Vince Barnes

What in the URL is an index for? To visit a website you simply type in its address, www.htmlgoodies.com for example, and off you go.  The next process, which is hidden from your eye, uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to resolve that name to a server address.  Your browser now formats a request for […]

Your computer is a valuable working tool – Protect it!   Some people use their computers for little more than expensive games machines.  Others, like those who read these pages, use them to create the wonders that make up the World Wide Web.  To this latter group the computer is a valuable working tool.  They […]

XML / PHP Tutorials There may be something to these languages… XML: eXtensible Markup Language

Webmaster Tips Once your page is up, you need to tell everyone about it! So, You Want To Place A CGI, Huh?

Here’s a handy addition to your toolbox! If you want to use photos on your web site, you need to know about right-sizing them, compression, format, color depth and a variety of other technical details, or, you need to have a handy photo processing program ready to use that doesn’t require a year’s study […]

Part 2   (return to Part 1) Uploads – FTP and Telnet If you are not doing live "in situ" updates via the extensions, nor using the FrontPage style HTTP import and export, then you will need a means to upload your pages and other website files to the server after you complete them. The […]

Need tools for creating pages but don’t want to go WYSIWYG? -Read on! Essentially, there are two ways you can put web pages together. They can either be hand-coded, meaning that the writer/programmer writes out all the HTML code, JavaScript, etc. by hand, or generated, whereby a generator program of some sort is used, such […]

Is Microsoft the Big Bad Wolf, or your Best Friend? Do you ever visit Microsoft’s website?  If you don’t, you are missing out on a veritable goldmine of useful information – and other great stuff! It seems like Microsoft bashing isa popular thing to do, but I suspect that it’s because the biggest target is […]

Perhaps you’ve heard of XHTML & wondered what it’s all about. Read on!   You probably know what a markup language is:  you have a bunch of text you need a way to say that this piece should be bold, this piece should be italic, this should be a heading, and so on.  A markup […]

If you’re already familiar with HTML and would like to write XHTML, then this is for you!   Sometimes I think it’s harder to change from one learned system to another that is similar, but has it’s differences, than it is to learn a new one from scratch.  That’s because habits have formed.  "You can’t […]

If you’re going to create a new website, the first thing you’ll want is a name. This probably means a domain name. A domain name is one of those names ending with ".com", ".net", ".tv" or any one of those other suffixes. A name like this would give you something like www.yourdomain.name (".name" is one […]

It surprises me how often I hear it.  Someone has decided to get themselves a web site, whether its for business or personal, and they say but what should I put on it?  Put on it whatever you want to, I think to myself outwardly I try to be a little more helpful!  It is […]