Graphics With No Download

We use this trick on the Table of Contents, under the WebNovice Departments
section, you will notice different pictures, these pictures take 0 seconds to download
and we will tell you why.

Using Fonts
We were able to accomplish this effect by using a FONT tag. Those pictures are
actually fonts found on all windows machines. Unfortunately a Linux user will
see garbage instead of a picture, and that probably goes for Macintosh or
BeOS or other platforms as well.

The font we used is called WINGDINGS. They are very useful for ICONS,
BULLETS and PAGE BREAKS.

Here is an example of how to use them:

<font color="#000000" size="5" face="Wingdings">*</font>

This will make this symbol:  *

Very cool huh?

The Whole Set
You can make different symbols by typing different keys on your keyboard.
An easy way to map out all the symbols is to cut and paste from this page:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzAB
CDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
1234567890-=\!@#$%^&*(
)_+|`~{}[];':",./<>?


Another trick is to type A-Z in WORDPAD, then highlight the text and select
WINGDINGS. This also works with 1-0 and the other symbols on your keyboard.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
!!Any font that is NOT a common font, will NOT show up on anyone else's
browser!!

List of common fonts:
Arial, Times New Roman, Courier, Wingdings, Comic Sans MS, System

ONLY these fonts will work universally with all windows internet users.

As you can see by the symbols in the above example, the diamonds and other
shapes make great bullets. We prefer to use these. Here is an example of
how to use WINGDINGS as bullets:

uItem One
uItem Two
uItem Three
uItem Four

You can kind of be creative and come up with new uses for these fonts.
Another good trick is a page break - like this:

~v~

With little tricks like these you can give your home page that "little extra touch."

Good luck webbuilders.