Archive for July, 2009

Friday, July 31st, 2009

Google Search

Google ask you to not change their code when you use it in your page but it is really a matter of what changes you can and can’t make. As long as the changes you make don’t affect the way the Google supplied code works and so you should be able to modify the code [...]

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

First Time Only

You can use some JavaScript ans a cookie to have something happen the first time someone visits a page but not on subsequent visits. First Time Only

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

Windows XP Administrator Account

What do you do when the account that you want to login to isn’t listed on your computer when you start it up but you know that the account is there? Windows XP Administrator Account

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Using Google App Engine

This book sets out to show you how to get Google to host your applications for you. Read my review of how well it achieves this. Using Google App Engine

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Copyright Anomalies

There was an interesting situation just recently with Amazon wiping copies of George Orwell’s books from Kindle devices and refunding people’s money due to their claiming that the person who uploaded those books not having the copyright holder’s permission to do so. In fact chances are that the person who did the actual upload didn’t [...]

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

textarea

Not all input values fit on one line and where we want our visitors to be able to enter more than one line of content into a single field in our form we use a textarea.

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Hidden Fields

Sometimes you have values you need to pass with a form that you don’t want the person filling out the form to be able to see. The solution to this is to use Hidden Fields as this fourth XHTML forms tutorial explains.

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Password Fields

The third XHTML forms tutorial shows you how to add a password field to your form. Note that a password field works the same as a regular input field except for masking the value within the displayed field itself. Password Fields

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Quotes

The ninth XHTML tutorial shows you how to add block quotes and inline quotes into your page content. Quotes

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Entities

The eighth tutorial on XHTML looks at how to incorporate any character at all into the text of your web page by using Entities.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Site Ring

A site ring connects a number of sites on a related topic together in one big ring so that people interested in the topic can move easily from one site to the next to the nest. The software handling the links is at a centralised point making it easy to add and remove sites from [...]

Monday, July 20th, 2009

WD Anywhere Backup

For a backup program that you need to buy this program certainly has very little going for it. Fortunately the program has a 31 day free trial period allowing you to see for yourself how it works before you buy it. Read my review of WD Anywhere Backup.