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Help Message Board

• Computer Help Forum - ask a question or reply to anyone you can help or assist.

How To's

• How to make those fancy emails - brighten up those emails.
• More on inserting Images - directly into an email.
• How to copy text or images from the web - with an easy example.
• How to print Background Colors and Images - from a webpage.
• How to configure an extra email account - a very useful thing to have.
• How to sort your mail - put them all in individual folders.
• How to disable Javascript - in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera.
• How to change your Screen Resolution - for easier viewing.
• How to use Windows XP System Restore - before you actually need it.
• How to create a Dial-up account - if your Broadband has failed.

Sp@m, Viruses and Safety

• Cookies and Spyware - what websites know about you.
• Stop that annoying spam - with Outlook Express built-in filters.
• Advanced spam filtering - with Outlook Express built-in filters.
• How do spammers get your email - and how to prevent it.
• What's in that spam code - how to look at the code of spam.
• Virus protection information - some advice in avoiding an infection.

Website Designing

• Making your First Webpage - most ISP's give you a free website.
• Hexadecimal colors made easy - explained in layman's terms.
• Websafe Color Chart - with hexadecimal values.
• How to use Frames and a Frameset - it's no longer recommended to use these.
• Putting your Content First in Tables - but displaying it last.
• Creating or editing an .htaccess file - HTA files are absolutely magic.
• ASCII Codes - printable table of standard characters.
• Website spam - How to stop automated spam to a Contact Me page.

CSS Cascading Style Sheet Design

• Cascading Style Sheets - CSS is easy once you get started with it.
• Tableless design layout - using a stylesheet to format your content.
• Centering floats and boxes - using a style sheet.
• Using Corner Images in columns - using just CSS.
• 3 Column Display with Rounded Borders - using just CSS.
• Quirks in different browsers - when using stylesheets.

Miscellaneous

• Website Hosting - what to look for when choosing a new company.
• Paypal Pitfalls - not received a purchase you ordered?.