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How To Promote Your RSS Feed to Aggregators
Once you have an RSS feed on your site, you'll want to let people know about it. There are a few things you can do to advertise and promote your RSS feed, and the more of them that you do, the more that your feed will be noticed and aggregated.

How To Add a Dreamweaver MX Extension Using the Extension Manager
The extension manager is a standalone program that works with Dreamweaver to help you manage your extensions. The extension manager will help you install and remove extensions, turn them on and turn them off. Plus it works with Flash and Fireworks to manage their extensions as well.

How To Disable a Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Extension
Macromedia Dreamweaver MX offers extensions to improve the functionality and scope of Dreamweaver, but if you install too many extensions, it can slow Dreamweaver down. So it is important to disable extensions you don't use a lot to keep Dreamweaver functioning optimally.

How To Use a Dreamweaver Snippet
Dreamweaver Snippets allow you to save and reuse chunks of code over and over. This saves time and effort in maintaining a large Web site. Plus Dreamweaver has a lot of pre-written snippets to use. Use snippets to store things like:
* Headers and footers
* Logos
* Scripts
* ...

How To Create a Macromedia Dreamweaver MX Snippet
Snippets are a powerful new addition to the Dreamweaver toolset. They make it easy to save blocks of code that you use often or put the same conversion on a block already written on your page.

How To Add a Special Character in Dreamweaver
When adding text to Dreamweaver, it's often easier to just type directly than to write content in another tool and copy and paste. When you need to add special characters like © and ® it's easy in Dreamweaver. There's an entire menu just for these HTML codes and special characters.

How To Insert a Line Break in Dreamweaver
Line breaks or <br> are vital to create interesting Web pages, and they are easy to add in Dreamweaver. There are three ways to do it in Dreamweaver.

How To Post to the Web Design/HTML Forum
Whether you just want to put your class homework or participate in the discussions about HTML, you can't participate if you don't know how to post.

How To Clear Your IE Cache (Windows)
Make sure that you have the most recent version of a Web page by clearing out your Web cache.

How To Stream Media From a Web Server
Streaming media is an easy way to add sound and video to your Web site. And now that you can stream from a regular Web server, it's easier than ever.

How To Prepare Your Page For Search Engines
If you want your pages to show up in the search engines, you need to prepare your pages so that they are optimized for the engines.

How To Accept or Deny Cookies in Netscape (Windows)
If you are concerned about privacy on the Internet, then a good way to protect yourself is to prevent cookies from being written to your hard drive. Netscape defaults to accepting all cookies, but you can change this.

How To Clear Your Netscape Cache (Windows)
When you upload a page and it doesn't display correctly, you should clear your cache. This will force the browser to load the page from the server.

How To Comment Your XML
Comments in XML are nearly identical to comments in HTML. Using comments allows you to understand code you wrote years before, or another developer to review.

How To Turn Off JavaScript in Netscape
Test your <noscript> functions or simply reduce your security issues by turning JavaScript functions in your browser.

How To Add a PDF File
Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) is a great way to display documents that need to be printable, but might be too complex for a Web page. Learn how easy it is to include a PDF file on your site.

How To Write Internal Links
Link from one part of your page to another part. Set up tables of contents at the top of long pages for better navigation.

How To Use GeoCities to Write HTML Online
It is possible to write a Web page completely online. Geocities makes it easy to do so.

How To Upload Files and Web Pages to GeoCities
Web pages can't be seen if they live on your hard drive. Learn how to get them from there to your Web server.

How To Secure a Directory on Your Web Using Htaccess
Htaccess is a password protection scheme used by Apache Web servers. It is easy to set up once you understand the terminology.

How To Change Your Windows 9x Screen Resolution
When you're creating a Web page, it's easy to forget how your page will look to people using different resolutions. But if you know how to change the resolution, you can switch back and forth.

How To View the HTML Source in Netscape 4 for Windows
Viewing the HTML source of a Web page is one of the easiest ways to learn HTML. If you see something on a Web site, and want to know how they did it, view the source. Or if you just like their layout, view the source. I learned a lot of HTML simply by viewing the source of Web pages that I saw. It's a great way for beginners to learn HTML.

How To Create a Hyperlink in Dreamweaver
A hyperlink is text that can be clicked by your reader to go to some other Web page. Learn how to create one with Macromedia Dreamweaver MX.

How To Change the Font Using Macromedia Dreamweaver
Change the look of your text quickly using Macromedia Dreamweaver.

How To Create an Image Map with Dreamweaver MX
Image maps are images with "hot spots" that are clickable and take your readers to other Web pages. Dreamweaver MX has a built-in image map creation tool to make it easy to create image maps for your Web pages.

 
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