The features you include in your business Web site can make or break the project. These key features will help increases users and usage for both your intranet or extranet deployments.

A user defined type (UDT) is a Visual Basic technique for defining a data type that exactly meets the needs of your program.

As more and more Web sites begin using XML for their content, it's increasingly important for Web developers to know how to parse XML data and convert it into different formats. That's where the Perl module called XML::Simple comes in. It takes away the drudgery of parsing XML data, making the process easier than you ever thought possible.

Processing form data in PHP is significantly simpler than most other Web programming languages. This simplicity and ease of use makes it possible to do some fairly complex things with forms, including handling multiple submit buttons in the same form.

In the final part in this series, Builder AU wraps up with advice for developers wanting to take their mobile applications to market.

Sun has backed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating system will have an open source flavour by making a similar promise for its Java technology.

Lots of high-res images can really spruce up a Web site. But they can also slow it down-- images are files, files use bandwidth, and bandwidth is directly related to wait times. It's time you get yourself an education on how to speed things up with a little trick called image preloading.

Need a menu for your Web app? Builder AU Technical Editor, David McAmis explains hierarchical menus and offers a free code download to get your project started.

Proper use of design patterns in software development allows you to exploit previous experience with proven arrangements of objects, greatly increasing the efficiency of the coding process. Apply design patterns in your next project and reap the benefits.

While JavaScript has many applications, working with string values is one of the most popular. Strings are objects within the JavaScript language. They are not stored as character arrays, so built-in functions must be used to manipulate their values. The functions provide various ways to access the contents of a string variable. Let?s take a closer look at these functions.

Constant variables are vitally important to C++ coding, but you can run into problems depending on when the value of the constant is determined. These techniques and code samples will enable you to move constants from compile time to runtime efficiently.

Have you hit a wall in your project and want to know where to find the answers? Local tech commentator Tony Stevenson asked some seasoned developers their tips to finding help.

You can use PHP to position HTML elements. Here's how.

Use this reference page to identify various HTML tags.

There are several ways to create tables with HTML. Here's how.