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19 November 2008

• New Article: How to Uninstall KompoZer (Free WYSIWYG Web Editor). Since KompoZer does not come with an uninstaller, and some users cannot figure out how to remove it when they have moved on from the editor, this article guides you through the process of removing KompoZer from your Windows computer.

17 November 2008

• New Article: How to Create a Rectangular Box to Contain Your Text/Pictures with CSS. Sometimes it's useful to be able to separate some content from the rest of your page by enclosing it in a rectangular box. This tutorial shows you how you can accomplish this using CSS.

12 November 2008

• New Article: Why Don't You Use the Keywords Meta Tag on Your Website? If you have heard or read somewhere of the importance of the keywords meta tag, read this article on why I don't use such tags on my website.

7 November 2008

• New Article: How to Add a Background Image to Your Web Page in KompoZer and Nvu. Learn how to use a picture as a background image for your web pages, using the free WYSIWYG web editors Nvu and KompoZer, in this newest article.

28 October 2008

• New Article: Review of Amaya: W3C's Free WYSIWYG Web Authoring Environment. Is Amaya, the W3 Consortium's free WYSIWYG web editor up to snuff for creating and editing modern websites? Find out more in this review of the editor.

24 October 2008

• New Article: How to Create and Customize a Table with Dreamweaver. Tables are useful if you want to display data and show the relationship between different bits of information. This tutorial shows you how you can create and customize your tables using the popular Dreamweaver web editor.

20 October 2008

• New Article: Should Your URLs Point to the Directory or the Index Page? Which is better, a web address like example.com/about/ or example.com/about/index.html? This article discusses the issues involved with both forms of URL.

17 October 2008

• New Article: How to Add a CSS Navigation Button Menu to Your Website with Dreamweaver. Thinking of adding a navigation menu to your site, one that has buttons that change colour when a mouse hovers over it? This tutorial shows you how to add such a menu bar, one that is purely CSS based and doesn't require any JavaScript or any such facilities.

13 October 2008

• New Article: How to Create 3D Buttons Using CSS. Learn how to create text buttons that look like graphical 3D buttons using only Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

7 October 2008

• New Article: Where Should I Put Common Elements of My Web Pages? SSI vs Frames vs JavaScript vs Templates If you don't plan carefully, updating the design of your website can be a great hassle, involving manual changes of the same thing across all the pages of your website. While there are various technologies available to make your job easier, all of them have downsides. Should you use SSI, frames, JavaScripts or your web editor's template system to handle the common elements that are present on every page? This article discusses the issues involved with each method.

1 October 2008

• New Article: How to Create Good Filenames for Your Web Pages. What makes a good filename for your web page? This article gives some guidelines to creating URLs that will not cause problems in the future.

22 September 2008

• New Article: How to Create a Thumbnail that When Clicked Opens a Larger Version of the Picture in Dreamweaver. Are you thinking of creating a photo gallery website or a web photo album, but cannot figure out how to create a thumbnail picture link that will lead to a bigger version of the photo when clicked? This tutorial shows you how to do this using Dreamweaver.

16 September 2008

• New Article: How to Secure Your WordPress Blog. In the past few months, I have come across a number of WordPress blogs that have been hacked to deliver malware. Don't let your blog be the next victim of hackers. This tutorial discusses some ways in which you can increase the security of your blog so that it is less vulnerable to being compromised.

10 September 2008

• New Article: How to Improve the Accessibility of Your Website. Are you unknowingly preventing certain types of visitors from using your website? This tutorial discusses how you can improve the accessibility of your website so that people who are blind, colour-blind, have poor eyesight and those who are both blind and deaf can use your site.

9 September 2008

• New Article: How to Prevent a Directory Listing of Your Website with .htaccess. If you don't have an index.html in one of your website's directories, do you know that your visitors can see every file that is present in that directory? This article shows you how you can prevent that from happening.

5 September 2008

• New Article: 6 Things Every Webmaster Should Know About Google Chrome. It's the hottest new gadget on the Internet. But everybody is talking about Google's new web browser from the point of view of an end-user. As a webmaster, Google Chrome presents both new problems and opportunities. This article discusses 6 things about the browser that every web developer should know.

2 September 2008

• New Article: How to Change the Default Web Page that is Shown When Someone Goes to Your Domain Name. Do you need a different file (other than index.html) to be displayed when someone types your domain name in a web browser? Perhaps you want a special script to be invoked, or a file with some other name? This tutorial shows you how you can accomplish this by adding a single line to your .htaccess file.

