Several potentially serious new exploits have been patched with Mozilla Thunderbird. Make sure that you update to version 2.0.0.17 as soon as possible. The new fixes cover both PC and Mac versions.
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There are times when you want the printed output from a web page to look different that the way the page is displayed on a computer screen. This is particularly useful with blogs and web sites that provide information that users may want to print and file away for later use or for late night reading. I am amazed at the number of major web sites whose pages cannot be printed properly because the content either doesn’t fit on the page, or is cluttered with ads and menus that have no useful purpose on a printed page. CSS can come to the rescue with an external style sheet designed to format printed output.
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We just released an updated version of our popular free MySQL Cheat Sheet, which is a very useful reference resource for any programmer who works with the MySQL database or PHP.
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CSS shortcuts combine cascading style sheets rules into one efficient line of code. If your web site uses large stylesheets, cutting down on the amount of CSS code can help your code to load and render faster.
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Even though Toshiba’s HD-DVD format lost the competition in the high definition DVD wars, it is still in the game with the VD-E500 upconverting DVD player, which should ship to merchants before the end of August.
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Many people mistakenly believe that Internet was developed in the 1990s. The history of the Internet actually goes much deeper than that. The Internet we use today has evolved over the past 40+ years from a simple communications network to one that spans the globe and includes participants in every country in the world. Many people are also surprised that the Internet started out as a Cold War military project.
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New web site owners frequently do not understand which image types to use with a web site. Once you understand the characteristics of each type of image, the choice becomes much clearer. Read the rest of this entry »
Many web site owners and new designers do not understand the importance of optimizing images for a web site. The process is pretty simple once you understand the concepts. Read the rest of this entry »
Netiquette, or Net etiquette, is a set of guidelines for content and web site design that seek to create a seamless communications channel with users and to avoid areas that sometimes cloud or confuse the communications. Many rules that have become bona fide standards for print media do not work well with the Internet. It is a mistake to assume that all standards used for books, brochures and print media advertising work equally well with the web. Here are some examples of bad netiquette. Read the rest of this entry »
We have been using PHP and MySQL for web development almost exclusively for several years. During this time, our team has come up with a list of simple, yet powerful one line SQL statements that make MySQL easier to use. We thought we might share them with you. Read the rest of this entry »
