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25 June 2024

• New article: How to Convert Your Website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 the Quick and Easy Way. This guide takes you through the process of converting a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 using the Fiverizer software. (Fiverizer is a program that I wrote to convert my own websites, all of which were also in XHTML 1.0. It may be downloaded and used free of charge.)

25 June 2024

• New software: Fiverizer: convert a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5. If you have one or more websites written in XHTML 1.0, this program (which may be downloaded and used free of charge) lets you convert them to HTML5 without having to muck around with rewriting HTML and adding CSS.

1 April 2024

• The Feedback Form Wizard has been fixed so that it can now, once again, create the CAPTCHA versions (ReCAPTCHA and hCaptcha) of the script. Apparently, somewhere along the line, I seem to have broken it during one of my internal updates. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Note: you do not have to recreate your script if you successfully generated it before. (The problem was that under certain conditions, the wizard choked and died before it could generate a script. So if you actually received a script, you are fine.)

30 March 2024

• Updated: The Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title). In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type, the shorter meta charset tag will be used.

5 July 2023

• I am in the process of moving thesitewizard.com to a new web host, since my old one is closing, so you may see multiple oddities during this period of transition. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. I hope to have it settled within a day or so.

28 February 2023

• Updated: The script generated by the Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to improve compatibility with PHP 8 (eg, 8.0, 8.1, etc). Note: if you have generated your form and script after 1 January 2023, you already have this version (ver 3.2.0).

4 March 2022

• New article: How to Set the Height of a DIV Relative to a Browser Window (CSS). This article answers a visitor's question on how to set the height of a DIV (or even other elements) so that it is a percentage of the browser window/viewport. And no, using the percent unit (ie, "%") won't work the way you think.

29 June 2021

• New article: How to Give Alternate Rows of a Table a Different Colour (HTML/CSS). Give alternate rows of your tables a different colour ("color") to make it easier for your readers to distinguish which row is which. This article shows one way of doing this using CSS.

27 May 2021

• New article: How to Generate the Free Let's Encrypt SSL Certificate on Your Own (Windows) Computer. Find out how to generate an SSL certificate for a website on your own computer. (For those wondering, SSL certificates are needed so that your site can be accessed using HTTPS instead of HTTP.)

23 April 2021

• New article: How to Insert Meta Tags into a Web Page with BlueGriffon. This article answers a question from a visitor on how to insert meta tags into a website using the free BlueGriffon web editor.

26 March 2021

• New article: How to Play a Song (or Some Other Audio Clip) from a List on a Website. One of my visitors wanted his users to be able to choose a song from a list, and have it play in an audio player on his web page. This article provides the JavaScript and HTML code for the task.

2 February 2021

• New article: How to Restore Expression Web's Design Panel and Layout to its Initial Default State. This article deals with how you can reset the default positions and sizes of the various panels/sections in Expression Web so that the web editor appeared as it did when you first ran it.

12 January 2021

• New article: How to Draw a Horizontal Line on a Web Page with Expression Web. This article shows you 2 different methods to draw horizontal lines on your web page (whether as a decoration or to separate content) using the free Expression Web editor.

4 December 2020

• New article: How to Embed a Background Image in CSS to Get a Self-Contained Web Page. This article deals with how you can store an entire background image in the CSS of a web page for those situations where you need a self-contained web page.

3 November 2020

• New article: How to Create a Website Free of Charge. This article answers a visitor's question on how to build a website for free, without paying any money for it.

29 September 2020

• New article: How to Restore the Style Properties Panel in BlueGriffon if It Disappears. This article deals with how you can restore the Style Properties panel in the BlueGriffon web editor should you find it missing or not visible when you enable it.

18 September 2020

• New article: How to Use Small Capital Letters for Lowercase and Large Capital Letters for Uppercase (CSS). This article answers a question from a visitor on how to display a sentence so that small (lowercase) letters are shown in capital letters, but have a height shorter than the actual capital (uppercase) letters.

2 September 2020

• Updated: The Feedback Form Wizard has been updated to include an additional CAPTCHA option. This one is not only free, it apparently even pays you when your visitors solve the CAPTCHA challenges. For those wondering, CAPTCHAs are those "I am not a robot" or "I am human" checkboxes on forms, used to make sure that a human is at the helm, and not some spam robot.

• Updated: How to Add a CAPTCHA Test to Your Feedback Form Script: Reducing Spam in Your Contact Form. The article on how to add a CAPTCHA to your contact form has been updated to include information on how you can use the newest CAPTCHA option (the one that potentially pays you for using them) of the Feedback Form Wizard.

14 August 2020

• New article: How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Website with Expression Web. This article deals with how to change the colour of the links on a web page using the free Microsoft Expression Web editor. It also addresses how you can change the colour of a link that has been clicked, as well as its colour when a mouse pointer is hovering over it.

7 July 2020

• New article: How to Change the Colour (Color) of Links on a Web Page with BlueGriffon. There may be times you need to change the default colour of a link on your web page, for example, because the background colour clashes with it or renders it nearly invisible. This article shows you how to do it using the free BlueGriffon web editor.

19 June 2020

• New article: Why Can't I Make Up Any Domain I Want? Is There a Way to Do Away with a Registrar Altogether? I was asked by a visitor why he couldn't dispense with a registrar and just make up any domain name he wanted. You may be surprised to hear that you can actually do that. But it won't do you any good.

12 June 2020

• New article: How to Prevent Two or More Words from Being Split into Separate Lines (HTML/CSS). Sometimes you may want to keep a group of words on a web page together on a single line, rather than allowing the web browser to break them up and place them on separate lines if there's no space. This article shows you the HTML and CSS to accomplish this.

