Archive for June, 2009

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Country Specific or International Domain

No one top level domain is best for all sites. If it were then there’d be no reason for other top level domains to exist. Which top level domain is best for a given site depends mainly on who the target audience is.
Country Specific or International Domain

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Multi Language Support

My Guestmap script and both the free and advanced versions of my form2mail script all have new versions that are in the final stages of testing (they are close enough to being finished that my main site is already using them). In each case the script has been rewritten to add support for mjultiple languages [...]

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

Simple Lists

A lot of the things you will want in your web page are actually lists so it is essential that you know how to code them as lists. For example most web pages have some form of navigation option that is basically a list of links. We’ll get to links later because before you can [...]

Saturday, June 27th, 2009

Images

A page consisting of nothing but text is rather boring so in the third (X)HTML tutorial we consider how we can make our page look more interesting by adding Images. Don’t forget that images that are part of your HTML should be a part of the page content, if the images are just decoration then [...]

Friday, June 26th, 2009

Headings

With the basic tags reguired to create our (X)HTML page in place the first thing we need to add into the content of our page is Headings.

Thursday, June 25th, 2009

Hello World

For those looking to write semantic (X)HTML I have a series of tutorials that go progressively through each of the different tags looking at what you should be using each for and what attributes you should be using with it. For the pirposes of this series we’re going to look at the XHTML in a [...]

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Xbox Live

Some web sites provide easy to follow instructions on how to do things. Other sites such as the Xbox Live site make things as confusing as possible so that you will do all the wrong things and then have to harrass their support staff for a way around the mess. Here’s what to do to [...]

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Network Terminology

When setting up a network you will find lots of items on sale that look similar but have different names. By knowing what those names mean you can buy the right components for your network.
Network Terminology

Monday, June 22nd, 2009

Filezilla Bugs

This is the craziest thing I have seen. Filezilla 3.2.5 lists the following in its updates:
- Fix “Timer creation failed” message boxes on update download dialog. Actual update download was not affected, only display of the progress bar.
Not only does the “Timer creation failed” error ONLY occur when trying to download that version but the [...]

Sunday, June 21st, 2009

Secret Files?

The location of certain files on your computer is only a secret if you don’t know where to look for them. If you don’t want someone being able to see files on your computer then deleting the files may not be enough since deleted files are only flagged for reuse and still contain their original [...]

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Processor Speed

Not all motherboards necessarily detect the speed at which your processor can operate and so may have the speed set slower than that which your processor can handle.
Processor Speed

Thursday, June 18th, 2009

Falling Leaves

Some people seem to like placing silly animation effects on their web page. For a personal site this just allows you to show off an aspect of your personality while a business site might use one as part of an attention grabbing promotion.
This Falling Leaves script is completely unobtrusive which makes it as easy as [...]