At first thought running your own internet services might seem like a good idea. After all if you do it yourself then you don’t have to pay someone else to do it. If you investigate the idea properly and look at what you actually need in order to run your own services you will find [...]

One problem facing all web site owners is how to make it possible for their legitimate visitors to contact them without ending up inundated with spam. Adding an email address into a web page no matter how you encrypt it will eventually be decrypted by the spammers and you will eventually have to discard that [...]

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 [...]

An explanation of the real purpose of why you might need to escape data in some situations. Also an explanation of how it has nothing to do with security and should not be relied on as a security measure. Escaping Data and Security

After three weeks of using all my spare time typing up content for my new JavaScript site, it now has enough content to make it useful. If you want to learn JavaScript or already know it and want to update your skills then please visit JavaScript By Example. Even if you are not interested in [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Just what is the real purpose of the doctype tag? What version of HTML do browsers really run? How does the doctype tag affect the HTML version? The answers to these questions may not be quite what you expect. Doctypes and HTML Versions

The id attribute is one of the most versatile attributes in HTML. It can be used on almost any tag in the body of your page and has a number of different uses. Uses of the “id” Attribute

Another JavaScript page (now that I am no longer placing all my JavaScript content with about.com). This demonstrates a simple two line function for Counting Words in An HTML Web Page.

While I have used variants of the suckerfish menu before, the only place I have ever provided an example was as a page dealing with the JavaScript needed in a .htc file in order that the menu will work with IE6. The alternative now that IE6 use is finally dying is to simply use links [...]