In order to use "Smart Jumps" to it's fullest potential you need to have "Hootie's WTV Jumps" assigned to an f-key. This is because "Hootie's WTV Jumps" uses the power of JavaScript to automatically load the address that you were on when you pressed the f-key into the URL input area on the left. This is the URL that will be used when you click on one of the buttons on the right. If you want to use a different URL, just erase the last visited URL and type or paste in a different one.
Sometimes, when you are visiting a web site, you will think to yourself, "Hey, that looks cool! I wonder how they did that." With the "View Source" button, you can look at the code that other web authors use to make their web pages and learn how you can do something similar on yours.
This nifty little feature allows you to translate any web page from a foreign language to english or visa-versa. Now, when you land on a web page that is written in a language
that you don't understand, you can press your f-key for "Hootie's WTV Jumps" and press the "Translate" button, and be taken to Alta Vista's translator to see what it says. Or
you can see what your own web page looks like in another language.
Is the source code for your web page difficult to read because everything is all jumbled togethet and all over the place? Use the "Format HTML" button to straighten it all out and even put those cool indentations into your code like you see in books and tutorials. Just go to the page that you want to format and press the f-key for "Hootie's WTV Jumps". Then click on the "Format HTML" button and viola - a neat, orderly code listing!
Every time you visit a web page, the address (URL) of that page is added to a list of other addresses that you have visited. This list, manitained by your WebTV Browser, is called a "URL History". When you press the back button on your keyboard or remote control unit, the browser removes your most recently visited URL from your history and displays the page at that address. When you press it again, the next most recently visited URL is removed from your history and the page at that address is displayed, and so on...
Hootie's "-URL History" makes use of this history list by placing its web page URLs into a JumpBox. That way, whenever you want to go back a number of pages, you don't have to keep pressing the back button and waiting for all of the pages to load to see of you have the right one. All you need to do now is press your f-key for Hootie's, select the proper URL from the history JumpBox and you are there!
Hootie's "-Custom Jumps" allows you to create your own set of links in a JumpBox for sites that you frequently visit, eliminating the need to rummage through you favorite folders. Just click on "Customize" in the "-Custom Jumps" JumpBox to create your own jumps.
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If you are like most of us, you hate taking the time to retrieve a login page out of a favorites folder, waiting for it to load, then typing in your name and password, and waiting for the next page to load. This process can be agonizing when you have an idea in your head for your web page or e-mail account and you want to get right to it. Hootie's
customizable logins shortens this process considerably. Asyou move the yellow "highlight box" over the login buttons on the right, your user/account name and password are retrieved from storage and automatically entered into the input area on the left. Just click on the login button of your choice and you are there. No more waiting! If you choose to manually enter your name and password, the auto-entry function is disabled when you type your name and/or password into the input area on the left.
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"Hootie's WTV Jumps" has a considerable amount of links to WebTV related sites, newsgroups, and homepage building resources. Just click on a JumpBox, click on a link, and you're off!
Another way to improve your pages loading time is to reduce the size of your image files. Less stuff to fetch
means less time spent fetching it. When an image's URL is entered into the input area on the left, you can hit the "Reduce File Size" button and you will be shown a number of optional images that look like the original, but with smaller file sizes (less bytes). Pick the one that suits you and transload it to your site. When the URL of an entire page is entered into the input area, clicking on the "Reduce File Size" button will bring up a list of all of the images on the page. Click on the image that you want to reduce and continue on from there.
When you are surfing the web and you see an image that you would like to have on your page, hit the f-key for "Hootie's WTV Jumps" and click on the "get Images" button. You will them be shown a list of image URLs for the page you were just on. Click on the URL of the image that you want and you will be shown the image all by itself. Now you can transload it to your own website. Be sure that the image you are getting is not copyrighted or you might get into some trouble.
Click on the "WebFX" button and your image will be taken to WebFX, an on-line image processing service with which you can do many cool things to pictures. Go to the
WebFX home page for detailed instruction on how to use this service.
You can make the background (or any single color) of a GIF image transparent by clicking on the "Transparentize" button, then clicking on the color that you want to be transparent. Transload the results to your web site and you have a "transparent" GIF.
