alt.html FAQ: All Questions
Usenet and alt.html Information
alt.html
- What is alt.html?
- What is proper (and improper) to post in alt.html?
- I have a question concerning CSS, JavaScript, Java, CGI, Images etc.
- I'm new to HTML and Usenet, anyone got any pointers?
Usenet Etiquette
- Why should I not top-post?
- How do I quote properly (appropriately) on alt.html?
- Why should I not ask for a reply by email?
- How do I flame someone?
- How should I munge my email address?
Usenet Newsreaders
Web Development Tools
Browsers (Viewing Tools)
- What browsers other than IE and NN are there?
- What are the differences and issues between NN and IE?
- Where can I download older browsers?
- Is it worth catering for version 3 browser users?
- Any resources for creating Web-TV friendly sites?
- What speech-based browsers are available?
- What is the adoption rate of browsers like?
- Any information about the ITV and Sky TV web browsers?
Editors (Authoring Tools)
- What choice of WYSIWYG editors do I have?
- What HTML editors are available?
- How do I stop Dreamweaver altering my markup?
- What are the drawbacks of WYSIWYG editing?
Graphics Packages and Manipulators
- What graphics package should I use?
- What is and where can I find a colour picker?
- Any good packages to create thumbnails?
- Any free graphics, backgrounds, clipart?
- What is a web-safe colour pallette?
- Where can I find free fonts?
Server Side Tools
Miscellaneous Utilities
- Should I upload my .html files in binary mode?
- Misc Resources and links?
- FTP Clients?
- How fast is my webpage, and are there connection speed articles?
- Any resources on Content Management?
- Any good link managers?
- Any good programs to copy an entire website?
- How do I convert .html to .pdf?
- What is an HTML preprocessor?
Web Design
- Which is it better: one large page with many links or many smaller pages with less links?
- How do I update all my webpages when I need to change the navigation?
- What resolution should I design for?
- How do I prevent visitors stealing my images?
- What is flexible, fluid or liquid design?
- What is structured HTML markup versus presentational HTML?
- What is wrong with designing browser specific websites?
- How do I make a website look identical in all browsers?
- What are the disadvantages of fixed-width design?
- What are the common web design myths?
HTML Authoring
HTML Basics
- How do I show the PI character or tick mark in HTML without using images?
- How do I run a program on the client instead of the download dialogue box appearing?
- Can I use percents to resize an image?
- How do I create a link that takes the user to the top of the page?
- How do I get rid of the space between two images?
- How do I allow a user to download my images, not open it in a browser?
- Any good HTML resources out there?
- Any good tutorial sites?
- How do I create a link to a spot further down the page?
- I know HTML, what else do I need to know?
- Is using <a href="#"> a good idea?
HTML Tables
- How do I create a table with the solid one-pixel border?
- How do I put a background for a single table cell?
- What's the best way to centre tables?
HTML Forms
- How do I stop a form submitting when pressing enter?
- How do I make the data in a second dropdown list depend on the selection in the
- How do I have two form actions, depending on a certain condition?
- How do I create a submit button with a mouseover image swap?
- How do I get the input fields the same size in NN and IE?
- Why does pressing Enter sometimes submit a form?
- How do I get the cursor focus on the first text field when the page loads up?
- How do I submit a form and have the results returned in a new window?
- How do I use an image as a submit button?
- How do I get form details e-mailed?
- How do I tell if a form is secure?
HTML Frames
- Why are frames so evil?
- How do I turn off frames in Opera?
- How do I make a link open two different pages in a framed enviroment?
- How do I make sure a framed page appears within its frameset?
- What is an iframe?
- How do search engines handle frames?
HTML e-mail
- Why does a mailto link that works in browserX doesn't work in browserY?
- Is there a definitive guide to sending HTML e-mail?
- How do I add a subject to my e-mail link?
HTML Embedded Resources
- How do I get a page to show a font that the user doesn't have?
- How do I put a Stock Quote feature on my site?
- How do I embed a wav file into my HTML?
- How do I embed a .midi or .wav file into my page?
- What can I use Flash for on my site?
- How do I autorun an HTML page from a CD?
- How do I let my users view a PDF file?
- How do I put a custom icon next to the URL in the address bar and bookmark list?
