Resolve to Improve Your Finances in 2004

Kick off 2004 with these 7 money resolutions and get a fresh financial start to the new year. At year's end, you'll be surprised at how much you've reduced your debt load and the money you've saved!

Creating Profit Trails That Lead Back To You

A wise person once said, "There are many trails to the summit of any mountain." I've also heard it said that "all roads lead to Las Vegas" and that there is "more than one way to skin a cat."

The Advantages of Using External CSS

When you use "external" CSS (cascading style sheets) to control the basic cosmetics of your web site, you need only to edit those cosmetic properties in one file to update ALL of your web site's pages. This can be done from your server *if* your hosting service allows you to edit your site from a control panel, or you can edit the style sheet using…

Exploring Data Islands and Web Services

Please note - Data Islands are exclusive to Internet Explorer! This month we start a two part series on Data Islands. Part 1 explores how we can use Data Islands to embed XML and XSLT into a browser, and manipulate that data using DHTML. Part 2 will illustrate Data Islands and Data Binding, and how to update data from the browser with Web Services and…

Getting on The Same Page With Your DataGrid

The purpose of this article is to give a succinct, understandable overview of how to setup a DataGrid so that you can page through the records of a data source. To demonstrate how this is done, I'm going to take actual code from an application I developed for a large telecommunications company. I use Visual Studio and that is reflected in this article.