This 67 page guide is for long-time MySQL users who want to know "what's new" in version 5. The short answer is "stored procedures, triggers, views, information_schema". The long answer is the MySQL 5.0 New Features series, and this book is the first in the series.
Read MoreAfter some theory, this article will present a file upload and download utility you can use to manage files on your server. You can download all of the files for this article, including the image files...
Read MoreWeb accessibility and the notion of universal design are laudable and for many disabled people have resulted in significant benefits. Well made sites allow people with a range of physical disabilities to access goods and services and participate in activities with an ease that was denied them in the pre-web world.
However, the needs of the largest disability group in our community, those with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties, appear to have slipped through the cracks to a large extent when it comes to website accessibility.
Read MoreThe title is E-Commerce definition lists, not definition terms. Definition lists are a valid XHTML set of tags we should all use when using words/terms/phrases that will have an explaination of what they are. I'm not good at describing it, but Malarkey is!
From Malarkey's mouth (fingers): A number of designers and developers who are working with Karova Store have asked me for recommendations on how to layout product range pages using semantic mark-up and CSS. So I decided to write a mini tutorial for our training manual and try it out here first. An Amazon style product presentation made from wholesome mark-up and free from unnecessary divs or classes.
Read MoreWhat are web standards? This isn't a tutorial, but a online presentation (very short ~3min.) to get the jist of why and what.
Read MoreNot entirely a tutorial, but can be used as one.
Once users visit your homepage, where do they look first, and what drives them to look there? Not surprisingly, our left-to-right reading behavior in Western culture seems to greatly influence these responses. In Eyetrack III, we observed that the upper left corner of a page seems to be the preferred starting point for most online news users. However, the location of key elements -- such as headlines and the flag -- also seem to be powerful forces in determining reader attention.
Read MoreCurrently Web addresses are typically expressed using Uniform Resource Identifiers or URIs. The URI syntax defined in RFC 3986 STD 66 (Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax) essentially restricts Web addresses to a small number of characters: basically, just upper and lower case letters of the English alphabet, european numerals and a small number of symbols.
Read MoreA Web browser is sort of like the tires on your car. You don't really give them much daily thought, but without them, you're not going anywhere. The second something goes wrong, you definitely notice.
Knowing how something works can really help when you're trying to figure out why something isn't working the way you expected it. So this article gives you a quick run down on How FireFox works
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