http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq en-us http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq N/A test@frankgonzalez.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:19:13 EDT 20 http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/1/How-do-I-set-up-a-web-site%3F First, you must choose and register a domain name. For more information, see how do I register a domain name? Next, you must choose a hosting company to host your site for you. Hosting prices vary f... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:06 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/62/How-do-I-register-a-domain-name%3F Registering your own domain name gives your web site a unique name throughout the Internet. Domain name registration is the act of staking out "mycompanyname.com" or something similar as your own. D... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:13 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/63/Can-I-host-my-web-site-for-free%3F There are two basic ways to host a web site for free. I do not recommend it for anything except a personal page or two you are creating just for the fun of it. Even then, the hassles can be more than ... Frank Gonzalez Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:57:24 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/64/How-do-I-make-graphics-for-my-site%3F There are many graphics programs available; some of the best are free or very inexpensive. Linux users will want to use GIMP, which is 100% free. The GIMP is also a free option on Windows but is not t... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:57 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/65/What-image-file-formats-should-I-use%3F Most web pages contain images. GIF, JPEG and PNG are the three major image file formats used in web pages. Other formats are not widely supported by all browsers on all systems, and so they are not su... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:15:35 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/66/How-do-I-make-my-web-site-searchable%3F If your web site is accessible to the public, it has probably already been indexed by engines, such as Google. At the time of this writing, Google is the most popular search engine by a very large mar... Frank Gonzalez Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:12:11 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/67/How-are-.htm%2C-.html%2C-.asp%2C-.php%2C-etc.-different%3F There is no difference between .htm and .html. Early web servers for Unix used .html, while early servers for Windows 3.1 were limited to .htm because of the MSDOS three-character extension limit. Mod... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:51:25 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/68/How-do-I-stop-people-from-stealing-my-images%3F There is no 100% reliable way to do this. The best technique available at this time is the "table background trick:" Of course, you must substitute the URL of your image for MYIMAGEFILE and the widt... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:57 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/69/How-do-I-password-protect-my-web-pages%3F Password protection, also known as "HTTP basic authentication," is a function of your web server. As of this writing, the most common web server by a considerable margin is Apache. You can find a tuto... Frank Gonzalez Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:26:31 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/70/How-do-I-make-my-pages-more-accessible%3F Well-written HTML pages can be displayed with great success by the Lynx text-only web browser, which is the most common starting point for browsers for the blind and the vision impaired, provided that... Frank Gonzalez Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:24:49 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/71/How-do-I-track-my-site%26%2339%3Bs-usage%3F Although free "hit counters" are available from gostats.com and xcounters.com and other sources, all of these display ads, and none of them provide the highest quality statistical information. I do no... Frank Gonzalez Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:25:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/72/How-do-I-promote-my-web-site%3F To begin with, you can promote your web site quite effectively for free. First, make sure that your web site mentions the phrases you would reasonably expect an interested party to search for, as regu... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:59 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/73/How-do-I-include-one-HTML-file-in-another%3F Use "server side includes" in your HTML. Not all web servers support this, and some require that you name your file .shtml rather than .html in order to enable the parsing of your file by the server i... Frank Gonzalez Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:04:38 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/74/Can-I-use-non-latin-characters-in-my-web-pages%3F Yes, you can use non-latin Unicode characters in your web pages; however, not all browsers include all character sets by default. Some browsers are capable of installing foreign-language character set... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:27 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/75/How-do-I-stop-page-backgrounds-from-scrolling-or-repeating%3F The old-fashioned way to set a page background image is to set the bgsrc attribute of the body element, like this: Body of page goes here The trouble is that if the page goes on long enough, or is wi... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:46 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/76/How-do-I-put-page-breaks-in-a-web-page%3F Thanks to cascading style sheets, it is possible to give modern web browsers a "hint" to help them put page breaks in the right places when printing out web pages. Here is an example: <p style="pag... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:46 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/77/How-do-I-create-a-collapsible-outline%3F A collapsible outline, in which users can click a button to show or hide parts of the web page, can be created using dynamic HTML, also known as DHTML. The term "DHTML" refers to the things that can b... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:47:28 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/78/Can-I-put-photographs-and-full-names-of-people-on-my-web-site%3F Do not put the photograph and full name of anyone on the web without their permission. Such information is unfortunately frequently used by stalkers and other undesirables to locate people who do not ... Frank Gonzalez Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:00:31 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/79/How-much-bandwidth%7B47%7Ddata-transfer-does-my-site-use%3F When your web hosting company says you are allowed 4,000MB of data transfer per month, they mean that you cannot transmit more than 4,000,000,000 bytes of data to your web site visitors without paying... