Saturday, May 4th, 2013

Search Engines

The main way that people use to locate information on the web is to use a search engine. Many however do not use them properly. By typing your search query the right way you can more easily obtain the results you really want. Search Engines

Sunday, March 17th, 2013

Copyright and the Web

Many people mistakenly believe that the material they find on the web is not covered by copyright. In fact the same copyright laws exist on the web as exist elsewhere. The only differences are that it is easier for someone to copy something from the web and also easier for the owner to track down [...]

Sunday, March 10th, 2013

Breach of Privacy

Word documents are the absolute last format that anyone should ever consider uploading to the web because what is visible in the document is usually not all that the document contains.A knowledgeable person can extract past copies of the content out of the document and find out things you didn’t want them to know. Breach [...]

Sunday, February 3rd, 2013

Why Web Sites Display Advertising

Few people actually like seeing advertising on web pages so why are there ads displayed on so many pages? Well the thing is that the cost of creating and maintaining the pages needs to be paid by someone and the alternative ways by which it can be paid for are not necessarily ones that people [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

What Time is it?

Things can get very complicated when it comes to working out the current time in connection with things on the internet such as web pages and emails. There is the current time where you are. There is the time where the server is where a web page is hosted. There is the time at the [...]

Friday, November 2nd, 2012

Web Without a Mouse

You don’t need a mouse to be able to interact with web pages when using a web browser on your computer. The browsers supply a whole range of alternative ways to do the things that most people do with a mouse. That’s one reason why the JavaScript some people try to use to stop people [...]

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Some HTTP Codes

There are lots of different error codes defined to cover the various possible problems hat can occur with displaying web pages in a web browser. Some of these occur fairly often (such as page not found) while there are others you will probably never see. Web sites may have a custom page defined to display [...]

Sunday, September 9th, 2012

The Web Would Not Exist Without Standards

I have seen people talking about how standards are holding back what can be done on the web. They are of course wrong in arguing that since without standards the web wouldn’t be anywhere near as advanced as it is today – if it existed at all since without standards there’d be no web. The [...]

Saturday, September 8th, 2012

New to Web Site Building

Everyone has to start somewhere and the best place to start with creating a web presence is with a blog or similar setup where you just need to plug in your content. To be able to take full advantage of the web though you’ll need to learn the languages that it uses. New to Web [...]

Friday, June 8th, 2012

The Web is Not Print

Despite the web having been around for a long time there are still a lot of people who are creating web pages who just seem to have no comprehension of how the web works. I lost track long ago of how many people ask what width to design their pages for. The obvious reply for [...]

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Web Standards

Considering how many sites still use HTML 3.2 and how long it was between the introduction of that standard and it being practical to use it will be a very long time before all sites use HTML5 (if they ever do). Web Standards

Monday, December 26th, 2011

“The Tangled Web”

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 [...]