Internet How-Tos

How To: Use the Firefox Firebug extension for web design

Firebug is an essential Firefox extension for web designers and developers. You are able to quickly target any element on a page to see the markup, the CSS, the layout, and the DOM in an instant. Not only can you see all of this juicy information, you can edit and see the results directly in the browser window. This makes Firebug the go-to tool for debugging CSS trouble. Also indispensable for Javascript programmers. So all you Internet website designers out there, pay close attention to this...

How To: Use One-Click Paste in Firefox

Make copy-and-paste chores a snap with this quick Firefox tweak from Tekzilla. Just type about:config into the address bar, find "middlemouse.paste," the double-click on the value to change it from false to true. That's it. Anything you cut in Firefox you can paste back into Firefox by clicking on the scroll wheel in-between the buttons on your mouse.

How To: Use Quick Rank in AddWeb Website Promoter 8

AddWeb Website Promoter is an extremely popular program that helps webmasters promote their site on search engines. In this installment, we explore AddWeb's Quick Rank Feature.This feature allows you to run ranking reports that are not tied to profiles. You will want to do this when you want to test out keywords and phrases without committing them to be part of your normal website profile.

How To: Encrypt Gmail messages with GPG and FireGPG

This tutorial will show how to use GPG and the FireGPG plug-in to encrypt and decrypt messages in Gmail. GPG is an open source implementation of OpenPGP (Pretty Good Privacy) , a public-key-encryption system. With public key encryption you don?t have to give away the secret key that decrypts data for people to be able to send you messages. All senders need is the public key which can only be used to encrypt, this way the secret key never has to be sent across unsecured channels. Encrypt Gmail...

How To: Hack websites with SQL injection and WebGoat

SQL injection is a common web application attack that focuses on the database backend. WebGoat is a deliberately insecure J2EE web application maintained by OWASP designed to teach web application security lessons. I plan to use WebGoat for a few future videos. This first WebGoat video will show the basics of installing WebGoat and doing two of its SQL injection lessons. Hack websites with SQL injection and WebGoat.