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 least 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 [...]

One of my extremely rare articles on using Excel. This one explains how to transform your spreadsheet content to make the rows into columns and the columns into rows. Swapping Rows with Columns

While it is possible to store some data in cookies to pass from one web page to another there is a limit to how much data that cookies can hold. That’s why using sessions where the cookie only needs to hold the session id is the better option. In this article we look at just [...]

Older operating systems such as Windows 98 did not require that you set up separate logins for each person. Unless you took extreme measures someone could just hit cancel on the login screen to access the computer anonymously. Where having actual logins on such an old operating system does matter is where you have it [...]

Italics is not only used for emphasis. Where content is supposed to be in italics for emphasis it is appropriate to use the <em> tag but where it has some other reason for being in italic that is inappropriate and the <i> tag is the correct one to use. When to use the <i> Tag

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 [...]

Drop down lists can allow your visitor tto select multiple entries- if you set it up that way. Here’s how to count how many entries they have currently selected using JavaScript. Counting Selected Entries in a Drop Down List

A drop down list is one of the easiest of input fields to validate in JavaScript since you already know all the values that the field can have and presumably all or all but one of them are valid. Where you need to require that visitors make a selection is the only time you would [...]

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 [...]

Sometimes when you have a rather large document, you need to be able to provide people with a summary so that they can tell whether the entire document is actually relebant to them. In Microsoft Word the Auto Summarize can create a summary for you.

The main way that people use to locate information on the web is to use a search engine. Many however do not use them properly. By typing your search query the right way you can more easily obtain the results you really want. Search Engines