Background Patterns
If you visit old sites with one of the latest version of browsers, you might notice that the border heading backgrounds are shaded. Find out more.

Close Window Button
There are times when you may want to open a new pop-up window. This shows you how.

Return to Last Page
There are times when you may want to have a link back to the referring page, no matter where the viewer came from. This piece of Javascript code will do that for you.

A New Window
Sometimes you may want to open a Web page in a new window, without leaving the original one. Here's how to achieve this.

Menu Bars without the Headaches
Many people use graphical menu bars with image maps to control the areas where the viewer's point of click registers. Save yourself a lot of work by designing each link as an individual image.

Place That Anchor!
Anchors can be used to link to a specific line in a Web page. This is often used on frequently asked question (FAQ) pages. Find out more.

Status Bar Link Information
You can give a description of links in the status bar so that when visitors place their cursor over the link, they see a description of it. Here's how.

Control the Font
If you want to control the basic font for the whole Web page, you can use the "BASEFONT" tag to set the same font elements. Find out more.

Faster Download? No, but a good illusion
To give the impression of faster loading, set the width and height attributes within your "image" tags.

A Waste of Values, Sometimes
Tag attributes have a set default value. So most of the time, you should not need to set any of the following attribute values.

Invisible Keywords
Some search engines will give your listing a higher ranking if your keywords are prevalent throughout your Web page. This is a trick used by some Web designers.

Stop Repeating Table Attributes
When setting table cell attributes, there's no need to specify the same width, height and alignment attributes over and over. Set the tables top level attribute and the rest will follow suit.

Don't Fix the Size
Don't display messages such as "Best viewed at 800 by 600 resolution"? What do Webmasters suggest their visitors do? Switch resolutions? Change monitors?

Table Background Colors
Someone asked the author how to set the color in a table to any color he wanted. Here's the solution.

Blocks of Text
The "BLOCKQUOTE" tag will indent a block of text on both sides. Here is an example.

Control the Space
When you use small fonts, using the traditional line break tags can cause an unsightly gap between the text. Here's an example using the "P" tag.

Ignore the HTML
Sometimes you might want to display some HTML code on a page. If you use control character codes or names, the browser would not recognize them as commands and display them as text.

Different Colored Text Links
How do you change the color of the text link at the top of your Web pages? Here's the answer.

Special Tag Ignores HTML
This is a special tag that allows you to display HTML code on a Web page, rather than the browser processing it.