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How to Make Your Web Pages Dynamic!

Posted on 8/14/2010 by

Many times we need to make our web pages dynamic on the client side of things. In other words, we need to do something dynamically on the browser side of things – your local computer – instead of at the server side. For instance, if I enter something in a form, I have to submit the form, wait for the php code to check to see if what I entered is correct and then send me the results. If my browser were somehow able to check what I entered before it sends it to the website, it could speed things up considerably.

This is where Javascript comes in. Javascript is a scripting language that works inside your browser instead of inside the web server software like PHP. Javascript allows me to send instructions to your browser through the website code. Javascript is responsible for some of the basic animation that you see on web pages such as drop down menus, pop-up boxes, and buttons that change when you move your mouse over them. Continue reading →

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How to Make Your Websites Interactive

Posted on 8/12/2010 by

As web development evolved, websites not only became better looking, but they also became more functional and interactive. More and more forms were being added so that not only could you find information, but you could send information as well. You didn’t just ‘read’ a website anymore, you could communicate with it. These new technologies opened the doors for shopping carts and ecommerce.

This interactivity required more than just HTML (structure) and CSS (style). Now, we needed languages that could make our pages more dynamic by adding in real time information or more interactive by processing and responding to the information that we could now enter into the forms. Continue reading →

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How to Add Style to Your Web Site

Posted on 8/9/2010 by

CSS CodeWhen websites first began, HTML (HyperText Markup Language) was generally enough. It allowed us to make our online documents more readable. We could even format the documents to some degree. (If you want to know more about HTML and how it began, see my earlier post – How Websites Started.)

Enter cascading style sheets, or CSS for short. Cascading style sheets allow us to separate the structure of the document (HTML) from the look or ‘skin’ of the document (CSS). This allows designers to build better looking websites. Since CSS arrived on the scene, more, better graphics began to show up online. Websites were not only readable, but they were also becoming pretty. Continue reading →

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Is Someone Stealing Your Bandwidth?

Posted on 8/3/2010 by

I’ve been noticing lately that a lot of strange, unrelated sites have been showing up in my web stats as links from an external page. Many of the URL’s look like some of the same spam mail I get in my inbox.

Upon visiting these strange sites, I found pictures that I had posted on my blog. I then realized that these folks were not copying and pasting my image, which is bad enough, but worse, they are just linking to the image in my blog. This is not only stealing, but it’s using MY bandwidth. So, I had to remedy the problem and I thought you might be interested as well. Continue reading →

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How Websites and the Internet Work

Posted on 7/30/2010 by

I want to give a very basic explanation of how websites and the internet work. I don’t want to get too technical but it does help to have a basic understanding before you build a website. Continue reading →

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