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Text Layout  [ 14 Tips ]

Lay out your text in an original way.

- The <BASE> tag

- Text with subscripts or exponents

- Justify your paragraphs

- Display HTML code

- Adjust the approach for a text

- Underlined text

- The <FONT FACE> tag

- Light up your text!

- Adapt your contents to Macintosh

- Text in the form of a wave

- Accented and special characters suitable for all browsers

- A crossed-out text

- Correspondence between Mac and PC fonts

- Indented text for quotes

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Text Effects  [ 14 Tips ]

Animate your texts with a few lines of script.

- A shaky text

- Scroll a text with the tag <marquee>

- Scrolling text

- Revolving titles

- Wavy text

- An impressive Welcome message

- A title that pivots on the page

- Multi-coloured, shadowed text

- Display a backwards solution to a question

- Text that zooms in and out

- Text fading in and out

- Very fast text

- A text which beats like a heart

- Blinking text

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Displaying Images  [ 11 Tips ]

Make your viewer and slide show images scroll!

- A legend for your photos

- A different image for each day of the week

- Position an image to the nearest pixel

- A permanently displayed image

- Pre-load images from a page

- A slideshow that automatically plays

- Images with plenty of room

- An easy information balloon for your images

- Image viewer

- A browser for your images

- An image that is displayed pixel by pixel

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Animations and Image Effects  [ 9 Tips ]

Liven-up your pages with a few animations!

- A rollover that changes the opacity

- Replace an image with another when the mouse pointer moves over it

- A shaky image

- Transition between two images

- Raindrops falling on your site

- Display the frame of an image on mouse-over

- A page that automatically scrolls from top to bottom

- An image that crosses the screen

- Open a new window by raising the curtain

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Date and Time  [ 10 Tips ]

Loads of scripts for displaying clocks and calendars.

- A very precise countdown

- Display the date for last update of a page

- Indicate today's date

- Display how old a Web page is

- Different pages for day and night

- The date in French with PHP

- Display the date and time in the status bar

- Date and time in a form

- A countdown

- A small clock-button

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Links  [ 13 Tips ]

Master your links and how they look.

- A link that sends a mail to several recipients

- The colour of links in a page

- A link pointing to a specific point in a page

- A background colour behind links during mouse-over

- A default subject for your e-mail

- A link that changes colour

- Fill in the text body of an e-mail via a link

- A button for displaying the source code of a page

- Links without underlining

- A link to a newsgroup

- Sounds when mousing-over a link

- A direct call link in WML

- Configure the appearance of your links

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Cursor Effects  [ 7 Tips ]

Have fun with your visitors' mouse cursor!

- A scrolling banner following the mouse pointer

- Change the cursor's appearance

- A crazy mouse

- Text that follows your cursor

- A crosshair-type cursor

- An attractive mouse pointer

- Displaying the mouse coordinates in the status bar

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Browsers and Windows  [ 13 Tips ]

Play around with your visitors' browsers and windows appearance.

- A link that displays a window with a size of your choice

- A button to close a window

- A window that opens with your image's dimensions

- Open a window in full screen

- A window in the centre of your screen

- Open several windows simultaneously

- A remote control for moving a window

- The crazy page

- A window taking up the whole display area

- Open and configure a browser window

- Close the browser window after a given time limit

- A window crossing the screen

- A button that makes your window shake!

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Info-Label and Messages  [ 9 Tips ]

Display information in an original way.

- A scrolling info-bullet

- A ticker on your pages

- A revolving message in the status bar

- Message in the status bar on mouse-over

- A welcoming message in the browser status bar

- A form filled out with a typewriter

- Display a message when the visitor leaves the page

- A scrolling message in a text zone

- A message that changes according to the time

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Random  [ 1 Tips ]

Master random events on your site!

- Random phrases with each page refresh

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Page Background  [ 3 Tips ]

Brighten up your pages in an original way.

- A fixed image as background

- Beautiful background colours

- A scrolling background

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Frames  [ 1 Tips ]

Master frames in any browser!

- Creating an iFrame

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Setting up Fill-in Forms  [ 13 Tips ]

Create colourful and animated HTML-user input forms.

- Delete the data from a form

- Categories for your fill in forms

- A mouse-over effect on a button

- A background image on your buttons

- A clickable checkbox label

- A validation button using text

- Change the text of a button after validation

- Clear a fill in form text field before entering data

- A form with any colour

- A coloured fill-in form button

- A coloured scroll menu

- Limit the number of boxes that can be checked in a form

- No upper case letters in a form

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Fill-in Form Management and Control  [ 10 Tips ]

Learn all about everything that goes in your forms!

- A form that can be quickly accessed

- Select all fill-in form checkboxes at once

- Display a confirmation window for a form

- Verify the required fields in a form

- Transfer data into different lists

- Check the number of characters in a form field

- Select text with a single click

- A mandatory click to validate fill-in forms

- A form with upper case letters

- A fill-in form to be validated once only

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Lists and Tables  [ 5 Tips ]

Customise your HTML lists and tables.

- A title style for your tables

- Customised list bullets

- A table cells flying over effect

- Choose the type of numbering used in your ordered lists

- Bullet marks with images

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Navigation  [ 6 Tips ]

Put some original navigation elements on your site.

- A drop-down list providing links

- Random navigation

- Automatically redirect visitors to another page

- An update button on your pages

- A page that refreshes itself automatically

- A button linking to the start-up page

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Site Administration and Management  [ 10 Tips ]

How to optimise the background tasks on your Web site.

- Display the originating site of your visitors

- A customised icon for a favorite (applies only to Explorer 5).

- Personalized 404 error

- Indicate the size of a file for downloading

- Preventing the use of a right mouse click

- No more error messages on your pages

- Closing a site's frames

- Colours for all letters

- Find out about broken links on your site

- Declare the HTML specification your pages conform to

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Audio and Video  [ 5 Tips ]

Bring your Web site into the multimedia era.

- The tags <EMBED> and <NOEMBED>

- Different music each time a page is loaded

- Insert a video in Quicktime format

- A musical background for your pages

- Insert a video in AVI format

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Flash  [ 3 Tips ]

A few tips on the Web's leading animation software.

- Using a guide layer

- A blurred text with Flash

- Create a spinning text with Flash

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Photoshop  [ 8 Tips ]

Create original effects using Adobe's leading-edge image editing software.

- A cutout title

- Volume for your titles

- Quickly save an image for the Web

- Rounded shapes with Photoshop

- Create a sphere

- A black and white printing raster

- Using symbol fonts

- An optimised colour palette for the Web

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Fireworks  [ 2 Tips ]

Optimise your images for the Web.

- A circular text with Fireworks

- A sphere with Fireworks

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Paint Shop Pro  [ 9 Tips ]

Edit and optimise your pictures with PSP!

- Add a frame to an image

- Shadowed text

- TV images

- A textile effect on your images

- A very easy raised effect

- A curved text with Paint Shop Pro

- Raised text

- Soften your image edges with Paint Shop Pro

- Use Paint Shop Pro to give photos a pre-1940s effect with sepia tinting

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Search Engine Submission  [ 2 Tips ]

Hints and tips on how to obtain a top ranking of your Web site.

- A correct <TITLE> tag for correct referencing

- The appropriate keywords

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Miscellaneaous  [ 7 Tips ]

Colours, ICQ... all you need to enhance your site in all fields.

- Print any document from the Web

- Display the loading time for a page

- Coloured borders

- Define an HTML style in Dreamweaver

- Text searching in a page

- Show that you are on ICQ

- Coloured separating lines

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