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.
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.ebay.com) was kept out of action for around 22 hours, allegedly due to technical difficulties.
Fast Serve
As well as total failure, your armoury of useful tools should be able to address performance issues too.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just a passing phrase
The buzzword of the past few months has been 'portal'. Every site seems to either proclaim itself as a portal or that it intends to become one.
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.
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.