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This is certainly one of the most important tools for designing a webpage. In "CSS How To...", for the W3 Schools website, this article shows you how to insert a CSS. Without a Cascading Style Sheet, your page will look like it came right from 1997. I will be looking at this page the next time I start work on a new web page.

The site simplebits.com provides a tip on how to make background links, objects, artwork, etc. easily clickable. If I had the time, I would use this effect on my portfolio page, designing each article and zen site feature to afford some sort of action.

This article, on the smashing magazine website, shows some cool tricks for working with transparency in CSS. While I am having all sorts of trouble with my CSS page, I am expecting to use these or similar tricks on my page. I recommend checking it out if you need help with transparency

This page is linked from Jakob Nielsen's website. Nielsen is an expert on Web Usability. He has much to say about what works in a website, and what does not. His book, Prioritizing Web Usability, though pricey, is worth it for anyone interested in making their site more usable. I plan on using Neilen's suggestions for my own work.

Designer Jean Louis gives a pretty cool tip about sizing text without pixels. It's one of those tricks that makes text fit according to your site. Using percentages next to the body div on css will enable you to do this. I'm going to try it when I design my next site while playing around with text.

I think this is a pretty good website background site. It has some nice wallpapers. If you click on the thumbnail wallpaper, you are taken to a screen with that wallpaper as the wallpaper of the site. There are different colored texts all over the page. How do you get the background on your computer? All you do is right click and save the image to your computer!

I plan on using a transparent image on my page and this explains how to do it.

I have been looking everywhere for a site that gives a code for pop up menu tabs instead of ones that drop down. I finally found this code, but the only problem is that it itns't cross-browser. Hopefully I will be able to find one that is. But for now, I'm going to use it in my site!

Funny story: This is ceramic tile site created by Susan Jablon. She sells mosiac tile for showers, subways, kitchens, etc. On the site is an application where you can create your own mosiac. I stumbled upon one of her mosiacs through a google seach: "grey sky;" I was looking for a banner image at the time. After findinf a 5x5 mosiac that somewhat matched my site color scheme, I took a screen shot and used photoshop to crop, copy, and arrange the image to suit my suit. It's ugly, but I got to play with photoshop. The tiles may be useful for those of you looking to create your own, custom-colored, navigation tool, banner, etc.

This is a pretty useful horizontal list posted on Listomatic by John Siegel. When hovering over list items, the font fades to white. I'm pretty sure I'll use this on a site somewhere, manipulating the colors to fit my desired design. I found this through a google search: "css horizontal lists"

Welcome to the century where you're connected to the world and you're visible to everyone with just one click. The power of the internet has taken your business to everyone and made your image too. It makes sense therefore to put your best foot forward when you do business on the net.

The AutoCorrect feature in Word 2016 fixes hundreds of common typos and spelling errors on-the-fly. You have to be quick to see it in action. For example, in Word you can't type the word mispell (with only one s). That's because AutoCorrect fixes that typo the split second that you press the spacebar. AutoCorrect also converts common text shortcuts into their proper characters. For example, type (C) and AutoCorrect properly inserts the © copyright symbol. Ditto for (TM) for the trademark. Typing - -> is translated into an arrow, and even :) becomes a happy face.

If you've got a really killer PowerPoint presentation but would like to extract all the information to Microsoft Word - you can. Sometimes this is necessary because the size of your PowerPoint presentation is rather large and you would like to share it with others over email or an intranet. Converting it to Word will help reduce the size and make it easier to view for everyone involved. It's also possible that you would like your slides presented as thumbnails, with or without speaker notes included, for easier reviewing, editing, or handing out during the presentation itself. You can convert your presentation in one of three ways.

Five shows into the series, we've looked at what your options are, what's changed and what's new with the new Office. We threw skydiver Fully Sik out of a plane to test if Office 365 ProPlus could be installed during 90 seconds of free fall; we took a look at the new Office telemetry to help you optimize your Office configuration; and we've explored identity and data access with the new user-based Office and caught up with Zero Day and Trojan Horse Sci-Fi author and industry renowned cyber-security expert, Mark Russinovich on the security model for online services. We even performed the great race of Office installs. We've received a lot of your questions along the way so, for our sixth show, we changed gears to present a live 60-minute episode of the Garage Series Live! on real world adoption tips and tricks with live Q&A. If you missed the show you can see it again here.

