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27-Jul-2007
Search Toolbars: A Comparison
The three search giants – Yahoo!, Windows Live Search (formally known as MSN), Google – have all, over the last few years, released their browser toolbars. They differ from one another considerably, so when reading my comparison, bear in mind the features that will be most ap...
27-Jul-2007
The Lesson of The Death of Framed Websites
The idea of html frames was originally thought up to solve navigation problems for larger websites with hundreds of pages and a lot of content. They didn't help – in fact, they created more problems ...
27-Jul-2007
A Threat to the Ubiquity of Flash?
It's hard, nowadays, to imagine the internet without Flash. For better or worse, Adobe's latest acquisition is ubiquitous online, in the form of advertisements, splash screens, animated elements an...
27-Jul-2007
Scalable Vector Graphics
Scalable vector graphics, or SVG, is an XML markup language which describes two-dimensional vector graphics or animations. Like Flash, SVG renders graphics by following mathematical instruct...
27-Jul-2007
Outlook 2007 and HTML Email
The new version of the Microsoft Office email client, Outlook 2007, has dealt a serious blow to html email designers. Outlook 2007 is the first email client to use the Microsoft Word rendering engin...
25-Jul-2007
Firefox Add-Ons
So you've decided, after reading about the benefits, to download and install Mozilla Firefox. Once you've familiarised yourself with the features of the browser, you might want to have a...
25-Jul-2007
Why Firefox?
Depending on whom you ask, Internet Explorer users make up between 60% and 80% of the market share in browser usage. You might be wondering what all the others are using. A significant proportion of those eschewing Internet Explorer have adopted Firefox, the most popular bro...
25-Jul-2007
Alternative IM Clients
MSN Messenger (or Windows Live Messenger, as it has now confusingly been renamed) springs into most people's heads when they think of instant messaging. Most people probably know that there are IM protocols other than the Microsoft-run .NET Messenger Service (colloquially kno...
25-Jul-2007
Open Source Graphics Software
Open source software is software which can be installed, modified and redistributed freely by its users. The main benefit of using open source software is that it's free, but it can also be very useful to developers, who can modify the software as they desire to fit their own...
24-Jul-2007
Open Source Software
Open source software (OSS) is that which is available under a licence that allows the public to use, change and redistribute the software freely. The definition of open source software is virtually indistinguishable from that of free software. However, both free and open sou...
24-Jul-2007
POP3, IMAP and Webmail
Email is such a vital part of everyday communication, for both business and personal use, that it can be incredibly frustrating when something gets in the way of you using it in the way you want. There are t...
23-Jul-2007
The Internet and the World Wide Web
The Internet is a global, publicly accessible network of interconnected computer networks. The networks communicate within themselves and with one another using the standard Internet Protocol (IP). The Internet carries various information and services, including email, insta...
18-Jul-2007
Outlook vs. Outlook Express – Which Should You Use?
Microsoft's email clients, Outlook Express and Outlook, may have similar names, but they are very different pieces of software and do not share all of the same functions. Outlook Express is, simply speaking,...
16-Jul-2007
The Trouble With Flash
Flash website design is extremely popular, and Flash certainly has a rightful place in site design for certain functions. However, whilst the explosion of all-Flash or Flash-"enhanced"...
13-Jul-2007
The Benefits and Disadvantages of POP3 Email
Unlike webmail, POP3 email accounts require a piece of software to read your emails. Outlook, Eudora, Thunderbird and Mail are all POP3 email clients. These programs have components which retrieve m...
12-Jul-2007
Why Do We Write in PHP
Dynamic web applications in a dynamically advancing world During the last few years, dynamic web applications have become as commonplace as cellular phones, palm-size computers and laser shows. These hitherto unimaginable things have ceased to be amazing. We have s...
11-Jul-2007
How to Choose a Web Site Designer
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost It seems that everyone from the 15-year-old child to their Grandmother is able to design a web site these days. You could also build the site yourself using a word processor or other web site program; however if you choose this route, plan...
11-Jul-2007
How to Update Your Web Site Using Server Side Includes (SSI)
Copyright 2002 Herman Drost Recently a person asked me if I could replace 125 web pages of her web site with a new drop-down navigation system. If she had to do this manually, she would have to change each page and upload it separately to the server. This would take ...
11-Jul-2007
Directories Post Big Daddy
Unless you are a webmaster or attentive to the developments in SEO there is a very real chance you do not know of "Big Daddy", but Big Daddy definitely knows about you –or at least your website. Google’s latest update is impacting directories all over the world. Desc...
11-Jul-2007
Start a Blog
Copyright © Skip Lombardi What would you think if I told you about a guaranteed method to reach 100% of your target audience? Beyond that, what would you think if I told you that you could develop a base of prospects who would look forward to hearing from you? You ca...