Stuff
you don't usually find on an American keyboard:
[Letters] ~ [BGCOLOR]
[Tricks]
"Amazon Unsubscribe"
<never@amazon.com>
Post
to Usenet newsgroup - HTML: <A
href="mailto:?newsgroups=alt.showbiz.gossip">
http://www.liszt.com/chat/liszt.chat?n=network&s=server&p=port&c=%23channel
[Only two fields are required: channel, and either network or server.] In
the network field, you might use: afternet, alternet, austnet,
beyondircnet, blafaselnet, brasilnet, brasirc, brasnet, bsdnet, chatnet,
dalnet, efnet, eicn, fefnet, galaxynet, grircnet, ircnet, k0w, linuxnet,
multinet, newnet, qnet, redlatina, sorcerynet, starlink, superchat, truenet,
undernet, or warpednet. When you connect to a network, before you
join a channel, you may be able to enter a /map command
to obtain a list of the server names which are available
on that network. Normally, the best connections are through a
server which is geographically close to the user. The port
number is usually 6667, but you could also try 6660 through
6675, 7000, or 7777. Type a /list command to find
an active channel, or create your own!
<WBR> (Breaking
non-space, to allow long constructs to wrap without inserting a space:
http://
(Non-breaking space)
	 (Tab)
(Line feed)
(Carriage return)
× × Multiplication
÷ ÷ Division
­ Soft hyphen
¡ ¿ ¡ ¿ Inverted exclamation, question mark
¢ £ ¤ ¥ € ¢ £
¤ ¥ € Cent, Pound sterling, General currency, Yen,
Euro
¦ ¦ Broken vertical bar [compare pipe symbol |¦]
§ ¶ § ¶ Section, Paragraph
¨ ¨ Umlaut / diaeresis [compare quote "¨]
¯ ¯ Macron diacritic [compare underscore _¯]
— — Em dash [compare hyphen -—]
˜ ˜ Small tilde [compare tilde ~˜]
› › Small > [compare >›]
 Checkbox
´ ´ Acute accent [compare apostrophe '´]
¸ ¸ Cedilla [compare comma ,¸]
· · Middle dot [compare period .·]
° ° Degree
º ª º ª Masculine, Feminine ordinal
¹ ² ³ ¹ ² ³
Superscript one, two, three
© ® ™ © ® ™ Copyrighted, Registered, Trademark
« » « » Guillemet left, right / French quotes
¬ ¬ Not sign
± ± Plus-or-minus
µ µ Micro sign
¼ ½ ¾ ¼ ½ ¾
One-fourth, One-half, Three-fourths
F12TM
F12<SUP><SMALL>TM</SMALL></SUP> Trademark
7, Z
<STRIKE>7</STRIKE>, <STRIKE>Z</STRIKE> European style
``W³´´ ``W³´´
World Wide Web
Á
Á á á A, a acute
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  â â A, a circumflex
À À à à A, a grave
Å Å å å A, a ring / angstrom
à à ã ã A, a tilde
Ä Ä ä ä A, a umlaut / diaeresis
Æ Æ æ æ AE, ae ligature / diphthong
ß ß sz ligature German / s sharp
Ç Ç ç ç C, c cedilla
Ð Ð ð ð ETH, eth Icelandic
É É é é E, e acute
Ê Ê ê ê E, e circumflex
È È è è E, e grave
Ë Ë ë ë E, e umlaut
Í Í í í I, i acute
Î Î î î I, i circumflex
Ì Ì ì ì I, i grave
Ï Ï ï ï I, i umlaut
Ñ Ñ ñ ñ N, n tilde
Ó Ó ó ó O, o acute
Ô Ô ô ô O, o circumflex
Ò Ò ò ò O, o grave
Õ Õ õ õ O, o tilde
Ö Ö ö ö O, o umlaut
Ø Ø ø ø O, o slash
œ œ oe ligature
Þ Þ þ þ THORN, thorn Icelandic
š š s caron
Ú Ú ú ú U, u acute
Û Û û û U, u circumflex
Ù Ù ù ù U, u grave
Ü Ü ü ü U, u umlaut
Ý Ý ý ý Y, y acute
Ÿ Ÿ ÿ ÿ Y, y umlaut
ž ž z caron
For more
info:
Numeric
Code Character Entities,
ISO 8859-1 Table,
All ISO 8859,
HTML 3.2 Reference
Specification.
<BODY
BGCOLOR=#??????>
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If
you have Netscape 3.0
or higher, try this JavaScript Color
Cube.