Videos of the Office 15-Minute Webinars are available in new apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8. These videos can help you get the most out of Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote, PowerPoint, and other Office applications. Watch on your phone or Windows 8 computer, or use the app as a second screen as you follow the steps in the demo on your main screen. So now you have another option to view past Office Webinars in addition to the Office Blog, Office YouTube channel, or joining live-plus participate in the live Q&A session-every Tuesday at http://aka.ms/offweb. Windows 8 App Windows Phone 8 App Or just search for "Office Webinars" next time your are at the Windows Store. -Doug Thomas

If you're a fan of PowerPoint, you may have heard about Microsoft's latest presentation tool, Microsoft Sway. With Sway, you can create and share presentations like never before! In today's blog, we'll give you a basic overview as to what Sway can do as well as some of our personal favorite features. Let's dive in! Sway is a free app from Microsoft Office that helps gather, format, and share reports, newsletters, web pages, and presentations on an interactive, web-based canvas that looks great on almost any screen. That's right, we said interactive! Use videos or interactive charts to engage your audience like never before.

Based in Chicago, Illinois, United is one of the largest airlines in the world. To improve enterprise content management (ECM), United wanted to build communities around the products and services it delivers to customers. The airline initially deployed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and subsequently migrated to SharePoint Server 2010, which United developed into an enterprise platform for ECM and e-discovery, co-locating approximately 1 terabyte of content for the enterprise. In 2012, the airline deployed SharePoint Server 2013 for a variety of projects-including a service catalog that 87,000 employees rely on to search for and order products from the IT department. By using SharePoint Server 2013, United has also simplified content management-the amount of time required to enter a new item into the catalog has plummeted from two months to a few hours.

Small businesses have enough to focus on without having to spend time and energy worrying about email, data storage or backup servers. In fact, most small businesses don't know or understand what a server is. The good news is that in today's technology environment, they don't need to. This is because more small businesses are rapidly moving from outdated technology solutions to Web-based solutions to power their company, also known as "moving to the cloud." By moving to cloud solutions like Office 365, small businesses find they can concentrate their resources on growing their business rather than trying to solve technical issues. Large enterprises typically have entire divisions dedicated to supporting and keeping their IT infrastructure up and running. Even though small businesses don't have this luxury, they can still punch above their weight by choosing the enterprise-grade IT services in Office 365 to help solve their most top-of-mind business challenges.

May's Customer of the Month is Melanie Hohertz, Online Communications Lead, Cargill. I've been supporting Yammer as a work platform for Cargill for almost a year. We're early in our adoption, but it's been an amazing experience. I am learning, daily, how Yammer can change the way people and teams work and add value in a company that is more than 140,000 strong and spread throughout 65 countries. Our network will pass 10,000 members soon and already, you can't stump us on anything. From food to agriculture to financial and industrial products and services, Yammer is helping Cargill use what Cargill knows, and that's a lot. Yammer can connect people across silos based on organization, geography and hierarchy. I've seen customer reps talking directly to product management, and senior leaders listening to recently-hired employees. We have new ways to realize the power of our communities of practice to speed up ideation and action. Sure, we still have a long road ahead before Yammer is as ubiquitous and instinctive as e-mail, but we throw a heck of a YamJam, and the signal-to-noise ratio in our network is beautiful.

With Google Apps and Office 365 revolutionizing the way people work, you may feel that Microsoft Office is quickly becoming a dated product that will soon be packed away to the back of the closet. But with the 2016 version set to launch in autumn of this year, Microsoft is looking to change your mind. Now they're adapting their classic Office package for today's modern workforce. Here are four of the new features that are reinventing the way you look at your Office applications. CLOUD FOCUS FOR OUTLOOK ATTACHMENTS Microsoft knows that sharing attachments amongst co-workers and teams can be a hassle. With many collaborators still sharing documents and files the old fashioned way - attaching it to an email and then sending to others - it's easy for users to get confused and send an incorrect or outdated version. To solve this problem, Microsoft is gently nudging us to use the cloud. Now when you add an attachment to an email, you're now asked if you'd also like to share a link to a file on your OneDrive, OneDrive for Business or SharePoint account. SHOWCASING EASY WAYS TO USE OFFICE BETTER If you're like most people, you probably aren't using Office to its full potential. And who can blame you? Between Word, Excel, PowerPoint and more, there are literally hundreds of features and tools you can use - if only you had the time to discover them all. To help you get the most out of Office, Microsoft has now added a Tell Me box in the top center of your program title bar. This tool gives you an easy way to get questions answered. For example, if you want to project your desktop screen to a second monitor or create a graph in Excel, simply type your question into the Tell Me box and Microsoft will find the answers that most closely fit your search criteria. SWAY Look out PowerPoint, here comes Sway - the new, hipper Office application that makes creating fluid, stylish presentations easy. With Sway, you can now gather content from various source