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How To Write a GREAT Web Page

Checklist to make a high quality website. Tips on optimization, images, content, text, design, and more.

How To Change the Font Using CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are the best way to change the font on your web pages.

How To Convert From RGB to Hex on Macintosh OS X

Most web colors are written with hexadecimal codes, but most graphics programs deliver them in RGB. Learn how easy it is to use your Macintosh calculator to convert an RGB color to hexadecimal.

How To Convert From RGB to Hex in Windows 7

When you're writing colors for web pages, the most commonly used format is hexadecimal. But most of us can't convert decimal numbers to base 16 in our heads. It's easier than you might think to use the Windows calculator to convert an RGB code into a hexadecimal triplet for a web page.

How To Create an Ordered List

Simple steps to write an ordered list in HTML.

How To Find the Image Codes or URLs for Your Web Images

Learn how to find the image code or URL for your images and then add the image code to your Web pages.

How To Change the Font Color with CSS

It's easy to change the font color with one simple CSS style property.

How To Create a Framed Page in FrontPage

Learn how to use Microsoft FrontPage to create framed web pages.

How To Set Up a 301 Redirect with HTAccess on Apache

It's easy to set up a permanent redirect on your Apache website using HTAccess. Learn how to write a 301 redirect using htaccess files on Apache web servers.

How To Add a Dreamweaver Behavior

Dreamweaver behaviors allow you to add scripts and actions to your web pages right from within Dreamweaver without needing to know any scripting languages.

How to Specify the Character Set or Character Encoding in Web Pages

The character encoding tells the browser what character set the HTML document is written in. Before a character encoding is specified, the browser uses a default character set, but it's a good idea to set the encoding at the server level or in the head of the document.

How to Add Internal Lines in a Table

When you use CSS to add borders to tables, it only adds the border around the outside of the table. If you want to add internal lines, you need to add borders to the interior CSS elements. Or you can use the HR tag to add lines inside individual cells. Learn how to add internal lines inside a table with CSS.

How to Center Text in a Table Cell

Centering text inside table cells is done the same as you would center text in any other element on your web page.

How to Redirect an Entire Site Using HTAccess

If you want to change domains, but you don't want to lose search engine ranking or have broken links on the old domain, you should use a 301 redirect. Learn how easy it is to create a 301 redirect of your entire site.

Write HTML Headlines

Headlines add power to your content. They help your readers skim the text and find the areas that they are most interested in. Learn how to write HTML headlines so that your content has more structure.

How to Add Meta Tags to Web Pages

Meta tags can help with search engine optimization and cataloging your web pages. But only if you add the meta tags correctly. It's easy to add new meta tags to your web pages. This article will show you how.

How to Show Dates in Google to Fight Copyright Infringement

One common tactic that some less scrupulous website owners will use when asked to remove copyrighted material is to demand that you prove that you wrote the content. This may seem like a difficult task, but if your website is spidered by Google, there is something you can do that makes it slightly easier - view the date that Google first indexed the page. While Google may not have indexed the page on the exact date that you published it, chances are their spider saw your content well before the plagiarist did.

How To Change the Color of a Word With the SPAN Tag and CSS

This article for beginning Web developers who are new to HTML and CSS will help you learn how to use the SPAN tag and CSS to change the color of individual words on your pages.

How To Include HTML in Many Documents Using SSI

Learn how to use SSI to include portions of HTML in multiple web documents while only editing the portion once.

How to Rate Your Site for Child Safety with SafeSurf

If you want your family friendly site to be indexed by family-safe search engines, you can add a rating to your site that indicates it's appropriateness to children. And if your site contains adult material, you can indicate that as well to protect children without censorship.

How To Create a Self-Signed SSL Certificate

It's easy to create your own SSL certificate and sign it yourself. You can then avoid paying for certificates you don't need.

How to Compress Websites with Gzip Compression

One way to speed up web pages is by using the web server to deliver web pages that are compressed before they are sent. It's easy to set up Apache to serve compressed files, you just need access to the .htaccess file to set it up.

How To Change Your Macintosh OS X Screen Resolution

Changing the screen resolution for testing is a really important step in testing new web designs. This simple how to shows you how to change the resolution in Macintosh OS X so that you can test your site at various sizes.

How To Change Your Windows Screen Resolution

Changing the screen resolution for testing is a really important step in testing new web designs. This simple how to shows you how to change the resolution in Windows so that you can test your site at various sizes.

Upload Files to 110mb.com Without FTP

110mb.com is a free web hosting provider that you can use to store personal web pages and work on the free HTML class. Some students struggled with how to upload their pages to 110mb.com. Here is a quick tutorial for how to do it.

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