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Excerpted from Chapter 2, JavaScript 2nd Edition: A Practical Guide To Interactive Web Pages from No Starch Press With JavaScript you can update the content on your pages automatically–every day, every hour, or every second. In this chapter, I’ll focus on a simple script that automatically changes the date on your web page. Along the […]

Before You Begin Whenever you are doing something new, I assume you know the following: How to make a simple web page Have access to at least a plain text editor like NotePad or other plain text editor Have patience if you are a newbie. Have even more patience if you are an expert With […]

Yeah, but what I really want to do is direct… 1/29/01 – 2/4/01 Presented 7/2000 Presented 3/2000       The Galaxy’s Okay, enough gawking.

Database Abstraction and Atomic Operations and Classes Explored By Justin Vincent The Lazy Sod Maybe it’s just me, but after building database driven websites in PHP for the past six years I am starting to get more than a little tired of repeating myself. What I mean to say is… how many times, on how […]

“No, sorry, we can’t print that, the resolution’s way too low. It’s only 72 ppi and we print at 100% dpi. And if we try to bring the resolution up, your picture will be way too small.” Oh dear. If you want to get your precious screenshot/Web-graphic into print, you’ve now got about twenty minutes […]

written by Aaron Prenot The Start menu is hierarchal, and since Web sites often have a similar hierarchal arrangement of pages, they suit cascading navigation menus very well. Here is a script that will allow you to create cascading menus in Internet Explorer 4.0 and above, and can be adapted for your own use without […]

originally written by Benoît Marchal XML concentrates on the structure of the information in a file and not its appearance. To view XML documents we need to format or style them. In practice, this often means converting the XML document to HTML. Here we’ll concentrate on XSLT, a subset of XSL. XSLT is a language […]

written by Jon Perry JavaScript came out at the same time that the Microsoft Script language, VBScript, did, and allows flexible and more powerful Web sites to be designed. There is very little actual difference in programming power between JavaScript and VBScript, but I have written these articles for JavaScript. I suppose that at a […]

written by Bruce Morris It would be easy to say here that the client usually knows what they want but just has trouble putting it into writing. Quite often the client has little idea what they want or need. Sometimes clients are aware of their lack of clear vision and often they think they know […]

written by Jon Perry Object Properties We can extend the basic variable into a very useful and well-used concept, the object. A computer object is a representation of a real-life object. We briefly looked at objects in Part 1. We can create objects as a container for related variables. Variables of an object are called […]

written by Bob Browning The Internet is a different sales medium with some direct sales and some retail characteristics. Marketers will have to learn new skills and attitudes to be successful. Any e-commerce solution needs to be functional and secure. Planning is vital, and other papers in this series discuss the business and technical issues […]

written by Charlie Morris No, this is not the same as my previous article, How to Build Lame Web Sites. That one was about general Web site-building mistakes, which are made by highly-paid professionals as often as by clueless newbies. This article focuses on design gaffes made innocently by beginners who simply don’t know any […]