September 20, 2003

Subnetting Class-C IP addresses in a home network
Network security has become a large concern for even the avid home internet user. With more and more wireless routers and broadband connections out there connecting to the internet there is one thing that you can do to help isolate your private computers from the internet and still allow them to access the web. All you need are two standard home-use routers. I prefer the Linksys ones but any that are configurable for NAT will do.

Subnetting :)

Take a look at this network page from TCPIPPrimer.com to help you split up your current Class C network into 4 separate networks (Daryl says 2 but with this configuration, you can do 4), each isolated from each other yet all accessible to the internet.

http://www.tcpipprimer.com/routing.cfm
How to set up multiple domains on an IIS server with only one IP address.
Try this tutorial, down and dirty, very easy explaination on how to set up multiple webs when you have only one IP address and are running IIS 4 or 5.

http://www.iisanswers.com/Top10FAQ/t10-hostheaders.htm

September 07, 2003

Mini-tutorial on DOM
While experimenting with some JavaScript, I wanted to create a button that would change the background color of a web page. The result is a good example of the "Document Object Model" that most new designs are based on today. Using the "onClick" function of the button, the new hexidecimal color code is passed to the browser. Adding an inline style to the button code, the button's color matches the color the background would be changed to.

Here's the page: Changing Background Colors

September 04, 2003

Read, learn, code
Another good site with plenty of tutorials on PHP and graphic design: Olate - Tutorials, Articles and Scripts
Look ma, no tables!

Unless you've been on the moon the last couple of years, one cannot help but notice the trend towards using CSS rather than the <table> tag in page layouts.

In this tutorial, you'll learn how to do a three column page layout using style sheets and a little Javascript: Exploring the Limits of CSS Layout