For those of you who have read my book Creating Cool HTML 4.01 Web Pages, or any of its five previous editions, I’m starting to sketch out the contents of the next major revision of this title and would be delighted for any reader feedback. Specifically: what did you like the best? What did you think was the most confusing? What topics did you feel were covered insufficiently? Did you feel like you had to get another HTML/CSS/JavaScript/Graphics book to finish your site?
A reader writes:
“I was hoping you could tell me where I can find info to solve a problem I’m having with one of the pages. I want my hyperlinks to stay the same colour as the rest of the text and not change at all, and i’d like to avoid the underlining too.”
A reader writes:
“I figured that this would be right up your alley. If I want to move any document that contains “agreen” to another folder, what commands would I use on the command line?”
A reader from India writes:
“I have purchased your book titled Teach Yourself Unix in 24 Hours which is very interesting and I have learnt many commands from that. Sir I have one problem. I have purchased some space for a website on the remote server. And I have designed my web site and once I got it launched from the system administrator. Now he has given me the user id and password for the SERVER (which is 250 Kilometers from me). The problem is I have changed my website files and I have uploaded these files on to the server using FTP. So to refresh what should I do in the sense what command should I use? Please send me the details”
A reader of my book Creating Cool HTML 4 Web Pages writes and asks:
“I’ve been looking all over the internet to find an average price for making a website and I can’t fine a good estimate on the going rate. If you could point me in the right direction that would be great. After reading your book (creating cool HTML 4 web pages) and taking some computer classes I’ve now got my CIW certificate and am starting to build my first website for a client, but I don’t know how much to charge!”
I’ll resist saying that this is the question of the ages in the world of computing, but it is definitely going to be a tough one to answer…
A reader writers:
“I’m trying to create a guestbook using the forms and CGI’s, but I’m stuck as to how to link the form to the server. The sign page is at <guestadd.html> and I would like the view page to be at <guestbook.html>. What I did was use a somewhat template form of guestbook provided by our web host, and, after editing the sign page (new additions are “Current Division” and “Mu Alpha Theta Chapter”), wanted the additions to appear on guestbook.html, but I don’t know how to do that…”
Now that Steve Jobs and his band of merry programmers have released the first developer preview of Panther (aka Mac OS X 10.3), it’s time to revise my popular O’Reilly book Learning Unix for Mac OS X for all the changes.
A reader asks:
How do you think that i could make a login page with a password using CGI script?
There are two main ways to create a password-protected Web area…
