVU to create standards compliant web pages comes to an end with this eleventh tutorial which covers how to actually publish the pages that you have created to your web site. At this point if you have worked your way through from tutorial one you will know how [...]