Tips and hints

Off-line browsing

The standard settings of most browsers will force you to use on-line browsing. You might prefer the off-line settings when you're developing your own homepage. Some examples on how to adjust these settings:

Testing with different browsers

Perfectionists will want to make sure that their pages look great at whatever browser. I'm such a perfectionist and I sometimes like to test my pages with Netscape and Mosaic simultaneously. You can do that with Anansi, just select Options| Browsers... and check the browsers you want to use.

Use html, not htm

Use html as extension of your filenames even if you're linking to your own pages. When you're working under Windows 3.x, you can test your local links off-line just as well while using the correct extension. And if you use Anansi's Upload Manager, htm extensions will rename automatically to html.
It's different if you're working under Windows 95. You still should use html but as the 16 bits version of Anansi doesn't support long filenames, testing you're local links will fail. That's why this manual breaks the rule of using html. I decided that the manual of Anansi 16 should work under Windows 32 too. Of course, if you only work with Windows 95 and have abandoned Windows 3.x all together, you should use the 32 bits version of Anansi if you aren't already.

Aligning images

Advanced browsers like Netscape can stream text along images. You need to insert either align=left or align=right in the images tag. Be careful however, I've seen professionals mess up pages with these attributes. What looks fine in a 800x600 window can be unbearable trash in a smaller window.
A related feature is the spacing around the image. You can override the default settings by adding hspace and vspace values to the image tag. Ie <img hspace=0 and vspace=0 src="image.gif"> will remove any space between the image and text.

How did they do it?

While surfing the internet you'll likely to find some interesting lay-out tricks. You can have a look at how it's been done by viewing the source. And you can always save the file and check it later. Viewing the source:

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