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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....

On Github you way from time to time need to patch release the previous version of a published release.  This took me longer than I care to admit to understand the steps involved. Hence I'm documenting them in this post. Step 1: Check out the branch corresponding to the previous version of your code. git checkout 7.3.0 Step 2: Fix the bug in the code. Let's say it's a breaking change that's been fixed in the code. Step 3: Commit the changes with a version number that indicates the patch rel...

Running API tests you may be tempted to open PostMan or another API client, did you know, you can run HTTP requests from inside PhpStorm directly? When developing a new API, you will want to run the API endpoints. Being able to run them without leaving PhpStorm speeds up your workflow. To start a request file, you can either select a HTTP Request file when using the new file or create a new scratch file. For a scratch file select the HTTP Request type. In either case ...

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Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web....

This article on whether a domain name registrar is the same thing as a web host answers a question I was asked by a visitor....

This guide takes you through the steps of setting up your own blog. (Note that the article deals specifically with making a blog. If you want some other type of site, you should read How to Create a Website instead.)...

For the sake of completeness (and also because a visitor requested it), the Layout Wizard has been updated to support one column websites as well. As a result, it can now create one, two and three column websites (depending on which you prefer). The generated web page is mobile-friendly and completely customizable. There are no advertisements, and nothing you enter into the Wizard is recorded anywhere. And it's free....

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 Inteet. ...

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....

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. ...

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....

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....

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....

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. ...

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....

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....

This article answers a visitor's question on how to build a website for free, without paying any money for it....

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....

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....