If you’re like me or anyone on the net, when you have a computer problem, you go to google and try to search for answers.  For some of us, this is an easy task – for others, not so much.  Here are a few tips to help you find your answers using Google alone.

Google is a great source for finding information, they are currently the number 1 search engine in the world.  “Google it” has even become a common slang in terms of searching for something online – from directions, to search-engine searches.  Google is popular for one good reason: they obtain content FAST.  Many of my articles here, on FunkyTower, wind up in Google’s database in less than 24 hours!  In fact, the majority of my website’s visitors are directed here by Google.  So, Google is definately a great source for finding information.

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Have you ever wanted to make fancey buttons that do stuff when you put your mouse over it, but don’t want to mess too much with javascript, and you just can’t afford flash?  Well, there’s an easier way to do it and it’s called CSS.  You may have noticed other articles pertaining to CSS here at FunkyTower, and if you’ve read them, you’ve realized how easy it is to use CSS.  All it takes is a little push into getting started.  So if you want to make fancy buttons for a navigation bar, well here’s the tutorial:

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CSS is such a useful tool in designing your website and adding some functionality to it.  One of the things that turns most “beginner web designers” on to CSS is the ability to customize the color of links.  This is great to avoid having unwanted underlines and the ugly blue default link color.  Well did you know you can create a very versitile navigation bar using CSS?  It’s really quite easy: instead of applying effects to a piece of text – apply effects to a table cell!  In this tutorial you will learn effects regaurding: hovering cell background effects, text effects, button effects, and more!

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Welcome to part 2 of this article!

So now that we’ve covered templating in our last tutorial, here are some other tips for making your webpage move faster.

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