A Few Basics for Web Pages

This is another way to achieve the same thing.

This is an example of a transparent gif

This image is not transparent and doesn't have any space between it and the text.

COPY AND PASTE
One of the quickest ways to transfer information to your html file is by copying and pasting text, html code and urls from other applications.
Remember: copy in Windows is ctrl + c
In order to paste using vi:
1: Use insert mode
2: press shift +insert

ANOTHER REALLY IMPORTANT THING TO REMEMBER
I found out the hard way that files created on mallard need to have their file access permission changed so that other people can view the file.

CHMOD
In order to check the file access permission for your documents type:
ls -al
This will bring up a list of your files with their access privilages listed.

In order to change privilages:

1. at the mallard prompt
2. type chmod 644 filename