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:13 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/80/How-fast-is-my-web-site%3F The speed of your web site as your visitors experience it is determined primarily by three things. 1. The total file size of your pages, including the size of any images embedded in them. If your home... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:59 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/81/How-do-I-copyright-my-web-site%3F We are not members of the legal profession and cannot give legal advice. If you have serious concerns, consult a lawyer. However, we will share the following information, which you should confirm with... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:50:03 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/82/How-do-I-make-my-web-site-cross-browser-compatible%3F The term "cross-browser compatibility" means compatibility with all of the major web browser software. Today any web site that uses the normal standards of modern web design, like HTML 4.x, XHTML, Jav... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:59 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/83/Should-I-host-my-own-web-server%3F Hosting it yourself is almost always a bad idea. The minimum cost of doing so is hundreds of dollars a month, if you want a reliable site that stays up 24 hours, 7 days a week, and provides profession... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:59 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/84/What-web-browsers-should-I-design-for%3F In an ideal world, you don't have to design to any specific web browser. XHTML, cascading style sheets and other World Wide Web Consortium standards allow you to specify exactly how your site shou... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:00 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/85/What-screen-resolution-should-I-design-for%3F Screen resolutions among web users is generally as follows: A small majority of users have 1024x768 and higher. A large minority have 800x600. A very small and shrinking number, 1%, have 640x480. Thes... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:15 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/86/How-do-I-make-links-with-no-underline%3F The underline underneath links is easily removed using a style sheet. If you are using style sheets, you can specify no underline using this code in your .css file: a { text-decoration: none; } ... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:11 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/87/How-do-I-create-rollovers%3F To change the appearance of a graphic when the mouse "rolls over" it, first create both versions of the graphic in your preferred graphics program. These images must be the same size for good results.... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:15:37 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/88/Is-it-legal-to-link-to-other-web-sites%3F If you have serious legal concerns, consult a lawyer. Roughly speaking, the courts have held that: Linking from one web site to another in a normal way, so that the other page replaces the current pag... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:56:30 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/89/How-do-I-link-to-another-web-page-or-file%3F If you are using a word processor or similar tool to make your page, linking features are built-in. If you are writing your own HTML, the syntax to link to another page is very easy to learn. Links ar... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:44:22 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/90/How-do-I-link-to-a-specific-part-of-a-page%3F Place a "named anchor" at the point you wish to link to. You can then easily link back to that anchor. To create a named anchor, just use HTML like this: <a name="anynameyoulike"></a> The... Frank Gonzalez Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:19:49 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/91/How-do-I-accept-payment-on-my-web-site%3F There are many ways to accept payment for goods or services via your web site. When the question is "how can I charge money for this?" the right answer depends on the nature of your site and the size ... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:28 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/92/How-do-I-make-a-profit-from-my-web-site%3F If you are selling goods and services and simply need to know how to accept payments from users on your site, see 'how do I charge money on my web site?' If you are giving away useful informat... Frank Gonzalez Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:09:51 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/93/How-do-I-embed-sound-and-music-in-a-page%3F The easiest way to distribute sounds and music on the web is by simply linking to an audio file in any well-known and widely-supported format. It is also possible to embed these files in the page so t... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:48:48 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/94/How-do-I-embed-video-in-a-page%3F The simplest and most foolproof way to share a video with your web site visitors is still to link to your MPEG Level 1 (.mpeg), MPEG Level 2 (also .mpeg), Quicktime (.mov), or AVI (.avi) video file us... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 21:17:19 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/95/How-do-I-remove-the-blue-border-around-my-image%3F Turning an image into a link to another page is very simple, and the following HTML does the trick: < a href="http://www.yoursite.com/" > < img src="/yourimage.gif" > < /a > Howev... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:00:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/96/Exactly-what-does-the-border-color-CSS-attribute-do%3F To quote the CSS2 specification: "if there is only one value, it applies to all sides. If there are two values, the top and bottom borders are set to the first value and the right and left are set to ... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:41:20 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/97/Why-do-some-elements-end-with-%7B47%7D%3E-in-XHTML-pages%3F Every XHTML element has to be closed so that the parser doesn't have to have special knowledge of each element in order to properly parse it. For instance, before XHTML, a naive parser might have ... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/98/I-took-over-a-web-site.-How-do-I-change-it%3F If you have acquired an existing web site, or become newly responsible for it, you first need to understand the same basic issues that face someone creating a new site. See 'how do I set up a web ... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:00 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/99/What-sites-link-to-my-site%3F There are two ways to find this information: via Google, and via the web server statistics reports that your web hosting company may be providing for you. Method one: GoogleOne way to discover thi... