Cheap Tricks in HTML Editing

Have a cheap trick? Please send it along to me.

REMEMBER: When you are surfing, and you see a page you like a feature on, Save The Page!. Then you can cut the coding for your own use, making the necessary modifications.

The following tips are in no particular order, and are revised solely on my whim. Usually, the newest tricks are listed on top, and old tricks are removed.

To have a page automatically update (or move to another location) add the line

11 is number of seconds before this action occurs. Adjust the URL.

If you publish/access the Netscape ADDRESS.HTM file (or cut-n-paste the codes), it is an mailto-coded listing. Cool!

Default Page

The automatic default pagename is /index.htm.

SPECIAL USE!! You can create a sublevel directory of, say, archived documents without any special upkeep, if you just 1) copy the files to that subdirectory, 2) have NO document in that directory named INDEX.HTM, and 3) point to the subdirectory level name. The lack of a document INDEX.HTM will create an on-screen, gopher-like listing of files for the user to access. (What a time to think about a better file naming convention!).

Be sure to adjust any destination-document pointers (as are used in COUNTERs), when you cut code from other pages.

Special Hypertext Codes:

mailto:alicat@ix.netcom.com -> opens sendmail feature, addressed to alicat@ix.netcom.com

<align=top> -> aligns images w/ top/middle/bottom

<blink> -> sets item to blinking while in browser.

<br> -> line break

Alicat's Cut'n'Paste

Using NETCOM's FreeForm PageBuilder allows only the entry of hardcode HTML. So...

Use any HTML editor to create your HTML document

Goto PageBuilder FreeForm editor of page.

CUT old code.

Open .HTM page in EDIT-HTM, COPY code.

Paste .HTM code into PageBuilder FreeForm editor. Preview, Publish.

In Cat's Alley, put addresses as /~alicat2/pagename.html.

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