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It's been said that a picture's worth a thousand words, but you shouldn't believe everything you hear. Pictures are nice and all, but chances are you'll want to have some words with them. Here's how to put them together.
read moreYes, <pre> stands for "preformatted" (not "pretentious," though that was a good guess). Preformatted text differs from regular text in two important ways: (1) It will appear in a monospaced, or fixed-width font (making it look typewritten)...
read moreThe <body background> tag allows you to use an image file for the background of your Web page. A large image may only appear once (depending on the size of the browser window), but smaller images will be redrawn as many times as necessary to fill a page - a process known as tiling.
read moreBlockquote tags were designed to indent lengthy excerpts or quotations - the kind college freshmen use to stre-e-etch their term papers.
read moreTeletype is much like preformatted text, but with less hassle. You'll still want to use preformatted text when you honestly need to format the text. But if you're just looking for that retro-typewriter look, teletype is the way to go.
read moreBefore the release of Netscape Navigator 1.1, typographic options on the Web were limited to the one font and size that any given browser allowed. But the <font size> tag - allowing publishers to vary font sizes, not just from page to page, but word to word - gave us one more tool to improve.....
read moreThere are two ways to color text on the Web. One approach is to set the colors for the entire document - specified in the body tag - and the other is to set and change colors as you move through the document, using the font tag.
read moreThe Web Developer's Resource Library has an excellent HTML Primer if you need a refresher on what HTML is! But basically, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) is a way of describing how a web browser should display text and images. HTML codifies page layout into a series of instructions called "HTML ...
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Editor's Pick in JavaScript, October 2005
Place this script in the <HEAD> section of your web page code to add a scrolling marquee to your status bar.
Like any software CD you'd insert into your CD/DVD ROM, you can make your flash animations, presentations or any project on CD run automatically once the CD inserted...
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