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:15 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/100/What-domain-name-should-I-choose-for-my-site%3F If your site is for business purposes, you should register a name in the .com domain, even if it is tough to find a good name that is still available. If Person A visits your web site and thinks "wow,... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/101/How-do-I-create-a-template-for-all-of-my-pages%3F For beginners and many pros, the best way to provide a consistent set of navigation links and similar content on every page is to use server side include directives. These are supported by virtually a... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:54:52 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/102/How-do-I-display-a-randomly-selected-image%3F To randomly insert one of a group of images into a web page, you can use this simple Javascript code. Just insert this code where you would otherwise place an ordinary < img > element. Note the ... Frank Gonzalez Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:20:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/103/How-do-I-open-a-new-window-of-a-certain-size%3F Javascript can open a browser window of any size, with or without a toolbar, button bar, scrollbars, and so on. However, since all major web browsers now offer popup advertising filters, you must be v... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:11 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/104/How-do-I-force-a-minimum-width-for-my-page%3F Normally, web browsers will try to lay out your text and images so that they fit in the available horizontal space. Some page designs do not respond well to this. It is possible to force the browser t... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:30 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/105/How-can-I-ask-the-user-to-confirm-before-submitting-a-form%3F Sometimes you want to make sure the user really intended to click on a form button, or even on an ordinary link. Examples include "delete" buttons. In the most important cases, you should solve this p... Frank Gonzalez Mon, 06 Sep 2010 16:01:07 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/106/How-do-I-identify-the-owner-of-a-web-site%3F First, look for contact information on the web site or web page you are seeking the author of. Most people do take credit for their work. Of course, there are exceptions. In these cases you will need ... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:39:30 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/107/How-do-I-make-a-transparent-image%3F Transparent images are useful when you are not certain of the page background color on which your image will be displayed, or you intend to display your image in front of a complex background rather t... Frank Gonzalez Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:07:51 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/108/How-do-I-place-a-date-stamp-on-my-page%3F "Date stamps" that change every day are obnoxious, of course, if your page is not really updated daily. Your users will figure that out, and they will tune you out. However, if you are making daily up... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:12 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/109/Why-won%26%2339%3Bt-my-audio-and-video-files-play-properly%3F When you are linking to audio and video files and they do not play properly, or they do not play properly for all browsers, there are several possible explanations. The correct solution depends on the... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/110/How-do-I-get-my-own-favorites-icon%3F To display a unique icon in the favorites or bookmark list of the web browser, next to the name of your web site, you will need to create a favicon.ico file and place it in the top directory of your w... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 11:41:52 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/111/How-can-I-receive-form-submissions%3F The best way, by far, is to use PHP, ASP or a Perl CGI script to handle your form submissions. If your web hosting account allows you to use one of these options, you should. They work with all browse... Frank Gonzalez Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:16:49 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/112/What-is-a-search-engine%3F Since no one is in charge of the Web as a whole, there is a business opportunity for anyone to create an index of its contents and an interface for searching that index. Such interfaces are known as s... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/113/Who-controls-the-World-Wide-Web%3F The short answer: no one. The TCP/IP protocol on which all Internet protocols are based was designed for military use and can continue to operate even if many systems are destroyed. The long answer: t... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:16 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/114/What-is-a-web-server%3F Web servers are the computers that actually run web sites. The term "web server" also refers to the piece of software that runs on those computers, accepting connections from web browsers and deliver... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/115/What-is-a-web-browser%3F When you sit down and look at web pages, you are using a web browser. This is the piece of software that communicates with web servers for you via the HTTP protocol, translates HTML pages and image da... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/116/What-are-HTML-and-XHTML%3F HTML, or HyperText Markup Language, is a simple markup language used to make web pages. Although all modern word processors and many specialized tools can be used to make web pages without learning HT... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/117/What-is-HTTP%3F In order to fetch a web page for you, your web browser must "talk" to a web server somewhere else. When web browsers talk to web servers, they speak a language known as HTTP, which stands for HyperTex... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:15 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/118/How-should-I-license-my-work%3F The Creative Commons organization offers a variety of licenses designed to help individuals and organizations share their work over the long haul, while retaining the specific rights they need to earn... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:13 EDT http://www.frankgonzalez.com/dagfaq/questions/119/What-are-the-top-level-domains%3F "Top-level domains" (TLDs) are the last part of every domain name. In other words, the top-level domains are .com, .org, .edu, .uk, .net, and so on. There are two types of top-level domains: two-lette... Frank Gonzalez Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:40:14 EDT