Does Netscape 6 Break Your Table Layouts?

What's up with Doctypes?

No longer just for HTML validation, new browsers are now paying attention to your doctype declarations.
O'Reilly Network: Use the Right Doctype

Pop-ups, you gotta love 'em

Ok, I know, pop-up windows are everywhere. But here is a handy script that sets a cookie so that the message only pops up once per day (adjustable).

Java-scripts.net: Create a Popup Once Window

For those that are artistically inclined, here is the first of a three part series on designing logos:

Design Harbor: Logo Design Workshop, Part I

Apparently there is still much debate over the the use of "cookies" on the Web.

WebmasterBase - The Cookie Conundrum

P.S. Feel free to post your opinion over in the Forums sections too.

Set your own style...

It never hurts to brush up on your style sheets every once and awhile. And for those who haven't starting using CSS yet:
CSS Is Easy!

I may have posted this once before, but this is still a handy tool for turning off services on your IIS web server that you don't need (and might be creating a security risk).

IIS Lockdown Tool (version 2.1) - 14 Nov 2001

Been hacked lately?

Here's the latest Security Bulletin from Microsoft on IIS patches (posted April 10, 2002):

Cumulative Patch for Internet Information Services

More on preloading your Flash movie. Includes a section on displaying a download progress bar.

The Art of Flash 5 Preloading

Ohhhhh, this looks like fun:

WebmasterBase - Animation in Dreamweaver

It's a Flash kind of day

You can never have too many tutorials on how to use Flash 5.0:

WebmasterBase - Flash 101 - Part 1: The Hammer and The Chisel

I've seen sites that have a cute little "Please Wait ..." animation that plays while the main Flash presentation loads, and I've always wondered "how'd they do that?" Well, here's a tutorial on just that.

WebmasterBase - Optimize Preloading with Flash 5

Yum, cookies!

They're everywhere. They're handy to have if you need to authenticate your users or track site usage. Here's a good primer on using cookies with CGI/Perl:

Cookies in Perl - Builder.com

Sniffing out browsers

Do want to use a spiffy JavaScript trick, but it only works in specific browsers? You can add this to your script to check out what version your reader is using before hand.

Internal Browser Test

Tables vs. CSS

I recently purchased a copy of Dreamweaver. Nice product, but it relies almost entirely on HTML tables for layout. Not that there is anything wrong with tables, but the better way to control your page layout is with a Cascading Style Sheet (well, I'll admit, this is still a point of debate within certain circles).

So, for those willing to learn how, let's take a little journey down the CSS path:

WDVL: Toss out your Tables! CSS is the scene!

How do they do that?

Ever see those smooth page layouts with the nice rounded corners? If you're like me, you thought to yourself "How'd they do that?" Well, ponder no longer because this article gives you all the details:

WebmasterBase - The Trick to Rounded Corner Tables

Been hacked lately?

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, as the cliche goes. This handy little tool from Microsoft checks your NT 4.0, Win2K and WinXP servers and lets you know what patches need to be installed and/or updated.

Microsoft Network Security Hotfix Checker (HFNetChk) version 3.3 - 17 Jan 2002

This is pretty spiffy. I've seen several sites that have customized their scrollbar colors to match the page layout, but this adds a new twist to that idea:

Dynamic Drive- onMouseover scrollbar effect

It's 2002 and if you haven't started using CSS in all of your web site designs, you really should be. My advice for the newcomer is to learn both CSS and XHTML and keep up to date with the standards.

WebmasterBase - CSS Is Easy!

WebmasterBase - XHTML - An Introduction

Random link of the day

This is just hilarious to me - apparently it's important to win a popularity poll, no matter what!

ZDNet |UK| - News - Story - .Net vote rigging illustrates importance of Web services