Quicktime Format

Written by Richard Lowe


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You see, MPEG-4 is an open standard, which means it is not owned by any particular company and has instead been created byrepparttar 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.

Visitingrepparttar 134586 Quicktime web site was an interesting experience. The site was not extraordinarily commercial andrepparttar 134587 link forrepparttar 134588 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 isrepparttar 134589 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 installrepparttar 134590 plugin. Ifrepparttar 134591 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 purchaserepparttar 134592 professional version.

I think it's pretty obvious that I like this product. Out ofrepparttar 134593 big three (Windows Media Player, Real Player and Quicktime) it wasrepparttar 134594 easiest install of all, it askedrepparttar 134595 fewest questions and interferedrepparttar 134596 least with my computer. I would not have any hesitation about included a Quicktime video on my web site for my visitors to watch.

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DESIGNING WITH STYLE

Written by Richard Igoe


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

It is now easy to changerepparttar background image or color of your site by simply changingrepparttar 134585 variables inrepparttar 134586 stylesheet. You can also change howrepparttar 134587 text in your in your website looks Anything in "P" tags on your web pages takes onrepparttar 134588 "P" attributes specified inrepparttar 134589 stylesheet. The above will make your pages display Verdana text (and you giverepparttar 134590 option of Helvetica and sans-serif in case your visitor's computer does not supportrepparttar 134591 first choice) which is 12 pt and navy.

The next source of confusion isrepparttar 134592 use ofrepparttar 134593 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" torepparttar 134594 "P" tag andrepparttar 134595 text insiderepparttar 134596 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 inrepparttar 134597 "BODY" of your web pages. And by simply changingrepparttar 134598 stylesheet you can changerepparttar 134599 look of your whole site. Are you beginning to seerepparttar 134600 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 takesrepparttar 134601 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.

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