Q: Who made up the internet?

A: Lynch & Horton invented hypertext.

Q: How do I make my site show up say on the first page of a google search?

A: In order to get to the top of Google's ranking system many things must be in place. Meta tags, content, links from other sites and submissions are all contributing factors.

Q: How do I get it so that my font stays the same on different browsers?

A: Unfortunately there are only a few fonts that are standard on all computers, such as Times New Roman and Arial. If you are trying to use unique fonts is usually accomplished by making JPG's of the font and adding the images to a site.

Q: How do I make the windows of my site stay constantly the same size?

A: Controlling Window Size can be accomplished with Javascript behaviours. I have an example of how to control some aspects of any windows being opened on a site in my intro to javascipts document. There are many javascript commands that can accomplish similar tasks. The following external links explain these commands.

Q: How i would make a Flash page come up after clicking on a Enter Site splash page?

A: On the spash page add a hyperlink pointing to the SWF file, or to an HTML File with the flash embedded. Using a little javascript (see the above question) you can also force the window to open certain way. This link opens a SWF file directly. Because the SWF file is not embedded in a page it is able to resize with the browser.

Q: How do I remove the blue outline from appearing around my images after I've made them into links?

A: The reason the blue border appears is due to the default CSS used in browsers. All that is needed is to override the browser by adding your own CSS. Select the picture and add a CSS rule to your image. In the CSS Rules definition dialogue box, set the Border width to Zero pixels. This will prevent all images from having a border. If you wanted a border around some images, use a .class to assign a more specific tag to certain images to override the general 0 pixel border.

 

Q: How do I prevent my website from being indexed by Google (as in the oposite of SEO)?

A: The following metatags added to your headers should help prevent google from seeing you as would the addition of the robots.txt file, mentioned in further detail below. By adding the tags to only certain pages of your site you can allow google to concentrate on your main pages and ignore the ones you don't want being found straight away.

The robot.txt is a file to place on your site to prevent search engines from listing your site. For reasons of privacy this may be a useful tool. It is simply a .txt file with a few lines of code within it. To prevent all bots from looking at your site, put a robots.txt file in the root of your directory, with the following content:

For more information on how to control which directories and files a robot will search as well as which search engines are allowed to view what files, check out this site or Google robots.txt and read the various sites.