Answering the question about how to control what information on your computer is accessible from other computers on your network. More on Sharing

There are two ways to attach images into an HTML email. You can either place the image on the internet somewhere and link to it from your email or you can embed the image into the email itself. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages as this article discusses. One advantage of linked emails is [...]

This simple JavaScript added to a textarea will give you a running total of the number of words that have been typed into the field. Counting Words

There are three ways to send an email. The way most people use is to send their email as if it were a postcard. Anyone can access the email along the way and see what it says (and perhaps alter what it says) and there is no guarantee that it came from whoever it says [...]

This has to be the best computer book that I have ever read. If you need a database for any project then the information in this book will ensure that you get the design right. Some of the examples of what can happen when you get it wrong are really funny until you remind yourself [...]

Not sure what all the tags are that you need in the head section of your web page need to contain? Well this form will help you out. Simply fill out the values that the form asks for describing your page and the entire content of the head block will be created for you. Creating [...]

Earlier this week I sent out the October edition of my “Behind the Scenes” newsletter. If you were not signed up to receive it then you will have to wait another month or so to read it on the site. Make sure that you can read future newsletters when I first publish them by signing [...]

This perhaps wasn’t the best title to give to the page since what I actually mean is a link that appears in a fixed position within the browser viewport with the page content scrolling behind it. It is actually much easier to achieve in modern browsers but this way of doing it is still needed [...]

Displaying default text in an input field may be useful but you need to make it easy for your visitors to replace that default value with their own if the default isn’t what they want. Here we look at a couple of alternatives depending on whether you want the default text as an optional value [...]

One form field type that HTML does not provide is the combo box. Now if you disagree with that statement then you have misunderstood what a combo box is and are thinking of a drop down selection list as being a combo box – which it isn’t. A combo box combines the functionality of a [...]

Some of the pages that I find the easiest to write are those that have resulted from my getting involved in an “argument” on a forum regarding some particular issue. In this particular instance the discussion was on the difference between HTML and XHTML. One comment that I made was that Internet Explorer does not [...]

One area of your web applications that may be a lot less efficient than it could be are your database accesses. SQL packs a whole lot of power into relatively short statements and one SQL statement may run as much code as dozens of pages of code in your scripting language. Knowing how to rework [...]