26 August 2008

• New Article: How to Remove the Underlining from Your Links in Nvu/KompoZer. Is the blue underlining underneath your links spoiling your website's beautiful design? This tutorial shows you how you can remove it using Nvu and KompoZer.

21 August 2008

• New Article: How to Write Dates that Can Be Correctly Understood by an International Audience. Find out how to write dates in your blog or website in a format that can be understood correctly by your visitors no matter which country of the world they come from. This article delves into the tricky problem of the ambiguous date formats found on a number of websites today.

19 August 2008

• New Article: How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with .htaccess. Tired of all the bots traversing your website, stealing email address, probing for security vulnerabilities and otherwise draining your bandwidth? This article shows you how you can block unwanted bots from your site through a bit of .htaccess magic.

12 August 2008

• New Article: 3 Things to Be Aware of When Writing English Content for an International Audience. Do you know that "football" does not mean the same game in different countries? Or that "brackets" refer to different symbols depending on where you are? This article discusses the differences in the English that can hurt your site if you are not careful.

7 August 2008

• New Article: Which Software Do You Use for Web Development? I'm often asked which programs I use in the course of creating and maintaining my websites. This article reviews some of the tools I use.

4 August 2008

• New Article: How to Add Google AdSense Advertisements to Your Website with KompoZer. Are you thinking of adding Google AdSense advertisements to your website but don't know how? This tutorial shows you the way in 6 easy steps, using the free web editor KompoZer.

29 July 2008

• New Article: How to Make Your Website to Fill an Entire Browser Window with Dreamweaver. When you create a site using one of the supplied layouts in Dreamweaver, your web page does not occupy the full width of the browser window. How do you modify it so that it stretches out to fill the entire width? This article shows you how you can do it in 4 easy steps.

23 July 2008

• New Article: How to Prevent Your Images or Text from Going Out of Alignment When Your Visitors Resize Their Web Browsers in Nvu/KompoZer. Do the graphics and text on your site get misaligned when your site is viewed in a larger browser window or different monitor resolution? This article explains how you can fix the problem using the free web editors, Nvu and KompoZer.

16 July 2008

• New Article: How to Centre a DIV Block Using CSS. How do you centre a block containing text and/or images without centering the text inside the block itself? This tutorial shows you the standards-compliant way to do it with CSS.

14 July 2008

• New Article: Is it Okay to Post YouTube Videos on My Website? (Copyright Question) Are there copyright issues when you embed someone else's YouTube video on your site or blog? What other practical issues should you be aware of before you insert a third-party YouTube video into your web page or blog post? This article deals with these questions.

8 July 2008

• New Article: How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It (Using CSS). Fascinated by the links on websites that are highlighted with a different colour when the mouse hovers over it? This article teaches you how you can create the same effect on your website using straightforward CSS.

2 July 2008

• New Article: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Dreamweaver. Continuing the series of articles on how to earn money from your website is this tutorial on how you can add Google advertisements, or AdSense, to your website using the well-known Dreamweaver web editor. All it takes is 6 easy steps.

30 June 2008

• New Article: What is HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl? Do I Need to Learn Them to Create a Website? If you're thinking of starting your own website, and are stumped by terms like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP and Perl, take a look at this article, explaining them as well as describing what you'll need to do to create a website.

24 June 2008

• New Article: How to Use PHP Sessions to Store Data. Why struggle with cookies if what you want to do can be done automatically by using the built-in PHP sessions capability? This tutorial shows you how you can use sessions in PHP to store and retrieve your data. It also discusses when it's appropriate to use sessions and when cookies or other data storage methods are more suitable.

10 June 2008

• New Article: How to Add Google Advertisements (AdSense) to Your Website Using Nvu. I was asked by a visitor how she could add Google advertisements (AdSense) to her website using the free web editor, Nvu. This article shows you how you can do it in 6 easy steps.

6 June 2008

• New Article: How Add or Remove the WWW Prefix from Your Domain Name. How do you automatically add the "www" prefix to your domain name? Or perhaps you want to remove the "www" prefix from a URL. Doing either of these may save your site from duplicate content issues in the search engines if your site is often referred to by both forms (that is, example.com AND www.example.com). This article shows you how you can fix this by simply adding a few lines to your .htaccess file.

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