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New article:
How to Create a Bulleted List (Unordered List) for Your Website in Dreamweaver.
This article deals with how you can create one of those lists with bullet points preceding each item using the Dreamweaver web editor.
It's very handy if you want to list things but don't want to use numbers since that would suggest some sort of sequence or order to the
items. (And yes, I use this type of list a lot on thesitewizard.com.)
3 February 2010
New article:
The Decline and Fall of Internet Explorer 6: Implications for Webmasters.
Yes, Internet Explorer 6 is finally dying. While webmasters and security pundits the world over breathe a sigh of relief,
this article deals with some of the practical aspects of that demise where webmasters are concerned.
21 January 2010
New article:
Should You Choose a Linux or a Windows Web Hosting Package? Is There Such a Thing as a Mac Web Host?
Those who are thinking of starting a website will have noticed that some web hosts advertise Linux packages, others Windows, still others
FreeBSD. Should you choose a Linux web host or a Windows one? What if you have a Mac? When do you need a Windows web host and when a
Linux or FreeBSD? This article
attempts to answer these questions.
17 January 2010
Another frequently asked question (FAQ) has been added to the
How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script:
Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form tutorial. This one deals with the error message from ReCAPTCHA about using the
"JavaScript free version of reCAPTCHA" in a browser that has JavaScript. Note: if you do not already have a contact form
on your website with CAPTCHA support to filter out spam,
read that article
for an easy way to do this.
6 January 2010
New article:
How to Redesign a New Website without Affecting the Old Site Until the New One is Completely Finished (Using Dreamweaver).
If you have an existing website and you want to redesign it from scratch using Dreamweaver, how do you go about doing
it without overwriting the current one while developing? This article describes the procedure, and shows you not only how to
defer the publication of your newly redesigned website, but also how you can test your site offline while working on it.
17 December 2009
New article:
How to Move Your Dreamweaver Files to a New Computer.
Have you upgraded to a new computer and are wondering how you can transfer your Dreamweaver website files and site definition from
your old system to the new? This article shows you how you can do it in a quick and easy way, without losing any work and without
having to redo anything.
9 December 2009
New article:
How to Pop Up a Tool Tip Window for Your Images Using Dreamweaver.
When you move your mouse over the images of some websites, you'll probably have noticed that a tool tip window pops up. This article
shows you how you can create that effect for your site using Dreamweaver. It also addresses the question some visitors ask about why
the ALT text does not show for their images. (The question rests on mistaken assumptions about the ALT text.)
3 December 2009
New article:
Is There a WYSIWYG Editor for PHP? Should I Use PHP or HTML for My Website?
This article answers a few questions that I have received from visitors about PHP and HTML, in particular, about whether to choose PHP or HTML for their site,
and whether there is a visual editor for PHP. On the way, I try to clarify the meaning of those terms in order to sort out the confusion surrounding
those words.
New article:
How to Install PrestaShop Shopping Cart on Your Website.
Are you selling goods or services on your website? Or perhaps you want to sell digital goods like ebooks, software, music MP3 files, etc, and don't
know how to get your website to automatically deliver the goods sold to your customers after they pay for it. The PrestaShop software
is a free (and open source) shopping cart program that you can install on your website to run your own online shop. This tutorial shows you
how you can set it up.
New article:
What's The Difference Between Liquid, Elastic, Relative, Fluid, Flexible and Fixed Layouts?
Where web design is concerned, I'm sure you've heard of things like a "liquid" layout, or a "fluid" one, or an "elastic" one, and so on. What
do all these terms mean, and which layout should you choose for your website? What are the consequences of choosing one layout over the other?
This
article attempts to answer those questions.
28 August 2009
New article:
How to Add Text and Image Links to Your Website in Serif WebPlus X2.
This fifth chapter of the
Serif WebPlus X2 tutorial deals with how you can make any text or image on your site into a clickable link. You can now link to
other pages, photos, PDF ebooks, and other files on your site, as well as link to other websites.
18 August 2009
New article:
How to Centre a Horizontal Navigation Menu Bar in Dreamweaver.
If you have inserted a horizontal menu bar into your site using Dreamweaver's built-in menu facilities, this tutorial may be of interest to you. It
shows you how you can centre (or "center") the menu bar on the web page (or in one of the columns if you have a multi-column site).
New article:
Do You Need a Web Editor If You Use Your Web Host's Free Website Templates?
This article tries to clarify some of the confusing terms used in webmaster jargon while answering a question asked by one of thesitewizard.com's visitors. It
also gives an important precaution to take before using any free web design template provided by your web host.
29 July 2009
New article:
How to Add a Navigation Menu to Your Website with Serif WebPlus X2.
The fourth chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2 tutorial series is now online. This chapter shows you how you can insert a navigation menu to your website
as well as how you can configure the navigation bar so that it has an appearance that suits your site design. (For those wondering,
Serif WebPlus X2
is a visual web editor for designing websites.)
New article:
How to Manage and Style Your Text Content in Serif WebPlus X2.
The third chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2
Tutorial Series deals with styling the text on your website using this visual web editor. This includes changing fonts, creating fancy text effects,
making your text bold, etc. And then there's the problem of what to do if you have a lot of text content. The article deals with how you can
accomplish all these while maintaining your website's usability.
3 July 2009
New article:
How to Use the Frame Blocking Facility (Anti-Clickjacking Defence) in Internet Explorer 8.
Internet Explorer 8 gives webmasters a new way to protect their site from being placed in a frame, and thus, hopefully, prevent clickjacking from
taking place. This article shows you how you can configure your website so that it takes advantage of IE 8's new feature.
29 June 2009
New article:
How to Add Images to Your Website in Serif WebPlus X2.
The second chapter of the Serif WebPlus X2
Tutorial Series is now online. This chapter deals with how you can add things like your website's logo, photos, product images, background images
and so on to your web page. It also introduces the concept of a stacking order to the objects on your web page. (For those who don't know,
Serif
WebPlus X2 is a point-and-click visual web editor that you can use to create a website.)
15 June 2009
New article:
How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form.
Is your mail box filled with spam sent by automated computer programs dumping junk into your feedback form? Are you tired of having to
wade through tons of ridiculous body enhancement suggestions replete with grammatical errors before arriving at your real email? This
article shows you how you can add a CAPTCHA facility to your feedback form in an easy-to-do way, to hopefully reduce the spam arriving through your
contact form. Note that this article is intended for the ordinary, non-technical webmaster, and can be implemented by anyone.
9 June 2009
The Feedback Form Script Wizard has been updated to
add the following features to the feedback form it creates: (1) The PHP feedback form script created by the wizard can now, at your option,
check to make sure that the comments/message field is not empty before submitting its contents. (Note: this is not exactly a new feature since it was
present in older versions of the script but was removed in recent versions. By popular request, the facility has now been restored
to the script.) (2) You can now make the wizard use either XHTML or HTML for the form code. If you don't know what to use, just leave
it at the default.
If you don't need the new features, you don't have to upgrade. As always, the script is free.
