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Styling Menus as Lists with CSS

Using CSS and Unordered Lists is an incredibly powerful way of presenting certain types of content. In this article I'll show you how to style a menu using an unordered list and a little CSS. read more ...

SQL Injection

In this article I will show you just one way that hackers can break in to your website, using a technique known as SQL Injection. And then I'll show you how to fix it. This article touches on some technical topics, but I'll try to keep things as simple as possible. There are a few very short code examples written in PHP and SQL. These are for the techies, but you don't have to fully understand the examples to be able to follow what is going on. read more ...

Have You Spammed Anyone Today?

If your website has a “contact us” or “Sign me up to your newsletter” form it is possible that a spammer could use it to send spam from your server. This takes up your bandwidth, leaves your ISP with a mess to sort out (and for which they might charge you) and could in severe cases end up with emails from your domain being blocked from sending email. This articles explains how the spammers use a technique called SMTP Injection to send SPAM from web servers just like yours, how you can check your own forms to see if they are vulnerable, and what you can do to fix them if they are. read more ...

Do You Bounce SPAM? Stop Doing That!

What would it do to your business if you had to sift through 250,000 emails to find the dozen that were from your clients or friends? Just think about that for a moment; 250,000 emails - a quarter of a million emails. Any one of which could be from an important client or a long lost friend - but the majority of which are just "noise". Lots of people nowadays run SPAM-filtering software. This is a good thing. It appears that many of those people also configure that to software send the SPAM back to the sender. This is known as "bouncing", and is NOT a good thing. Read on to learn why it's a bad idea to bounce SPAM and what you can do about it. read more ...

HTTP Error Messages

The HTTP protocol is used by web browsers and web servers to exchange information and requests for information. As part of the protocol servers return status information in the form of three digit numbers. Below is a list of common and not-so-common error messages, what they mean and what to do about them if they appear on your website. Also listed are status messages which are used internally but will rarely if ever be visible to a user. read more ...

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