Journal

Articles From 2001

Dating Game

One of the biggest hassles for any programmer in any language is working with date formats. […]

Posted: 1 July 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Pros and Cons of Form Filling

A frequent query in the various scripting newsgroups concerns how to handle forms that are split over multiple pages. […]

Posted: 1 July 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

PHP Query

Gary from Leatherhead emailed to say that he's an ASP programmer trying to learn PHP, and has run into a couple of problems with the equals sign. […]

Posted: 1 July 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Scripting - Part 2

Last month we looked at Perl, the oldest Web scripting language, and Visual Basic Active Server Pages, one of the most common. […]

Posted: 1 June 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Research on research

For those who spend their days, and often evenings, working on heavyweight Web projects, it becomes very easy to fall into the trap of becoming, well, an expert, especially if you work as part of a large team or visit on-line Web developer communities. […]

Posted: 1 June 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles

We are all going mad

Recently, an interesting email turned up from the folks who run mad. […]

Posted: 1 April 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Scripting - Part 1

Welcome to a brand-new Real World column that isn't really new at all. […]

Posted: 1 April 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Web Designer Books

Paul spotted a question on a new media mailing list which asked, 'Can anyone recommend an absolute beginners' guide to Web site design type of book?' Paul's advice was that if you want to become a great Web designer, then forget Web books for a while and first go out and read some general design books - books like Design for the Real World by Victor Papanek. […]

Posted: 1 April 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles

To Frame or not

'Should I use frames on my site?' A common question, and one where the answers usually range from 'You should never use frames,' through to, 'I quite like frames, actually'. […]

Posted: 1 April 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Forums

A few months ago we explained how to add a newsfeed to your site to keep it fresh. […]

Posted: 1 March 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Splish Splash

The other day, a friend asked for advice on how to set a time-out on the splash page on his site. […]

Posted: 1 February 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Email slaves

There was a time, and it wasn't that long ago, when the average chief technical officer (CTO) spent his mornings reading emails, lunchtimes 'doing lunch' and the afternoons reading emails that had arrived during lunch. […]

Posted: 1 January 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical

Setting up Home

Dave from Glasgow emailed to ask if there was some JavaScript which he could use to enable visitors to set his site as their home page. […]

Posted: 1 January 2001 | Filed under: Press Articles, Technical