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New article:
How to Use the Frame Blocking Facility (Anti-Clickjacking Defence) in Internet Explorer 8.
Internet Explorer 8 gives webmasters a new way to protect their site from being placed in a frame, and thus, hopefully, prevent clickjacking from
taking place. This article shows you how you can configure your website so that it takes advantage of IE 8's new feature.
29 June 2009
New article:
How to Add Images to Your Website in Serif WebPlus X2.
The second chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2
Tutorial Series is now online. This chapter deals with how you can add things like your website's logo, photos, product images, background images
and so on to your web page. It also introduces the concept of a stacking order to the objects on your web page. (For those who don't know,
Serif
WebPlus X2 is a point-and-click visual web editor that you can use to create a website.)
15 June 2009
New article:
How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form.
Is your mail box filled with spam sent by automated computer programs dumping junk into your feedback form? Are you tired of having to
wade through tons of ridiculous body enhancement suggestions replete with grammatical errors before arriving at your real email? This
article shows you how you can add a CAPTCHA facility to your feedback form in an easy-to-do way, to hopefully reduce the spam arriving through your
contact form. Note that this article is intended for the ordinary, non-technical webmaster, and can be implemented by anyone.
9 June 2009
The Feedback Form Script Wizard has been updated to
add the following features to the feedback form it creates: (1) The PHP feedback form script created by the wizard can now, at your option,
check to make sure that the comments/message field is not empty before submitting its contents. (Note: this is not exactly a new feature since it was
present in older versions of the script but was removed in recent versions. By popular request, the facility has now been restored
to the script.) (2) You can now make the wizard use either XHTML or HTML for the form code. If you don't know what to use, just leave
it at the default.
If you don't need the new features, you don't have to upgrade. As always, the script is free.
New Article:
What Does It Mean to Park a Domain Name? Domain Name Parking Explained.
In response to a query, this article explains what it means to park a domain name. It also covers situations where you may want to
park a domain name, and discusses why you may not want use your domain name registrar's parking services.
21 May 2009
New Article:
Serif WebPlus X2 Tutorial: How to Design Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2.
At the request of a number of visitors, I've now begun a new tutorial series.
Serif WebPlus X2
is a site builder and WYSIWYG web editor that allows you to simply drag and drop elements onto a page to create a website. This tutorial will guide
you through the steps of building a complete, fully-functional, multi-page website using the web editor.
12 May 2009
New Article:
Why Am I Still Seeing My Web Host's Default Page or a File Not Found Error Page After I've Published My Website?
This article attempts to address a problem where some webmasters publish their new websites using a web editor or an FTP program, only to find when
they visit their website, that their web browsers still show them their web host's default web page or an error page. It provides a checklist of things
to do in such a situation.
New Article:
How to Transfer / Move Your Website from GeoCities: Closure of GeoCities' Free Web Hosting.
The venerable GeoCities, born in the early days of the Internet, is closing. If your website is currently hosted there, you should start moving it to another
web host, free or otherwise. Since there are many things to attend to when moving a website, this tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how
you can move the site from GeoCities so as to preserve (as much as possible) your search engine position as well as your visitors. Don't wait too long
to get started. Some things, such as getting the search engines to recognize your new website, take a lot of time to resolve.
23 April 2009
New Article:
How to Create Hanging Indents in HTML and CSS.
A hanging indent is often used in bibliographies and probably also other places. The first line of a paragraph having
a hanging indent usually juts out to the left while the rest of the paragraph is indented. This article shows you two
methods that you can use to create such an effect using CSS and HTML.
21 April 2009
New Article:
How to Insert a Footnote or Endnote on a Web Page with Dreamweaver.
A visitor asked me some time back how he could insert a footnote or an endnote into a web page using the Dreamweaver web editor.
This article answers that question, and also deals with how you can create the special symbols associated with footnotes and put them in superscript.
At the same time, it goes further and discusses ways to improve the usability of a web page using footnotes.
New Article:
How to Make a Link Open in a New Browser Window or Tab in Dreamweaver.
In some rare instances, you may need a make a link on your website that, when clicked, opens the page being linked to in a new browser
window or tab. This article shows you how you can do this using the Dreamweaver web editor.
30 March 2009
New Article:
Can I Create Multiple Websites with One Domain Name?
This article answers a question asked by one of my visitors: whether he could create more than one website on a single domain. Since the question
betrays a certain amount of confusion about domain names and websites, this article also tries to clear up any misunderstanding about these aspects
of website creation.
24 March 2009
New Article:
How to Install MySQL on Windows Vista and Configure PHP 5 to Use It.
Learn how to install and configure MySQL and PHP 5 on Windows Vista, so that you test your scripts on your own computer before deploying it
"live" on the Internet. This way, at least, you can learn from your mistakes offline, and fix them before publishing your site on the Internet.
