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Taking HTML Further.
HTML might seem like a simple language for web documents, and to an extent, it is that's what it was intended to be. If you know what you're doing, though, you can do a lot more with HTML than you might think. This article should give you a few ideas on how to take…
Taking HTML Further with Javascript.
Once you've built your HTML pages, you might need them to do something a little more interactive on the client-side (that is, in the visitor's web browser). How can you do that? Javascript is the answer. How Does Javascript Work? To add Javascript to your HTML, you…
Rare Books
My uncle is a rare book collector and has some amazing books. I totally dig anything that is before my time and rare books are totally fascinating. For one they are usually filled with great illustrations and two they usually have great typography. They are a windows…
Some Places to Go For More Information.
If you feel like you know quite a bit about web design now, but youd really like to explore the details a bit more, then this is the article for you. As web designers are, by their nature, very likely to be web users and website owners, theres a wealth of information…
Setting up a Test Server on Your Own Computer.
When you're developing a website, you need to see it in action on a real server, to see how it will work. While you could upload your pages to your web host every time you make a change, this quickly gets time-consuming and tiresome. Wouldn't it be great if you could…
Setting Up a Mailing List.
If you want people to come to your website more than once then you need to remind them, from time to time, that you exist and give them the latest news about what's changed and what's been updated. One of the best ways to do this is to collect email addresses and use…
Registering Your Users by Stealth.
One of the best ways to collect information about your visitors and let them interact with your website is to register them that is, give them a password they can identify themselves with next time they visit. Unfortunately, people are sick of going through…
Python and Ruby: the Newer Alternatives.
Thanks to the nature of open source, almost anyone can write a programming language and get a significant number of people to use it: and plenty of people have. Two of the newest and fastest-growing players when it comes to open source web languages are Python and…
Printing and Sending: the Two Things Users Want to Do.
There's something you have to realise about the way users interact with articles. To put it simply, they don't just want to read them: they also want to print them out, and send them on to their friends, family and colleagues. If you can make it easier for them to do…