From The Desk Of The Consigliere™

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We would like to extend our deepest thanks to all our readers, visitors and staff for making this last year a very wonderful, prosperous and sucessful year. We hope that your year was as prosperous and may next year bring you even more prosperity and good fortune.

We do want to apologize for not sending our letter in the last few months. We have been having a problem with one of our servers with remote* linking of images (files). We have finally rectified the problem in our favor. Thank you for understanding the situation as we know it.

• Remote linking is the use of anyone else's file in your email or on a webpage, whether it is an image or an audio file.
• When someone visits your page, each file gets served up by the server that it is on. This uses bandwidth & that costs money.
• If you have an image or a MIDI file on your page that is hosted elsewhere, there is a cost to the other server.
• This cost gets passed on to the owner of the site.

To better explain it with images, below you have 2 images. Both on this page are remotely hosted by Bravenet. Our website and where all our files are stored is Angelfire . Angelfire who is our host and provider has either free hosting with "No" remote linking (where it will not allow the image to be seen, first example) or upgraded (2nd. example) as we have for the ability of remote linking as this page is a testimonial to.

  

This newsletter is on the "Bravenet" server. Our images on this page are called from our host, "Angelfire". Hence: Remote linking from Angelfire To Bravenet.

On a final note with "Remote" hosting. Angelfire is nice about it and gives you the above image telling you where it is being called from. With most hosts that do not allow remote hosting, all you will see is the infamous X .

We are still in the process of updating all our files with the proper URL's for all our images to work remotely. Please be patient while we finish this large task for your convenience.

Every once and a while something will come across Consigliere's desk that he feels he wants to share with everyone. So each week we shall post something different that he wants us to share with you. Just click on the "Desk" to see the article.

This week we would like to thank "Michele" for submitting this weeks article titled "Good Pointers".

We are also updating all our submissions with email forms for your convenience to be able to send any one of them at any time.

Besides linking to the headlines that you see above, you can also get a free java script from the below link to add a java based, constantly updated "Today In History" that you can paste into your web pages. Check out how we have it set up on our pages.
[ Today In History ]

The New York Times on the Web is free of charge for visitors worldwide. The site includes the daily contents of the newspaper, up-to-the-minute breaking news, weekly features and original reporting.

We have received as of late, a transmission from Barbiemo, (who is the artist and creator of BMWeb Creations) concerning a new so called virus running around. The subject of the email will be:

[ Virus Alerts ]
[ Virus Updates News Letter ]

Our virus updates and information is supplied by The Trend Micro Corporation®. One of the world leaders in virus protection.

Each week we add a little tip to assist you in your web building. Some of the things you already know and sometimes you will come across a thing or two that you wanted but did not know where to find it. This week we will feature
"Descriptive Tag On Mouseover With Text Links"

Most of us know how to make an "alt" or descriptive tag on mouseover with an image. Just to refresh your memory

<img src="Path To Your Uploaded Image" border="0" width="?" height="?" alt="Description Goes Here">

Place your cursor on the below image to see the alt tag work.

Now that we remember that, lets now add the same type of effect on a "Text" link. All you need to do is add the attribute of title=" " into the URL of the text link.

<a href="Path To URL Called" title="Your Message Here">Link Name Here</a>

[ Place Cursor Here ]

Most of our "Little Tips" are compliments of Bravenet Webmaster Tools.

There is always one question that sticks out more than the rest. So what we have decided to do is post the top question of the week and show you how we answer it. If you feel you would like to add to the answer feel free to contact us with your input on the question.

Question
I am tired of using page builders and not learning actual coding to design my pages. They (page builders) do have their place but they are restrictive in what they can and cannot do..... Are there any free tutorials out there that explain step by step on howto build a web page without page builders and use pure HTML coding?
Signed:
     Pageless In Peoria

Answer
We have been designing our web page tutorial for a few months now and it is finally finished. We feel that this is exactly what you are looking for. This tutorial will guide you with interactive step by step instructions from the opening <html> tag to the closing </html> tag. We have had many many requests for this and we are excited to be able to finally have it available. Just click on the below graphic and you are there.

On A Personal Note
We will not mention any names but this tutorial is going to be of great assistance to a certain person out there that is immovable when it comes to "Page Builders". We hope this tutorial will possibly change their mind and will feel more at ease with pure HTML coding.

Each week, we will pose a different question to all our readers and see how it is answered. The questions will be in a forum that you can link to from here. The following week, you will see the answers and a new question. These questions will pertain to web designing, computers,internet, security, etc.

This week the question will pertain to

Betty In Bangor Writes

I have been trying very patiently to attempt to get form buttons to work as links and to line up in a row (horizontally) but to no avail. All I seem to be able to get is one button on top of another. I have even gone so far as to add the <nobr> </nobr> tags in front and behind the form buttons. Please Help!

Well BB. Look no further, our tutorial in this matter was overdue and once we received your letter for assistance, we designed one with you in mind in this matter of form button alignment. We do feel obligated to tell you that you should have a good solid working knowledge of tables and forms to make this effect work. Just follow the below link and your question shall be answered.
[ Form Button Positioning ]

Please don't forward this letter to your friends. The reason being that the HTML configurations will not appear in a forward and all they will receive is words, no links or images.

If you would like to send a sample of our news letter to your friends, go to the below link and from there you can send a past issue that we update and archive every week.
[ News Letter Archives ]

If there is a specific copy of our news letter you particularly like and it is archived and would like to have it personalized to you, we will build one that is customized just for you. You will have an individual URL that is for you. It will look like one of our sample archived letters with your name on the top.
[ Customized Sample News Letter ]

Just contact our News Letter Staff and include the date of the issue and the name you would like shown on top of the letter.
[ Customized News Letter Request ]

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Soren Aabye Kierkegaard
(1813-1855)
Dr. Gabriel Robins©

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