HTML Validation and Linting
- Is there a list of all HTML elements (tags)?
- What good is following the W3C HTML/XHTML Specification?
- What is a validator, and which are recommended?
- Which Doctype should I use?
- Should HTML attributes be quoted?
- How do I decipher the results of a validator?
- What is SGML?
- What is a Doctype?
Dynamic HTML (DHTML)
- How do I do layers in IE - there's no <layer> tag?
- How do I create a DHTML drop-down menu?
- How do I absolutely position a layer?
- What is DHTML?
Deprecated Answers
- How do I always open a link in a new HTML window?
- How do I centre a table both horizontally and vertically on screen?
- How do I create a table with a thin 1 pixel border?
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
CSS Basics
- How do I create printer friendly pages?
- Any good CSS resources?
- How do I make two different link styles in the external style sheet?
- What is the difference between CLASS and ID attributes?
- What CSS implementation problems and bugs are there?
- How do I implement browser specific styles?
CSS Presentation
- How do I make all my links non-underlined until the mouse is over them?
- How do I set the page margins in CSS?
- How do I have an hspace on one side of an image only?
- How do I change the colours of the scrollbars?
- How does the <font> size attribute compare to the CSS px?
- How do I stop the background image tiling?
- How do I make a bulleted list that doesn't indent?
- Why are fixed font-sizes evil?
- Are there any problems with the Verdana font?
CSS Positioning
Client-side Scripting (JavaScript, Java, VBScript)
Client-side Basic Scripting
- Are there any problems with using Javascript to validate a form?
- How do I call a Java applet method, like repaint(); every couple of seconds from
- Any good Javascript sites?
- How do I disable the mouse right-click?
- How do I swap two or more images on mouseover?
- Is there a script that can cycle through a set of images on a page?
- Client-side Javascript or VBScript?
- How do I create a link that prints the current page?
- How do I preload images?
- How do I create a link that bookmarks my page?
- Done, but with errors. What does that mean?
- Why is Javascript so evil?
- How do I read stylesheet information in Javascript?
- How do I process XML files with Javascript?
Client-side Navigation Scripting
- How do I create a link that makes my page the homepage?
- How do I change the window status message when over a link?
- How do I create a dropdown select menu?
- How do I remove the dotted focus box around links?
Client-side Form Scripting
- How do I limit the number of characters in a textarea?
- How do I validate form fields in Javascript?
- How do I make a form field required?
- Why validate forms on the client?
Client-side Windows Scripting
- How do I close a window without the confirmation box popping up?
- How do I open a new window of a specific size?
- How do I redirect a page based on screen resolution?
- How do I maximise the browser window?
- When is opening a new window a good idea?
- How do I open a link into fullscreen window?
Server-side Scripting (SSI, CGI, PHP, ASP, servlets)
Server-side basics
- What are the HTTP Status Codes?
- How do I password protect a directory?
- What is a document referrer (HTTP_REFERER)?
- How do I get a hit counter on my site?
- How do I allow my client to update News articles daily?
- How secure is https?
- How do I add a search engine to my site?
- What is caching?
- How do I redirect users to a new page?
- Where can I find some decent email form scripts?
- Any good ASP resources?
Server-side Includes (SSI)
- What use is SSI?
- What's the difference between .shtml and .html?
- What useful stuff can I do with SSI?
- Why does Netscape 4 show the source my .shtml page?
- What is the XBitHack?
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
Perl
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- What is PHP?
- Where can I find good PHP resources?
- How do I structure PHP scripts?
- How does PHP compare to ASP?
Web Master
- What Meta tags can I use to allow/disallow bots indexing my pages?
- Where can I find free webspace with no banners, etc.?
- Where can I find webstats for my site?
- Whats the difference between hits and number of users?
- How do I find the right webhost?
- Where can I find a web designer/developer for hire?
- What do I need to do online billing?
- Where can I find a web based mail interface?
- Where can I find an "email-a-page-to-a-friend" script?
- Whats wrong with the "Web Standards Upgrade Campaign"?
- Any search engine tips?
- What meta tags will a search engine find useful?
- How do you justify a website to small businesses?
- What are the annoying features of websites?
- What is a domain name?