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How do I write a full-screen bash shell script?

November 27, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Linux Shell Script Programming / 2 Comments

Dear Dave: I am trying to write a full-screen utility that
displays the permissions of a directory and all the
directories in the directory’s path. It should also show
other information about the directories, as the cursor
is moved up and down the list of directory names.
Can you offer me some pointers to get me started?

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How do I disable a CSS anchor hover?

November 26, 2004 / Dave Taylor / HTML & Web Page Design / 11 Comments

“Dave, I’ve been having great results using the hover attribute within my CSS style sheets, but when I have graphical buttons, sometimes they end up with the background-color change hover attribute as a small drop-shadow that only appears when the mouse is over the element. Y’know what I mean? How do I disable this?”

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How can I use Google and other Web tools to identify and research competitors?

November 25, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Business Advice / 3 Comments

Dear Dave; I am starting a new one of a kind company … at least I think I’m one of a kind … how do I find out who else out there might have beat me to the punch? And how do I build a web page to advertise my hopefully one of kind new business?

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What are the coolest forgotten HTML and CSS tags?

November 25, 2004 / Dave Taylor / HTML & Web Page Design / 11 Comments

A funny email message arrived: ” The other day, I was working on a site when I stumbled across a forgotten corner of HTML. The <dl> tag is a “definition list”; it uses alternating <dt> (“definition term”) and <dd> (“definition definition”, it seems) child elements. This sort of markup fits pretty well for, say, dates and news items, so I’ve used it for that.

“My question for you is, what are your favorite obscure tags? I’m not talking about <img> or <br> — I’m talking about the ones everybody’s forgotten about, like the <dl> tag. Other bits of obscurity (like weird CSS selectors) are welcome too, of course. :^)”

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How do I add photos to my eBay auctions?

November 24, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Amazon, eBay, and Online Shopping Help, / 9 Comments

On another forum I’m involved with, someone’s asked a great question: I want to sell products on eBay, but I want to include photographs with my items. How do I do that? What kind of camera do I need, and what settings should I use?

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What download managers allow resumption of interrupted downloads?

November 23, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Windows PC Help / 7 Comments

A while back, this question landed in my mailbox: “I know that there are a number of download management programs out there
that allow you to resume interrupted downloads of large files. (Microsoft
provides one if you are a member of a Microsoft beta program, for use in
downloading beta software, for instance.) Can anyone recommend a good one?”

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My document.all Javascript/CSS code doesn’t work?

November 23, 2004 / Dave Taylor / HTML & Web Page Design / 6 Comments

While going through my book Creating Cool Web Sites with HTML, XHTML and CSS for a class I was teaching at the University of Colorado, Boulder, I realized that a gremlin crawled into the page proofs and somehow I ended up with IE-specific DOM reference code to show how CSS and Javascript can interrelate, rather than the approved standards-based approach.

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What’s the best way to figure out if an eBay seller is legit?

November 22, 2004 / Dave Taylor / Amazon, eBay, and Online Shopping Help, / 4 Comments

A friend of mine who is just getting involved with the fun and crazy world of online auctions just recently found something she wanted to bid on at eBay. That’s good, but she decided not to bid because she’s heard too much about scams, rip-off artists and other untrustworthy characters. Rather than just bail on auctions, though, she asked me for some tips on bidding on eBay safely.

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