I often see requests for help from people claiming that their alt tag doesn’t work in Firefox. This statement of course makes no sense whatsoever and just shows that the person has made two mistakes. Firstly they have confused their terminology as it is an attribute and not a tag and secondly they have misunderstood [...]

When working out how much it costs to run a web site many people leave out the biggest parts of the actual cost. At loeast that’s the only reason I can think of for why so many people are trying to save one or two dollars on the cost of their domain name which is [...]

If you are using Internet Explorer thenyou are using the one browser that allows web sites to change what page you have set as the browser home page. Rogue sites can change your home page and then lock your browser to make it difficult for you to change it back. Here’s how to get in [...]

Just because a computer isn’t connected to the internet doesn’t mean that you don’t need an anti-virus program. Here’s how you can keep its anti-virus up to date by using a computer that is connected to the internet to download the updates to copy across. Antivirus Signature File Download

Register Globals was deprecated and eventually removed from PHP because it allows ANY variables in your PHP to be able to be overridden by values passed by someone trying to break your script. While just copying any passed GET or POST values to the appropriate variables gets your code working once you turn Register Globals [...]

Windows provides a nice simple way of locating similar fonts. Where one font doesn’t look quite right this option may help you to find one that looks better. Similar Fonts

I have updated my course list to show all the times and locations for my classes for term two. In The Classroom

The administrator account on your computer should be password protected and only used when you need to install new software or run system utilities to clean up your system. That means that if you don’t perform those tasks for a while that you might have forgotten the password by the time you next need to [...]

Microsoft are calling the next version of their operating system Windows 7. I agree that this is actually the seventh version of this operating system but I wonder if they actually counted the same way I did to get to that answer. Why “Windows 7″?

This series of tutorials covers the basics of how to use CSS to define the appearance of the content that you defined in your HTML. Cascading StyleSheets

Windows has a collection of built in Troubleshooters to help you solve any problems that you might have in configuring your hardware and operating system.

Even when you tell Windows to always show file extensions that doesn’t necessarily mean that you will actually get to see all file extensions. There is a registry value for file extensions that can prevent their appearing even when asked to always show them. So how do we fix the Completely Hidden File Extensions so [...]