My friend Barbara Feldman has written a very interesting article about techniques for avoiding what she calls “link rot”, when the links on your pages and in your print material end up being obsolete. If you’re just getting started with your site design, of course, this might not seem like anything you need to worry about, but I’ll bet you’ve gone to a site, seen a list of favorites, and found that most of them don’t exist any more.
A reader writes:
Can one develop a web site for e-commerce that utilizes a shopping cart function and credit card processing without the use of JavaScript? Perhaps this question is addressed later in portions of the book I haven’t gotten to yet.
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 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…”
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…
The big day is Monday. The day you get to show off what you know about Dynamic HTML. The problem is, you’re not really up to speed. Maybe it’s been a while since you worked with JavaScript or cascading style sheets. Or maybe you just like a challenge!
