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• Creating a Common Navigation Panel without Frames
  Using external Javascripts for navigation avoids the need for frames.
   
• Want to ensure that browsers don't adjust your column Widths?
  How to make sure your table columns are as wide as you want them to be.
   
• Defining Multiple Frames
  How to define a frameset.
   
• Concealing the Page Name (note: uses frames)
  By puting your page into frames you can avoid having the filename for the page show in the address bar.
   
• Linking to Foreign Language Sites using Babelfish Translation
  Translate your web pages into other languages using Babelfish.
   
• The Back Button
  Adding a back button or link to your web page.
   
• Specifying Fonts
  How to tell your web page what fonts to use.
   
• Linking to Elsewhere on the Same Page
  How to create hyperlinks that take you to elsewhere on the same page.
   
• Creating a Thumbnail Image Link
  How to link your thumbnail image to a larger one.
   
• Concealing your Email Address from Internet Spiders
  How to make it harder for your email address to be stolen by spambots.
   
• Country Selection Drop Down Box
  A free country selection drop down box you can add to your page.
   
• Linking to Other Pages via a Drop Down Selection Box
  You can use a drop down box for your site navigation.
   
• Page Transitions with Internet Explorer
  Internet Explorer allows you to create fancy transitions between pages. Here's how.
   
• Fully Justified Text
  Justify your web page to both left and right margins.
   
• Describing Your Page to Search Engines
  Setting up meta tags to display a description in search engine results lists.
   
• Setting Link Colours
  Setting the colours for your hyperlinks.
   
• Creating Groups of Radio Buttons
  How to identify radio buttons as belonging to the same group.
   
• A Hyperlink to "Print"
  How to place a link on your page that will print it out..
   
• Partial Protection of Images
  A way to partly protect your images by hiding them behind a transparent image.
   
• Page Layout Using Tables
  How to use tables to control the layout of your web page.
   
• Linking to Downloadable Files
  How to provide downloadable files on your web site.
   
• Using thead, tbody, and tfoot
  Specifying your table headers and footers using the thead and tfoot tags.
   
• Counting Lost Visitors
  You can count the number of people who start loading your page and the number who finish loading it. The difference is the lost visitor count.
   
• Compressing your HTML
  Make your html file as small as possible so it loads faster.
   
• The Navigation Bar
  Defining the entries to appear in the browser navigation bar.
   
• Displaying HTML Source Code in Web Pages
  A simple form that will convert HTML source code into text that can be displayed in a web page.
   
• Converting HTML to Javascript
  A simple form that will convert HTML source code into Javascript.
   
• Disabling the View Source Favelet
  Blocking the View Source Favelet from decrypting page source.
   
• Combo Boxes
  HTML doesn't include a combo box but you can easily create one.
   
• Creating an HTML Head Block
  A form to generate the head block for your page.
   
• Gaps Between Images
  Resolving problems with white space.
   
• Relative Address Quirks
  Some unusual quirks in the way that relative internet addressing works.
   
• Web Site Popularity
  Trying to work out how popular your web site is, then here are some ideas.
   
• Radio Button Text Selection
  Allow visitors to your page to select a radio button by clicking on the associated text.
   
• Mathematical Symbols
  Codes that you can use to include Mathematical calculations in your text.
   
• "Google Advertising Tools"
  A Review of the book published by O'Reilly.
   
• "Google Advertising Tools - second edition"
  A review of the new updated edition.
   
• Multi-Page Forms
  Creating forms that go over more than one page.
   
• Why Use XHTML
  Reasons why XHTML can be a better choice than HTML.
   
• Naming Form Fields
  You can't just name form fields with any characters that you like, there are clearly defined rules on what you can and can't use.
   
• No Right Click and MySpace
  You can no more block the context menu on MySpace than you can on any other web site.
   
• Javascript and MySpace
  Since MySpace doesn't support Javascript is there an alternative?
   
• "Build your own Web Site the Right Way using HTML & CSS"
  A Review of the book published by Sitepoint.
   
• Getting Started
  What do you need to put your site onto the web?
   
• Robots Meta Tag
  Controlling how the search engines spider your site.
   
• Filling a Table Cell
  How to stop whitespace messing up your image placement.
   
• HTML & XHTML the Definitive Guide
  Want to know what some obscure HTML tag or attribute was supposed to mean? This book will tell you.
   
• Gradient Backgrounds Without Images
  Can background gradients be done without needing a conventional background image.
   
• The Ultimate HTML Reference
  This book contains excellent material that is let down by a few simple formatting issues.
   
• Alternative HTML in Forms
  The way you code your form fields can make the subsequent processing of the form easier.
   
