Journal

Articles From 1999

Saving your Intranet

As promised last month, here's the second half of our advice on how to stop your company intranet becoming like an expensive kitchen gadget - fun at first, but then after while it just sits there with no-one using it. […]

Posted: 1 December 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles

When sites go bad

As we write this column, news has just come in about how the giant US-based on-line auction site, eBay (www. […]

Posted: 1 October 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Fast Serve

As well as total failure, your armoury of useful tools should be able to address performance issues too. […]

Posted: 1 October 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Speed Scripting

Barry Nile emailed us to say that he had recently upgraded his Web site, adding some of the ASP database techniques that we showed a few months ago, but now his site is a lot slower. […]

Posted: 1 September 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Site Research

Would you buy a house without first having a full structural survey done? Probably not - unfortunately Paul once did exactly this and he still has the dry rot to prove it. […]

Posted: 1 September 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

An inexact science

While we're on the subject of hits and page impressions, we've pointed out before that many of the tools used for analysing server log files are, how shall we put this politely, somewhat suspect in quality. […]

Posted: 1 July 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Web Databases

Time and time again we get asked 'How do I connect my Web site to a database?', and like most good questions there's no single correct answer. […]

Posted: 1 June 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Just a passing phrase

The buzzword of the past few months has been 'portal'. […]

Posted: 1 June 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles

You shall go to the web

A lot of companies have plenty of content suitable for a Web site, and many know they really should publish this content on-line but don't have the resources to do it. […]

Posted: 1 May 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles

Jumping Java Jive

Reader David Netter writes: 'I use a dropdown list for site navigation, but at the moment it requires the user to select a page and then press a Go! button. […]

Posted: 1 May 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Second Line, Second ISP?

If you host your Web sites in-house, it's a certain bet that at some stage your leased line will start to fill up and need to be upgraded. […]

Posted: 1 April 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Java Navigation Frames

Last month we touched on frame navigation and how to refresh multiple frames with a single mouse click. […]

Posted: 1 January 1999 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical