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"I'm just me" - An Overview of an Web er.. Designer, Developer, Consultant and Friend.
I am going to give you a breakdown of my ... er ... work ... playtime .... income .... I'm a UK based Web Designer, Web Developer, Internet Consultant. I build websites, content management systems and internet solutions for anybody who can afford...
Spider Friendly Web Pages
First off what is spider friendly navigation? Basically it is how easily search engines can read your website. This ultimately depends on the search engine that is reading your site. Some have the patience to dig deep into your site and promise to...
The Width and Resolution Problem
There is a problem that has plagued the web ever since graphical
designs for web pages started to become common - and yet it's a
problem that's never been solved. You see, different sized
monitors can handle different widths of page, and yet...
Using CSS with Tables
Tables are currently the most common method of laying
out/structuring a web page. Although the use of tables for this
purpose is considered, by many, to be a misuse, it is by far the
easiest way of organising web page content.
Most purists...
Web Designer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization
From a search engine point of view, the perfect webpage has no
graphics, no scripting, no tables...etc but just alot of normal,
plain readable text. You can just take it that plain text is the
food for search engine spiders. Therefore, the more...
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XHTML -Making the Switch
XHTML or the Extensible Hypertext Markup Language is an extension to HTML made by the w3c. XHTML is a cleaner, neater, generally faster version of HTML. Here are some things you cannot do with XHTML: Dreamweaver, Frontpage, etc. GOODBYE!!! Never use them agian, they are cheap, they are not coding, you are NOT a webmaster just becuase you can make a frontpage website. Also remember these simple things: Tags must close in the order that they open:
Hello
is not valid where as
Hello
is. All tags must close, including line breaks (now
), horizontal rules (now ), and images (now ) The alt is NEEDED. Most imporantly a doctype is needed and a character encoding is recommended. There are three types of doctypes: Transitional: Most used, most friendly, doctype.
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Looking Forward: How Will Lives Change?
Joel Kotkin, who studies metropolitan development and urban planning, talks about how people might be arranging their lives in the coming five years. And author Jamais Cascio outlines where technology might take us.
Final Credits
Show credits pay tribute to the folks who put <em>Day to Day</em> together.
Goodbyes From Listeners: Amy Ignatow
Amy Ignatow has had her share of economic woes this year, but she's coming out on top. This week, she gets to say goodbye to her crummy old apartment and hello to a new life.
Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
Frames -For using frames, duh
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-frameset.dtd">
And Strict, the mean, scrict XHTML
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
The most common character encoding is as follows,
A full list of character encodings can be found at www.w3c.org. Also in XHTML tables for layout are a big no-no. Yet most of the time the validator lets you slide with them anyway. Use CSS for layout if you want true XHTML.
About the Author
Abe Smith is the owner of the webmaster forum (www.webmasterforum.tk) and enjoys writing various web Programming Tutorials, articles on SEO, and computer security.
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