How To Password Protect a Website Page With .htaccess on Apache WebServers

As you might know, a website or webpage can be easily password protected from unauthorized access through several methods, easiest being the login screen where users need to enter their valid login credentials before they can access any page in a website. But in this case users can still easily access resources like images, scripts or other non-executable files from your site. If you want to password protect some particular webpage or directories or some specific urls within your site then the strongest protection to your webpage is the server side authorization by .htaccess.

Create a .htpasswd file in your Apache WebServer

How to Create Data Validation Drop Down Lists in Google Docs Spreadsheet Cells Online

So many of us are now using online Google Documents Spreadsheets as an alternative to Microsoft Office Excel or many other popular desktop based software. Yes we get several advantages when we go online. Real time data synchronization and powerful spreadsheet sharing options has really made Google Docs Spreadsheets a success. Whether you stuck onto http://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ or http://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/, it is the same.

Now while creating Google Docs Spreadsheets we always want to have a drop down list of data validation menu from which we can choose some predefined data to fill in a particular column of cells. To have those Google Docs Drop Down lists in your Spreadsheets you just need to add Data Validation to that particular columns.

Steps to Add Google Docs Drop Down Data Validation Lists in Spreadsheets

Let us take a sample Google Docs Spreadsheet like this.

ChitChat for Facebook - Facebook Chat For Your BlackBerry Mobile

I know you may have heard of ChitChat.org.uk which has been renowned for providing excellent free Facebook chat service for Windows users. You might have also used their free Facebook chat messenger for Windows. Now they have launched their updated service for BlackBerry users who can now chat on Facebook directly on their mobile phones. Though their Facebook chat BlackBerry application is a paid one but it’s worth every single penny of it. At just $1.99 ChitChat for BlackBerry comes with lots of useful and amazing features.

Update: Chit Chat for BlackBerry i.e. Facebook messenger for BlackBerry is now available for free.

Features of ChitChat for Facebook

Personalized background and message bubbles for your Facebook chat with your chosen font color and size

Mobile Phone Optimized Blogger Templates - Make Your Blogger Blog For Mobile Devices

Blogger or Blogspot has introduced several useful Mobile templates which can dynamically change your existing blog into mobile phone optimized site. This is something, I am sure, a big slice of Blogger users were waiting for long. Now they can be relieved to have a very easy way to transform their blogs into mobile compatible websites by just choosing an option to enable it.

How to Turn on Mobile Templates for Blogger Blogs?

Gmail Launches People Widget - Another Enhancement of Gmail or Just an Useless Addon?

Ya as you may have already guessed I am an extensive user of Gmail and none of the enhancements in it goes unnoticed by me. So this time its a new widget from Google which caught my eye. Actually, it was presented in such a way that it should caught the eye, something usual with Google product updates.

People Widget - shows up your contacts, who are mentioned in the current email you have opened, in the right top corner of the mail chain or as Google would say conversation list. I can understand Google realized it very strongly that emails conversations are all about the people you are communicating with. So they are showing additional information about that contact of yours.

So what additional information Gmail People Widget is going to show?

Those additional information includes the following -

Differences Between Strict and Transitional DOCTYPEs

Attributes which are deprecated in Strict DOCTYPEs:

• align (allowed on elements related to tables only, like - col, colgroup, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, and tr)


• target


• language


• background


• link


• hspace


• noshade


• nowrap


• bgcolor


• text


• vspace


• vlink


• alink


• height (allowed on img and object)


• border (allowed on table)


• width (allowed on img, object, table, col, and colgroup)


• name (allowed in HTML 4.01 Strict, not allowed on form and img in XHTML 1.0 Strict)

Top 5 Security Checks for your Website

Today just building up a website doesn’t help until you know how you can manage it. So before your website is getting into limelight, just be sure that you know how to fight hackers and spammers.

Here are the top 5 security guidelines for you to make your environment more secure and not letting it in the evil hands.

How to decrease the size of Flex Applications

While working on Flex you may have noticed that the application you design on Flex many times takes up a bit more disk space than it is intended. There are still some methods through which you can significantly decrease the size of those Flex applications up to 60-70 percent. Here is the detailed video of those processes to decrease the file size of your Flex files. Here you can see how a very simple Flex application of 375461 bytes is reduced to 50661 bytes.

Does Yahoo! Mail supports Opera?

I was quite confused for a long time and was thinking what is going on, when my favorite web based mail was behaving oddly. I don't know whether the problem is universal or not, but it is in my case. I can't work on Yahoo! Mail from Opera 9.21.

