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21 July 2010

• New article: How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website with Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to use Dreamweaver CS5 to add a feedback form to your website, so that your visitors can send you email messages without leaving your site. No programming knowledge is required. This is the final chapter of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

13 July 2010

• New article: How to Manage and Auto-Update Multiple Pages on Your Website with Dreamweaver CS5's Template System. Dreamweaver makes it easy for webmasters to create and manage multiple web pages on a site. For example, if you want to change your site design, you only have to do it in one place, and Dreamweaver will automatically update the rest of your site to include your changes, even if you have hundreds of pages on your site. This tutorial shows you how to take advantage of this web editor to manage your website in an easy and efficient manner. This is chapter 7 of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

29 June 2010

• New article: How to Customize Your Website's Navigation Menu Bar with Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to customize the navigation menu buttons of your website in Dreamweaver CS5. Add new buttons, delete existing ones, make them point to important pages on your website, and change the colours of the buttons both when the mouse is hovering over them and when it is not. This is the chapter 6 of the free Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

14 June 2010

• New article: How to Make Your Images and Text into Clickable Links with Dreamweaver CS5. Find out how to make your pictures and words into links that point to other pages and websites using Dreamweaver CS5. This is the fifth chapter of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

7 June 2010

• New article: How to Change the Background of Your Website in Dreamweaver CS5. Learn how to use Dreamweaver CS5 to set the background colours ("colors") of your web page or use an image as the backdrop for the various parts of your website in this chapter of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

31 May 2010

• New article: How to Change Fonts, Text Size and Colours in Dreamweaver CS5. This tutorial shows you how to change fonts, modify the size and colour ("color") of your text, and put text in bold and italics using the Dreamweaver CS5 web editor. It is the 3rd chapter of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial.

19 May 2010

• New article: How to Add Pictures and a Site Logo to Your Website Using Dreamweaver CS5. This article teaches you how to insert images, including a site logo, into your website using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5. It also shows you how to centre ("center") your logo on your page, should you need to do so. This is the 2nd chapter of the Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial series.

13 May 2010

• New article: The newest version of the famous Dreamweaver web editor, Dreamweaver CS5, has now been released. Learn how to use this editor to create your own website with this latest tutorial, Dreamweaver CS5 Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Dreamweaver CS5.

26 April 2010

• New article: What is MySQL? What is a Database? What is SQL? If you're trying to set up your own website, and are puzzled by the terms "MySQL" and "database" that seem to appear everywhere in webmaster sites, read this article to find out what they mean.

18 March 2010

• New article: How to Make the Meta Tags for Your Website into an Editable Region in a Dreamweaver Template. A meta description tag provides a short summary of what a web page is about, and is meant for search engines to display underneath your web page's title in search engine results. Templates are used by the Dreamweaver web editor to let you manage multiple pages on your website in an easy and efficient way. This article answers a question asked by a few visitors on how the two can be made to work with each other.

10 March 2010

• New article: How to Create Bulleted Lists (Unordered Lists) for Your Web Page with KompoZer. Unordered lists are useful if you want to place a list of loosely related items on your web page. This article shows you how to do this using the free KompoZer web editor.

18 February 2010

• New article: How to Point Multiple Domain Names to One Website: And How to Avoid Search Engine Problems When Doing So. Find out why you might want multiple domain names pointing to your website and how to do it correctly so as to avoid the problems that it might have on your search engine rankings.

13 February 2010

• 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.

17 November 2009

• New article: How to Put a Clickable Email Address on Your Web Page Using Dreamweaver. For webmasters (especially those running businesses) who want to put an email address on their website, this article describes how you can turn that email address into a clickable link.

5 November 2009

• 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.

21 October 2009

• New article: How to Make Your Links Change Colour When the Mouse Hovers Over It Using Dreamweaver: Creating Mouseover / Rollover Effects. If you're fascinated by how a link is highlighted when you move your mouse over it on some sites, including thesitewizard.com itself, this article teaches you how you can create the same effect for your website using Dreamweaver. It also shows how you can change the default colour ("color") scheme for your unclicked and visited links, add/remove underlines, etc.

13 October 2009

• Important: Geocities, the well-known free web host, officially closes on 26 October 2009. If you still have a website on Geocities, please move it before it's too late. Read the guide How to Transfer / Move Your Website from GeoCities: Closure of GeoCities' Free Web Hosting to make sure you don't miss an important step.

28 September 2009

• New article: Will I Have to Continue to Pay a Fee to Keep My Domain Name After I Buy It? Can I Change Registrars? Can I Terminate My Domain Name? This article answers some questions newcomers have about registering a domain name, namely whether they have to continue to pay a fee to keep the domain name, whether they can change registrars and whether they can terminate a domain name if they don't want it any more.

18 September 2009

• New article: How to Put Multiple Feedback Forms on One Website. I've often been asked whether it's possible to put 2 or more contact forms on a website, using thesitewizard.com's Free Feedback Form Wizard. Some webmasters want to do this because there are multiple people that visitors may want to reach. This article shows you how to do this.

10 September 2009

• New article: How to Delete a Web Page from Your Website: Removing an Already Uploaded File. If you have ever published a web page, and then changed your mind about wanting such a page, this article is for you. It shows you how you can delete that file from your site, no matter which web editor you happen to be using.

1 September 2009

• 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.

New Pages on thefreecountry.com

• Free / Open Source Non-SQL Database Servers and Engines
• Free Royalty-Free Music and Sounds
• Free Programmer's Fonts
• Free Font Manager Software
• Free Text User Interface Programming Libraries and Source Code
• Free Alternative Operating Systems
• Free PHP Web Based File Managers
• Free Partitioning Software - Copy, Create, Move, Resize, Convert, Undelete Partitions
• Free 3D Software Box Image Makers
• Free DVD Authoring and Creation Software / Tools
• Free CD and DVD Burners and Copying Software
• Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities

New Pages on HowToHaven.com

• How to Change the Disk Signature of a Drive Without Losing Existing Data or Reformatting
• How to Slipstream Windows XP Service Pack 3 to Create an Integrated XP Setup Disk with SP 3
• How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
• How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
• How to Work Around the Missing Up Arrow Button in Vista's Windows Explorer
• How to Create an Emergency Windows Rescue CD
• How to Create a Bootable Windows XP Setup CD/DVD on a Preinstalled Windows System