Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Counting Lost Visitors

How many people who reach your web page leave again before the page even finishes loading? To find out you need a way of counting both how many people start downloading your page and also how many people finish downloading the page. You are never going to be able to obtain complete figures for this [...]

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Validate Your Code

Ensuring that the code that you write for your HTML and style sheet code complies with the standards is extremely important if you want to ensure that your page will display correctly in all browsers and be usable to those who for one reason or another do not use the same browser as you prefer [...]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

Linking to Downloadable Files

There are a couple of ways that files can be offered for download from a web site. The simplest way is to offer the download using a compressed format that not only ensures that the browser will download it rather than display it but which also makes the download as small as possible.
Linking to Downloadable [...]

Monday, August 4th, 2008

The Ultimate HTML Reference

After reviewing “The Ultimate CSS Reference” I had high expectations of this book. Unfortunately this book failed to live up to those expectations as my review explains.
The Ultimate HTML Reference

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

Changing Stylesheet Attributes

The attributes set in your style sheet completely over ride any of the old deprecated HTML attributes that used to serve the same purpose. This means that if you define your page appearance properly then attempting to reference the deprecated HTML attributes from your JavaScript will have no effect.
Changing Stylesheet Attributes

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

Dynamic Text Boxes

HTML doesn’t contain a single element combo box. To get the equivalent of a combo box in a web page you need to somehow combine a drop down list and an input field.
One way to do this is to provide an extra option in the drop down list that will make a separate input field [...]

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Common HTML Content

The easiest way to add common content to all your web pages is to place that content into a separate file to be included into all the HTML pages before the pages are sent to the browser. How you do this depends on which server side languages you have available on your web server. In [...]

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

Partial Protection of Images

There is nothing that you can do in the HTML, stylesheet, or JavaScript that will protect the images on your web site from being stolen. The best form of protection is to either place a watermark in the image itself or to embed the image into a PDF with associated text that indicates the copyright. [...]