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By madams1982 1 comments
Basic HTML tags and what they do... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
The new Blogger allows you to label posts. This categorizes your posts according to topic. When a reader clicks a label, they see all your posts in that category. Here's how to apply Blogger labels to several or all your posts in one action... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 includes a handy new feature for users with programming skills called Code Navigator. Code Navigator lets you open any page of code linked to your HTML page right in Dreamweaver. Here is how... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
HTML elements can have attributes. For example, an A element can have an HREF attribute. An IMG element can have a TITLE attribute. Using attribute selectors in CSS provides an additional way to hang styles on very specific elements. Here is how... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
Understanding CSS descendant selectors can help you target style rules for an exact area of your design... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
In the CS4 version of Adobe Dreamweaver, a number of changes have been implemented for creating a new CSS Rule. This article is a summary of those changes... more »
By 08Save and Make Money 1 comments
Ever wonder what you can do with domain names? You can purchase a domain name and use it very easily to make you money without even building a website..... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
Dreamweaver CS3 comes equipped with functions labeled Spry, which are a WYSIWYG way to add AJAX to a web page. They automatically provide you with HTML, CSS and JavaScripts to perform certain interactive functions. In this article you'll learn ... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
In Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 there are new ways to view both code and design or just code. You can even view the same page of code in two windows. Read on to learn how... more »
By SB Glasby 0 comments
CSS ( Cascading Style Sheets ), are not new. But to many they are a new way of designing web sites, to allow for seperation of design & content. Attaching and external CSS file to each page of you site will allow you to make site wide ... more »
By eHow Internet Editor 0 comments
Geolocation software is used in areas such as fraud detection, geomarketing, censorship, regional licensing, spam blocking and target content. You also can employ geolocation to redirect users to Web pages built specifically for their region. ... more »
By Anthony Delgado 3 comments
Google search engine optimization is a very complicated thing. Interestingly enough, Google gives you all the tools you need. Search engine optimization (SEO) is important as most of the traffic to an article or website will come from the search ... more »
By Jonathan West 3 comments
Graphic and animation can be a major benefit to a web site, but it can also do just as much harm if used inappropriately. Here are some steps to make sure this does not happen to your web site... more »
By yvette26 1 comments
Know the right HTML tags to manually insert links into your website... more »
By Laura Chapman 3 comments
This article will give you an overview of all the ways to use HTML tags to create links on your website. I will explain creating basic links, using images as links, creating mail to links, using the anchor tag to link to text in the same page, ... more »
By EMAE77 2 comments
This is a basic HTML tutorial for links... more »
By cricketgo 2 comments
I am going to show you how to write a link without the whole link showing, using html. That way your links will say whatever you want, for instance, "click here" or "great program" or anything you want to write... more »
By Aimee30 2 comments
These are the only solutions I have found to make links from HTML tags. The first two involve graphics, the third method requires XHTML compatibility. Read on to find out the ways I have found to do this... more »
By Laura Schofield 4 comments
Linking is at the heart of the internet! Learn how to code your links straight out of HTML, typing them directly into a text editor. You should also learn not only HOW to link, but how to make the most of your links! This brief guide will show ... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
Microformats are standardized snippets of HTML that can be inserted in any blog or web page. These bits of HTML code are recognized by people, organizations, calendars, social networks and other tools and provide information in a standard format. ... more »
By Jonathan West 1 comments
Music is a double edged sword in web design, and must be used wisely. Here are some steps to make sure you do!.. more »
By Alrady 8 comments
The premise is that people almost always read captions. Next to that google adsense crawlers read captions and the html. The Google Adsense spider crawlers look at the page source not images. If you check your page source you will see the ... more »
By eHow Internet Editor 0 comments
Private label rights (PLR) articles arose in the early days of the Internet out of a need for webmasters to get content easily and inexpensively for their Web sites. Thanks to some savvy and successful Internet marketers, the use of PLR articles ... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
Like any other type of knowledge, knowing the correct terms for the bits and pieces of HTML will help you think about it, understand it and communicate with others about it. This article will identify the proper names for items in HTML... more »
By Virginia DeBolt 0 comments
In basic HTML, one of the first things you learn is that there are relative and absolute links that you can use in your web pages. Absolute links are usually described as a link to an external site that includes the full URL. But there is a type ... more »