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We are ofthen asked the question "What's the difference between POP and IMAP? What should I use?". Both IMAP and POP are different protocols used to connect to an e-mail account and access its data(your email messages). Each protocol has its own unique benefit, listed below is information on both methods: IMAP stands for “Internet Message Access Protocol”. This protocol allows you to download your e-mails from the server to your e-mail program the same as the POP method does. However, the difference is that when you request your e-mail from the server it sends a copy of...full article

If you have used a proxy server to access a University or work network you may need to now remove these settings to connect to other networks. Scroll down for removal instructions. What is a proxy server? A proxy server, also known as a "proxy" or "application level gateway", is a computer that acts as a gateway between a local network (e.g., all the computers at one company or in one building) and a larger-scale network such as the Internet. Proxy servers provide increased performance and security. In some cases, they monitor employees' use of outside resources. A proxy server works by intercepting connections...full article

We decided to add our latest Twitter tweet to our home page as we like to micro blog. The question was how do we do it? Twitter has various methods for data retrieval including, XML, RSS and their own API feeds that we could use. After looking at them all we decided to use the XML feed as it seemed the quickest. This is our xml feed url: http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/21885742.xml?count=1 To get yours click the RSS link on your twitter page to get your Twitter Id, your Id is the filename (without the .rss extention). Then substitute our Id from the link above with your...full article

When using content management systems or data stored in a database to populate a web page we often only require part of the data or a short summary to be displayed. Typically most systems use a function based around PHP's substr function to shorten the data. This however has disadvantages as often words are cut short and if raw HTML is in the content end tags can be missed out causing problems elsewhere on the page. Our function will strip any HTML tags and make content safe before outputting the required quantity of complete words. It is also possible to specify...full article

Specifications HTML 4.01 Specifications ISO-HTML Specification XHTML 1.0 Specifications Web Content Accessibility Guidelines1.0 Cascading Style Sheets - level 1 (CSS1) Cascading Style Sheets - level 2 (CSS2) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Specification W3C Technical Reports and Publications Webmasters Reference A List Apart The Web Standards Project The...full article