From The Desk Of The Consigliere™

As usual we have been busy adding new tutorials and pages for your use and enjoyment.

As the days pass, so does the time until there will be no shopping days til Christmas. Avoid the last minute rush and complete your shopping early.

After a few phone calls were made by our support staff and and email was sent, we have rectified the situation.

Below is the transmission detailing the
"So Called" problem and the resolution.

We have of late been getting numerous requests on what the address is for the Santa Tracking Station so all the children, young and old alike can track the "Big Guy's" every move on Christmas eve. The below graphic will take you to the official Norad Santa Tracking Station so you can see where Jolly Old St. Nick is on Christmas eve.

Since we designed the above graphic, it is only right to give credit to the sites and images we used in this creation. The Radar Dish is from the Norad site itself that it is linked. The Santa Claus graphic is compliments of;

A college professor who teaches computer programming has asked us for a good Web Developer's Resource that he can refer to for beginners as well as masters and programmers for reference in his classes. What we have used as a really great guide for all the above is "Web Monkey". It is a constant source of boundless information that relates to the "Newbie" as well as the Master & Programmer. We wanted to pass this site along to any and all who have never used it.

Every once and a while something will come across Consigliere's™ desk that he feels he wants to share with everyone. So each week we shall post something different that he wants us to share with you. Just click on the "Desk" to see the article.

This week we would like to thank
"Nancyln" for submitting this weeks article titled "Things Are Not What They Seem". This is a very cute little joke that is worth reading.

We have decided to add the above section on
"What Happened On This Date".
We will also besides linking to the headlines that you see above, you can also get a free java script from the below link to add a java based, constantly updated "Today In History" that you can paste into your web pages. Check out how we have it set up on our pages.
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The New York Times on the Web is free of charge for visitors worldwide. The site includes the daily contents of the newspaper, up-to-the-minute breaking news, weekly features and original reporting.

Each week we add a little tip to assist you in your web building. Some of the things you already know and sometimes you will come across a thing or two that you wanted but did not know where to find it. This week we will feature
"Forms as Hyperlinks"

Here is a great way to use form buttons as links to your pages, while at the same time making sure everyone can use them! This is far more browser friendly than using Javascript, so you will know that everyone can use it.

<form method="submit" action="link"><input type="submit" value="Text"></form>

Replace "link" with the URL you want others to go to. This may be your homepage, a friend's page, or a famous website you want people to visit. It doesn't matter! The button can be as simple as "Click Here" or as descriptive as "Press Now to go to mysite.com". You can do this by changing "Text" with any word or phrase you wish to type that you think will invite others to click on the button. It's your choice, experiment with it!

As always, if we have our little tip published here, it is also on our website under;

Every week we receive 100's of different questions on Web Design, Security, Email, Internet etc. There is always one question that sticks out more than the rest. So What we have decided to do is post the top question of the week and show you how we answer it. If you feel you would like to add to the answer feel free to contact us with your input on the question.

Question
Over time I have noticed all the graphics you have designed within your site. I am wondering how and what programs you use to get the effects you have on your designed graphics? I am really interested in learning how to start to design my own graphics and don't know where to begin.

Well, "Howto", we have designed a section on this just for your question and what programs we use to achieve the effects we do on most of our graphics. The section is a step by step tutorial that is very easy to follow. Since we just designed the "Norad Tracking Station" graphic, this is what we are using for an example. Just follow the below link and your question shall be answered.

Each week, we will pose a different question to all our readers and see how it is answered. The questions will be in a forum that you can link to from here. The following week, you will see the answers and a new question. These questions will pertain to web designing, computers,internet, security, etc.

This week the question will pertain to

Please don't forward this letter to your friends. The reason being that the HTML configurations will not appear in a forward and all they will receive is words, no links or images.

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Albert Einstein
(1879-1955)
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