8 Recognized Color Names (bgcolor=____) ~
Color of this page
Rainbow
organization, light to dark (approximately - examples at
Background
Colors):
White
FFFFFF
<=(White FFFFFF)
Pink BC8F8F,
Spicy FF1CAE,
Neon FF6EC7
Coral FF7F00
Red
FF0000,
Indian 4E2F2F
Red-Violet CC3299,
Medium DB7093
Dusty Rose 856363
Sienna 8E6B23
Scarlet 8C1717
Firebrick 8E2323
Maroon 8E236B
Salmon 6F4242
Red-Orange FF2400
Orange FF8800,
Mandarin E47833
Yellow
FFFF00
Goldenrod DBDB70,
Medium EAEAAE
Yellow-Green 99CC32
Green-Yellow 93DB70
Aquamarine 70DB93,
Medium 32CD99
Lime Green 32CD32
Spring Green 00FF7F,
Medium 7FFF00
Green
009900,
Light 00FF00,
Pale 8FBC8F,
Dark 2F4F2F
Forest Green 238E23,
Medium 6B8E23
Sea Green 238E68,
Medium 426F42
Dark Olive Green 4F4F2F
Green Copper 527F76,
Dark 4A766E
Hunter Green 215E21
Cyan
00FFFF
Quartz D9D9F3
Turquoise ADEAEA,
Medium 70DBDB,
Dark 7093DB
Neon Blue 4D4DFF
Slate Blue 007FFF,
Medium 7F00FF,
Dark 6B238E
Blue
0000FF,
Light C0D9D9,
Medium 3232CD,
Rich 5959AB,
Navy 23238E
Sky Blue 3299CC,
Summer 38B0DE
Cadet Blue 5F9F9F
Steel Blue 236B8E,
Light 8F8FBD
Corn Flower Blue 42426F
Midnight Blue 2F2F4F,
New 00009C
Blue-Violet 9F5F9F
Plum EAADEA
Magenta
FF00FF
Orchid DB70DB,
Medium 9370DB,
Dark 9932CD
Dark Purple 871F78
Violet 4F2F4F
Light Wood E9C2A6,
Medium A68064,
Dark 855E42
Tan DB9370,
New EBC79E,
Dark 97694F
Khaki 9F9F5F
Brown A62A2A,
Dark 5C4033
Semi-Sweet Chocolate 6B4226,
Baker's 5C3317
Feldspar D19275
Copper B87333,
Cool D98719
Brass B5A642
Gold CD7F32,
Bright D9D919,
Old CFB53B
Bronze 8C7853,
New(II) A67D3D
Wheat D8D8BF
Thistle D8BFD8
Silver E6E8FA <=(Silver E6E8FA)
Gray C0C0C0,
Very Light CDCDCD,
Light A8A8A8,
Dim 545454
Dark Slate Gray 2F4F4F
Black
000000
Tricks:
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[BGCOLOR]
Automatic page checking:
WebTechs
(née HaLSoft) or
Doctor
HTML.
Also, A
Kinder, Gentler Validator requires a document type before
<HTML>:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
Automatic
page forwarding (3 second
delay example, press <Back twice quickly
to return here) requires this type of code just before
</HEAD>:
<META http-equiv="refresh" content="3;
url=http://www.apc.net/ia/f12link.htm#amish">
Cataloguing
pages at
Alta
Vista is helped by these two tags just before
</HEAD>:
<META name="description"
content="Special HTML
Characters
(&?;) + Colors (BODY BGCOLOR=#?) + Tricks">
<META
name="keywords" content="specials htmls
characters bgcolors tricks">
Advanced
Mail
Link (works with most mail programs) - HTML:
<A
href="mailto:xxx@_.com?subject=subject goes here,
with
%26%20ampersands,%20hard%20spaces%20%2b%20plus%20other...
&cc=cc@_.com,cd@_.com&bcc=bcc@_.com&newsgroups=alt._._">
Clickable
mail links can also be copy/pasted directly into an
eMail program, if formatted:
Read Usenet newsgroup -
HTML: <A href="news:alt.showbiz.gossip">
If
your visitors don't have
newsreader software, they can
visit Deja News to post
and browse.
Liszt and
Tile.Net maintain a
current inventory of Internet mailing lists like
SITCOM.
IRC: First, have your visitors
reconfigure
their browsers to recognize mIRCLinks. Then, you can install
".cha" or ".chat" files on your server, link to them, and hope that the
x-chat MIME type will be added by your server administrators (the
ones I've asked were not very cooperative). Or you can set up a
LisztIRC link, like this
mIRCLink.
To avoid cookies, create a URL which looks like this:
Most
Internet locations are accessed via HTTP <A href="http://__">
(Hypertext Transfer Protocol), but here are some other URL
(Uniform Resource Locator) link forms:
FTP
<A href="ftp://__"> (File Transfer Protocol),
Gopher
<A href="gopher://__"> (from the UMinn Gophers),
and Telnet
<A href="telnet://__"> (to launch software like
NetTerm,
use Netscape's Options, General Preferences, Apps, Telnet Application
Browse button to locate netterm.exe).
Try some
Netscape Easter Eggs like:
source or
info or FishCam
(Ctrl+Alt+F) &
NetscapeCam &
sillier viewing,
cookie
checking, adding a bookmark (Ctrl+D), and
social
commentary. Get a free
page
counter, guestbook,
and USNO
atomic clock display. Spice up your web page with the
Icon Browser,
the Pixelsight
Manglers,
or VRL's Imaging Machine.
Control whois
(gateway),
finger
(gateway), and
robots.
Deal with multiple eMails, SPAM, and Internet
hoaxes. Improve your
free website and
free eMail sig at
Figlet
(fw2,
fw3,
fe2,
fe3,
fe4,
fe5). Pick up some free
eMail forwarding at iName or
My Own Email. Follow the
Yale
Style Manual and learn Internet
terms. Join The
Bandwidth Conservation Society, The
HTML Writers Guild, and the
Webmasters' Guild. Look up
famous birthdays, get
a celebrity address,
or send someone a multimedia
greeting card. Find yourself on the
Tiger
Map Server, MapQuest, and
Yahoo's
version of Proximus'
MapBlast. Envy the current
L.A. weather,
surf
report, sky info,
lotto draw,
film
schedule, freeway commute,
quake
report, and Seismo-Cam.
Convert your
currency here or here.
Glom onto free Internet services, including a URL-minder robot, at
NetMind. Publicize your
site through Entity,
Postmaster,
Promote-It!,
Submit It!, and
Cy-Development.
Discover many more great toys at
The
Hungarian Alchemist, or at the satirical iA site,
below!