Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

Web Editors

There are thousands of different web editors available for you to use on your own computer to create your web pages. The following is a small selection (including some that are free downloads) and most of these are available for both Windows and Mac (and in some cases Linux as well).

Tuesday, December 11th, 2007

CSS - To Hack or Not to Hack

Back in the early days of stylesheets support for the various commands varied somewhat between browsers. Quite a number of browsers also had quirks where they misinterpreted stylesheet commands either ignoring an invalid character and processing a command that ought to be ignored or by not recognising a valid character and so not processing a [...]

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Fixing the IE Double Margin Bug

One rather annoying aspect of Internet Explorer is the way that it mishandles a number of stylesheet commands. Most of these are corrected by placing a valid doctype statement as the first entry in your page source as IE also misuses that statement to determine whether to use “satandards” mode or “quirks” mode in interpreting [...]

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Browsers and Email

Not everyone wants to create their own web site. For those who don’t but who still want to use the web, there is a section on my site which deals specifically with browsers and email programs and how to configure and use them.
Some of the information applies to all browsers while other information in this [...]

Friday, November 16th, 2007

CSS Reference

The Cascading StyleSheet reference pages are a much more recent addition to the site than the XHTML pages were since fewer browsers supported CSS at the time I started the site. Now of course all browsers with the exception of Internet Explorer fully support CSS 2.0 or 2.1 (and IE7 supports most of CSS 2.1 [...]

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Internet Explorer 7

For those of you who insist on using Internet Explorer rather than a modern web browser and who are running Windows XP, there is no longer any reason to continue to use Internet Explorer 6 with its 600+ security holes.
Internet Explorer 7 was released about a year ago but the install process insisted on your [...]