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29 December 2016

• New article: How to Create a Contact Form with Expression Web. Find out how you can use Expression Web to add a contact (or feedback) form to your website so that your visitors can write to you. This is the final chapter of the Expression Web tutorial, so if you were waiting for me to finish the series before creating a website, you can now find all the chapters online.

21 December 2016

• New article: How to Publish (Upload) Your Website to the Internet with Expression Web. Once you have finished creating your website, how do you get it onto the Internet so that others can see it? This tutorial shows you how to use the free Microsoft Expression Web editor to publish (or upload) that site.

14 December 2016

• New article: How to Create and Manage Multiple Pages on Your Website with Expression Web. If you have created a website with multiple pages, maintenance can become a chore over time. For example, what happens when you want to change its design? Do you have to manually go through every single page to update it? This chapter of the Expression Web tutorial shows you how to use the editor's built-in facility to simplify and automate much of the drudgery of managing a multi-page site.

8 December 2016

• New article: How to Insert a Navigation Menu into Your Website with Expression Web. Add a navigation menu to your site with Microsoft Expression Web. This is the sixth chapter of the Expression Web tutorial, a series that takes you through the steps of creating a website using Microsoft's free (but very polished) web editor.

29 November 2016

• New article: How to Make Pictures and Text into Clickable Links with Expression Web. Make your images and words into links pointing to other pages or files on the Internet (including those on your own website), with Microsoft Expression Web. This is the fifth chapter of the Expression Web tutorial.

24 November 2016

• New article: How to Change the Background of a Website with Expression Web. Change the background of your web page, either by modifying its colour or by adding pictures to form the backdrop, with Microsoft's free Expression Web editor. This is the fourth chapter of the Expression Web tutorial series.

16 November 2016

• New article: How to Change Fonts, Text Size and Use Bold and Italics in Expression Web. Find out how to use the free Microsoft Expression Web editor to change the appearance of the text on your web page, for example to switch typefaces, adjust text size, or to put words in bold or italics. This is the third chapter of the Expression Web tutorial.

8 November 2016

• New article: How to Add Images and a Site Logo to Your Website with Microsoft Expression Web. Find out how to add pictures (including a logo) to your website using Microsoft's free web editor. This is the second chapter of the Expression Web tutorial series.

27 October 2016

• New article: Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web. Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web.

17 October 2016

• New article: How to Install and Configure Apache, PHP, Perl and MySQL on Windows the Easy Way (with XAMPP). As web developers, you may sometimes want to run the Apache web server, PHP, Perl and MySQL on your own computer so that you can develop and test your website locally before committing it "live" to the Internet. This article shows you how you can install and configure all these programs the easy way.

27 September 2016

• New article: Can you register a domain name directly with ICANN instead of through a middleman? I was asked by a visitor whether he could register a domain name directly with ICANN instead of going through a middleman like a domain registrar. This article answers that question.

17 August 2016

• For those who wrote to me to say that I forgot to mention how to change the font size in How to Change the Fonts, Text Colour and Font Size on Your Website using BlueGriffon, I've now updated the article to include a new section with the requested information. (The title of the article has also been updated accordingly.) My apologies for the omission.

27 July 2016

• New wizard: Free Mobile-Friendly Two Column Layout Wizard. Create a mobile-friendly two column website layout in 2 steps with this brand new Two Column Layout Wizard. There's no need to burn the midnight oil trying to get your CSS code to work, or to increase your crop of grey hair worrying about how to get your site to be mobile-friendly. Everything is done for you by the wizard. The complete HTML and CSS code for your page is provided to you free of charge and you can tinker with it all you want. Oh, and did I mention that it's free?

27 June 2016

• New article: How to Make Your Images Mobile-Friendly (Responsive Design). Find out how to make responsive images of both your foreground and background pictures so that they will automatically resize for desktop and mobile devices without losing their aspect ratio (ie, so that they won't appear too fat or too thin).

2 June 2016

• The Feedback / Contact Form Wizard has been updated. In addition to the standard name, email and message fields, you can now ask your visitors for their telephone number and mailing address in separate fields if you wish. And yes, it's free!

20 May 2016

• New article: How to Make a Two Column Website Layout Mobile-Friendly. This article deals with how you can make a 2-column layout mobile-ready by making it appear as a single column on small screen devices like smartphones and tablets.

19 April 2016

• New article: How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS. Find out how you can make your website mobile-ready by simply modifying its Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

15 March 2016

• New article: How to Create a Table with BlueGriffon. I was asked how one could insert a table into a website with the BlueGriffon web editor. This article answers that question.

15 February 2016

• New article: How to Insert a YouTube Video into Your Website with BlueGriffon. In response to a query from a visitor, this article takes you through the steps of embedding a YouTube video in a web page with the free BlueGriffon web editor.

4 January 2016

• If you are looking for information about starting your own website, read How to Create a Website. It takes you through all the steps of making a website, including designing it, putting it on the Internet, collecting credit card payments and inserting advertisements. This update includes the latest information about testing your site with the web browsers in use today.

15 December 2015

• New article: Should I Use a Specialized Blog Host or a General Web Host for My Blog? Should you go with a blog host like Blogger, Tumblr or Wordpress.com or set up your own blog software on a general purpose web host? This article compares the benefits of each method.

