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  1. HTML Tip: Unpredictable Column Widths Have you ever wasted time wrestling with an HTML table, trying to set column widths the way you want? That can be a real headache under Netscape Navigator, because Netscape interprets WIDTH attributes differently than you might think. Click here to see how to fix this: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/html_no2.htm


  2. CSS Tip: Make Custom Bullets with Cascading Style Sheets, it's easier than you think. Click here to learn how: http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/css_no2.htm


  3. Usability Tip: Test Your Navigation System Want to improve your site's navigation system? Here's an easy way: try asking your friends to do some card tricks. Click here to see why:
    http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol3/usability_no2.htm


  4. CREATING AN INTERSTITIAL open the HTML that will call the interstitial and select the Body tag from the status bar in the lower-left corner. Now choose Window, Behaviors to display the Behaviors palette. Next, choose Open Browser Window from the Behaviors list box. In the resulting dialog box, enter the path and name of the HTML page you want to display in the new window, and the other window width, height, and attributes. Then close the window and review your page in a browser. As you can see, as the page loads, the browser opens a new, smaller window displaying new content.
  5. You can Search for PDFs in google.com by typing in the search terms
    inurl:pdf 'your search word(s)'