One of the most important Meta tags to add to your site is the description Meta tag. The Description meta tag is what Google uses in their search engine. The paragraph part of the search results is the Meta Description. Below is an example of the meta description code. <meta name=”description” content=”This is the description Read More >
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What are Meta Tags?
When working on a website, you may hear references to “Meta Data” or “Meta Tags“. This is commonly associated with “SEO” (Search Engine Optimization). Managing your pages meta tag information is important for when search engines like Google search your site. This article will explain what meta tags are for. What is a Meta tag? Read More >
Anchor Links and How to Create Them
Anchor links are used to take visitors of your website from one place on the current page to another place of the current page. One good example is if you have a long FAQ page on your website. If you have a list of the questions towards the top of your webpage they can be Read More >
Opening a new window with a link
Now that we have gone over how to create a basic hyperlink in HTML and covered how to create mailto tags to send email. Sometimes you may want to create an external link to websites. To do this, you may not want your visitors to leave your website but just open a new web browser Read More >
Creating an Email Link in your Webpage
Having a link for your website’s visitors to send you an email is a great way to make it easy for them to contact you. When you create an email link, the visitor will just click on the link and it will open their email client with a new message window. The new window will Read More >
Using the anchor tag to create links
There are two types of links to pages you can create. There is the “Internal Link” and the “External Link“. An “Internal Link” is a link in your site that navigates the visitor to another page in your website. The “External Link” navigates the visitor away from your site to another website in the internet Read More >
How to make an Image a Link
Any image can be a hyperlink to another webpage or another website alltogether. This will allow your website’s visitors to click on an image and go to a different webpage automatically. We will start using the same code as we did in the previous tutorial and build on it in this example: <img src=”Images/image.jpg” align=”middle” Read More >
Changing the Size of an Image
Sometimes you may need to change the size of an image on your webpage so to better format it on the page. This is easily accomplished using the attributes associated with the <img src> tag. Changing the height and width of the image in the tag will not automatically resize the image proportionally. It is Read More >
Changing the Image Alignment
In the last tutorial of this series, you learned how to add a basic image to your website. Often you will need to change the alignment of the image on the page. This can be done by modifying you image tag in the HTML code. We will use the same code as we did in Read More >
Inserting Images using HTML
Most websites have pictures or images in them. Inserting images into websites is easy in HTML. All that you need is one line of code, and the location of the file either on your own server or linked from a different server. First, you will need to open up the source code for the webpage Read More >
Bullet Points and Numbered Lists Explained
HTML has code you can use that allows you to make a “bulleted” or “numbered” list. There are two different types of list tags. The <ol> (ordered list) and <ul> (unordered list). Ordered lists are lists that order items by numbers or roman numerals. Unordered lists are bulleted points that can have circles or squares Read More >
HTML Attributes: Using attributes in HTML tags
In HTML, each tag can have different attributes applied. Attributes allow the HTML tags to have specific properties added to them. You can assign a “class” to either reuse styles throughout your website or style your elements with the “style” attribute. Don’t worry about how the style and class attributes work at this moment, this Read More >
Understanding Basic HTML Tags
HTML tags and attributes within the tag are used to create the HTML documents that you see displayed via the internet. You can use HTML code to add images, create links, and modify how text is displayed. There are many tags that are available to help you design and format your page. You can see Read More >
Introduction to Web Design Basics
HTML can be a little intimidating for those not accustomed to looking at code. That’s why we wrote this article as an introduction to web design basics. Once you familiarize your self with the basics, it becomes easier to write your website using HTML code. This article will break down the basics of how to Read More >
Spam: What is it?
Spam is email that is unsolicited and unwanted that is sent to your account. You can think of spam as junk mail you get in your mail box. Some spam is harmless message or they could have a virus or malware, it makes it more difficult to find legitimate emails you may have received. There’s Read More >
Searching for Emails
It is common practice that email clients today have a search feature integrated into their functionality. This can be of great help if you want to find all the emails from one person or about a specific topic. Some email client’s search function is quite robust and will allow you to tell the application not Read More >
Creating Email Folders
Organizing your email can be important especially if you receive a large number of emails. This can be easily accomplished by creating folders in your email client. Once you create the folders, you can manaully move the emails to the folder. or set up filters to place incoming mail in the folder once they are Read More >
Email Calendars Explained
This article is currently being reviewed and updated. Please check back in a few weeks for more information about this topic. Many email clients have email calendars built into their applications to make it easy to keep track of important appointments and dates. Many popluar email clients allow you set up up reminders before an Read More >
Managing your Address Book
Keeping you email contacts organized can be tough, using your email client’s address book can help you stay organized. What is an Address Book? Remember the days when everyone used a dayplanner to store important phone numbers and contact information? Email address books are similar since they allow you to store important contact information and Read More >
Configuration Email Options in Webmail
With almost every email client, you can change your account information whenever you please. Keep in mind email clients are all different but most will allow you to change the following settings: Display Name Language Time Zone Reply To: Email Address We have many articles explaining the different configuration email options in webmail you can Read More >
