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• Making a Browser Window Fit an Image
  This tutorial originally appeared in my Casebook department. The method I used didn't work consistently (I could never figure out why!). I had just about given up trying to find a fix when that light-bulb over my head switched on and I thought of a different way to deal with the problem.
• Get Yourself Noticed with a Favicon
  When you add a web page to your Favorites, or put a shortcut on your desktop, some sites display their own icon. It's a great way to have your site stand out from the crowd! This tutorial explains how to do it.
• Custom Cursors for Your Web Pages
  Until recently you needed the assistance of a third-party web site to put a custom mouse pointer on your web pages. With the enhancements to the latest versions of Internet Explorer adding your own custom cursor has become an easy task.
• Controlling Scrollbar Colour
  One of the new features introduced with Internet Explorer 5.5 was its ability to display different colour schemes for scrollbars. This tutorial explores the use of this feature to decorate windows, inline frames and other scrollbar-bearing objects that might appear on a web page.
• Reference Chart of Named Colours
  In addition to the Hexadecimal (e.g. #8A2BE2) and RGB (e.g. 138,48,226) methods for defining a colour in a web browser, there are 140 colours which can be defined by name (e.g. BlueViolet). This chart shows a complete list of the named colours with their Hex and RGB equivalents.
• Troubleshooting Cascading Style Sheets
  Sometimes your style sheets don't work the way you expected. This article shows you what to look out for, how to fix some common problems, and includes a Browser Detection Script to let you apply different style sheets to different browsers.
• Working With Styles
  Hate Times New Roman? Can't remember what you did to make that paragraph look the way it does? Streamline page design by creating custom styles and modifying the built-in style definitions.
• Cascading Style Sheets
  Get more control over the look of your web pages by applying styles with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). An indispensable tool for the web designer.
• Stop People Stealing Your Pictures!
  There's no foolproof way to prevent someone copying a picture from your web page, but you can make it difficult.
• Inline Frames
  Ever wondered how they put a scrolling window inside a web page? This article shows you what you can do with the little-known <IFRAME> tag. Includes a step-by-step tutorial for FrontPage 2002.
• Get Clever with Multiple Windows
  This should really be filed under the heading Stupid Tricks. It demonstrated what can be done with a little JavaScript and some imagination. 
• How to Download Code Samples
  Instructions for downloading and implementing the code samples that accompany some of the featured tips.
• Changing the Mouse Cursor with HTML Styles
  Every Internet user quickly learns to watch the mouse cursor and that the hand means "Click Here!". Usually the cursor changes automatically, but sometimes the web designer needs to control its actions.
• The Collapsible Document
  We use lists all the time, but they can be untidy things and often occupy more space than necessary. With DHTML you can hide sections of your web page until the visitor asks to see them. Check out the JavaScript method too!
• A Collapsible Navigation Bar
  I saw a pop-up navigation bar on someone else's web site, and decided I could make a better one! Using a similar technique to the DHTML Collapsible document, this navigation bar is powered by JavaScript.
• Opening a Link in a New Window with HTML
  It can be helpful to provide external links for your visitors, but if they follow the link will they come back or have you lost them? One solution is to have the linked page open in a new window. Here's how to do it.
• Opening a Link in a New Window with JavaScript
  Aaaarrggh... consoles! Ban them! But wait a minute - they're great. With a bit of JavaScript you can switch off toolbars, accurately size windows and precisely position them on the screen. Hooray for consoles!
• Opening Multiple Links in the Same Remote Window
  Don't inundate your visitors with  new windows! This technique lets you open each new link in the same window as the first one. You keep your visitor - and they keep their sanity. There's also a JavaScript enhanced method.
• Custom Navigation Buttons with JavaScript
  Your own "Back", "Forward", "Refresh" and "Close" buttons, all courtesy of JavaScript... who needs 'em? You do! Didn't you just create a console without a toolbar?

FrontPage Questions from my Mailbag section...

• How Can I Let My Visitors Download vCards from My Web Site?

• Can I Make a Window Fit an Image Without Specifying the Image Size?

• How Do I Put an Inline Frame Inside a Picture?

• How Do I Make the Browser Window Fit an Image?