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Fixing the Marquee Tag

There is no such HTML tag as <marquee> and yet many browsers insist on recognising it. While you can avoid using such garbage tags in your own web pages, dealing with web pages where such garbage has been used and where your browser insists on recognising it produces a separate problem. The different browsers vary [...]

Converting a PDF into a Word Document

Converting a PDF into a Word document (provided that the PDF isn’t protected) doesn’t require any special software provided that all you are after copying is the text content and are not worried about if some of the formatting gets lost. At least that was the case back when I wrote this article. More recent [...]

I Reinstalled Windows and it Wiped Out Linux

While this old tutorial talks about reinstalling Windows 98, the same situation can occur if you have to reinstall Windows XP or Windows 7. Windows just doesn’t like to play nice with other operating systems installed onto the same computer. I Reinstalled Windows and it Wiped Out Linux a

The Difference Between Characters and Strings

Both C and C++ (as well as many of the more recent languages derived from them) distinguish between a constant containing a single character and a constant containing a string of characters. The way you quote the content does count. The Difference Between Characters and Strings a

Tags to Avoid

If you are creating a new web site these days, there is no excuse for not using a strict doctype for your page. Those tags which are proprietary or deprecated have all been replaced with a better way of achieving the same result that is better supported by more browsers either using stylesheets or JavaScript. [...]

Validating a Text Field

Without getting into the intricacies of using Regular Expressions, it is a relatively simple task to perform validations of an input field using JavaScript. In fact by not using Regular Expressions you can provide more meaningful feedback on exactly what it is that is wrong with the input. This tutorial takes you through how to [...]

“Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site”

This book introduces you to both PHP and mySQL and how to use them together to create dynamically generated web pages using relatively modern methods. “Build Your Own Database Driven Web Site” a

“Fancy Form Design”

Getting forms in your web page to look the way you want has always been one of the most difficult parts of setting up the appearance of your web page. Not any more as this book shows you exactly how to get web browsers to apply the appearance you want to the form fields. Where [...]

Copying Files with WS-FTP

My favourite FTP program is WS-FTP. While the company that created this script no longer offers a free version, the versions that they used to offer free can still be obtained. In this tutorial that I wrote several years ago I show just how simple that it is to upload files to your web hosting [...]

Non-Boolean Results

If statements in JavaScript evaluate the condition test as a boolean value. That means that it is either true or it is false. Of course of you don’t start with a boolean value or perform a comparison in order to create a boolean value then the condition will not be a boolean. When this happens [...]