Frequently Asked Questions

Will W3Schools always be Completely Free?

Yes. W3Schools will always be free.

When we created W3Schools, we wanted it to be completely free and we are doing our best to keep it that way.

The costs of running this site and the costs of writing the tutorials, are covered by people that want this web site to be a completely free developers portal. 

How can W3Schools be kept Completely Free?

The concept of running a completely free e-learning portal is based on the support from sponsors. To keep the sponsors happy, we need our visitors to stay here and to return often. Off-Line surfing of W3Schools is reducing our possibilities to continue making this a better school.

The best thing you can do to let W3Schools stay on the net forever, is to use it. The more you use it the more visitors we get, the more content we can provide and W3Schools will get better and better.

Tell everyone you know about it, link to us and help us get more new visitors and we will continue to give you the very best. 

Can W3Schools be Downloaded?

Very often we are asked by educational institutions and others, if their students can download our tutorials so they don't have to be on-line when studying them.

We are also often asked if it is possible to read our tutorials off-line by people that want to reduce their telephone bills.

Some people even ask us if our tutorials are available in books, as a hardcopy, or on a CD.

The answer to these questions is NO.

We are truly sorry that we cannot help you with this, but if you read the previous paragraphs, we hope it can help you understand why.

Also keep in mind that Web technology changes so fast that offline tutorials will quickly become outdated.

Why is the XML School focused on IE5?

Some visitors have complained about this. We do it because it is the only practical way to demonstrate XML on the Web in your browser. Read more about it at XML browsers.

Who is winning the browser war?

Maybe we don't know the answer - but if you are interested in which browser you should develop your future software for - take a look at our browser statistics.

How did we add a Favicon to our Web Site?

In IE 5 and above, it is possible to customize the little IE icon that shows up in the address field and in the Favorite's list of the browser.

To create your own customized icon, you can use a FREE icon editor such as IconForge by Favicon.com!

Note that:

• the REQUIRED size of a favicon is 16x16 pixels
• the icon should not be in more than 16 colors
• save the icon as favicon.ico

Now, add your own customized icon to every catalog on your web site (remember the root catalog).

Next time a visitor adds your page to its favorites, he or she will see your own fancy little Favicon next to the text.

How does it work?

When someone bookmarks your page, Internet Explorer will look for an icon file called "favicon.ico". If you have a file called "favicon.ico" this icon will be placed next to the text, and if not - the standard IE icon will be placed next to the text instead.

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