Joe Burns

Use these to jump around or read it all… [You Must Be Able To…] [Making a Directory For The CGI] [Grab the CGI] [Altering the Script For Your Server] [Absolute Path] [Turn On The CGI Directory] [The HTML Directory] [The BBS.html Page]     People have been writing to me for a while now asking how they can […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [Background Colors] [Backgrounds Behind Words] [Background Text Images] [Full and Partial Page Backgrounds] [Background-Repeat] [Positioning a Background: The Watermark] [Fix It] Note: this article has been updated by HTMLGoodies staff in June of 2006. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you’ve […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [My Poll] [The Parts] [My Assumptions] [The HTML File] [The CGI Script] [Get It On the Server] [Alter the Script]      This tutorial is a topic that people have been asking for, for some time. You, the surfer, log into a page and there’s a small poll […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [What You Have To Be Able To Do] [Section 1: A Place for the CGI] [Making the CGI Directory] [Section 2: The CGI and its HTML Document Buddy] [Altering the HTML Document] [Altering the CGI Script] [Section 3: Send Them to Your Server] [Section 4: “Turn […]

Ah, the cursor. Some like the pointing finger, some like that I-beam-looking thing, and others try to lose the cursor altogether. Whatever your cup of tea, CSS version 2.0 is trying to help. Internet Explorer 4.0 has supported these commands as of 1/17/98. I’m sure Navigator won’t be too far behind.     Seventeen different cursor properties have […]

…use these to jump around or read it all [The Main Document Scrollbar] [The Textarea Scrollbar] [The Scroll Color Commands] So. Do you like my scrollbar? I’ve found that most users don’t like scrollbars all that much. Most would rather click and go from page to page, but scrollbars are part of the Web and […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [Fade Text Out] [Break Down the Code] [Fade Back In] [More Than One on a Page] [But I Hate Buttons!] [Start Invisible and Fade Up] You might have already read about the MSIE text filters available through version 5 (and above, as there will be more […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [The Voice] [Spatial Settings] [Speak It!] At the time of this writing (12/13/01), the CSS commands and properties included within this tutorial aren’t supported by any browser. In fact, the concept of Aural Style Sheets (ACSS) is little more than a section of the CSS recommendation […]

First things first: This tutorial is an updated version of my original style sheet tutorial. Style Sheets, A.K.A.: Cascading Style Sheets, A.K.A.: CSS, are becoming more popular now that they are cross-browser models thanks to Netscape’s version 4.x including the commands. This is a general overview of Style Sheets. You’ll find more specific Style Sheet […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [Page Break] [The Format] [Setting A Specific Page Break] I get a lot of questions asking if there are ways to “force” people’s browsers to do certain things. The events most often asked for are to force a browser to bookmark the page, to set user […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [The Parts] [The Script] [The Code]      I can usually tell where my readers are surfing. The reason is that often I’ll get a letter asking how another site did something spectacular. The latest thing everyone wants is a dual image flip like the one put up […]

Use these to jump around or read it all… [List-Style-Image] [List-Style-Position] [List-Style-Type] [List-Style]      Those of you who are list-happy HTML authors know you have the ability to change the bullets and numbers that create those lovely and lists. But with HTML alone, you’re pretty locked in once you make a decision to use […]