I am continuing on with looking at the older pages on the site and making sure that the information is up to date. In many cases especially with the shorter pages I am trying to also add in more information. With regard to the alert and confirm built in dialogs in JavaScript it is no [...]

I have now added a new help desk linked from each of my main sites that provides an alternative way for people to ask for help with their computer problems. New Help Desk Note that I didn’t write the code that runs the help desk. It is currently being sold at such a small fraction [...]

The eighth tutorial about coding tables in XHTML covers how to use the <colgroup> and <col> tags to attach styles to the columns. Styling Columns

The table cells you want to merge are not always next to one another. Here’s how to merge them when they are one above the other. Merging Rows

The sixth tables tutorial looks at how to merge two cells into one when the cells are next to one another. Merging Columns

There is now only one document object model that you need concern yourself with when it comes to interacting with the HTML from JavaScript. Back when I first wrote about the DOM there were three as two browsers had proprietary versions. I have therefore introduced new material into the top of the Which DOM to [...]

How you can attach JavaScript hasn’t changed since I first wrote about it. What has changed though is which of the ways to attach it is best and where in the page to attach it is most appropriate are now completely different than they were back when Netscape 4 was still in use and 3/4 [...]

I have decided to start reviewing the content of a lot of the pages on the site so as to update those that are either outdated or where I think the wording on the page can be improved. Since JavaScript has changed significantly since I first started writing that section back in 2000 I decided [...]

I don’t have an iPod but my son does and he’s using it almost constantly when he’s at home. So I thought that getting him to review this book for me was both a way to introduce him to writing book reviews and also to be able to provide a review of a book that [...]

Returning to the tables tutorials we last looked at on Sunday. When adding a table to your web page you will often need to give each row a heading to identify the relationship between the entries. Row Headings

With the column headings and footers in place the next step in creating a table is to add the content. Table Content

While few tables have footers at the bottom of each column, the next thing in your table source after the column headings when you do have them are the footers. The reason for this is that when printing tables browsers are supposed to print the header and footer on each page and so need to [...]