20 October 2015

• New article: How to Upgrade to BlueGriffon from KompoZer/Nvu. I have been asked by a number of visitors these last few months on how they can upgrade from KompoZer to BlueGriffon, having used the former editor to create their website. This article addresses that question.

7 October 2015

• New article: How to Make Links Open in a New Window or Tab. In response to a query from a visitor, this article deals with how you can make a link open in a new browser tab or window. As discussed in the article, however, be warned that it probably doesn't have the benefit you think it confers.

25 August 2015

• New article: How to Put a Background Image on Your Website with BlueGriffon. Find out how you can insert a background picture into your web page using the free, open source BlueGriffon web editor.

29 July 2015

• New article: How to Insert HTML Code in BlueGriffon. A visitor asked me how he could insert some HTML code into his web page using the BlueGriffon web editor. This article is the answer.

2 July 2015

• New article: How to Add a Feedback or Contact Form to Your Website with BlueGriffon. Find out how to add a Contact or Email Form to your website using the free, open source BlueGriffon web editor. This is the final chapter of the BlueGriffon tutorial series, so if you're considering using this editor to create a website, the complete tutorial is now available online.

15 June 2015

• New article: How to Add Multiple Pages to Your Website with BlueGriffon. Find out how to create additional pages for your website with the free BlueGriffon web editor, so that you have a fully functional multi-page website. This is the 7th chapter of the BlueGriffon tutorial series.

29 May 2015

• New article: How to Add a Navigation Menu to Your Website Using BlueGriffon. This chapter of the BlueGriffon tutorial shows you how you can add a navigation menu, complete with buttons that change colour when a mouse hovers over it, to your website. For those who don't already know, BlueGriffon is a free, open source web editor for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, which you can use to design a website.

22 April 2015

• New article: Can I Be My Own Domain Name Registrar So That I Can Avoid Paying Domain Renewal Fees Every Year? I was asked by a visitor whether he could be his own domain name registrar so that he could register any domain name he liked without having to pay annual fees for each of them. This article answers that question, as well as another on whether you can create your own domain name system so that your site can have any name, even without the traditional domain name suffix/extension.

17 March 2015

• Those of you who were unable to get the "recaptchalib.php" file from Google to add the CAPTCHA test to your feedback form should go back to the Feedback Form Script Wizard and generate a new script. The latest version no longer relies on that file even when you are adding the CAPTCHA test.

4 March 2015

• The Feedback Form Script Wizard has been updated so that it can handle the new type of ReCAPTCHA tests (the ones with a checkbox and the words "I am not a robot"). The tutorial, How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form, has also been updated. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, the Feedback Form Script Wizard lets you create a contact form for your website in 2 easy steps.

27 January 2015

• New article: How to Create Links from Images and Text Using BlueGriffon. Find out how to put links on your website using the free BlueGriffon web editor. This is chapter 5 of the BlueGriffon tutorial.

14 November 2014

• New article: How to Change the Background Colour of Your Web Page in BlueGriffon. Find out how to change the background colour of your website with BlueGriffon, the open source (and free) web editor, in this chapter of the BlueGriffon tutorial series.

26 September 2014

• New article: How to Add a Feedback Form to Your Website with Dreamweaver CS6. Adding a contact form to a website can be a formidable task for many newcomers. This article shows you how you can do it using Dreamweaver CS6. It is the final chapter of the Dreamweaver CS6 Tutorial.

27 August 2014

• New article: How to Create and Manage Multiple Pages on Your Website with Dreamweaver CS6. If your website has more than 1 page, creating and updating multiple pages can be a bit of a chore. For example, what happens if you want to change your design? Do you have to go through every single page to change it? This chapter of the Dreamweaver CS6 tutorial shows you how to use the web editor's built-in facilities to simplify and even automate a lot of the drudgery of maintaining a multi-page website.

24 July 2014

• The article What is HTML and CSS Validation? Should You Validate Your Web Page? has been updated. It now provides practical suggestions on how to deal with validation errors if you don't know HTML and CSS.

18 June 2014

• New article: Why Is the Pound Symbol ("£") Displayed as a Question Mark or Rectangular Box On My Web Page? If you have ever typed something into your web page, like the pound ("£"), the copyright symbol ("©") or some other character, and had it show up as a question mark ("?") or a rectangle, this article is for you. It explains why this is so, and how you can fix it.

27 May 2014

• New article: Which Web Hosting Package / Plan Should You Choose? How to Plan for the Traffic (Bandwidth) and Disk Space You Need A visitor asked me which web hosting package he should select, given his potential web traffic (bandwidth) requirements. This article addresses that question.

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• Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities

New Pages on HowToHaven.com

• How to Boot a CD or DVD in Windows 8.1
• How to Change BIOS Settings on a Computer with Windows 8.1 Installed
• How to Shut Down Windows 8 (Full Shutdown and Normal Hybrid Shutdown)
• How to Set Up a Standard User Account (or Limited Account) on Windows Vista and Windows 7 for Daily Use
• How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows
• How to Securely Prepare Your Old Computer for Disposal
• How to Create an Emergency Windows Rescue CD