World Magazine 2023

Ten Tune-up Tips For Windows 98 Performance Reducing Desktop clutter and the number of programs starting (Cont.) Quite often the only reference you may find to some of the programs that are starting when Windows starts will be buried within the Windows 98 registry. You can remove these entries easily …

What is the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP)? The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, or SMTP, is the de facto standard for electronic mail transport across the Internet. When you send an e-mail message, SMTP packages your message in a kind of envelope and relays it to its destination. Multiple servers …

If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left click here! Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) and Windows 98 (all versions) provide support for PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) Bus IRQ steering. Through the use of  IRQ steering, Windows can dynamically assign …

Is that Folders List in the Way? Sometimes when you’re working on Web pages, the screen can get so cluttered its hard to find anything. This is especially true if you’re working on a small 15″ monitor. Okay, you’re looking at your Web site using the Navigation or Hyperlinks view, …

Page Transitions – Part Two When you go and see a movie, you can see how directors can create different effects as they move from scene to scene. They cut, fade, blend, etcetera. You can do something similar with your Web page, you can create page transitions that allow you, …

Using Thumbnails In FrontPage You have whole bunch of pictures on your Web pages and you don’t want to make people wait forever to download the whole lot of them, so what’s the solution? Create thumbnails of each image. That way, if someone wants to see that larger-than-life photo of …

Entities for Symbols and Greek Letters The table below will provide you with the character entity references, decimal character references and hexadecimal character references for Greek symbols and letters, as well as the rendering of each in your browser. Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium. Browser …

Adding a Page Transition to a Web Page If you have used Microsoft’s PowerPoint presentation graphics, you are probably already familiar with page transitions. Using transitions on web pages can create added interest for your visitors, just don’t get carried away on your Web site! We recommend that you only …

Text Change on Mouse-Over This is a great effect to add to your Web page. How about some text that changes as visitors scroll over it on the page? Sound like fun? First, highlight the text that you want to have change in appearance. Now, choose Format, Dynamic HTML Effects. …

EXPANDING YOUR MENUS Have you ever looked for a function on the FrontPage menu and can’t find it, but you know it’s there somewhere? If you look at the bottom of the menu, you’ll see a double arrow pointing down. Hold your cursor over that double arrow for just a …