Continuing on with revisiting old scripts and updating them. The script that is most similar to my tooltip script (and therefore needed almost identical changes) is my overlay messages script. As with the tooltip script I have included both the old and new versions of the script so that you can see the differences between [...]

Now that the really old browsers that pre-date the standards have almost no one using them any more the scripts that we wrote a few years ago can be made a lot simpler. The references to document.all and document.layers (and useragent tests for Netscape 4 to get around the bug that stopped feature sensing for [...]

When you have lots of almost identical emails to send out to different people it is easier to set them up if you know how to make copies of complete emails. Here’s one way to do it with Outlook Express.
Duplicating Emails

If you store the same information in multiple places in a database then you run the risk of updating that information in one spot in the database and not updating it in another and then ending up with inconsistent information in the database. To avoid this happening we need to design our database properly in [...]

We looked at how useless HTML protection scripts were yesterday. Of course not everyone realises how easy it is to bypass them and so it may still be useful in some instances to apply such protection to a web page since a lot of your visitors will not know how to bypass it. So which [...]

It is amazing how many sites that there are selling products to protect the HTML source of your web page. The surprising thing isn’t how many different products that there are available in this market with prices ranging from free to several hundred dollars. The surprising thing is that such products are sold in [...]

Regular Expressions are a standardised way of being able to manipulate text to match and replace the content based on patterns. There are quite a lot of different programming languages that support regular expressions including PHP and PERL (along with many other server side languages) and JavaScript also supports most of the same regular expressions [...]

One problem when you receive a file as an attachment to an email that you might have is to figure out which program that the attached file can be opened in. It is all very well when you have an appropriate program already installed on your computer with an association to the appropriate file type [...]

There are a number of different ways that the word “optimise” can be used in connection with web pages and this book manages to discuss all of them. The book itself is broken up into two main parts, the first dealing with optimising in connection with getting your web pages found, and the second dealing [...]

Because I have had a tendency to start new additions to my online presence to celebrate anniversaries of when I started creating the Ask Felgall web site there are a number of anniversaries to celebrate today. Today is:

The eight anniversary of “Ask Felgall”
the seventh anniversary of my “Behind the Scenes” newsletter
and the first anniversary of [...]

Have you searched my main site and still can’t find the answer to your question? Well if your question is actually something that is covered by one of the many different computer software categories on my site then you will find the same category on my forum where you can easily ask the question so [...]

Files that are available for download from a web site or which are sent to you as an attachment to an email are often in a compressed format. This provides several benefits – the file itself is smaller because it is compressed and also the compressed file may in fact contain several related files all [...]