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html and JavaScript tricks
Here's
some of commonly-used HTML and JavaScript tricks. You can
copy-and-paste the text; just be sure replace the text in blue with your own URL, file or text.
And don't forget to test!
Open a Link in a New Window
This
feature allows your visitor to visit another website without
actually "leaving" yours.
Use the TARGET parameter
in your A HREF tag.
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<A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://www.your-destination-URL.com/"
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specific word in e-mail subject line or body
If you want your visitor to enter a
specific word or phrase into the subject line or the body of an
email, you can use the following:
Prefill
subject line:
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<A HREF="mailto:your-name@your-domain.com?Subject=Your
Subject">Text to display</A> |
Prefill the body:
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<A HREF="mailto:your-name@your-domain.com?Body=Your
Message">Text to display</A> |
Automatically Redirect Your Visitor to Another URL
A redirection page (or “fast META
refresh”) will automatically redirect the visitor to any URL or
webpage you specify.
Using redirection page you can
prevent people from ‘peeking’ into your directories. For
example, if you have directory called "Books", when somebody
types into browser:
www.your-site-name.com/Books, he gets the complete list of
all files you have in this directory. This is something you
don't want, right?
Just create index.html file
that redirects people back to your homepage or whatever page you
want: put META refresh tag into the HEAD of HTML, and upload this
page to every directory you have. Now if somebody types
www.your-site-name.com/Books, he gets the page you
specified. As simple as that.
Sometimes you have to rename the
page, or move it into different location
(directory). Since other websites may still have
link to your old page, or your visitors may have
it bookmarked, you definitely want to
redirect them to your new page with correct
name.
One
of the solutions is to put this 'meta refresh
tag' into your old page's HTML. This way your
visitor will automatically be redirected to the
new page, and you will not lose any of the
traffic.
Place the following META tag
between the HEAD tags of your page's HTML:
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0;
URL=http://www.your-site-name.com/correct-page-name.htm"><TITLE></TITLE> |
Another
solution is creating custom error pages; we'll talk about it
next time.
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