Joe Burns

The non-dithering color codes by Lynda Weinman. Used with permission. Huh? Dithering? What?      As if there isn’t enough to be concerned about in terms of colors – here’s one more little deal. This is a chart of 216 “non-dithering” colors. In layman’s terms, these colors will look like the color you ask for on all […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [The Table Structure] [The Corner Images] [They’re Not All Images] [Making The Images] One of the knocks against HTML is that it’s blocky. Designs are too squared off. This is especially true of tables. They are always four-sided with nice, sharp corners. Lately though, I am […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [The Style Sheet Block] [The JavaScript] [The Links] [One More Thing]      Oh man, do people want this. The Goodies e-mail box has been pretty full lately asking how to change the color of a hypertext link when the mouse passes over. Before the advent of DHTML, […]

How many times have you wanted to add a specific color to your style sheet or table, but didn’t know the hex code? Finally, you can see the colors and their respective color codes below, along with the names of those colors. You can use either the name, or the hex color code. For an […]

For an explanation of Hex Codes, click here. Also… see the list of Non-Dithering Colors. Please note:“Aqua” and “Cyan” produce the same color: 00FFFF “Fuchsia” and “Magenta” produce the same color: FF00FF AliceblueF0F8FFAntiquewhiteFAEBD7Aqua00FFFF Aquamarine7FFFD4 AzureF0FFFF BeigeF5F5DC BisqueFFE4C4 Black000000 BlanchedalmondFFEBCD Blue0000FF Blueviolet8A2BE2 BrownA52A2A BurlywoodDEB887 Cadetblue5F9EA0 Chartreuse7FFF00 ChocolateD2691E CoralFF7F50 Cornflowerblue6495ED CornsilkFFF8DC CrimsonDC143C Cyan00FFFF Darkblue00008B Darkcyan008B8B DarkgoldenrodB8860B DarkgrayA9A9A9 […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [The Tags] [Use A Table Too] There are a lot of commands that are proprietary to Internet Explorer. The two I’ll discuss here fall under that umbrella. But, unlike many of those proprietary commands, these, because of placement, are basically ignored by Netscape browsers. They are […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… The Command in Action Focus onLoad Lose the VALUE Text As the Web gets bigger and bigger, the browsers become smarter and the commands get more and more complex. After one of my previous DHTML tutorials, I received a letter from a reader who asked why […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [A Simple Color Table] [Changing Text Color, Too]      I should point out that this tutorial will not get into the creation of the table itself, only changing the background and text color. To read up on how to make a table, see the Table tutorial. A […]

Frames Tutorials Split your screen up to your heart’s content. So, You Want A Frame, Huh?

Use these to jump around or read it all… [A Basic Guestbook] [The Program That Made It] [Simple Mailto: Guestbooks] [Mailto: Downfalls] [Augmenting Your Guestbook Output] [Guestbooks With CGIs] [Attaching Email Output To A CGI] [Guestbooks With Virtual Pages] [Guestbook CGIs] [One More Option (ASP)]

[Editors’s Note: IE Version 6+ and equivalent browsers no longer support “Mailto:” forms as described in this tutorial.  The value of the tutorial remains, however, as far as creating forms.  Please see this article for an update on how to handle the form.] Good idea. It really looks professional when you allow Net surfers to […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [Set It Up That denotes the domain and directory to be searched. For instance, your site is http://www.dogbreath.com/users/~joe. You would set up the line to read: Notice the slash following the last directory, at the end of the URL. […]