Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

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 [...]

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

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

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

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 of [...]

Monday, December 15th, 2008

“Web Security Testing Cookbook”

The advent of web applications has introduced a whole new area of programming and introduces a whole range of new security issues that need to be tested for. This new book from O’Reilly Media provides practical information on how to perform some of the needed security tests.
“Web Security Testing Cookbook”

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

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 [...]

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Page Rank

The page on your site that is the best match for a particular keyword isn’t always the page on your site that ranks the highest for that keyword. Sometimes you end up with another page on your site ranking higher.
Why is that so?
Page Rank is determined by a number of factors.

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some HTTP Codes

here 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 [...]