Two pieces of information that need to be entered when Windows is first installed are the ,b.Registered Owner and Registered Organisation. If you bought the computer with Windows already installed then this information (which gets used when you install other software) will not contain the correct values. In this article I tell you how to [...]

Not everyone uses a fast connection to the internet, there are still some people using dialup connections. Unfortunately some web page creators (they are certainly not webmasters) forget about this and create web pages that are way bigger than they ought to be making their page almost unusable to those on dialup and in many [...]

Some software is supplied with a dongle which must be plugged into the computer (usually a parallel port) in order for the software to be able to run on that computer. This is about as secure as it gets with ensuring that people have the appropriate licence to run the software since the dongle comes [...]

Another of my early CSS articles and one that is extremely easy to apply to any web page are these styles for producing dropcaps (where the first letter is several lines high) and minicaps (where the text uses smaller uppercase letters instead of lowercase ones.
Dropcaps and Minicaps

Sometimes it is only after you switch to a different provider that you realise some of the many excellent features you prior provider made available to you. Having recently switched Internet Service Providers I am already disappointed in the service provided by the new ISP.
Netspace

Even when all you are looking for from an ISP is a way to connect to the internet, different ISPs have different features quite apart from the price of the access. Having used this particular ISP for several years before recently switching I decided to write up a review.
Exetel

The interactive web section of the site was becoming a little messy with pages on web hosting, server side scripting and plugins all jumbled together. This has now been rectified as I have split the plugins and server side scripting page into three.

ISPs and Hosting
PHP and mySQL
Plugins and Other Server Side Scripting

If you hadn’t already subscribed to my newsletter before last weekend then you did not receive my latest newsletter by email and will have to wait several more weeks until I add it to the web site before you can read it. To avoid the wait next month, sign up for the newsletter now and [...]

Graphics programs use many different formats for actually storing the images that you are working with but there are only about half a dozen different colour modes that they work with while you are actually editing the images. The colour mode basically determines the number of different colours that you have available to work with [...]

If you have a copy of Paint Shop Pro then keeping all of the image folders on your computer properly organised will be a lot easier.
Managing Image Folders

You don’t want to display all your errors for the world to see so when you create web page you will want to check that they actually display correctly before you upload them to the web.
Testing Server Side Processing Before you Upload

In the seventh and last tutorial on JavaScript functions we look at an alternative way of being able to add sophisticated JavaScript functionality into web pages without having to write much code yourself by using a pre-written library that includes most of the functionality that you require.
Function Libraries