When you decide to place a thumbnail image in your web page, you usually will want that thumbnail to link to a full sized copy of the same image. One way to do this is by having the larger version open in a separate window. In this tutorial we look at how to code our [...]

Unlike Microsoft Word, WordPerfect can convert documents into HTML that is almost good enough to use on the web. This article was written several years ago now so the versions of the software and HTML that it refers to are fairly dated but the same situation probably still applies today with the latest versions of [...]

This pocket sized reference covers a whole three versions of HTML. There are the old obsolete HTML 3.2 codes (as permitted under the HTML 4 transitional doctype), the current standard HTML 4 (strict) codes, and the preliminary draft HTML 5 codes. They are all labelled as to which version they apply to but are unfortunately [...]

This is one of the most commonly asked questions for people just starting out with creating their first web site. There are a large number of reasons why images might not appear on a new web site but some of them are far more likely than others. The obvious place to start if this happens [...]

Not all of the links on a web page necessarily need to go to other pages on the web. Sometimes it is convenient to be able to place a series of links at the top and/or bottom of the page that will take people to a point part way down the current web page. To [...]

Why worry about validating your HTML? Well there are a number of reasons why it is best to avoid using HTML that doesn’t validate.
Invalid HTML

I started writing pages about using stylesheets long before separating it out into its own section of my site. One of the first articles on stylesheets that I wrote was one on how you can effectively generate your own tags for whatever you want to include in the HTML by simply assigning a class to [...]

Perhaps the biggest mistake that people make when it comes to programs such as Microsoft Word or Microsoft Publisher is when they try to use one of those programs as a web editor.
The only way to use Word as a web editor and produce a proper web page rather than garbage is to type in [...]

One of the very first sections that I placed on the site back in 2000 was a series of pages containing a reference to all of the tags, attributes, and event handlers that are valid for XHTML 1.0 strict and transitional.
Despite the controversy and debate over whether people should use XHTML 1.0 or HTML 4.0.1 [...]

Updating the background colours and images is the final step in converting a generic template into the custom template that you will use as the basis for all the pages on your web site. Exactly how you do these background changes depends on whether you have selected a template that does things properly using a [...]

Early web pages were very one dimensional because there wasn’t any way to define how to set out the content in a two dimensional fashion. Modern web pages are four dimensional with the content not only being able to be placed side by side and on top of one another but also repositioning itself based [...]

The measure of how big a web page actually is does not depend so much on how many sheets of paper you need to use to print it out. Instead the measure that matters is how big all the files are that go to make up the web page.
How Big to Make Your Web Page