Following some recent posts on FreeHelp, I noticed that the odd page for which an url had been provided failed to conform to the basic HTML mark-up. Many pages will display with missing mark-up, as the average browser does try to make sense of the mark-up it is given to parse. However, there can be occasions even the browser gives up, and the outcome can be anything other than desired. One other problem commonly found with pages rendered on FreePages is the Rootsweb masthead and/or footer banners are displaced and often affect the legibility of the page content. All this can be overcome by the use of some very basic HTML mark-up before you enter the content that you want displayed, e.g. <!--code> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>My Page Name</title> <style> My styles go here </style> </head> <body> My Content goes here </body> </html> <code--> Pretty simple eh? So with that in mind, the simplest content you can insert is some text with a <pre> tag enclosing it, i.e. <pre>Lorem Ipsum Dolor etc.. and more of the same!</pre> .. and that will display in mono-spaced type in all browsers just as you typed it, including the 'white space' - with one proviso, and that is; if you have used a word-processor, any quotation marks of the left/right variety will normally not be recognised by the browser. This results in some 'odd-ball' default symbol replacing the offending quotation mark. The solution is to open the page in a Text Editor - Notepad will do, but free ones such as Araneae or PSP are more user friendly. Use the Search & Replace function to change the the quotation marks to either “ ” (left/right double quote) or ‘ ’ (left/right single quote). Ideally they could all be replaced with either the vertical double/single quote the Editor will insert from your keyboard. I suggest that you Copy & Paste the basic mark-up shown above (excluding the <code> tags) into your Text Editor and Save As !HTML.html in your webpage folder. Now open the folder in Explorer, go to the file and right-click on it and select Properties from the drop-down menu. Click Read-only, then Apply and Close. You now have the start file for any page you wish to start, and to save your added content, Save As with a "file-name.html" of your choice. You may wish to add some refinements to your !HTML.html file, such as <link rel="stylesheet" href=""> in the <head> section, or add a permanent <div id="wrapper"> and <div id="content"> plus their closing tags in the <body> section, but that is up to you. Using <!DOCTYPE html> ensures that a browser opening your page knows that it can parse it in Standards Mode, and furthermore, no closing of single tags such as <meta>, <image>, <br>, <hr> is required. There is also no need to use type="text/css" in <style> or <link rel="stylesheet" href=""> tags or similar type declarations elsewhere such as <script type="text/javascript">. The browser knows the tag name and can quickly determine the data type for itself. The content is up to you - text, images, tables etc.., but how you glue it all together can be a challenge. If you need to know how to do any type of styling, all you need to do is ask on this list, and if you don't know what to ask, tell us what you would like to do. Remember, its dumb not to ask, and asking will make you and others wiser! Barry