Put the answer in context - it may be printed

For 2023 - we are now fully retired from IT training.
We have made many, many friends over 25 years of teaching about Python, Tcl, Perl, PHP, Lua, Java, C and C++ - and MySQL, Linux and Solaris/SunOS too. Our training notes are now very much out of date, but due to upward compatability most of our examples remain operational and even relevant ad you are welcome to make us if them "as seen" and at your own risk.

Lisa and I (Graham) now live in what was our training centre in Melksham - happy to meet with former delegates here - but do check ahead before coming round. We are far from inactive - rather, enjoying the times that we are retired but still healthy enough in mind and body to be active!

I am also active in many other area and still look after a lot of web sites - you can find an index ((here))

Always remember that your web appllication user is likely to print out the final page and keep it. And it will be pretty useless to him if it doesn't contain certain information - information such as the inputs he made in order to produce the page.

Q: At what time on 7th December do .... trains leave Melksham for Swindon, after 5 p.m.

A: 17:02 and 21:33

But don't just output the two times. Restate the question in the answer, even adding in extra confirmatory gems: "Trains for Swindon leave Melksham (after 17:00) leave at 17:02 and 21:33 on Thursday, 7th December".

There are excpetions - people would get rather unhappy with you if you echoed their password of their credit card details, though they will be thankful for the last 4 digits of their card number so that they can recall, later, which card it was that they used.
(written 2006-09-08)

Associated topics are indexed as below, or enter http://melksh.am/nnnn for individual articles

W512 - Web and Intranet - Site Design Aspects
  [229] A fortunate accident - (2005-02-27)
  [261] Putting a form online - (2005-03-29)
  [288] Colour blindness for web developers - (2005-04-22)
  [319] Accommodation and landing pages - (2005-05-21)
  [345] Spotting a denial of service attack - (2005-06-12)
  [352] Improved mining techniques! - (2005-06-19)
  [391] One mans pleasure is another mans poison - (2005-07-26)
  [510] Dynamic Web presence - next generation web site - (2005-11-29)
  [556] Colour doesn't have to mean colourful - (2006-01-06)
  [649] Denial of Service ''attack'' - (2006-03-17)
  [718] Protecting images from theft - (2006-05-12)
  [795] Remember a site's non-technical issues too - (2006-07-07)
  [823] An excellent use for a visitor count? - (2006-08-05)
  [918] Databases needn't be frightening, hard or expensive - (2006-11-08)
  [1015] Search engine placement - long term strategy and success - (2006-12-30)
  [1047] Maintainable code - some positive advice - (2007-01-21)
  [1054] UK legal requirements for your commercial web site - (2007-01-27)
  [1353] Mood shots - (2007-09-16)
  [1598] Every link has two ends - fixing 404s at the recipient - (2008-04-02)
  [2214] Global Index to help you find resources - (2009-06-01)
  [3517] Tags used in writing this blog - (2011-11-12)
  [3563] How big is a web page these days? Does the size of your pages matter? - (2011-12-26)
  [3589] Promoting a single one of your domains on the search engines - (2012-01-22)

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