You see, MPEG-4 is an open standard, which means it is not owned by any particular company and has instead been created by internet community and various working groups. I don't know about you, but I tend to trust this kind of software over that created by companies with highly commercial purposes and undisclosed (hidden) agendas.

Visiting Quicktime web site was an interesting experience. The site was not extraordinarily commercial and link for free player was right up front (where it belongs). The download was clean and easy and did not require any information from me at all (they asked for but did not require my email address). To me, this is mark of truly profession software of this type.

You see, if I put a QuickTime video on my web site I want it to make it painless and easy for them to install plugin. If site asks for too much data, then my visitors have a greater chance of being annoyed and moving on. Since Quicktime does not require ANY data from my users, that particular issue never even comes up.

The installer did not ask me to purchase anything, except for a brief, well placed question reminding me that it might be a good idea to purchase professional version.

I think it's pretty obvious that I like this product. Out of big three (Windows Media Player, Real Player and Quicktime) it was easiest install of all, it asked fewest questions and interfered least with my computer. I would not have any hesitation about included a Quicktime video on my web site for my visitors to watch.

< link rel="STYLESHEET" type="text/css" href="mystyle.css" rel="nofollow" >

It is now easy to change background image or color of your site by simply changing variables in stylesheet. You can also change how text in your in your website looks Anything in "P" tags on your web pages takes on "P" attributes specified in stylesheet. The above will make your pages display Verdana text (and you give option of Helvetica and sans-serif in case your visitor's computer does not support first choice) which is 12 pt and navy.

The next source of confusion is use of CLASS attribute. But this is also real easy and very powerful. It is best explained by adding another style to our stylesheet explained above.

P.redtext { FONT-FAMILY: Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: red }

Now what this allows you to do is make certain blocks of text red. In your web pages, instead of a simple "P" tag around your text, you would add class="redtext" to "P" tag and text inside tags would be red.

You can have any number of classes and assign classes not only to P tags, but also to your table data TD, your links "A" and any tag contained in "BODY" of your web pages. And by simply changing stylesheet you can change look of your whole site. Are you beginning to see power of using style?

It is however important to realize Netscape and Internet Explorer deal with stylesheets differently and Netscape does not support them as fully as IE. Netscape basically takes inheritance a step too far. The only way to find out what goes and what doesn't is by trial and error, however there are a couple of resources which will help you a long way with understanding more about stylesheets. We have listed links to these resources at http://www.thewebseye.com/stylesheets.htm.

With simple stylesheets you should have no problem and they will really help to make sure your site keeps a certain amount of uniformity and cohesion.