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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 …

FRONTPAGE SHORTCUTS Let FrontPage Do The Walking Here’s way to save your fingers from some extra work. Set FrontPage to automatically open the last web you were working on when you re-launch the program. This is a particularly handy trick if you know you’ll be working on the same web …

Disk Duplexing If you have arrived here through a search engine, and there’s no menu to the left, click here! Disk Duplexing, sometimes mistakenly referred to as “Disk Mirroring” is a means of duplicating and saving data to provide data protection. It consists of copying data onto two hard disks, …

(SFT) A means of protecting data by providing procedures that allow you to automatically recover from hardware failures. There are three levels of SFT; each level of redundancy (duplication) decreases the possibility of data loss. SFT Level I: Hot Fix. This is generally operating system dependent, and ensures that data …