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What follows are the basic few steps I start with when analysing a site:
1/ Checking backlinks (also known as incoming links, inbound links, inlinks, and inward links – basically they’re pages that link to your website/page)
Use a Google Advanced Search: for example http://www.google.co.uk/search?as_lq=google.com&btnG=Search
The basic idea here is to see what websites link to your website. [...]

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Unusual situation the other day. I got asked to add an Intranet page with a guide to explain how end users can check the version (or versions) of Java they have installed. I thought to myself there has to be a better and more efficient way of doing this, and making it easier for the [...]

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When creating a website for any company or organisation its important to adhere to as many generally accepted web standards as possible. Due to the huge amount of content on the Internet, and the range of it too, the market in Internet filtering software continues to grow. There’s no legal obligation to categorise a websites [...]

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A couple of months ago I encountered an issue with one of the sites I was developing, www.howdenparkcentre.co.uk. The basic page template for the main content area for most pages includes a primary image, title, sub-title and main text. Due to the way the websites columns are percentage based, i.e. they flex depending on browser [...]

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I wrote a very simple little piece of JavaScript that changes the colour, background colour and font colour of a checkbox depending on the Mouse Event (onclick, onmouseover and onmouseout) and whether the checkbox is ticked or not. It can also reset it back to its previous settings too.
XHTML:

Test Checkbox1

JavaScript:
function mouseToggle(checkbox,label,bgcolour,fontcolour,bgreset,fontreset,mouseIn){
if(document.getElementById)
{
var cb = document.getElementById(checkbox);
var [...]

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