Tutorials

tutorial From ASP to PHP, Dreamweaver to Search engine optimisation, read all about it here. Note: Multi-page tutorials contain "previous/next" links at the end of each page, for page navigation.


free web development tutorials Active Server Pages
ASP tutorial
Active Server Pages - What it is, why we use it and how to connect, post and retrieve data from a database.
Dynamic dropdown lists with ASP
How to build a dynamic dropdown list with ASP and database data. Then, how to use ADO and recordset filtering to produce a structured list.
Generate dynamic content based on referring URL
This string-battering tutorial demonstrates how to take the referring URL string and break it up with a view to generating dynamic content, based on where the user came to that page from.

free web development tutorials CSS
CSS Tutorial
CSS: Why it's useful, why we use it and how!
CSS Form effects tutorial
Cascading stylesheets applied to form elements. How to customise the look of your text fields, borders, shading and colors
Coloured browser scrollbars tutorial
colouring scrollbars using css (cascading style sheets) for Internet Explorer 5.5 Browser and above. How to create style declarations to change scrollbar appearance
Advanced HTML and CSS: <DIV> and <SPAN> tags unravelled!
Advanced HTML and CSS: Block level containers (DIV) and inline containers (SPAN) combined with Cascading stylesheet classes.
Printer friendly web pages with CSS and media types
Everybody knows that CSS is great for defining visual formatting and positioning on screen, but how many think of it as a useful way to define visual formatting and positioning for a printout? (Not as many!)

CSS can be used just as effectively to ensure nice, readable printouts of web pages, devoid of all the screen-specific garbage that you would expect to see on most websites!

free web development tutorials Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver templates and library items tutorial
Dreamweaver tutorial: How to create, use and manage site wide templates and library items
Validating XHTML with Dreamweaver MX
Utilise the excellent new features of Dreamweaver MX to validate XHTML documents.

free web development tutorials HTML
How to create and use inline frames (iframes)
An IFRAME, or "inline frame" is basically a floating frame which sits within a web page document. Its actual content is an external web document, and you slot it within the floating frame according to the attributes you set.
HTML Basics: How to construct a HTML document if you never have!
The basics of HTML: How to create a document, the basics of syntax, nesting and elements.
How to remove and set margins for HTML documents and elements.
A regularly asked question that is easily resolved. HTML defaults create a small gap at the edges of HTML code. This tutorial will show you how to remove these gaps.
HTML Tables Tutorial
How to create and effectively use HTML tables. First part explains how a typical table is structured some of the more useful attributes available.
Nesting HTML tables tutorial
Nested tables in HTML: How to create nested tables for web site pages

free web development tutorials Search Engine Optimisation
Optimising websites for Search Engines
First page of this tutorial explains the differences between types of Search Engine and how they work, plus ways in which referral tracking can be performed.
Don't submit your website to Search Engines
Don't submit your website to Search Engines. Sounds radical and non-sensical, but it makes sense! Read on....


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