What’s a cookie? Cookies are small pieces of information stored on your users’ web browsers, they’re commonly used to remember login dates, shopping cart contents and track analysis. However, some are used by advertising firms to build a profile of users as they use to internet to provide targeted advertising. On 26 May 2012, after being […]
CSS (cascading style sheet) is a language for styling the HTML elements on a page. CSS enables the separation of the HTML document contents from its presentation. If a website has been built with clean HTML the design can be completely changed by just editing the CSS files. How does it work? A stylesheets contains […]
If your building or optimizing your own site, it’s important to understand what type of hosting you have and the advantages and disadvantages of it. Hosting varies greatly in price, from a couple of pounds a month to a couple of hundred. For simplicity, in this blog post I’ll refer to two main types of […]
A website is built up from a variety of files types, each serving a specific purpose. In this post, I’ll go through the key files required and in following posts on this blog go into more detail on each technology. HTML (hyper text markup language) is the main language of the web, it’s the foundation […]