This week I’m going to show you how to make your mouse arrow customized using simple actionscript in Flash.

This is a neat effect you can use if you want the mouse to match the scheme of your site, but try not to go overboard as lots of Flash developers have done in the past.

Did you know you can customize your web page head tags (h1, h2, h3, etc.) using cascading style sheets (CSS)? It is a quick and easy process that allows you broader combination choices of font style, size, color, etc. than the boring, standard HTML alternative.

By design, the server that hosts your web site delivers a 404 Error / Page Not Found when a surfer clicks on a link that the server cannot find or something else unexpected happens. The most common error page is the HTTP 404 “Not found: The requested URL/whatever.html was not found on this server.”

When visitors to your site misspell your URLs, or follow broken links to your pages, their browser will display a ’404 Error’ page that will tell them that the page they were trying to access does not exist. At this point, they will most likely leave, rather than trying to guess how to get to their intended destination.

One thing that’s certain on the Web is nothing stays the same for very long. This is especially true when it comes to pages of your website. When you first create your site you may think you’ll never need to alter the structure. But as your site grows, chances are there will come a day when you need to move or change the names of existing pages.

With the release of OS X, business owners have realized a tremendous ncrease in the number of pre-built applications (many ported from the UNIX world). Even with this increase, companies sometimes find it difficult to switch to the Mac or run their business entirely on Macs because of one or two specific applications are available only for Windows.

This is a question I get a lot when I bring up custom tags. A custom tag is a piece of code that you create and you call it from within your ColdFusion applications. Think of it as a “SNIPPLET” that you can implement at any time, anywhere in your site. What can you do with a custom tag? Well, just about anything!

If your site is hosted on a Unix or Linux server which runs Apache, you may already be familiar with your .htaccess file.

You may have noticed that several keywords on the EggHeadCafe website get converted to links (like XML for example) after the initial page loads. We refer to these as custom Smart Tags. Of course, we really don’t use Microsoft’s Smart Tag technology. We utilize JavaScript and IE behaviors to dynamically convert the keywords to links. One of the major challenges we faced with creating this process was not disturbing existing form elements and links. No small task…