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Hi mzwebfreak, I have very sparingly used frontpage, but IMO, it's no good. frontpage is a WYSIWYG kind of editor in which you just arrange everything as you want to see it on the webpage. If you wanted to use such an editor, I would recommend Dreamweaver as it has much more functionality than frontpage. Frontpage is good for beginners IMO, but if you really want to learn to design, nothing beats the direct coding way. Sure it's not as easy as dragging everything to where ever you want it to be, but you learn to code more efficiently. Crimson Editor is a text editor for editing C, JAVA, HTML, CSS, XML, PHP and many other types of files. It is much better than Notepad with a great number of functions. You can download it at: http://www.crimsoneditor.com/ It's very light and doesn't take up much space. The best part is TABS! Just like Firefox, you can have multi tabs to edit different files in the same window. Just give it a try, I think you'll like it

Hi, I'm kinda new here so please forgive me if you find this tip lame Now, I've got a lot of stuff on my computer (read pr0n) that I don't want anyone from finding out (esp. my kid brother ). So, here are 2 methods that I usually use to hide files. It works fine in Windows XP but i'm not sure about the other windows versions. Method 1: 1. Right click the folder that you want to hide. Select Properties. 2. Click on the 'Customise' tab and select 'Change Icon'. 3. Now select the white space as shown in the picture below: http://www.abhiram.0nyx.com/hide.jpg 4. Select 'OK' and 'Ok' in the properties window. 5. Now you'll only see the name of the folder and no icon. 6. To get rid of the name, right click on the name and then select 'rename'. 7. Now, while keeping the 'alt' button pressed, press 2,5,5 in succession on the NUMERIC KEYPAD. A space will appear in the name space. 8. Press 'ENTER' and that's it! You now have a hidden file right there and no one can see it. Now anyone can realise something fishy when they drag over it and see a small space getting highlighted. So, uncheck 'Auto-arrange icons' from the icons and drag your invisible folder to some corner of the parent folder. Makes it much more difficult to detect. Method 2: This is the method that I usually employ because it can be used to hide files as well as folders. 1. Open the run box with 'win+r' or start>run 2. type in 'cmd' and press 'ENTER' 3. In the console window that opens, type 'cd <complete path to the file>' 4. Type 'attrib +r +h +s +a <filename>' and press 'ENTER'. 5. That's it. Your file is hidden for good. 6. If you want to unhide the file, repeat the steps 1-3 and then type 'attrib -r -h -s -a <filename>'. Ex: If you have a file named "badmovie.avi" in D:\MOVIES, here's what you type after opening the command console: 1. d: (changes the drive letter from c:, the default. to d:) 2. cd movies (folder containing badmovie.avi) 3. attrib +r +h +s +a movies (hide it!) These files are not readily visible. To be able to see them in a folder, you will have to go to Tools>Folder Options>View and select 'Show hidden file types' and also uncheck 'hide protected operating files'. Well, that's my tip for hiding files and folders. I hope someone finds this tip useful. It's what I use all the time .

I use both dreamweaver and crimson editor. Dreamweaver is good in some aspects like, you can make a template of a page and then use that template for any new pages that you create. Anything you edit in the template will be automatically updated to all the pages that used that template. You can also set it up for a site with ftp so that it will update to the site at the click of a button. But for editing... ah .... nothing beats crimson editor. It's completely customisable and very user-friendly. Best of all it's free! I usually make an initial page and use dreamweaver to make a template. Then use crimson editor for the actual coding part in the main content part. I usually prefer to code using a text editor rather than a WYSIWYG designer.

IMO, Slackware rocks! I've been using Linux for a year now, and I would say, if you really want to get a good hold over linux, switch over to slackware. Now slack is by no means for the noob. It's for people who have are fairly comfortable with mandrake or redhat but still not really brave enough to take on gentoo . I've been using it for 6 months now, and I've learnt a lot about linux. One thing's for sure... Slackware WILL NOT DO ANYTHING FOR YOU. You have to do it yourself... and that is only with the help of forums like this one or a good book on Slack. There is a complete reference manual for download on the site itself.

Dudes, I don't meant to be rough on you, but aren't you taking the narrow minded view over here? I mean like, both of you haven't even tried to use Linux. Linux versions are so versatile and easy to use that you'd be surprised. For complete beginners, I would advise Mandrake or Suse. Mandrake is free and can be downloaded from the net. But Suse isn't. Suse IMO is the most windows like Linux that you can hope to see. I mean, the regular user doesn't even have to open a console for anything at all. It's more stable than windows. If you don't want to install but just want to get a feel of linux, try knoppix. It's a live CD which means you just have pop it into your CD drive and start and it'll run from the CD itself. No installing or anything. Shut it down, remove the CD and reboot... your back in windows. Try it out . You might like it better than windows coz it's free.

Hi everyone,This isn't the first forum I've been to, but it's the first time I'm posting for webspace . I'm kind of crazy about computers (including games as well) and I've touched upon quite a few subjects in computers from hardware to web design. I've been learning Web design for the past 2 months now and I thought of getting myself some webspace. But as I'm still a student, a free website seems to be the only option. So here I am, and I hope I can really contribute something to this place which seems so promising, considering all the good things i read about before I came here.Thanks guys.