In the context of this article I’m referring to the Windows Live Mail the email client and not the email service (Hotmail). When composing an email in WL Mail, most people use HTML to use features such as colored text, bold/italic/underline, and so on. It is true that any email composed in WL Mail can be saved as a web page, and it’s quite easy to...

In the past, I have written about the value of purchasing a professionally created website template, however if free is the way you want to go then I can certainly understand. That said, a site you might want to look at is TemplateMo. TemplateMo offers a variety of free templates ranging from pure HTML/CSS, Flash and WordPress. There are lots to choose from so...

This document is old. See this for a better way, with video! In Windows Live Mail (as in the e-mail client and not the web site) the default method for an e-mail signature is nothing but plain text, like this:   You can however create advanced e-mail signatures using the freely available Nvu web page editor. Here’s how it’s done. 1. Download and...

I learned of fixoutlook.org from this article, so I’d like to add into the fray why I don’t use Outlook personally. First of all, I used to use Outlook. And I’m not talking about Outlook Express here, I mean the full version of Outlook. The client was good but there were certain things about the software that really rubbed me the wrong way. I...

If you have done any web development, you are probably very aware of the ‘quirks’ different browsers have and ultimately have to try to make your site work with them as best you can. Now that Internet Explorer 8 has been released, a site you might find useful is this post titled “Site Compatibility and IE8“. While not a comprehensive...

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What makes the Internet into the “world wide web”? Or more accurately, what makes it a “web”? It is links. See, if there is a web page floating out there on a server with no links pointing to it, it might as well be completely off the Internet. Nobody can get to it! It is links which link one web page to another and it is links which form...

Tables are something you will probably need to make use of on your web pages. You may use them to simply structure your data for easy viewing. Some people actually use tables to form the basic layout of their pages. I will address using tables for design later in this course. For now, let me simply introduce the HTML needed to create simple...

OK, it is now time to start actually creating a webpage. In this lesson, I am going to introduce you to HTML. In the following lessons, we will get into specific areas of HTML. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. An HTML file is just a text file which contains small “markup tags”. A markup tag is a small little bunch of text which tells the...

If you’re administering your own web pages (or possibly WordPress themes,) it’s more or less required to know Cascading Style Sheets, a.k.a. CSS for short. In the video below I give a very basic tutorial on how to adjust font styles using...