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Here's a hint for Monday, April 17th, 1999 

I missed a week, but here's something special. We're opening up our own email service for you. Artic Mail

It's Free, It's different (for us at least!), Give it a shot and tell me what you think!

Here's a hint for Monday, April 5th, 1999 

Looking for some on - line tools to help your page along?

http://www.mediabuilder.com/
Media Builder

Here's a hint for Monday, March 29, 1999

When you're working with tables always be sure to include the closing tag for each element. </table> for <TABLE>, </td> for <TD>, and </tr> for <TR>. If you don't, it's very possible that you'll only get blank space displayed on your page where the table should be.

This is because your browser needs to layout a table completely before it will display it. And if you don't include all of the closing tags it might not display anything since it can not complete the table!
Here's a tip from Monday, March 22nd, 1999

So you want to make a splash page? That's a page that automaticly loads another page after a certain time.

What you want to use is a META tag:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="10; URL=http://www.your new address here">

Pay attention to the quotes. They have to be exactly where they are now in order for this tag to work. The CONTENT="10; part of the tag is the most important. The 10 tells the browser to load the specified page in 10 seconds. You can set this for whatever time amount you'd like. The url should be an absolute address.



Here's a tip from Monday, March 15th, 1999

Trying to get your site listed?

Here's a place that has a big list of where you can go to do it!

JimWorld Top 500 Submission Sites.
Here's a tip from March 6th, 1999

When JavaScript was incorporated into your browser a little extra was included to help you test out your JavaScript snigglets. The Mocha tag.

In the location box of your browser type: mocha: followed by a mathematic expression. In the window of the browser the answer will appear. Try it: mocha:10*5+2
Answer is

You can also activate scripts that are in a web page by calling the function using the mocha tag. mocha:gettime() (that's just an example. It won't actually work)

By the bye, I know it's been a while since the last tip. We'll be adding a tip weekly here for now on! :0)


Here's a tip for September 9th, 1998

When your surfing thru someone's site and you'd like to go back to a previous page your can do it one of two ways. The way everyone knows, click the back button on your browser.


OR

And this is just with Netscape Navigator by the way, press the ALT key and eithier the back arrow to goto a previous page, or the forward arrow to go to a following page. Give it a try and see if it makes your surfing easier!