Thursday, June 13th, 2013

Link to a Random Page

Here we have a rather interesting example of something you can do with PHP. This page selects a random page from your site and generates a link to it. You never know when you might find a use for a PHP script that creates a Link to a Random Page.

Saturday, December 22nd, 2012

Linking/Embedding Images in HTML Emails

There are two ways to attach images into an HTML email. You can either place the image on the internet somewhere and link to it from your email or you can embed the image into the email itself. Each of these has advantages and disadvantages as this article discusses. One advantage of linked emails is [...]

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Absolute and Relative

When coding your web pages there are two ways to specify the address of other files that you want the page to reference. You can use absolute addresses that include the domain name or relative addresses that don’t. Obviously external references need to use absolute addresses but internal ones are better done using relative references. [...]

Monday, February 6th, 2012

The rel Attribute

Both <a> and <link> tags allow you to specify a “rel” attribute that defines the relationship that the file linked to has with the current page (the “rev” attribute allows you to define the reverse relationship). The standard is very specific as to what values are allowed in these attributes and what you need to [...]

Friday, September 23rd, 2011

Including Web Addresses

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 [...]

Monday, August 29th, 2011

Tables and Ids

For those of you still using tables for layout in your web pages, here’s another reason for getting rid of them – it breaks the functionality of ids in your page. One of the uses for an id is to provide a point in the page that can be linked to – unfortunately at least [...]

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Links

You can’t have much of a web without links between pages. This fifth XHTML tutorial looks at how to code your links. Links

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010

Creating a Static Link

This perhaps wasn’t the best title to give to the page since what I actually mean is a link that appears in a fixed position within the browser viewport with the page content scrolling behind it. It is actually much easier to achieve in modern browsers but this way of doing it is still needed [...]

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Adding lists and Links

More additions to my series of tutorials on using NVU. In this ninth tutorial we look at how we can update a web page to add lists and links into our content so as to break up the text and provide in content links to other pages in addition to the standard navigation built into [...]

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Link to Us

Do you find the information on felgall.com useful? Do you have your own web site? perhaps you are using one or more of the ideas discussed on my site in the web pages on your site. If you are finding the information on my site useful and using it to improve your own site then [...]