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In the course of building my Nursing Web Site, Software by DalesPlace Download site & now SearchWin's site, I've spent a fair amount of time and effort researching and learning about web pages and related programming techniques. A couple years ago when I decided to try my hand at developing and marketing Shareware, I joined the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).

In the course of meeting and working with this interesting, bright, eclectic and fun group, in came to pass that I did a number of articles for the organization's Newsletter (with much encouragement from the editor, author of FileTiger). These pages present some of those articles I thought may be of interest to folks working with web pages or perhaps just curious about some of the stuff that goes into building them.

I hope you find them interesting and useful.

Dale Sampson

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Most articles include downloadable code in zip files
and links to other resources on the web.

Web Forms - discuses some the mechanics of sending data gathered by a web form via email. Use of JavaScript to validate and preprocess the data is discussed. Example html and script included.

Borderless Windows - Yes those obnoxious popup windows. There are appropriate and tasteful uses for this for this technique. This is discussed as is the code to accomplish it.

Cookies - These two articles provide some background on what cookies are and how them work. Examples of saving and retrieving cookies using JavaScript are discussed.

About Span and Div - A discussion of the role of these HTML tags and how they can be used on web pages.

CSS - An introduction to what Cascading Style Sheets are and how they can be used. Topics discused include : html style tag, Syntax for building and using a CSS, positioning using CSS and other examples. The limitations of CSS are also touched on.

DOCTYPE - What is this thing and why should a web page use it?

Tables with XML - A brief introduction to using XML on a web page. An Internet Explorer specific technique is discussed and an example of making a web page using XML with XSL (without any html) is provided.

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