By no stretch of the imagination, am I an expert in the field of web building; however, I have picked up tidbits here and there over the years that may help others in their endeavors.

Website a bit graphic intensive? Never fear! You can cut down the load time of your pages considerably by preloading your larger graphics on your opening page, regardless of what page they will actually be viewed on. Do this by inserting your normal 'img src' code at the very bottom of your opening page, making sure to use the height= and width= attributes, just give them a height and width of 1

Give your graphics a bit of 'elbow' room! When placing multiple graphics next to each other on your page, make sure to give them a bit of space so they don't look crowded. An alternative to using a table for this would be to use the 'HSPACE' attribute in your 'IMG' tag. ie: img src="yourgraphic.gif" hspace=5 This will leave 5 blank pixels of space on each side (left/right) of your graphic. You can also use the 'VSPACE' attribute to give space top/bottom

Download Netscape and Explorer and use both to preview your pages before you upload them to your web account. Although Explorer can sometimes be very forgiving of HTML blunders, Netscape is not. Forget to close just one of those multiple tables on your page and Netscape viewers will get a big blank screen!

It can be a nightmare moving your site from one server to another, but let's face it, at some point or another we all do it. It's time consuming enough just uploading all of your files to a new server, but it can be excruciating if you have to revise every page of your site before doing so. A real time saver, and reliever of many headaches, is creating your pages without absolute URL paths. For instance, instead of using img src=http://domainname.com/youraccount/folder/graphic.jpg use img src="folder/graphic.jpg" . As long as you don't change your folder names or locations, you can now upload your files to any server and your site will be viewed as you intended.

CSS can be another time saver if you frequently change the backgrounds on your site. You can save all your formatting data ie: font-family, font-size, font-color, scrollbar colors, link colors and attributes, even background colors and graphics to a .css file and simply link to that file in the head of your page. Then, anytime you change your color scheme, etc. you should only have to change one file instead of all the pages on your site. This tip, of course, only works if you have a standard theme over your site.