In HTML a million spaces in the source is exactly the same in so far as the final page as if there were only one space there. The only difference is that the more spaces in the file the longer the file will take to download. Now a few extra spaces isn’t going to make [...]

To finish with quizes for this week here is a revised unobtrusive version of my single personality quiz which allows two questions per page and up to eight different personalities Revised Personality Quiz

This version of my personality quiz looks only at the personality with the highest score and returns a result based on that. Single Analysis Quiz

A personality quiz keeps a separate score of how many times the answer for each personality is selected and then displays a result based on all the scores. This particular version allows for 4 personalities and therefore has 15 results pages depending on how the final scores are split between them (four pages for almost [...]

This variant of my analysis quiz allows a web page of your choice to be displayed between each question that can give feedback on what the different responses might mean before going on to the next question. Alternate Analysis Quiz

The first alternative that I created to multiple choice quizes is what I call an analysis quiz. There are no right or wrong answers, instead each answer has a score allocated to it and the scores of all the selected answers are added together. The result of the quiz is determined based on that final [...]

This unobtrusive multiple choice quiz allows up to 6 answers per question and can display one or two questions per page. Apart from the number of questions and answers it works almost identically to the first multiple choice quiz that I ever wrote. Revised QuizMaker 1

JavaScript quizes are the theme for this week and we start the week off with one of my earlier quiz scripts. This one generates multiple choice quizes with as many questions as you like having up to four answers each. Why do I call it quiz maker 3? Well it is actually the third multiple [...]

Windows calls them Services, in Linux they are called Daemons and a whole load of them run in the background on your computer to perform many useful tasks for you. Just occasionally you may need to stop and then restart a daemon so as to have it detect changes that you have made to the [...]

One of the most basic aspects of proper use of object oriented programming is to properly design your classes in the first place. Designing a Class

Provided that it isn’t actually blocked on the server, it is relatively easy to find out when any web page was last modified even if the page doesn’t include that information within the text that the page displays. Last Modified Date

Checking whether a web page that you expect to be secure actually has a security certificate installed is much more noticeable in modern browsers that highlight the address bar in yellow or green (depending on the type of certificate) than they were in the days when all you had to go on was the padlock. [...]