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More HTML Formatting Help

We have already covered some basic HTML tags you will use when writing your web page code. Here are a few more that you might find come in handy, when designing your own web page.

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Basic HTML Formatting Help

When it comes to formatting a web page using HTML code, you can think of it (kind of) in the same way you would look at formatting a document formatted by a word processor. You have your headlines to show you where one section starts and stops. You have your paragraphs to break up blocks of text, and you have line breaks to show where there should be a new line started. Now I am going to show you how to get some of these things done using HTML.

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Modify the HTML Body Tag

There are several HTML tags that can act as modifiers to how the web page looks visually.

First, let us re-visit the body tags. The body tags are there to tell the browser what part of the document is going to be visible to the end user when viewing the web page. This is marked up in your HTML code by putting a <body> where your web page’s content begins and a </body> tags where it ends.

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HTML Basics

Hyper Text Markup Language, or as you know it HTML, is the markup language for most web pages on the Internet.

Now, it is not exactly a language like English or Spanish, which we communicate with verbally. A markup language is a system for editing text in a way that changes how the text looks or how you interact with it. Where you use funny looking code to make one section of text look different than the other, the code in question is not seen by the end user. The server the web page is coming from, and the user’s browser come together to help mesh it together as something that is seen as visually appealing to the end user.

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Pros and Cons for VPS Hosting

VPS HostingAnybody who has been in web hosting long enough to at least know the tiers knows that when you move from a shared hosting server to a VPS hosting server, your entire website experience will be better.  However, there are misconceptions about how much bang for your buck you will get with VPS hosting too.  With that said, I thought it might be a good ideas of looking at some of the pros and cons of switching from your standard shared web hosting plan to a Virtual Private Server.

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How to Setup FileZilla

FileZilla TutorialNew to FileZilla? Today, I have for you a tutorial to help get started using it. This fantastic FTP program might be my favorite FTP client – mainly because it is so simple to use.

Hope you enjoyed that tutorial and let me know in the comments if you would like to see more!

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Can’t Host That – Podcast 216

Podcast 216 - Can't Host That

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Believe it or not, there are files you probably should not upload to the server you host your website from.  Not only could you get in trouble with your web host by doing so, but you could also be putting your own security at risk.  On today’s podcast we will go over some of the files you should not host and my favorite way to back up personal files remotely and securely.  The Web Hosting Show is on the air.

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Gallery Hosting Tools – Podcast 215

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this podcast has to be worth at least eight minutes or so of your time.  On this edition of the Web Hosting Show we will be taking a look at both online photo gallery hosting services and three different types of photo gallery scripts you can install on your own web hosting account.

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Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.27 MB

There are hundreds if not thousands of great ways to showcase your artwork, your photography or any other type of images you have created and share them with the world.  I have done my best to check them all out – so you can finally know which ones are the best of the best.

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cPanel – Fresh, Bold and Fun Control Panel

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If you ask just about anybody what control panel their web hosting account is using, nine times out of ten you are going to get cPanel as the response.  While cPanel has always seemed to be the proverbial, “big daddy” when it comes to controlling hosting accounts – I do have to say the company has done a great job at sort of remaking its image to seem more up to date and awesome.

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Grand Theft Website – Podcast 210

Podcast 210 - Grand Theft Website

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It is a big bad scary world when it comes to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and website hosting.  On today’s podcast I will be discussing with you in detail what the DMCA is, what it means for web hosts out there, and what you should do if your own content has been ripped from your website.  The Web Hosting Show is on the air.

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Running Time: 8 minutes | File Size: 3.50 MB

So how does web hosting, the DMCA and copyright protection all mash up and what do you need to know?  I am glad you asked.

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