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Setting Up the Android Development Environment
For a long time, I resisted buying a smart phone because the data plans were so expensive. I had been using a T-Mobile prepaid plan on a basic phone that worked out to 10¢ a minute. I was paying about … Continue reading
Changing the HTML Editor for View Source in IE9
Let’s say that you would like to see the client side code for a web page you are viewing in Internet Explorer 9. To do so, you would right-click the page and select View source. This would pop up the … Continue reading
DOCTYPE Declarations
The first thing that should be in your HTML files is a DOCTYPE declaration. In the past, I have simply copied them when I have used them at all, without really thinking about what was in them. Today, I have … Continue reading
Displaying the Correct Time for Your Time Zone
Let’s say that you want to display the time on your HTML page. You could do it like this in test.html: <html> <body> <!–#config timefmt=”%I:%M %p %Z” –> <p><!–#echo var=”DATE_LOCAL”–></p> </body> </html> That works fine as long as your ISP … Continue reading
Displaying a Copyright Year on an HTML Page
Let’s say that you’re building a large website in HTML. The client wants to display a copyright declaration on each page of the site using the current year. If the year is hard-coded on the site on each page, this … Continue reading
Turning on SSI in Apache on a Linux Server
Turning on Server Side Includes on my ISP’s Apache server turned out to be HTML quite easy. All I needed to do was add the following lines to the .htaccess file in the directory where the pages reside: Options +Includes … Continue reading
Turning on SSI in IIS on a Windows Server
If you are testing your HTML files with SSI calls on a Windows server, you will need to set options to allow SSI to be interpreted on the server side. The following are the steps I took to set up … Continue reading
Including HTML Files in an HTML File
Let’s say that you are building a site with several different HTML pages. You want them all to have the same template and menu structure. This would require a lot of duplicated code in each page of the site. Wouldn’t … Continue reading
Getting Started with PHP
If you want to set up your Windows computer to test PHP pages, you will need to set up IIS first. When I had Windows XP, I had to buy the Professional version of the operating system to get IIS. … Continue reading