From The Desk Of The Consigliere™

As usual our staff have been busy scouring the internet finding new and different scripts and tutorials for your use and enjoyment.
As of 03/16/02 we have 375 indexed files within our site and constantly growing.
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On Saturday March 2, the server who hosts our news letter (among other things) detected an unauthorized breach into their server system. As a result, they have temporarily disabled outside access until they are confident that the integrity of the server system has not been compromised. Since their server plays host to over 2.7 million members, this is not a small task. They are working as fast as humanly possible to get everything back on line and back to "Status Quo" so to speak.

Everything that we had stored within their servers has been recovered from backup except all our photographs and graphic cards. This we regret were lost. We are restoring from our backup all the card files and any other graphics that were lost.

If we have designed web pages for any of you that have links to any Bravenet guestbooks or greeting cards and your images do not appear, please contact us and we shall restore them from our back up files. We can't remember all the sites we have designed so please help us out if your graphics do not appear.

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 "Gatta Bella"
(Our Queen Of Outlook) for submitting this weeks article titled "Good Friends". We have included an email form on this because you may want to send it to all your friends.

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.

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
"Alt Tag On Text Link"

This is an extremely easy effect to add to your text links. It works just like an alt tag on an image when you mouseover and a description appears. Just add the below little bit of code into your text link and see what happens!

<a href="Your URL Link Address Here" title="Place Your Message Here"> Link</a>

[ Place Your Mouse Here ]

Our "Little Tips" are compliments of Bravenet Free 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 have a site that includes many archive areas. Have you ever seen or heard of a sort of a drop down menu thing that can handle different areas like we have and yet take up little to no space on our pages?

As a matter of fact, we have just recently found such a drop down menu effect. This is a double drop down menu that can handle as many different areas as you need plus more. It only takes up one line on your page since you said space was a factor. We do feel obligated to tell you that this script (which we have a full tutorial included) is not designed for a novice in HTML coding and java scripts. It is very highly configurative and can get confusing if you let it. Follow the below link and you are there.
[ Double Drop Down Menu ]

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.

We want to thank
"The GhostRider From Viet Nam"
for the answer pertaining to "Fixed Backgrounds".

This week the question will pertain to

An Oversion To Link Lines Writes

I have this oversion to having lines under the links on my web pages. I would like to have the option of different effects to show up on mouseover on my links and remove those horrible lines underneath.

This is a very easy effect to make happen depending on what effect you want. You can remove the line completely and on mouseover you can get an under and or over and under line with your choice of color. Just insert the below sniplet of code into the <HEAD> section of your document. This is the effect we have implimented on most of our pages

<style>
a{text-decoration:none}
a:hover{text-decoration: underline + overline; color:hotpink;}
</style>

You can also follow the below link and see what other effects you can achieve with the use of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) on your links. If you do not see 4 different effects on the below page when it opens, your have a browser that cannot view CSS effects.
[ Cascading Style Sheets ]

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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"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters"
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1868-1959)
Dr. Gabriel Robins

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The Consigliere™