Rule 1: Don’t attach labels and data fields to opposite edges of a form or control panel
If columns of an invisible table are used to lay out labels and data fields on a form or dialog box, the two columns should be adjacent. They should be attached to each other, not to opposite edges of [...]
After you have the consumers‘ attention, you have to bring them to your site. So, your next challenge is to give shoppers a reason to come to your store in the first place—then give them a reason to return. To attract visitors to your site, you have to promote not only your products or services [...]
Email Surveys Simple text-based email surveys
Implementing a simple email survey requires little technological expertise, and can be done with minimal software requirements. In its simplest form an email survey can consist in simply sending an email containing text questions in the body, and asking participants to hit the ‘Reply’ button on their mailer, fill in [...]
One of the best-known enterprise frameworks is the J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition) framework.
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC)
The JDBC API contains facilities whereby a relational database can be written to and read from. It allows the programmer to:
connect up to a database on a local or remote computer;
send programming statements in a language known as SQL [...]
As the reader may have discovered by now, when the ‘Send data‘ button is clicked, no testing occurs to ensure that form elements have been filled in, checked, or selected; it is quite easy for participants to supply no information at all and just submit an empty form. Happily, it is possible to use JavaScript [...]
Incorporating JavaScript in HTML documents is quite easy, and can add many useful features to your pages. You should note that not every browser supports JavaScript, and even though most do, not everyone will have it enabled, so you need to consider what happens when it is disabled. Sometimes, the system can still work without [...]
If your form submits variables whose names do not appear on the list of declared variables specified in the script, you will need to update the list, or else unmentioned variables’ values will be ignored. If you want to submit the form using METHOD=GET, you need to replace instances of ‘Request.Form(item)’ with ‘Request.QueryString(item)’.
Many people will have access to a Microsoft Windows server, such as the Personal Information Server on Windows 98, or the Internet Information Server on Windows 2000. These servers behave similarly to UNIX-based servers, but do not encourage the use of the raw Common Gateway Interface. Instead, Windows servers offer a fairly simple but powerful [...]
To make your HTML form send its data somewhere other than your email account for collection, you need to make use of a proper web server. Most probably you will create a directory inside your server’s directory space and copy your survey.html file in there. Then it will be accessible via the server, using a [...]
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Print Queue Object Properties
The Print Queue object is a logical representation of a print queue. It uses a directory (created as a subdirectory under the /QUEUES directory) on a NetWare volume you select when you create the object to store files waiting to print. The following are significant properties of the Print Queue object:
Volume—The volume [...]
To develop a plan for managing inbound e-mail, the best approach is to consider the typical stages in which an e-mail is received and responded to.
The five stages are as follows.
Stage 1: Customer defines support query
The first stage starts before the customer has even sent the e-mail since, if we are concerned with reducing cost, [...]
With the race to get onto the Internet, most businesses focused on getting there as quickly as possible. They staked claims to cyber-assets by creating online stores. The Internet new creation and, in their haste, many stores took a “Frankenstein” approach. They pieced ore together with whatever parts were readily [...]
