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THE INTERNET TUTOR
June 15, 2006
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This week...
- Webmaster Tip: Get Off The Border
- Surfin' the Web: 5oup
- Software Spotlight: Software and PC Tutorials
- The Oddball Wall: World of Words
- Computer Tip: PC TV
From the strange but true files...
One of my wife's clients was telling her that when she was at
a busy restaurant the other night, the wine was getting to her
and her girdle was too. Feeling less inhibited from the wine
about her extra girth, she asked for a doggie back and went
to the ladies room and removed her girdle, placing it in the
doggie bag and placing that on the floor by her chair when she
returned to her table.
Later that evening when she got home, she opened her doggie
bag and found a piece of fish. She figured someone at the
table behind her got an even bigger surprise when they got
home and found her girdle.
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WEBMASTER TIP - Get Off The Border
Note: In code examples I add a period after each left arrow
bracket so the code can be viewed in all e-mail programs.
If you copy and paste, be sure to remove the periods or it
won't work.
Question: I want to use a left border background on my site,
but I can't figure out how to keep the page content off of
the border area. The tutorials I've seen show to use a table,
but I'm not good with tables and I've read some things
against using tables too. Is there another (easier!) way?
Simon Says: There are two different ways besides using tables.
The oldest is known as the single-pixel gif trick. Basically,
you place a transparent gif comprised of one pixel on the left
edge of the page and set it to however wide and high you need.
Since it's transparent, nothing shows so there's no image
degradation, and having it only one pixel by one pixel in
size assures it download fast and can be used at different
sizes for each page.
That's the old-fashioned way of doing it, there is a better
way now using CSS. Just add the following to the HEAD section
of your page:
<.style type="text/css">
body {margin-left: 160 px;}
<./style>
Of course, you'll need to adjust the width to fit your left
border image. If you already know enough about CSS to be
using a linked style sheet, just add the middle line to your
code, or if you already have a body tag in your linked style
sheet, just add the margin-left to it.
You can also set the other page margins in the same way. In
addition to margin-left, use: margin-top, margin-right,
margin-bottom, and margin-left ...in that order.
Or, just use: margin: 160px
...to set all page margins the same.
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SURFIN' THE WEB - 5oup
5oup is a web site to show off student artistic talent. All
fields of visual creativity are welcome, as are students
from anywhere in the world.
A new talent is added to the fresh page each day, and come
the end of the week the best of 7 is chosen to grace the
featured slot for the duration of the following week.
There is some pretty decent artwork here, but don't ask me
how to pronounce 5oup or what it means - maybe Soup.com was
taken.
http://www.5oup.com/about.html
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SOFTWARE SPOTLIGHT - Software and PC Tutorials
Computers are great, but often the various software we need
or want to use is confusing, and unless you have someone to
teach you, the learning curve can be very steep.
What would you like to know more about...Adobe Photoshop,
Dreamweaver, Visual Basic (VB.net), Flash, Windows XP, Excel?
You'll quickly learn to master the programs you want by fol-
lowing these visual tutorials with vocal explanations of what
you're seeing as you go. Don't take my word for it though,
try a few of the sample tutorials and see for yourself.
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Note: I do not provide support for the featured software.
Contact the software vendor for support. No warranty is made
or implied as to the usefulness or appropriateness of
featured software.
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THE ODDBALL WALL - World of Words
The web site I use to find what happened on this day in
history was down as I'm writing this, so we'll have a
vocabulary builder quiz instead. You are all about learning
and getting smarter anyway, right? Just choose the word that
best matches the definition given.
1) characterized by intensity of emotions or convictions
a. vehement b. intrusive c. apathetic
2) belonging to a thing by its very nature
a. literally b. extraneous c. intrinsic
3) peculiar to the individual
a. mediative b. idiosyncratic c. derivative
4) having a clear mind
a. transparent b. ambient c. lucid
5) noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
a. wanton b. rambunctious c. disjointed
6) full of trivial conversation
a. garrulous b. spurious c. dubious
7) of high moral or intellectual value
a. rarified b. currish c. indelible
8) an explanation of the fundamental reasons
a. definition b. rationale c. forethought
And now for a word that isn't funny...
9) someone who never laughs
a. killjoy b. persona non grata c. agelast
Answers below, here's the scoring:
9 correct: Perfection!
7-8 correct: Outstanding
5-6 correct: Very Good
2-4 correct: Fairly Fair
0-1 correct: Turn the TV off
Answers:
1) a. vehement
2) c. intrinsic
3) b. idiosyncratic
4) c. lucid
5) b. rambunctious
6) a. garrulous
7) a. rarified
8) b. rationale
9) c. agelast
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COMPUTER TIPS - PC TV
After last weeks lengthy computer tip, this week will be a
short one, and a rather different one at that.
How would you like to be able to watch over 200 satellite TV
channels on your PC from around the world? How would you like
no recurring fees for that privilege?
The stations come from almost 100 different countries, in-
cluding the USA, UK, Vatican City, France, Germany, Israel,
Netherlands, Spain, Australia, and every continent out there,
with over 80% of them in the English language.
I have to admit, I'm not much of a TV watcher so I haven't
tried this, but for those of you that enjoy television, I
thought I'd be remiss if I didn't pass this on to you. If
you have questions, consult the FAQ page on the web site.
http://www.xrl.us/pctv
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Until next week, ponder these words of Marcus Aurelius:
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat
than in his own soul.
Have an interesting day, Simon
Questions? Comments? Email me at: tutor@gophercentral.com
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