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By the time you receive this letter, we hope that all your shopping is done so you can finally relax and await Christmas morning.

All the staff at Consigliere™ Ltd. want to wish each and every one of you a warm and sincere Merry Christmas and hope you shall receive all you have wished and hoped for over the year.

The Award Staff would like to congratulate "Roger" aka "The Drifter" for submitting his site "One Proud Marine" for consideration in our Award Of Excellence program. After careful consideration he was proudly awarded our Award Of Excellence.

"The Drifter" served The United States proudly as a Marine for over 17 years. His site reflects the life and times of his proud, decorated military career. You should stop in and pay his site a visit. It is worth the trip.

Everyone has always seen the expression "Semper Fi" when referring to the Marines, but does everyone know what it means?

It is the Marine Corps motto which was shortened from "Semper Fidelis" which means "Always Faithful". The basic meaning behind this is quite simple. "Once A Marine, Always A Marine". As with all branches of the military, it is a bond that once made is never broken.

Besides being an avid "History Buff", The Consigliere™ also has a great love for Rock and Roll Music from the 1950's, 1960's & 1970's. (Not that we would ever "Age" The Consigliere™) but.... He was brought up on Belmont Ave. in "Da Bronx" N.Y. USA and used to hang out on the corner and listen to Dion And The Belmonts (if anyone remembers them) sing.

While we were looking for something, we came across one of the greatest midi sites we have seen in a long time.
Leslie's Midi Collection, which features mostly files (free for downloading) of rock and roll music from The Consigliere's™ "Era". It also does have Christmas music and Chinese golden oldies.

He (Consigliere) told us to pass this site along to everyone. If you don't know how to download a midi file and save it to your hard drive, it is quite simple. Just right click on the file you want and then when the box pops up, just "Save Target As" to your hard drive.

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After the holidays we shall be updating and getting more disc space and bandwidth on our site. This also means that everyone who has over the years complained about our pop up ads will not see them any more for we shall be removing them from our pages.

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 "Blinky" for submitting this weeks article titled "What Do Women Really Want". This is actually a true to life statement that is being made. Our feeling on this is quite simple. In a so-called "Male Dominated Society", there is no superior gender. Everyone, male and female are equal and intitled to the same benefits and opportunities. The day of the "Male" dominated society is over. Male or Female are afforded the same opportunities according to their qualifications, not gender.

We have decided to add the above section on
"What Happened On This Date".
We will also 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
"Fixing Netscape Image Link Glitch"

Have you ever noticed a little blue mark (underscore) near the bottom right corner of an image? If you don't properly code hyper- linked images, visitors using Netscape will see this. But there is a simple way to get rid of the offending mark. All you have to do is place all your code on one line. For example, the code below will show the blue mark:

<A HREF="pagelink.html">
<IMG SRC="image.jpg">
</A>

This code will display fine in Explorer, but Netscape users won't be so lucky. To fix this glitch, place the source code on one line, like this:

There is nothing wrong with your eyes. We had to downsize the above font so it would all fit on one line.

If you have Netscape available on your system, try placing both code examples on a test page and you'll see the difference. Many web-masters are unaware of this problem. In fact, we find it a good idea to code for Netscape instead of Explorer, as Explorer displays Netscape-coded pages properly, but not the other way around.

As always, if we have our little tip published here, it is also on our website under;

Every week we receive 100's of different questions on Web Design, Security, Email, Internet etc. 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 was wondering if there is such a thing as a generator of some sort that can give me the opposite color if I want for example a button with one color and the font the exact opposite color.

Signed:
     Colorless In California

In a word, "Yes". There is such a generator and we have one on our site. What it does is you input a hex color and it will generate the opposite and also show you the contrast color. We have also placed a link on that page to all the hex codes if you are not familiar with them.

As always, if you would like to link to that page or any of our pages for that matter, feel free. Just right click anywhere on the page and add our icon to your desktop or favorites.
[ Inverse Color Generator ]

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

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 ]

We at Consigliere™ Ltd. have come up with another free service we are offering if you are registered for our news letter. 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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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
Dr. Gabriel Robins

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