Yes there really are technologies that are known as web 2.0 and web 3.0 but most of the web pages pretending to be web 2.0 or web 3.0 are really prettied up web 1.0 pages where the owner doesn’t even know what the technologies are. Too many people have been misled by marketing hype. Web [...]

If you are interested in web design and/or web development they you have probably come across a few places offering to sell you all sorts of ebooks and other products to help you out. Along the way you have probably seen loads of products on internet marketing as well. Buying all those products is a [...]

The eighth of the tutorials that I wrote on XHTML form fields deals with selection lists. These form fields are rather different from most other form fields because they require two different tags to define them. Selection Lists

Domains and web sites are two completely different things but many people get them confused. What probably helps lead to this confusion is that domain registrars often offer web hosting as an upsell on their main business of selling domains and hosting providers often offer domains as an upsell on their main business of web [...]

One advantage that CSS has over any other way of trying to define how your page should look is that you can set up the styles to be media specific. Screen Only or Print Only

Internet Explorer 6 and 7 are still popular enough browsers that we cannot ignore them completely. Our pages must still be at least usable in those antiquated browsers or we’ll end up with a lot less visitors to our site than we would otherwise have. By including Microsoft conditional comments in our HTML we can [...]

There are two ways of increasing the (Larry) Page Rank of your web pages – one of them you can do yourself, the other relies more on other people. One of them can be the cause of your failing to get a good placement in the search engines while the other is an effect of [...]

It used to be common (way back in the stone age era of the web) for people to define what font the text in their page should use directly in their HTML. This of course made nonsense of the code if the person didn’t have the font installed or was accerssing the web in a [...]

Including a web address in an email is relatively straightforward. Most email programs will even make the address into an active link to the web page provided it is written in a way that is recognisable as a web address. One problem though is that email programs often wrap text after so many characters and [...]

The author of a web page controls only one thing in the page – the content. They can suggest how the page should look using CSS and suggest how it should behave using JavaScript but you as the visitor to their page can ignore those suggestions. You can define your own CSS and JavaScript to [...]

There are a number of fields that commonly appear in forms. As with all the fields in your form they need to be validated on the server once the form has been submitted. Let’s take a look at how to use PHP to validate some of the comm on fields on your forms. Form Validations

So you have your site set up with PHP code controlling access to the various HTML pages and then you realise that you have some PDF files that you want to control access to similarly. Forunately there is an easy way to do so by using PHP to read and output the PDF after performing [...]