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  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Aug 30th, 2009
  • Comments: None

XML Escape Tool

Webmasters have to make sure that the code of their website is excaping several characters correctly. Failure to do so can lead to all kinds of problems from display errors to functions that are not working correctly because of this (check out The XML Page Cannot Be Displayed article for an example of things that [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Jul 17th, 2009
  • Comments: 4

Log in to websites with your site’s URL as your OpenID

A few years ago, Martin covered OpenID, an open authentication system. Since then, it has become increasingly popular and a wide range of sites, from AOL to LiveJournal provide OpenIDs, and OpenID login is also quite common. OpenID is particularly popular for blog comments, with Blogger now integrating support for it.
An OpenID is an URL. [...]

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Categories: The Web

  • Author: Joe
  • Published: Jul 11th, 2009
  • Comments: 2

A standard compliant web browser and editor: Amaya

Some web browsers don’t fully respect web standards and many WYSIWYG HTML editors produce absolutely revolting code. W3C set out standards as to how HTML (and XHTML etc) should appear and whilst some choose to ignore these, some are devoted to the following of these standards.
Sticking to standards can therefore lead to issues with certain [...]

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Categories: Web Development, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jul 9th, 2009
  • Comments: 3

Check HTML With CSE HTML Validator Lite

It is very important that webmasters validate their websites by checking the html code that is produced on the front end of the site. This can be done with online tools like the markup validation tool of the W3C website or offline tools such as the CSE HTML Validator Lite. The HTML validator can be [...]

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Categories: Windows, software

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: Jun 24th, 2009
  • Comments: 9

Fix Outlook 2010

Microsoft’s plans to use the Word HTML rendering engine to display HTML emails in the upcoming email software program Microsoft Outlook 2010 has created quite a few protest websites that try to convince Microsoft to change their plans. Outlook 2010 is still in the beta stage and Microsoft is encouraging users to submit feedback to [...]

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Categories: Email

  • Author: Martin
  • Published: May 7th, 2009
  • Comments: None

How To Display Valid Markup Code In Websites

There are two difficulties or problems that Internet users encounter when they want to paste code into forms to display these on the Internet. The first problem that can be encountered is that the website will interpret part or all of the code instead of displaying it. A basic example would be to display the [...]

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Categories: Web Development

How to style your page using CSS

Beginner article coming up, it’s time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or css, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should have no styling in HTML whatsoever. HTML was not designed to be a presentation language, it’s more of a structural-semantic language. In other [...]

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Categories: Web Development

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