This isn’t just a matter of “do what I say and not what I do”. Any web sites I create now will be written exactly the way that I say that the HTML and CSS should be written. The sites where the code in the pages doesn’t match what the content says you should do [...]

A common question I see asked by web newbies is what screen resolution that they should design their web pages for. You can tell that they are newbies because anyone with any experience of the web knows that screen resolution is irrelevant and that it is the area in the browser that the page displays [...]

Do you backup your computer? You should. Here are a number of reasons why you need to backup as well as information on what to backup. Backups

To ensure your computer remains secure you should have one login per user with just the access that is required for day to day use and one login with admin access to use for those one off tasks that actually require full access. Most of the time you will not even need to log in [...]

These two PHP functions are very similar in what they do. They are also ones that many PHP newbies misuse by running them earlier in their processing than is appropriate. These functions are ones you want to run last when creating HTML. htmlentities and htmlspecialchars

PHP now has a filtering option as a part of the language. Two of the things that the filter can do is to validate common data types or alternatively to sanitise the data. Sanitising data allows you to strip out totally invalid characters from a field without validating it. Sanitising Data

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 [...]

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 [...]

Another script that is a bit difference. The script provides a very basic guestbook without much in the way of fancy features but overlaid on top of it is a guestmap facility where a map of the world is displayed allowing your visitors to make their mark on the map along with adding their comment [...]

Some people claim that this is the solution to avoiding having the same form submitted twice. It does reduce the chances of it happening and removes warning messages in Internet Explorer but doesn’t stop someone deliberately double submitting. To resolve all double submit issues requires a different solution which can be applied alongside Post – [...]

PHP provides a really simple way to randomly select two or more elements from a list and display them in appropriate spots within a web page without the same element appearing more than once. Here’s how to set up a Random Ad Display.

Developers are not usually database experts and where there isn’t a DBA associated with the team to correct all the “mistakes” that are made in connection with the database you can end up with something inefficient or worse. This book covers many of the common mistakes that developers can make and provides solutions to them. [...]