Vince Barnes

You are probably familiar with cookies from your time with our HTML tutorials (or from your experience with HTML), but just to recap, cookies are pieces of data that are stored as simple little text files in the site visitor’s computer, and allow the site server to keep track of what a visitor is doing […]

Is Microsoft’s FrontPage really a Tool for a Serious Developer?. Many of the old school web developers grew up using the like of Notepad or other simple text editors to create their web pages.  They would remember all the tags and manually code them in where they were needed.  They still do this today.  There […]

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DNS always seems to be popping its head up when you try to do something on the Internet. That’s fine if you understand it, but if you don’t, what are you supposed to do? The answer to that question is "read this article!" This little piece is here to provide you with a basic understanding […]

Your Anti-Virus is in place. It’s bang up to date. You’re all set, right? Not at all — read on!   Having an up-to-date anti-virus program in place is the first and most basic line of defense in your computer.  Without it, your computer will sooner or later be contaminated with virus software.  The resulting […]

Is someone — or something watching you? Continued from Part One So what should you do about it? First, you need to decide if it’s important to you.  It may be that your web use habits are such that it would not matter to you if somebody gathered information about it.  Since you are an […]

Are you certain that the site you are looking at is what it appears to be?  Is it coming from the company it claims to? The Crime You click a link on a page or in an email you have received.  And why not?  The email is from the bank, it has their familiar logo […]

Is there always a need for anti-virus software? Under which circumstances do you really need it,  and under which is it not really necessary? Mary’s Dilemma My good friend Mary called me the other day. "My computer is running so slowly," she complained, "and it really shouldn’t — it’s a five month old P4 2.8Ghz […]

Is someone — or something watching you?   Perhaps you’ve heard about spyware and wondered what exactly it is or whether or not it is something about which you should be concerned.  In my humble opinion, every web surfer should be at least concerned enough to find out what it is and then decide for […]

These are the three most important rules for protecting your data   Imagine if you will, all the thought that goes into a website; then the work involved in it’s actual creation; the care with which its various elements are interconnected; and the pride with which it is placed onto a web server and published […]

What are your considerations concerning the Operating System your potential hosting service uses? If you happen to be running your own server system, you would not have to consider what operating system to use for hosting your websites. That decision would already have been made. Part of that decision making process may, however, have involved […]

What exactly is the difference? A look at the "Under-Side" of the World Wide Web. (continued from Part 1) When you register a domain name you register something like "mydomain.com". While this is commonly referred to as a "domain name" it is actually made up of two distinct parts, separated by a period. To break […]