Now that you've learned to find your way around the Windows operating system, it's time to learn some shortcuts to help you deal with text editing. Webmasters must do a great deal of text editing, whether that editing occurs in Notepad, Microsoft Word, Dreamweaver, or Photoshop.

Please note that many shortcuts will be repeated in each article. This is necessary to see the multiple uses for each keyboard command. For instance, CTRL+A will "Select All": 1) Files in a folder. 2) Text in a document. Therefore, it is necessary to repeat the CTRL+A command.

Getting Around a File

ARROW KEYS: The arrows move your cursor in the direction the arrow is pointing.

Basic Windows Navigation

ENTER: This is much like left clicking. It activates your selected item.

ANY LETTER KEY: If you are in an Open or Save Dialogue box, hitting any letter will move your selection to the first item that starts with that letter. Hitting that letter a second time will move your selection to the second item that starts with that letter… and so on. This also works on drop-down menus.

ARROW KEYS: The arrows move your cursor or item selection in the direction the arrow is pointing.

Apache and other web servers allow the web server administrator to make per-directory configuration modifications as a convenience to the web site operator. This is usually done in the form of .htaccess files. As a webmaster, an .htaccess file is very useful as it allows you to change the actual pre-set server configuration, normally only set by the server administrator, to the specific configuration needed for your web site.

The configuration lines in the .htaccess file are the same as the configuration lines in the server configuration. When you edit an .htaccess file, you are actually editing the configuration for the web server, though your configurations are localized to the directory in which the .htaccess file is placed.

As webmasters, we all have to put up with email worms and viruses, but just how much are you willing to put up with, and how much are you willing to give up to do away with some of it? Unbeknownst to many webmasters, many worms actually search through the browser's cache looking for emails, so the more infected computers' caches your email address appears in, the more worms you get. I've known webmasters who got over a gig of mail per day.

Most webmasters try turning to their providers to get rid of the worms, but that can be an infinite task for the providers and many won't even try it. They'll just tell you it is your email, so you have to put up with it. Even for providers that do filter some emails out, it is hard for them to get all of it without getting many legitimate ones, too. So, filtering is not always the best way to eliminate worms.