...you are actually doing yourself disservice. Why not reduce the graphic in your image editor first, then place it on your web site? Doing this will speed up your site and will not distort your graphic.

PROBLEM 3: IMAGE LOOKS DISTORTED SOLUTION: You probably specified incorrect size of this graphic on your web page. To find out the correct size of a graphic, right-click on it and choose "Properties" from the menu. You should see the image size (something like 110 x 200) then put the same numbers in the IMG tag:

PROBLEM 4: BROKEN LINK
SOLUTION: You must fix your link so it takes your visitors to a page that exists. Links can be relative or absolute. Here is an example of a relative link (remember, I am omitting the tag brackets so you could see the actual code):

This link refers to a page that is located on YOUR web site, and not someone else's. Now, here is an example of an absolute link:

Notice that this link will take you to the exact same page that the first one will. This is just a different way to build your links.
You can also link to someone else's web site using absolute links:

Can you use relative links to refer to an outside web site? No. Only absolute links can do that. And don't forget to use the "http://" in each absolute link tag.

PROBLEM 5: TEXT IS MISSING ON THE PAGE SOLUTION: This can happen for different reasons, but all of them have to do with closing tags:

1) When a closing table tag is missing, the entire table content might be missing, too. So don't forget to close all your TABLE, TR and TD tags.

2) You forgot to close a comment and the browser "thinks" that the rest of the text has also been commented out. Make sure you close every comment that you open.

3) You forgot to close a quotation mark in a tag. For example, if you use quotes in a IMG SRC or A HREF tags, you must close them:

The above code will cause the page to display incorrectly. Fix it by adding a closing quotation after the graphic name.

4) If you using in forms, make sure you close it with a tag.

PROBLEM 6: VISITORS CAN'T SEE YOUR FANCY FONTS SOLUTION: Do not use your fancy fonts. There are only a handful of fonts that every computer user has installed. They are: Verdana, Arial, Courier, & Times New Roman. If you try to use some other font such as Impact or FreeStyle Script, and your visitors don't have them installed, they will see your text in whatever font their browser is set to.

If you REALLY want your visitors to see your handsome fonts, then turn some of your text into graphics. Your graphics will be displayed the same on every computer, and your visitors will be able to see the fonts you meant for them to see.

PROBLEM 7: TOO MUCH HORIZONTAL SCROLLING REQUIRED SOLUTION: Put your text into a table and make it no more than 85% in width and centered. This way, regardless of how large or small their monitors are, your visitors will always see your text centered with no horizontal scrolling necessary.

PROBLEM 8: THE TABLE IS WIDER THAN SPECIFIED SOLUTION: Sometimes even you specify table width as 500 pixels, it might still stretch to all 700. There are two reasons for that.

1) You have a graphic in that table that is wider than the table itself. Reduce its size and the table will shrink as well.

2) You are using a long URL somewhere in the table text. Shorten it or remove it and you will see the table shrink to its specified size.

PROBLEM 9: WEB PAGE DISPLAYS OLD LINKS AND IMAGES SOLUTION: Refresh (or reload) the page by clicking the button on the toolbar of your browser. Sometimes the graphics are still not being refreshed in which case you need to do this:

right-click on the graphic choose "view image" or "open image" click "Refresh" when the graphic is displayed by itself

Now come back to your web page and press "refresh" button one more time. You should now see the updated images. Also, if you are using an FTP program to upload your files, don't forget to click "Refresh" in the FTP window before uploading new files. Otherwise, you will simply upload the old versions.

PROBLEM 10: BACKGROUND DOESN'T SHOW SOLUTION: Make sure to upload your background image along with the other files. Also, make sure you upload it into the right directory (see "missing image on the page" above for more information)

PROBLEM 11: CAN'T ACCESS YOUR HOME PAGE SOLUTION: if you get an "access denied" error or a list of files when you are trying to access your web site, make sure you named your home page correctly.
Every hosting company has it set up so that the very first page of your site must be named "index.html". Sometimes, though, they will require your first file to be called "welcome.html", "default.html", "home.html", or "default.htm".

There is only one way to find out:ask them! Or visit their web site to see if they specify the default file name in their tech support section.
Notice that "default.html" and "default.htm" are two different files. You can name your files either way, but only one of them will be accepted as a default one.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jeffrey Benson is the CEO of Self Help Solutions Centre, a full time Internet Marketers and the vendor of the acclaimed website design book "65 Instant Web Design Answers". He has just published a new book entitled "When The Going Gets Tough: How To Create Opportunity out Of Thin Air.A self help book to guide you into greatness.
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