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How to Keep a Site Safe Using Redundant Backups
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The big nightmares for a web site operators are the "big crash" and the "hacked site". So most of us take regular backups to be able to recover. Most ...
Effective Use of Box Shadows
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I think the box-shadow property is one of the coolest things ever in CSS. I see a lot of sites where a few shadows would really sharpen them up. I cannot imagine why developers spend all kinds of time trying to get some lame jquery menu working and don't have 15 minutes to spend enhancing...
The DOM -- a Web Developer's Best Friend
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At the end of the last century a "browsers war" raged between two software heavyweights -- Netscape and Microsoft. Each had a share of the growing bro...

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COBOLdinosaur Tables the Way They are Intended to be Used The table is the most misused and abused tag in HTML. Tables are not intended to be used for layout. They are specified the way they are for optimizat...
Tegrat A Review of Tech Support Forums I have used all the reviewed sites both as as logged in member and as a guest; I'm not very good at answering so I have not commented much on any site...
COBOLdinosaur CSS Based Round Slide Show With an Iris A common feature of many web sites is a slide show. They have become so common and so similar, that they are a yawn. There are literally thousands of ...
COBOLdinosaur The WOW Factor of CSS Shaped Elements What you are seeing are shaped divs in a table-like div structure. The table-like structure is not necessary to support the shapes, but helps with org...
COBOLdinosaur Help For Lazy and Incompetent Web Developers The pros and hobbyist don't need a lot of help, they try to do things right and are willing to put in the necessary effort. The wannabes can benefit f...
Tegrat Review of Search Engines This not about SEO. It is about user experience when they are searching the web. I will only say one thing about SEO. From what I have seen and experi...
COBOLdinosaur The DOM -- a Web Developer's Best Friend At the end of the last century a "browsers war" raged between two software heavyweights -- Netscape and Microsoft. Each had a share of the growing bro...
COBOLdinosaur newEffective Use of the CSS3 box-shadow Property Regular visitors to this site have probably noticed that I like to use a lot of box shadows. I think the box-shadow property is one of the coolest thi...
COBOLdinosaur Vertical Positioning With a Table Styled div One of the toughest thing to do in web development is get vertical centering in a web page. It is a common problem you have content that you need cent...
COBOLdinosaur Creating the Perfect Web Page Every professional web developer in the world wants to create the perfect page. Every web site owner wants a site filled with perfect pages. For users...
drifter Controlling Bloat on Web Pages The best sites on the internet have pages that are lean and fast. As you move down the scale you see a common problem; BLOAT. Putting a lot of garbage...
COBOLdinosaur What happened to Digg All together the Digg assets have been sold off for over $16 million. How is that a failure when the owners walk away with a fat payoff like that? Wel...
COBOLdinosaur Modern Web Development for Forms The form is one of the most critical components for a web site. Whether it is a simple contact form, a sales and payment transaction, or a detailed su...
COBOLdinosaur Document Object Methods and Properties This is not a comprehensive list of all DOM methods and properties. Instead it is a list of the most important properties/methods for a web developer ...
COBOLdinosaur Modern Table Styles Part II Notice that the number of td or th tags are reduced when we use rowspan and/or colspan. The conventional thinking is that the number of cells must be ...
COBOLdinosaur Four Dimensional Web Development Revisited This article is for all those developers still stuck in the 20th century with 2-dimensional, table-based layouts. A web page is 4-dimensional. Creatin...
drifter How to Keep a Site Safe Using Redundant Backups The big nightmares for a web site operators are the "big crash" and the "hacked site". So most of us take regular backups to be able to recover. Most ...

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