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What is JPEG XS?

This might come as a surprise to you, but there’s not a single JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – image format already but a number of them. In fact, the most common JPEG formats are JPEG XT,...

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Embed an Amazon Search Link on my Web page?

It’s long been accepted by the online community that if you’re shopping for just about anything at all, from books to socks, cat pajamas to car tire pressure gauges, your first stop needs to be...

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How can I add an MSN Search Box to my Web site?

You can definitely reverse engineer the search system that Microsoft uses on its popular MSN.COM site and create a similar search for your own Web page. In fact, I offer details on how to do just that...

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How do I add a banner ad to my site?

First off, congrats on getting an advertiser or sponsor for your Web site. That’s always a nice thing and based on what you said there aren’t any metrics to achieve either so there’s no worry about...

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Add a Google News Search Box to your Site?

If you’re so inclined, you can certainly go to Google News, crack open the source code and figure out exactly what’s going on with the search form. That’s the hard way because Google has a lot of...

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Add a FedEx Tracking Box to your Web Site?

If you’re a shipping partner with Federal Express or have a tight integration of FedEx shipping with your online shopping solution (Shopify, for example) then that should be a simple matter of some...

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Round Edges of Text Input Element in Web Form?

While support for the CSS style border-radius has been in Web browsers for years now, you’re right that the big sites are only just starting to take advantage of it. Seems like suddenly every designer...

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Accessibility Tools for Web Developers?

Web site design for accessibility is a critical question applicable to more people than you might realize. It’s also a topic that too many Web designers simply ignore. After all, if they aren’t...

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Can I Link Directly to a BBC News Search Result?

Nice to get a question from another fan of BBC News. I’ve been reading BBC News and listening to BBC World Service and watching BBC television productions since I was a wee tot. Great stuff, solid...

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Shrink Image File Size with Google Squoosh!

There are two main reasons that image files end up being too big: Either the image is at a higher resolution than you’re using it or it’s using a compression algorithm that’s not optimal for that...

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What is JPEG XS?

This might come as a surprise to you, but there’s not a single JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – image format already but a number of them. In fact, the most common JPEG formats are JPEG XT,...

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Embed an Amazon Search Link on my Web page?

It’s long been accepted by the online community that if you’re shopping for just about anything at all, from books to socks, cat pajamas to car tire pressure gauges, your first stop needs to be...

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How can I add an MSN Search Box to my Web site?

You can definitely reverse engineer the search system that Microsoft uses on its popular MSN.COM site and create a similar search for your own Web page. In fact, I offer details on how to do just that...

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How can I view HTML page source in Microsoft Edge?

As Web page design and layout has gotten more sophisticated (really it’s mostly just more complicated) it seems like less people are taking the route of just viewing the HTML source of a Web page and...

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How Can I Round My Image and Graphics Corners in CSS?

The first generation of Web pages were definitely characterized by rectilinear imagery. Everything was squares or rectangles and if you wanted a rounded edge, you had to chop up your image into...

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Add a Drop Shadow to Images on my Web Pages?

Modern Web browsers work with a lot more than just old-school HTML (hypertext markup language), notably including something called Cascading Style Sheets or “CSS”. CSS is so prevalent that you’d...

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How Can I Add a CNN.com Search Box To My Web Site?

For the most part, it’s true that if you can do something on one Web page, you can do it on any Web page. Duplicating the basics of a site search is one of the easiest too. Turns out that most site...

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Can I Link Directly to a BBC News Search Result?

Nice to get a question from another fan of BBC News. I’ve been reading BBC News and listening to BBC World Service and watching BBC television productions since I was a wee tot. Great stuff, solid...

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Shrink Image File Size with Google Squoosh!

There are two main reasons that image files end up being too big: Either the image is at a higher resolution than you’re using it or it’s using a compression algorithm that’s not optimal for that...

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What is JPEG XS?

This might come as a surprise to you, but there’s not a single JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group – image format already but a number of them. In fact, the most common JPEG formats are JPEG XT,...

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