Want a quick and easy tool to do web page layouts with? Try Nvu. It recently had it’s 1.0 release, and it’s a fast and easy to use WYSIWYG html page editor. It’s based on Mozilla’s rendering engine, it’s open source,
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Tired of roads that look like so much spaghetti on your web sites? Take a look at these:Which one would you prefer - the door on the left, or the door on the right?Making two dimensional roads is actually a piece of cak
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Never heard of PHP? It may surprise you to find out that not only is it the most popular server-side scripting language (outstripping ASP and by far clobbering .NET), it is also the fastest growing web scripting languag
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Did you know that you can join tables on the fly with ArcIMS? The PC didn’t know that either. That’s right, I said it: The PC didn’t know. But the Chamber Project has a requirement to be able to show parcels that are
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Think there might be something missing in the bottomless pit known as Visual Studio? So does Microsoft. Check out their list of “Ten Must-Have Tools” here. One neat tool allows you to change the version of .NET differe
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The PC loves his Firefox. If you’re a Firefox user, check out the Web Developer extension at http://addons.mozilla.org/.You can validate code, see form arguments, change forms from GET to POST, outline elements like tab
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This month’s CSS lesson will cover tables. Tables are ubiquitous to web design, and handling them can be a chore. With a little CSS, getting all of your tables looking right is a piece of cake.Let’s take a look at some
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Can’t get enough XML in your life? I know the feeling. All those carrots and backslashes. Yum. And don’t get me started on the case sensitivity.Fortunately, with SQL Server 2000, you can even get your SQL queries ret
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Sometimes making a PDF is the best way to distribute something. You know everybody can open it, it always looks the same, you don’t have to worry about scripting viruses and other yukies, and it has a fairly high cool/g
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CSS is the best, easiest way to format you web pages, but there’s a lot of confusion about it on the team. I thought I’d put in some CSS hints in the next few PC News issues to help spur you along in your CSS endeavors.
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