Finding the Time
Web Design &
Photography

Worried about copyright theft? Try Copyscape to see if your web content has been lifted. They also supply banners for your site here

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Validate your pages with the W3C Validation tool

Buying on the net - Currency conversion problems? Try this Converter

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A neat little CSS trick to view a site like this with rounded corners on the 'boxy' structure......Yes there is one.....BUT it will show in Mozilla browsers only!!

If you are using Firefox the rounded corners are there! Netscape will show rounded corners, but not as tidily... Internet Explorer - not a chance!!

There are various ways to do this, but the easiest - maybe not the most widely visible due to browser incompatibility - would have to be the Mozilla-only -moz-border-radius property. As shown in the CSS Anthology written by Rachel Andrew, there is a wealth of useful hints and tips and tricks to help with CSS problems.

You can see the round corners if you try the Firefox browser - Get the Firefox hereGet Firefox!or see a screenshot here

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While you're having a go with Firefox - try the sister program - Thunderbird is the Email Get Thunderbirdclient which has an excellent junk mail filter.

"Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, built-in RSS reader, quick search, and much more.".......more

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Many thanks to Brian Snellgrove for this neat little tool for checking for dead links in your web site.

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Back off using a background

One of the biggest mistakes people make when designing web pages is using a background image that makes the page illegible. With a graphics-heavy website, backgrounds are never a good idea. You don't see book publishers using textured backgrounds for their print pages, do you? Why add an extra image to an already graphic-packed web page? Just because you have the ability to add a texture or picture to a web page's background, doesn't mean you should--especially if your audience already has an overwhelming amount of graphics to view.

Thanks to Element K Journals