The New WWW FAQFrequently asked questions about the World Wide Web, including security, viruses, privacy, creating web sites, and more. By the longtime editor of the original WWW FAQ.How do I add an email contact form to my website- June 26, 2007 2007-06-26: Visitors to your website want to contact you... At first it seems simplemdash; just design an HTML form... There are easy fixes and sneaky workarounds for this problem... Also, this approach doesn't allow you to control the format of the user's message in any way... Another well-known shortcut is the mailto: form submission: ...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/email.html What is PHP- June 26, 2007 2007-06-26: PHP is a popular programming language for extending web pages with dynamic features... PHP is currently the most popular web server extension language, used by many websites both large and small... For more information, visit www.php.net, PHP's home on the web... PHP stands for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor." Yes, you read that rightmdash; "PHP" does appear in its own expansion...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/definitions/php.html How do I password-protect my web pages- June 19, 2007 2007-06-19: Many webmasters want to protect certain pages with a password... Do you want to require customers to create accounts, provide a valid email address, and log in before they see certain content... Or do you need simple password protection for part of the sitemdash; perhaps for administrative pages that are not intended for the public... Once you have implemented accounts for your website using my PHP-based login system, Accountify, you can easily force the user to log in before...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/password.html How do I output images from a PerlCGI or PHP script- June 14, 2007 2007-06-14: There are two perfectly acceptable solutions... Solution One: write the image to a temporary file in a web-accessible directory, and generate an element with a src URL that points to that file... Solution Two: generate an element with a src attribute that points directly to your PerlCGI or PHP script, with GET-method form parameters (name=value pairs, separated by , after the ... The myscript.pl script can then look at the generateimage and imageid parameters exactly as it would..http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/emitimage.html What is my URL- June 14, 2007 2007-06-14: Many comment forms on blogs now ask for your URL... It's very simple: comment forms that ask for your URL are asking where your blog, website, myspace page or other personal page on the Internet is... So, if you have a blog of your own on blogspot.com, you might respond with: http:myblogsname.blogspot.com ... If you have a LiveJournal, you might respond with: ... http:mylivejournalname.livejournal.com ...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/whatismyurl.html Why did you start the WWW FAQ pages- June 12, 2007 2007-06-12: First off, the WWW FAQ was originally created by Nat Torkington - not me... I started maintaining the WWW FAQ while working for Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory... After I left CSHL, I continued to maintain the FAQ as a personal labor of love, and also as a way of giving back to the Internet community... I stopped regularly updating the WWW FAQ in the late nineties, then picked up the ball again in 2003 when it became clear that people still needed answers to basic questions about...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/faq/whyfaq.html What is the most popular website- June 12, 2007 2007-06-12: Since the Internet is not run by a single company or government, there is no perfect way to identify the most popular website... alexa.com provides free access to their list of the top 500 websites... Alexa can also provide you with information about the popularity of your own site or any other site that you search for... That much, they offer for free...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/misc/mostpopularwebsite.html How do I control the space between lines and paragraphs- June 4, 2007 2007-06-04: CSS allows us to control the space between lines of text... We can easily control the line-height property... We can also set line-height in pixels, or as a percentage of the height of the containing block... Paragraph spacing is controlled by the margin-top and margin-bottom CSS properties of the paragraph element... Most current web browsers only implement two CSS units well: "ems" and pixels...http://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/paragraphspacing.html |