How to prevent directory browsing on your Website or Blog

Directory browsing means users can browse the directories of your website or blog. They can see you directory structure can browse that. It means all your directories are open to them and they get a clear idea about your website structure and different folders. This can be a security risk for your site. Suppose users can visit your images directory, your css or js directory on their browser. For wordpress users can see the wp-content directory, the themes, plugins directory. This is not good for your security.

How to make PhpBB Forums Search Engine Optimized (SEO)

Forums are extensively used as a platform of communication and interaction around the globe. PhpBB has been playing a very important role in developing popular boards and forums. This feature rich free software has many salient utilities which attract webmasters. PhpBB is serving the communities very much satisfactorily.

Delicious changes look and feel and improves its Usability

Delicious has re-designed their service website with many cool looks and huge Usability features. It seems that Delicious has decided to take a hands on to their competitors as well.

Delicious has a bold new design that is more powerful and easier to use, along with a revamped search that's faster and more robust. It's also full of useful features that people have been requesting for years

- says Delicious.

Promote your Blog/Website in Mobiles through Mofuse Pro - Now absolutely free

Having just a Blog or a Website does nothing today. If you want that visitors come to your website and see what you have to offer them, then you will have to promote your blog/website to various other horizons. One type of promotion that you should do now is promoting your web through mobiles and creating mobile accessible sites. Though this requires lots of testing and manipulation, you can do it.

How to display html codes in your blog posts

Many times you need to show up HTML or JavaScript or PHP codes in your posts, but you don't want them to execute. You just trying to show your users how to write the code. Then you need a tip so that the codes don't get executed, but show up as it is as texts. You can do it easily through pre tags. Anything you insert within a pre tag, it is displayed as it is as texts and not executed. Here is an example of using pre tags to show html codes.

Benefits of CSS based sites over Table based sites

There are lots of benefits in creating CSS based sites than table based sites. Always you may have heard the terms like tableless designs, CSS based sites etc. But if you have always thought that why you should leave your table based designs and take upon tableless designs, then here are the explanations to your thoughts. The key benefits to CSS based sites on tabled sites are:

Most Exciting Feature of Firefox

Firefox has been launched and claim to have more than 15,000 changes which are going to improve performance and stability of the browser. This version of Firefox i.e. Firefox 3 is based on the Gecko Web Rendering platform, version 1.9. Mozilla claims this version of Firefox to be much stable and with high performance value for its users. Mozilla claims this version of Firefox to be much stable and with high performance value for its users. Firefox 3 has also been improved in terms of security and sustainability, to provide its users more secure, easy and stable platform for web browsing.

Yahoo Filters are Not Working - You Are Loosing Your Mails

Ya, its right. Yahoo! has a mail filtering option, through which they say that you can take different decisions on your mails as per your choice. You can move different mails from different addresses to different folders, you can forward some mails. You can filter them on basis of sender address or subject, or even through content. Thats all they say. But recently this feature is not available with the new Yahoo! mail and they request to access that interface through their old Yahoo mail Classic. But they assure that any changes made there effects on new mail system also.

How to change the User Registration Terms of use in PhpBB3 forums

Forums has been always a great platform for user interaction and group discussion as well as development. It has several striking features which attracts millions of internet users to take part in millions of board communities for many years. PhpBB had always been pioneering these events. Though some of its features may have become irritating to forum owners and moderators, still it is the number 1 forum management software available for free worldwide. One of the irritating thing is that it has no direct option to change the terms and conditions of users’ registration page from its administration panel. So you will need to achieve it in other way.

How to add the RSS Feed icon in the address bar of browser

Today every website needs syndication to be published around the web. There are many types of syndication available today. the most popular syndication is RSS 2.0. You can see in every Web 2.0 websites, they have RSS feed for their sites. All Content Management Systems(CMS) and Blogging Softwares(eg. Wordpress) or forum softwares(eg. phpBB, vBulletin), provide you with RSS and Atom feeds by default. You can place them anywhere in your website. But it is necessary(rather conventional) to put the little red striped RSS icon at the right end of user's browsers' address bar.

A Designers guide to Raster Graphics vs Vector Graphics

We use many graphics while Web Designing and also for many Printing purposes. We Design Logos, Banners, Advertisements, Greetings, Gradients, Textures and many more which we use here and there. But we should know first that which are suitable for which platform. Whatever Graphics we use are of two types, Vector and Raster or Bitmap. There are many differences of these two types of graphics and we should know where to use which one.