There are not too many situations where you need precise control of where line breaks appear in your web page content – poetry, addresses, and program code are three examples of where line breaks in specific positions are needed. Where you do need a line break in a specific spot (and not otherwise) you should [...]

There are lots of books aimed at beginners but not so many aimed at those who already have some experience who are looking to take the next step. This book is one of the exceptions. PHP Masters”

This book from NoStarch goes into a lot of detail on exactly how the author went about finding bugs in some very popular software. Even if you don’t fully understand all of the technical details described, the process followed still makes interesting reading. “A Bug Hunter’s Diary”

This JavaScript allows you to add a hangman game to any web page while keeping the JavaScript separate from the HTML. Hangman

Exporting data collected on your web site into a spreadsheet program is not quite as straightforward as it ought to be. Spreadsheets all use proprietary formats and outputting your data directly in that format is therefore extremely complicated. A simpler approach is to use a format that can be easily read by a spreadsheet program. [...]

There are lots of different aspects to securing your computer. You have a choice of getting half a dozen or more programs each of which protects against a specific type of threat or you can get a suite which protects against several types of threat all from the one program. Reasons to NOT Use a [...]

There is lots of misleading information around regarding JavaScript and what is being done with it. Of course there are also lots of people who are not using it properly in their pages too. Why disable Javascript?

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 [...]

There’s one option that I have needed on a few occasions that I have not found provided by any security software – the ability to revert back to the prior version of the software without having to reinstall. This is a far more essential feature for security software that might update itself several times a [...]

One way in which browsers make it less likely that you will switch across from your current browser is when the browser you are considering will not import the bookmarks from your existing browser. Well now you can switch between any of the popular browsers even where the new browser you choose doesn’t really want [...]

Here is a really simple ubobtrusive JavaScript that you can use to give your web pages one of four different backgrounds depending on the time of year. Simply assign separate images for summer, autumn, winter, and spring and tell the script whether you are in the southern or northern hemisphere and it will automatically select [...]

An uninstall of a program can fail if one or more of the files belonging to that program has been corrupted in some way since you installed it. There is a very simple fix for this. Uninstall Fails