How to build a Professional Web Site - by Carlo Scodanibbio How to build a Professional Web Site - a comprehensive distance learning course Modus2000 
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HOW TO BUILD A PROFESSIONAL WEB SITE

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How to build a Professional Web Site is a very comprehensive, step-by-step Web Design/WebMaster "distance-learning" course. It is structured and offered to the wider Internet audience by Carlo Scodanibbio, international consultant and trainer, and replicates - identical in its content - the "real-world" program he presents regularly at the University of Cape Town.
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Newsletters Archive

Newsletter N. 01
"How and when you can use your own CGI-Script for smooth Form handling"

Newsletter N. 02
"Tips on use of the MARQUEE Tag"
"Tips on TABLES"

Newsletter N. 03
"Considerations on and implications of changing Web Host"
"Tips on use of Arachnophilia"
"about PrintScreen"

Newsletter N. 04
"Tips for managing Downloadable Content"

Newsletter N. 05
"about READONLY textual content in a TEXTAREA Tag"
"Colorise Explorer's Scrolling Bars !"
"View Page Source via a Link"
"Indenting text with no List bullets or numbers"

Newsletter N. 06
Facing Internationalisation and Globalisation
How to have your Web Site automatically translated for free and in real time

Newsletter N. 07
Opening a new, feature-controlled pop-up window, with an inline js command
Beat the search engines !

Newsletter N. 08 - Special Edition
Hammer the spammers !

Newsletter N. 09
Installing an internal Search Engine

Newsletter N. 10
How to validate an XHTML document

Newsletter N. 11
Your own, free Mailing Software

Newsletter N. 12
About: input type="image"
About: input type="file"
The <sub> and <sup> Tags
Should you use the <b></b> Tag or the <strong></strong> Tag ?

Newsletter N. 13
About Direct Mailing Marketing

Newsletter N. 14
The Tag <label>
The Tags <fieldset> and <legend>
Forms: how to capture your visitors' attention

Newsletter N. 15
The 404 Error Page: tips and hints
"Print this Page"
The "back-to-previous-page" JS command

Newsletter N. 16
Should you use SSI (Server Side Include) ?

Newsletter N. 17
Preventing horizontal scrolling bars with Explorer 6
"Disappearing" pop-up windows

Newsletter N. 18
The final truth about listing with major Search Engines, or,
How to get "listed" fast in Google, Yahoo, MSN Search......

Newsletter N. 19
The Inline Frame Element, or, "How to re-vitalise your pages inserting other pages into them".

Newsletter N. 20
About free Traffic Monitoring facilities.

Newsletter N. 21
Why and how to write poweful HTML e-mail.

Newsletter N. 22
The Tags <abbr> - <acronym> - <q> - <strong> - <em> - <cite> - <dfn> - <code> - <samp> - <kbd> - <var> and their use with Cascading Style Sheets

Newsletter N. 23
HOW ABOUT AN INTERACTIVE GUESTBOOK?

Newsletter N. 24
PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF AN INTERACTIVE GUESTBOOK CGI Script

Newsletter N. 25
A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO B2C E-COMMERCE
How to accept Credit Card payments easily and instantly

Newsletter N. 26
HOW TO PREPARE DOWNLOADABLE, EXECUTABLE FILES

Newsletter N. 27
HOW TO STRUCTURE A 3-COLUMN PAGE ARCHITECTURE IN PURE CSS (NO TABLES)
BOOKMARK THIS PAGE
PRE-INSERT SUBJECT AND BODY IN E-MAIL FROM YOUR WEB SITE

Newsletter N. 28
HOW TO SET UP A PHOTO ALBUM WITH ZOOM-IN/ZOOM-OUT FACILITY IN PURE HTML

Newsletter N. 29
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

Newsletter N. 30
HAMMER THE SPAMMERS TO DEATH N. 1!! or HOW I WON MY WAR AGAINST SPAM
Organisational/strategic issues

Newsletter N. 31
HAMMER THE SPAMMERS TO DEATH N. 2!! or HOW I WON MY WAR AGAINST SPAM
Technical issues

Newsletter N. 32
WHY AND HOW TO GRAB YOUR MOZILLA'S FIREFOX

Newsletter N. 33
YOUR PERSONAL HTML/XHTML/CSS VALIDATOR
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EXAMPLES OF CSS DESIGN