Joe Burns

…use these to jump around or read it all [Headers] [The Server Response Codes]      Ah, the dreaded error message. There you were surfing along just fine when all of a sudden you get that horrible white screen with the big number up in the corner.      Most of you know the 404 error. That means the […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [What Do You Want to Print?] [How Do You Want It To Print?] [Get That Format] [A Color Rule] [Typography Concerns] [Page Breaks] This is an extremely popular thing to have these days. Many of my favorite Websites, including all the great sites owned by Earthweb […]

When writing a WWW page you want to have as much flexibility as possible in placing characters. If you have read my tutorial on & Commands, then you know you can create characters not found on the normal keyboard using an & and a ; with a small command between them. Well, you can also […]

…use these to jump around or read it all [Adobe Cheap] [txt2pdf.cgi] [Win2PDF] [Ghostview And Ghostscript] One of the questions I get a lot at HTML Goodies is how one goes about making an AdobeAcrobat PDF (Portable Document File) document for downloading. I think most everyone has the Adobe Acrobat PRD reader. That’s a free […]

What in the world is an “&” command?      Ampersand commands (“&” is pronounced “ampersand”) are quite useful, especially to me. I use them all over these HTML tutorials to create the characters not found on the keyboard or to make command characters show up on the page. What I Mean      Let’s say you want a […]

Cross-Platform Tips for HTML Artists      Ever since the advent of the browser wars, I have been inundated with questions about how one Web page can look so different on Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (and now Opera and others). This question never seemed to go away: How do I get my pages to look and […]

Use these bookmarks to jump around the tutorial: [What is a SELECT statement?] [What is an FROM clause?] [What is a WHERE clause?] [What’s Next?] Now we have tables with stuff in them. The next logical step is getting stuff back out. In this lesson you will learn about the most used statement in SQL, […]

Use these bookmarks to jump around the tutorial: [What is an INSERT statement?] [What is an UPDATE statement?] [Is that all there is to it?] [Database FAQs] [What’s Next?] Alright, we’re making some progress now. You have a database and you’ve created some tables. What about putting some data into the tables? What is an […]

Use these bookmarks to jump around the tutorial: [What Are Aggregate Functions?] [What’s So Great About DISTINCT?] [How do I Delete Stuff?] [What’s Next?] Now for some more functions that will help you get the data you want out of the database. And finally, we will live dangerously and start deleting stuff. What Are Aggregate […]

…use these to jump around or read it all [How FTP Works] [ASCII] [Binary] [An Example] [Rule of Thumb] [Why Not Send Everything as Binary?][Finally]      FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It’s the concept of moving a file from your storage space to your server so others can look at it. This is one of […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [Registering Pages, What’s That?] [How It’s Done] [Registering At Each Page] [What Are The Questions?] [Registering Many Pages At Once]      Why This Tutorial? Didn’t you sort of cover this in a few other places? Yes. I cover registering pages a bit in the META and the […]

…use these to jump around or read it all [Putting A Site Together