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Title Author Description
Reading files with Javascript Part 2 Rdivilbiss Our Mentor from Kansas extends one of the most popular articles on ERT with more great help.
Styles for Data Tables COBOLdinosaur A Mentor who regularly rants about the misuse of tables gives some tips on styling them when they are appropriate and correctly used
Safe list with floated elements GrandSchtroumpf A little tutorial about trying to get around the problem of using lists next to floated elements.
An RSS feed generator in PHP Srirangan The simple straight forward approach to doing RSS feeds for your site
Background Image Positioning Relative to Content GrandSchtroumpf A little trick to managing presentation by manipulating the background. This has not been well document until our Mentor create this bit of instruction
The ins and outs of handling input operations in PHP nicholassolutions Before a program can process the data you have to get it into the program. For PHP, this is how you do it.
Install for Apache, PHP5 and MySQL for Windows XP nicholassolutions Think you need a tech genius to install the works on your desktop? No problem when you have help from a top ERT Mentor
What do PHP Headers Actually contain? nicholassolutions Our New York based PHP Mentor tells us all we ever wanted to know about the headers.
Customizing the command prompt nicholassolutions A Mentor takes us through the customizing process step by step
CSS Rollovers COBOLdinosaur A little magic from the resident CSS magician. Image rollovers with no preload or extra images will save bandwidth and response time.
Compiling Perl Scripts into Standalone Executables nicholassolutions Step by step with clear instructions from a master of server side scripting.
Using the CSS columns Property COBOLdinosaur A short exploration of the possibilities of using columns to format page columns with virtually no more work than just putting the text into a paragraph.
AJAX lessons to learn Rdivilbiss An AJAX How-to from an experienced Mentor
Reading files with Javascript Rdivilbiss An uncommon method of using Javascript to extend browser capabilities.
Getting the Right Time nicholassolutions Some scripting to dig out the time zone based on geo-location

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