It tends to look good if you can supply a background panel for highlighted sections of your website, or for all the different areas on a web page and by so doing, create a page design.

If you are frequently changing the content, using background images can be limiting.

The background you use has to be the right size, or the text will fall off the panel, extending past the edges of the background image you’ve drawn . . . or you have to break the image up into static and repeating sections to allow for expansion.

The Solution Is Not To Use Images

If you are happy to incorporate some javascript, you can do away with images altogether and programmatically arrange background panels for your pages. See below for an example using Nifty Cube. Take a look at the Nifty Corners web site for the options available.

This type of layout device cane be very useful if you want to create a site with user choices for colour schemes. It can all be achieved programmatically via PHP without having to create lots of different background image sets for each different look.

A Site With A Programmed Background Layout

Here is a property site I did for a client promoting his property training courses. It uses code similar to the Nifty Corners to draw all the different rounded box sections.

I write documents for clients which contain my terms and conditions of business, proposals and other such things. Normally these are written using WORD, but I don’t like to send WORD documents in email. Unless you lock WORD documents, they are easily edited, and because it is generally better to pass documents around the web in PDF format.

Why is PDF Better?

1. The software people need to read PDF documents is freely available from Adobe.
2. PDF documents are not easy to change without leaving some sort of footprint.
3. Scanned images can be compressed making the size of the resulting PDF more manageable
4. PDF files don’t get infected by viruses
5. PDF documents can hold hyperlinks, video, images and sound.
6. PDF stands for portable document format which means these files are easy to view on all types of computer. You don’t need to worry if your recipient has the same version of word processing software that you used.

Convert Your WORD Documents to PDF for Free

So – all you do is write your document in WORD or your favourite word processor and then pass it through a PDF creation program to obtain the PDF version of your document. There are various programs on the market – and I think I found the best one, but I’ll talk about that another day. Today I’m telling you how I do quick PDF conversions from WORD for free.

Just visit : http://www.pdfonline.com/ and click on the Convert to PDF for Free link.