19 March 2009
Updated:
The popular Beginner's A-Z Guide on Starting/Creating
Your Own Website has been updated. In particular, the section on making money from your website has been augmented so that it now has
information on how to put an order form or "Buy Now" button on your site in addition to the existing tutorial on placing advertisements
and collecting credit card payments. If you're thinking of starting your own website, this guide will take you through all the steps
necessary, in an easy-to-understand way.
16 March 2009
New Article:
How to Put an Order Form or Buy Now Button on Your Website Using PayPal.
If you want to start an online shop where your visitors can buy products or services from your website, this article guides you step-by-step through
the process of setting up an order form and a "Buy Now" button. Your shop will be able to accept credit and debit card payments,
along with the other payment methods supported by PayPal.
9 March 2009
New Article:
Why is "Site | Put" Disabled or Greyed Out in Dreamweaver?
If you're using Dreamweaver to design your website, and found that you're unable to publish your web page because the "Site | Put" menu is disabled,
read this tutorial. It gives you a step by step guide to fixing the problem and re-enabling that menu item.
New Article:
How to Link Directly to a Line or Section on a Web Page with Dreamweaver.
Have you ever wanted to create a link to a specific line or section of a web page, so that when your visitor clicks on the link
they will be brought directly to that spot rather than the top of the page? This tutorial shows you how you can do that using
the WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) web editor, Dreamweaver.
13 February 2009
New Article:
How to Solve Duplicate Content Issues by Specifying a Canonical Web Address (URL).
Do you know that if the same content on your site can be accessed with different web addresses, it can potentially lead to your website performing
poorer in the search engine results than it should? Unfortunately, such "duplicate content" problems, as it is called, is common to many websites
on the Internet. This article discusses the newest way invented by Google (just announced a few hours ago) to help you solve the problem. But
you will need to act to take advantage of it.
New Article:
Preparing Your Website for Internet Explorer 8 (IE8).
The release candidate for Internet Explorer 8 has been released, with the final version just around the corner. IE8 brings substantial changes
to the way the browser deals with a website, so it wouldn't do to simply regard this as just another run-of-the-mill release of a browser.
This article deals with the implications of this release and how you can prepare your site so that it works correctly in the new version.
22 January 2009
New Article:
How to Create a Membership or Password Protected Subscription Website.
Are you thinking of creating a website where users have to sign up and log into a member's area in order to access certain content? Or are you planning
a family website that you only want family members and friends to access? This article deals with a couple of ways in which this can be accomplished.
15 January 2009
New Article:
How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website with Dreamweaver CS4.
Learn how to put a contact form on your website so that your visitors can send you email without leaving your website.
This final chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial guides you through the steps of adding a feedback form, a feedback form PHP script and
their associated web pages to your site, in an easy-to-do way. By the end of this chapter, you will have a fully functional website complete with multiple
pages, a site map, an "About Us" page and a feedback form. Creating a website has never been so easy.
12 January 2009
New Article:
How to Use Dreamweaver CS4's Templates to Manage and Auto-Update Multiple Pages on Your Website.
Don't you just hate it when you change your website's design and have to go through all your thousands of existing web pages to update
to the new look? Here's where Dreamweaver CS4's template tools come into play to automatically manage this for you in an easy, seamless fashion.
This 7th chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial series shows you how you can use the web editor's template facilities to easily create and
manage a multi-page website. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed nearly all the pages of your website.
5 January 2009
New Article:
How to Add a Navigation Menu Bar to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4.
In this 6th chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial series, find out how to add Dreamweaver's
built-in navigation menu bar widget to your website, and customize it so that it
fits your website's design. By the end of this chapter, you will have completed your home page
and have mastered most of the commonly needed skills to build a normal web page.
30 December 2008
New Article:
How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links using Dreamweaver CS4.
Learn how to make pictures and text into clickable links in this fifth chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 web editor tutorial series. This article
will also show you how you can make a clickable thumbnail picture that, when clicked, loads a larger picture, such as seen on some photo gallery sites.
New Article:
How to Change Font Typefaces, Weight, Style, Colour and Sizes in Dreamweaver CS4.
The third chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial series is now online. Learn how to change fonts, add bold and italics,
as well as change the colour and sizes of your text. This chapter also introduces Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and shows you how
you can take advantage of its facilities to style your text in Dreamweaver.
16 December 2008
New Article:
How to Add Images to Your Website in Dreamweaver CS4.
The second chapter of the Dreamweaver CS4 tutorial is now online. Learn how to add images and a site logo to your website with this
famous WYSIWYG web editor.
11 December 2008
New Article:
Why Access Keys Are Mostly Useless for Accessibility Purposes.
Access keys, we're told, improve the accessibility of a website, making it more usable for people with disabilities. I beg to differ.
Find out why I think access keys are not only useless but can even be a hindrance to such people.
