Recent blog entries
Java Navigation Frames
Last month we touched on frame navigation and how to refresh multiple frames with a single mouse click.
DIY Certificates
Last month we looked at securing your Web site with usernames and passwords, and now we move on to digital IDs and certificates.
Security Matters
Let's talk security.
Domain Pain
There's been much talk in the Internet press recently about the new Top Level Domains (aka TLD's):
Domain Dilemma
John Stewart, marketing director of a video firm, emailed us to ask, 'Where should I register my domains?'
Watching The Defectives
If you look after or host Web sites for clients, there's one certainty: if the site is ever unavailable, the client will be trying to view it at exactly that time.
Art Attack
Let's leave servers aside for a moment and take a look at an issue which will affect anyone implementing a large Web site, especially if it's being created as a team effort.
Black Forrest Gateaux
To misquote Forrest Gump: 'A Web site is like a box of chocolates'. It's also like a can of black cherries, a frozen gateau or anything else on the supermarket shelf.
Do you need a website?
Do you really need a Web site? It might sound like a strange question to ask in a column dedicated to help you build Web sites, but it's obvious if you look at many of the big company sites that their owners didn't start by asking this most fundamental of questions.
Scripting
Many people are rather afraid of scripting, which is hardly surprising as it's such a vast area with a lot to understand. Before you write a script, you have to make two very important choices: which scripting language to use, and whether to run it on the server or client side.