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File permissions: What do the numbers mean?

Submitted by Raymond on Wed, 04/24/2013 - 2:05pm

For a public website, you would likely use 755 for directories and 644 for files. Although this may vary depending on your server configuration.

Those are the default permissions used on many servers. If you are using The Website Creator's domain and hosting service, you probably won't need to change permissions most of the time.

However, you may need to change the permission for files that contain sensitive information and programming scripts, such as PHP files.

Image Issues

Submitted by Raymond on Sun, 04/21/2013 - 2:55pm

Height and Width Attributes

The HTML height and width attributes should be used to communicate the ACTUAL height and width of the image (not to change the display size).

<img src="whatever.jpg" height="140" width="230" alt="whatever">

How to find the actual height and width of an image?

There are several ways...