• IE Fieldset Bleed Bugs
  Internet Explorer handles the background behind fieldset elements incorrectly. Here's a way to fix it.
   
• Microformats
  A new standard way to semantically identify some page content for which specific HTML tags do not exist.
   
• The Alt Attribute
  Lots of people get the purpose of the alt attribute mixed up with that of the title attribute.
   
• Build Your Own Web Site the Right Way
  The second edition of this book isn't as good as the first.
   
• HTML Right or Wrong
  Looking at the difference between writing proper valid HTML and writing something that works but which may not be valid.
   
• Form Fields Without Form Tags
  When is it valid to code form fields without a form tag wrapper.
   
• HTML and Fonts
  Why did they do away with the font tag in HTML and how are you supposed to set fonts without it?
   
• HTML and Whitespace
  Whitespace in your HTML source is automatically reduced to a single space. Here we look at how you should control what whitespace actually appears in your web page.
   
• HTML and Downloading
  There are two ways to attempt to control whether linked files are displayed in the browser or offered for download.
   
• HTML and Font Size
  There is no way to control the sizes of fonts from properly written HTML so how exactly do we recommend font sizes to our visitors?
   
• Uses of the "id" Attribute
  This is one of the most versatile attributes you can use in your web page as it has a number of different uses.
   
• Doctypes and HTML Versions
  Just exactly what is a doctype and what is its real relationship to the HTML you write.
   
• Protecting Email Addresses in Web Pages
  Place an email address in a web page and it will receive lots of spam. Here's how to prevent that.
   
• Anatomy of a Web Page
  There is more to a web page than just a doctype followed by HTML.
   
• Maintainability or Efficiency
  HTML defines some tags as optional. Here's a discussion of the trade off between including and not including optional tags.
   
• HTML Standard to Follow
  There are a number of different HTML standards that have been developed since HTML was first created. Let's consider which one is the appropriate one to be following right now.
   
• InfoLinks Advertising
  There are various ways to add advertising to a web page and various companies that can provide ads.
   
• "Using Joomla"
  The book that tells you how Joomla works and how to use it to build a web site.
   
• "Web Design For Developers"
  This book introduces the basics of web design assuming that you are already familiar with web development.
   
• Invalid HTML
  Reasons why having errors in your HTML may not be a good idea even if it works in popular browsers.
   
• "HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference"
  A pocket sized reference to HTML 3.2, 4 and 5. The only problem is that the obsolete and draft entries are all jumbled in with the standard ones.
   
• Embed - A Tag With No Purpose
  There is nothing that the proprietary embed tag can do that the standard object tag can't.
   
• Forum Links and SEO
  Just how useful are links to your site from forums?
   
• Updating to HTML 4
  While some are talking about HTML 5 most still havent finished transitioning to HTML 4.
   
• "HTML & CSS The Good Parts"
  Some people's idea of what parts of HTML are good are not the same as other people's.
   
• Standards for Markup Languages
  SGML is to markup languages as HTML is to web pages.
   
• language First
  You wouldn't write your content before selecting whether to write in English, French, Spanish, or whatever so why write the HTML and then ask what language to identify it as?
   
• Web Page Width
  Lots of beginners ask what screen resolution they should design their web page for - heres the answer.
   
• Why Doesn't This Site Do What I Say You Should Do With HTML And CSS?
  What I recommend you do with HTML and CSS in the content of these pages does not necessarily correspond to the way the HTML and CSS used on the page itself are written. Here's the explanation on why you should do what I say and not do what I did (back when I created this site).
   
• Two Standards for HTML
  The standards that those creating web browsers need to follow with respect to HTML and those that the people creating web pages should follow are very different.
   
• HTML for Web Page Authors
  The W3C standards are written for those creating the browsers and so not everything it says to allow should actually be used by web authors.
   
• Copyright and the Web
  There is no difference in the way copyright works on the web to the way that it works elsewhere - material on the web is sublect to copyright.
   
• Tables For Layout - Why Not?
  There are many reasons why using HTML tables for layout is a bad idea and it has never really been a good idea. The only reason it ever got used in the first place was because the alternatives that are now available weren't there at the time.
   
• HTML Versions
  Which is the current standard for (X)HTML is dependent on what browsers support them and not on what the standards body says is the standard.
   
• The Site Owner's Attitude
  The attitude that the owner of a web site has will make a big difference to the designer's job in designing their site.
   
• HTML5 or Not
  A discussion of when it might be appropriate to start using HTML 5.
   
• When to use the <i> Tag
  There are times when italics does not mean emphasis.
   
• Old HTML
  Most web pages are still written using HTML tags that were made obsolete in 1997.
   
• Common HTML Validation Errors
  The most common HTML validation errors, what the errors mean, and how to fix them.
   

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