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Covering the basic concepts behind a modern spider trap, this guide discusses the core components you require to create and operate a spider trap through to the various techniques you can use to identify crawler or spider traffic - such as User-Agent checks, IP address checks and more advanced methods such as weighted results plus behavioural quirks and analysis.
Telnet is really just a glorified text-based protocol, but this is a good thing because so are many of the protocols used on the internet currently - HTTP, POP3 and SMTP. In simple terms this means that you can browse the web, read and create e-mail - in short using those same services but via a simpler text-only interface which has more practical uses than you can imagine, not to mention it's a neat and impressive trick to show to people who aren't very technical. This guide covers the basics mentioned above as well as touching on proxies, wingates, creating bounced messages as well as discussing alternatives to the standard telnet client.
Simple list of the key points which can help make the difference between your ASP scripts being safe or unsafe if they are ever probed for weaknesses in their logic - this guide explains each of the basic problems in turn, offers one possible solution as well as an explanation of why this particular solution resolves the problem.
Eventually most people want to create their own website, this guide covers the basics ideas, planning and implementation behind doing such a thing for a content heavy website all the while bearing in mind things like the cost of on-going maintenance. This is not designed to be a guide to writing your first ever website - one of the major assumptions the guide makes is that you are happy with your own ability to create this content. Most of the material in this guide is based on my own experiences while setting up this site and covers the entire design and development life-cycle - at the end you should have an idea what is involved in creating a website which is of a decent size, yet due to the level of planning design which went into making it is also easy to maintain and easy to use.
Times have changed since the web as we know it began, a mere few years ago every element on every page had to be given a specific set of formatting and parameters to even allow you to gain some control over it - this lead to inconsistent designs, pages bloated with all those extra characters, not to mention being a complete nightmare to maintain - the solution to this problem came in the form of cascading style sheets or CSS for short. This guide explains a little about style sheets, what they are and how you can make use of them, as well as covering what they are made up of and touching on a few advanced structures before finishing off with some examples.
W3C standards are the way forwards as web technologies become more and more complex, allowing people to create information which will render correctly the first time, every time, in any anything that supports those standards - this means that more time is available allowing for a more productive use of your day. This short article outlines who the W3C are, what standards compliance can do for both you and your visitors and it provides a few hints on things to watch out for, as well as suggesting a few starting points for aiming to become standards compliant.
Absolute sizes are the scale most people are used to seeing and using, however have you ever stopped to consider that specifying font sizes in points isn't perhaps the best approach? This article outlines a few of the cases for using a relative scale when you are creating pages, and also includes a simple lookup to aid with converting font sizes in points to font sizes as a percentage.