Here’s some information about how domains work. You need your own domain if you want your site to look professional. Some domain registrars offer loads of extra features with the domain but you don’t need most of those if you are using the domain with web hosting. Getting A Domain Name

Often what you place inside a PHP include file is intended to be a part of the content to display in a web page and you do not want people running the file separately in order to view that page fragment by itself. Admittedly it can be unlikely for people to guess where the include [...]

One of the two things my article on basic page layout didn’t cover was where you want elements to overlay. This article describes the extra CSS you need to know in order to be able to place elements on top of one another in your page. Overlaying Objects on the Web Page

You don’t need to know very many CSS commands in order to be able to do the layout of a basic web page. Provided that you don’t need multiple elements to be the same height or width and don’t need elements overlapping one another the nine attributes covered in this article will handle all of [...]

An unusual question I was once asked is why to use case statements when writing pseudo code rather than a series of if/else statements. Case Statements

I first wrote this page back in 2001 and for most of the time since then it has been the number one result in Google for that phrase. Of course JavaScript has changed a lot since then and so I have written other versions of the page showing the alternative ways to do it (which [...]

When it comes to statistics, R is possibly one of the simplest programming languages to use (as a free download it is certainly the cheapest). The only issue then is how to learn R in order to write your statistical programs, This book is the solution. Read my review of the book “The Art of [...]

Here’s how to code things so as to keep a selected block all on one line in a standards compliant way. No Wrap

Modern browsers support the CSS that allows you to automatically number your headings so that if you ever add or remove headings the rest are automatically renumbered. Add Section Numbers to Headings

No one top level domain is best for all sites. If it were then there’d be no reason for other top level domains to exist. Which top level domain is best for a given site depends mainly on who the target audience is. Country Specific or International Domain

The location of certain files on your computer is only a secret if you don’t know where to look for them. If you don’t want someone being able to see files on your computer then deleting the files may not be enough since deleted files are only flagged for reuse and still contain their original [...]

The obvious place to start with your own web presence once you have outgrown a simple blog or group and want something more is to get yourself some web hosting where you can put your very own web pages. The best place to get this at least initially is from somewhere offering “free” hosting. This [...]