World Magazine 2024

Getting effective feedback, using mailto links and HTML forms Your Web site exists to serve its visitors. Prospective customers have to be able to find the information they need to decide whether they want to do business with you, and existing customers need ongoing support. You know your site tells …

Creating Accurate Page Descriptions is Very Important! When you are out on the Internet, there are lots of signposts to help you figure out where you are. Obviously, there’s the address of the site you’re visiting. But, just as important, there is the page title. That’s the title of the …

For a comprehensive list of shortcuts, ask the Answer Wizard for help. In FrontPage 2000, press F1 to display Help, click the Answer Wizard tab, and then type keyboard shortcuts in the text box. Here are some of the most useful FrontPage shortcut keys: Activity Shortcut Keys Help F1 Select …

More Special Characters With the exception of HTML 2.0‘s “, &, <, and >, browser support for these entities is generally poor. Recent browsers support some of these character entity references and decimal character references, and more are sure to come. Character Entity Decimal Hex Rendering in Your Browser Entity …

Using an Outline to Build your Website! There’s no doubt that if you were to think back to your days in school, you may remember your teacher always telling you to write an outline before you started writing a paper. You may not have been listening, but you really should …

Clean Code, Sloppy Code, or maybe something in between? Every day we hear people complain about being unable to read HTML code. On the other hand, we also listen to complaints from IT personnel and users alike, about how long it takes for relatively simple as well as complicated pages …

Picture Swapping in FrontPage Here’s a cool trick for you to use on your Web site. A visitor clicks on a photo, and when the clicking’s done, the picture disappears and transforms into an image of a checkmark or another image entirely. Cool huh? Want do that on your Web …

How You Name Your Pages Is Important! Say you’re in the Navigation view of FrontPage and you just added a bunch of different pages to create that all-important outline. The only problem is that the pages have non-descriptive names like new_page_1.htm and new_page_2.htm. Okay, so how do you change them? …

Latin (Euro) Character Entities The table below provides you with character entity references, decimal character references, and hexadecimal character references for 8-bit characters in the Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) character set, as well as the rendering of each in your browser. Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium. As …

HTML, The Basics and Clean Code! Many speak of writing HTML code as programming, but in the strict sense it isn’t. HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. While HTML can be used to have a browser do many things, it doesn’t perform the types of tasks programming in C+ or …