29 May 2020

• New article: How to Add an Audio or Music File to a Web Page with BlueGriffon. BlueGriffon has built-in facilities for you to insert an audio clip or music file into your web page. This article shows you how to use it.

21 May 2020

• New article: How to Draw a Rectangular Box Around Your Content in BlueGriffon. This article deals with how to use the BlueGriffon web editor to draw lines around text and/or images on a web page, so as to put them into a box, setting them apart from their surrounding content.

7 May 2020

• New article: How to Insert a Bullet Point (Unordered) List with BlueGriffon. This article shows you how to insert a bullet point list (where each item on the list is marked with a solid black circle rather than numbered) into a web page using the BlueGriffon web editor.

23 April 2020

• New article: How to Start a List with a Number Other than 1 and Still Have it Automatically Numbered (HTML). What happens if you want to create a list of items, but don't want to start counting from 1 (eg, you want the list to start from item 4)? This article shows you how to do it, and still use the HTML ability to automatically number the list, and keep the numbers up-to-date even when you add items to (or delete them from) the middle.

9 April 2020

• New article: How to Insert a List that Automatically Numbers/Renumbers Itself with BlueGriffon. This article shows you how to add a list to your web page that automatically numbers itself. This way, you don't have to go through the whole list to renumber everything when you add to the middle of the list or when you delete items from it.

26 March 2020

• New article: What to do if a registrar quotes an exorbitant price for a domain. One of my visitors told me that a domain name registrar quoted a "ridiculous price" for a domain he wanted, and asked if there was any way around it. This article answers that question.

17 March 2020

• New article: How to Rotate an Image on a Website When Viewed on a Mobile Phone (CSS). In response to a visitor's query, this article deals with how you can turn an image on its side when a web page is viewed on a mobile phone.

21 February 2020

• New article: How to Stretch a Background Image to Fill an Entire Web Page (or Column) in BlueGriffon. This article deals with how you can use BlueGriffon to stretch a picture that is used as the backdrop of a web page, so that it fills the entire page, column or section.

14 February 2020

• New article: How to Change the Message Shown Before the Comments Field in WordPress. If you run a WordPress blog, and want to customize the message that is shown in the "Leave a Reply" section of your post (where you visitors enter their comments), this article shows you how, using a method that will allow your changes to persist even when your theme files auto-update.

7 February 2020

• New article: How to Use Google Fonts and Other Web Fonts in BlueGriffon. This article describes how you can add Google Fonts and other web fonts to BlueGriffon for use with your website.

3 January 2020

• Updated: How to Make / Create a Website. If you are thinking of designing a website, whether a business or hobby site, read How to Create a Website. The article has been updated with the latest developments on the Internet.

2 January 2020

• New article: Can I Change My Website's Address to HTTPS Without Getting an SSL Certificate? This article answers a question asked by a visitor on whether he can simply update all the URLs on his website to "https" without obtaining an SSL certificate, and, if not, why.

17 December 2019

• New article: How to Make a Button Run a Server-Side Script (eg, a PHP, Perl, or Python Script) (HTML). I was asked by a visitor how he could make a button run a server-side script (such as a PHP, Perl or Python script). This article answers that question.

6 December 2019

• New article: How to Add a (Self-Hosted) Video to Your Website with Expression Web. Find out how you can insert a video into your web page with the free Microsoft Expression Web editor. The video, in this case, will be placed on your website itself (ie, self-hosted) and not on a video sharing site.

22 November 2019

• New article: How to Prevent Your Website from being Placed in a Frame. By default, anyone can place your website in a frame or iframe, for the purposes of clickjacking, altering your content, or putting advertisements on your page. This article shows you how to prevent this, using both the older backward-compatible method as well as the modern officially-recommended one.

14 November 2019

• New article: How to Move a Website from Dreamweaver to BlueGriffon. I was asked by a visitor how he could move his website from Dreamweaver to the free BlueGriffon web editor. This article answers that question.

29 October 2019

• New article: My Frustrations with Google AdSense. This article details my increasing frustration with Google AdSense. And no, it's not about what you think.

17 October 2019

• New article: How to Put Rounded Buttons on Your Website. I was asked by a visitor how he could create rounded buttons. This article shows you how to add round corners to your buttons and, if that's what you really want, insert buttons that are completely circular.

19 September 2019

• New article: How to Close a Browser Tab/Window with JavaScript. This article answers a question on how to close a browser window or tab using JavaScript.

6 September 2019

• New article: How to Prevent a Directory Listing of Your Website Without Using .htaccess. A visitor asked me if there was a way to stop her web server from showing a directory listing of the folders on her site, without having to create a .htaccess file. This article gives 2 alternative solutions.

New Pages on thefreecountry.com

• Free Software to Create Bootable and Multi-Boot USB drives
• Free Video Conferencing Software
• Free Geolocation Services
• Free Android Emulators
• Free Social Network Software: create your own social media website
• Free Image Pop-Up JavaScripts (Where Image Overlays Current Web Page)
• Free Royalty-Free Stock Photos
• Free PHP Compilers: native code, .NET and Java bytecode compilers
• Free Image/Photo Slide Show JavaScript

New Pages on HowToHaven.com

• Two Ways to View a Binary File on Windows Without Installing Anything
• How to Get the Hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512) of a File on Windows Without Installing Anything
• How to Record a Game Video
• How to Boot a CD or DVD in Windows 8.1
• How to Change BIOS Settings on a Computer with Windows 8.1 Installed
• How to Back Up Your Hard Disk in Windows