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Adding Calendars

If you want to have a full calendar on your page, you can buy a program or use one of the free calendars online. If you use an online calendar, you populate the calendar with events online and it is linked to your website. When visitors come to your site,

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Online Web Design Articles

Here are links to some online articles that talk about good web design. The internet is a wealth of free information about web design and color.

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Using Screen Capture to Make Vertical Text

Many graphic objects for websites are made using a graphics program and then inserted into the page. The graphics may be created on a background that matches the web page so that it appears with clean edges and looks great on the page. Web Studio is not a graphics program,

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Shadows for Rectangles

If you don’t have a graphics program, it is hard to find a way to put those great shadows under a shape. This article gives you some pre-made shadows that you can save to a folder and then insert into Web Studio. Some things you need to know about how to

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Free Seamless Texture Software

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Backgrounds are usually made from seamless tiled graphics. The Web Studio Backgrounds Gallery contains hundreds of background and you can also search the internet to get backgrounds from one of the free graphics sites.

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Creating Graduated Backgrounds

You can create a graduated background right within Web Studio without using a graphics program. First you need to understand the way that backgrounds are placed on the page.
Backgrounds are made by tiling small graphics across the page. When viewers go to your site the background fills their browser regardless

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Color for Web Design

Color is the first thing that visitors see when they visit your website.
Color should enhance your content and not detract from it. Color sets a mood, gives your site personality, and actually helps visitors identify the type of website you have. For instance, a business site generally looks different

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Free Graphics Online

The best way to find free graphics is to search the internet. For instance, seaarch for “free backgrounds for websites.” You can search for free graphics, free buttons, free banners, free clipart, etc. Most of the sites give you specific copyright instructions telling you how the free items can be

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Adding a “Go Back” Link

If you want to have a “Go Back” link on your website, then put this code into the link just as it is written:

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Inserting an Excel Spreadsheet

You can insert an Excel spreadhseet if you copy it to Word and then save it as a Web Page, Filtered (*.htm;*.html). Once it is on your webpage, you can edit the text inside the table. Note that when you insert the table into Web Studio, you may need to adjust