One problem a lot of web newbies have when creating their first web pages is that while the pages display perfectly okay on their computer, the images don’t appear once they upload the pages to their site. There are about half a dozen common errors that newbies make in the way they create and load [...]

I am continually finding forum posts where web newbies are asking how to stop people from being able to view the source of their web page. The answer of course is don’t put it on the web. Any web page that is on the web no matter how you have encrytped in order to try [...]

Windows is not the most stable of operating systems and there are many different reasons why it can crash on you. In this guest article you will find several suggestions on steps to take to reduce the chance of having the operating system crash. First Steps To Fixing Computer Crashes

There is more than one way to create a flexible width web page layout using CSS. A fluid layout fits itself to the browser viewport and would reflow the content if the browser is resized. An elastic layout bases its layout on the preferred font size and reflows the content if the base font size [...]

In order to help those who find ONE of the pages on the main web site through a search engine to realise that there are lots more pages on the site that they may also find useful I have now added a “Related Articles” section to the bottom of most of the pages that will [...]

This book on web security starts by describing how each of the different web related protocols were developed independently of one another and then goes on to illustrate how this along with the way different people want to use the web leads to a range of security issues that are unlike any that occur anywhere [...]

To use most server side scripts you need a database. How you actually set up your database depends on what hosting you have. If your host only provides you with one database they may have set it up for you already. If you have to set up your own database and your hosting uses cPanel [...]

Eventually, if your web site is on the web for long enough, you will decide to move your site to a different web hosting provider either because your current provider lets you down or because your site has outgrown their service. Provided that you have your own domain name you will not need to have [...]

The minimum number of user accounts that should be defined on any computer is two. The number of accounts should always be one greater than the number of people using the computer. You should have one regular account for each user that only provides that user with the access they need for their everyday activities [...]

Some people just don’t get the point no matter how carefully you explain something. On this occassion I received a garbled query from someone who disagreed with me about how you can’t stop people viewing the source of a web page. As far as I could determine their goal was to see how effective they [...]

Working out how to divide some of your database content up into separate fields is one of the earliest steps you need to carry out in designing a database. Database Fields

One relatively small section of the “Ask Felgall” web site is the section where I have PHP scripts for sale (everything else on the site is “free”). These PHP scripts will greatly enhance the functionality of any web site that supports PHP (and for a couple of them – mySQL) in return for a very [...]