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This week marks the beginning of an ongoing series on stock photography. In this and subsequent articles, we'll have a look at the stock photography industry, how it works, what images cost, copyright issues and how all of this benefits you as a Web developer. By Nathan Segal. 0923

In the wake of his success with 'How to Create a Photographic Gallery Using CSS,' author Stu Nicholls has created a new method which doesn't require thumbnail images and has a unique two step method of display. The 'mouse hover' stage creates a half size image and the 'mouse click' creates a full size image. 0912

RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is commonly used for distributing headlines on news websites. The challenge in using it is to integrate your content into the feed you are creating. Enter RSS Dreamfeeder, an application that allows you to reformat your content into an RSS feed within Dreamweaver. By Ronald Northrip. 0906

This week we're going to have a a look at writing web applications. You'll learn about the technologies and protocols that make up the World Wide Web, how they work, how to define web applications, how to structure them and more. By Prentice Hall PTR. 0926

This week we continue with learning how to write web applications. You'll learn about the basic layout of web applications, the user interface, 3-tier and n-tier architectures, performance, scalability applications and more. By Prentice Hall PTR. 1003

This week's article addresses the basic terminology, concepts and tactics that can be used in the creation of nested data structures in Perl. In Perl, such a structure is easily created and accessed; though to the novice the process may not be intuitive. Here's a taste of what's involved. By Dan Ragle. 0909

In part one of this series, we discussed how to retrieve remote data from an XML file via JavaScript. This week, we'll process that data in a more complex manner. As an example, we'll take groups of XML data, separate individual segments and display those segments in different ways, depending on how they're identified. By Jonathan Fenocchi. 1010

This week, we conclude our two-part series with information on the list collection, the vector collection and the deque collection. The article wraps up with a demo and an opportunity to download the code. By Guyon Roche. 0829

Firefox has become a formidable adversary in the browser wars. According to stats from W3Schools, it's used by 26.3% of all browser users. In this article, we're going to look at some of the extensions available for Web developers. By Lee Underwood. 0929

JavaScript is Netscape's cross-platform, object-based scripting language. This book explains everything you need to know about using core JavaScript. Knowledge of HTML and some programming experience with a language such as C is helpful. 0903

Let's say that you've chosen to use a horizontal styled unordered list for your navigation and have followed the CSS methods as posted on the web. All's well until you decide to position your menu centrally or to the right and this is where it starts to get tricky. By Stu Nicholls. 0826

In our last two sections we looked at properties and methods of the window object. In this installment, we'll wrap up our study of the window object by learning how to use the most common of the window event handlers. We'll also take a look at some links for additional help. By Lee Underwood. 0916

One of the obstacles that programmers encounter is that each language has its own "culture" and ways of getting things done. In the C programming language a solution has been developed, known as the Standard Template Library or STL for short. Here's a JavaScript implementation of the STL. By Guyon Roche. 0822

This week we're going to look at the different types of stock photography and what licenses are available. Generally, the most common terms that people are familiar with are rights protected and royalty free imagery, though there are other options which we'll examine here. By Nathan Segal. 1014

In this installment we look at the methods that are associated with the window object and how they work. Until now, we've been learning how to build the framework of our scripts but now we'll start to see things happen! Using these methods you'll learn how to implement JavaScript in your Web sites. By Lee Underwood. 0819

There are four objects that provide information about the environment of the user's system. They belong to the window object: navigator, screen, history and location. These objects are used to obtain information such as screen size and resolution, color depth of the monitor, limited information on the browser history, the URL and more. By Lee Underwood. 1017

These three tricks for manipulating the keys and values of WordPress Custom Fields produce some very interesting results.

In the first two articles of this series I introduced three collections of the JavaScript Template Library, including list, vector and deque. This week, I explore the magic of iterators and introduce a new class of sorted collection that includes set, map, multiset and multimap. By Guyon Roche. 0919

Load dynamic content into your Web pages using the Dojo Toolkit's versatile ContentPane widget.

The WordPress Custom Fields feature provides the flexibility to store and call custom image URLs, headers, and background wallpapers in your posts.

With HTML5, music is making a comeback on the Web. Create amazing music site experiences where adding an audio file is as simple as inserting an image and users have more pause and play music outside a browser. The introduction of the <audio> tag eliminates the need for external music players, allowing for true integration of sound in your website.

Exceptions can make Web applications useless from a user's perspective, but understanding how to prevent and handle exceptions can make the de-bugging process easier.

CSS sprites mash up all the images used on a webpage into one large image and display only the part that contains the image wherever it's required. Using CSS sprites drastically reduces the load time of the page.

The dojo.behavior module provides a simple and lightweight mechanism for listening to HTML document events. Find out what makes dojo.behavior one of the best event handling mechanisms around.

New HTML5 technologies like WebSockets offer some amazing new opportunities for Web developers. But they also show how implementing unstable standards may cause more harm to a site than the benefits of the technology. What is the role of browsers and how should developers plan for when developing with HTML5?

Allowing your visitors to easily post links to your website on Facebook can really boost traffic.

The jQuery Globalization Plugin provides globalization support to ASP.NET applications that can use JavaScript.

The Dojo libraries offer programmers a single coherent event system. With dojo.connect, you can execute any number of functions in response to DOM and widget events.

The Accordion Control is one of the many useful controls that comprise the Ajax Control Toolkit.

Learn how to use the Dojo Toolkit's versatile ContentPane widget to load dynamic content into your Web pages.

IE6 shipped more than 10 years ago, but its non-standard implementation of the shifting standards of 2001 still haunts today's developers. As the Web shifts to HTML5, and new versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome debut, have we learned the lessons of IE6?