Creating a Tabbed Navigation menu with under tab descriptions

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Here's another navigation tutorial but this time im being a bit different, since my last navigation tut Creating A Drop Down menu I wanted to be a bit different and step away from the boring one level navigation bars. Well in this tutorial you will learn how to create a tabbed navigation menu, complete with a under tab description feature, which when you hover on a certain tab a description will appear below the navigation bar, I've seen a few of these around, but most of them use javascript when really you don't need it if your looking for something simple. Im going to teach you how to create this using HTML lists and CSS styling no javascript involved.

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Protecting your website from spam and misuse

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If your a owner of website that is generally popular and your website features functions like commenting, then you are bound to get random spam comments that appear everywhere, other functions that are often targetted include contact forms, random bot users that register to your website (If it has some form of member system) and more functions that spammers generally attack. As well as spam there also the problem of what is known as leeching. Leeching is the act of where some leeches your content e.g. Grabs the source code or url for some form of content thats hosted on your website and posts it somewhere (While linking to the file on your webspace). These problems need to be controlled and stop and in this article, you'll see some methods of how to to exactly that. Ladies and Gentlemen were in DEFCON 3!

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My new Compaq Presario CQ60 Laptop

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Well a couple of weeks ago my toshiba decided to give up the ghost and the screen internally failed, the screen has already been replaced once and it's a few years old now, so I think it was time for upgrade, though I must say my dad actually bought me my new laptop! Out of the blue too. I was planning to save up for a new one once I found a job, but my dad asked me where my laptop was one weekend and I said the screens gone again, and then last week out of the blue decided just came out with "oh yeah son im buying you a new laptop" shock wasn't the word. So thanks Dad! Even though I didn't stop saying thank you all the way through the store when we bought it! So for the past two weeks me and my Dad have been Laptop hunting and in the end found the Compaq Presario CQ60 as a great choice!

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My Thoughts on the PSP Go

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Recently at E3, Sony Computer Entertainment (SCE) annouced and unveiled it's newest model of the PSP (PlayStation Portable) the PSP Go. While the name doesn't sound that interesting there are some interesting viewpoints on the console itself already, and it hasn't even hit the stores yet. What I know from reading various articles and reading articles from Sony themselves is that the PSP Go is to be a contendor to rival the recently released new Nintendo DSi amongst other devices currently on the market. I generally don't like to bitch about a console to much because it makes me sound like a fanboy, but really im not. I think the whole fan boy groups are sad and lame and quite possibly need to get laid but anyway back to Sony and the PSP Go.

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Variables, Numbers and functions in PHP

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I haven't done many PHP Tutorials recently so I decided I'd be writing a couple of PHP tutorials over the new few days, pretty basic stuff nothing complicated. In this tutorial were going to be learning about variables and numbers in PHP, im going to show you how they work and how you can use them, you'll also learn how to create your own variables and how to use pre-defined variables. You'll also see how they work and how you can apply them to future scripts that you may make in the future!

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