- Always use lowercase for filenames. Unix doesn't work well with uppercase filenames and this can lead to problems uploading your pages, images etc.
- Make good use of the HTML comment tag <!- ->. Any text between these will be ignored by the browser.
- To see which site is linked to yours visit altavista.com and enter link:www.yoursitename.
- Use an icon editor to create a 16x16-pixel, 16-colour icon called favicon.ico. Upload this to the root directory of your web server. When a IE5 or above using visitor makes a favourite of your site the icon will be displayed in their favourites menu.
- To include the tag identifiers in your pages text you need to use the decimal equivalents. To show a < you need to enter < and to show a > you need to enter >. The ; is required delimit the special characters.
- To disable the little image toolbar in IE6 out the meta tag <meta http-equiv="imagetoolbar" content="no"> into the head section of your document. To disable to toolbar on individual images add the galleryimg="no" attribute to your img tag.
- Use the <BR> tag to force line breaks in a string.
- To prevent the browser from wrapping text between two particular use i.e. Coca Cola.
- Two of the most important meta tags are Keywords and Descriptions. The Keywords value lists the words or phrases that describe your site and the Description describes the content of your page which will display after the title in search engine results.
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