Archive for October, 2009

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

Column Footers

While few tables have footers at the bottom of each column, the next thing in your table source after the column headings when you do have them are the footers. The reason for this is that when printing tables browsers are supposed to print the header and footer on each page and so need to [...]

Friday, October 30th, 2009

Column Headings

Having placed the basic HTML tags for our table into the (X)HTML in yesterday’s tutorial, this second tutorial looks at how we can start to add the content into the table. We start by placing the headings for the columns.
Column Headings

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Tables

There are a whole range of tags available for setting up the display of tabular data in your web page. This is the first in a series of tutorials on how to properly define semantically correct tables in your (X)HTML.
Tables

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

InfoLinks Advertising

This advertising service converts test in the content of your articles into paid per click advertisiing. The script they provide for you to use to do this is significantly smaller than those supplied by other similar advertising services.
Read more about what I think of InfoLinks Advertising.

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

NetGear ReadyNas Duo

This network attached storage device has a wide range of features and also the ability to be reconfigured as your needs grow. There were a few things in the early part of the configuration that didn’t work properly for me on the first attempt but which worked fine once I worked out the right order [...]

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Windows 7

Windows 7 was released last week. I haven’t seen it yet and don’t expect to for some time. Unless your current computer is already running Vista you can’t actually upgrade to Windows 7 but instead have to do a full reinstall of everything (something a typical computer user isn’t going to do). I expect most [...]

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Newsletter Signup

If you hadn’t previously signed up for my newsletter then you again missed out on receiving it earlier this week and now have to wait until I get around to adding the online copy. So that you don’t m iss out on next month’s issue of the newsletter why not sign up now.
Newsletter Signup

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Fixing zIndex problems

Various browsers have issues with some page elements that always display in front of everything else in the page. This mostly relates to older browser versions with the only current browser which still contains this type of problem being IE8 where some types of objects still insist on displaying in front of everything else. In [...]

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Styling Definition Lists

Changing the way a definition list displays so as to put the terms and definitions next to one another (as if it were a two column table but retaining the semantics of a definition list) inolves only a small amount of CSS.
Styling Definition Lists

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

OEM Software

Do you know what Origiinal Equipment manufacturer (OEM) versions of software are? Anyone who sell such software without selling hardware such as a computer or hard drive with it is probably breaching the licence condiitiions resulting in your ending up with paying good money for a pirated copy.
OEM Software

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Multiple Monitors

One of my rare hardware articles. This one deals with how to set up two (or more) monitors to work with the same computer.
Multiple Monitors

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Google Tools

Sometimes with reviews of online products it becomes necessary to update a review because the product has changed significantly. Thios is very much the case with Google Analytics which used to rely on Flash for all the displays and therefore provided no information whatsoever to the 25%+ of people without Flash installed.
Google Tools