Jan
31
xhtml section added
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I’ve added an xhtml playground, and to view the site you need a proper browser. (Safari, Firefox, Opera, or Konqueror) Ie6-7 cannot interpret the xhtml mime type and you get a download prompt. So get a real browser and lets try to finally move to xhtml. Even though we’re about 5 years behind schedule on [...]
Jan
30
New tutorials + php
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Two new articles up in the tutorials section, both aimed at beginners; “How to write HTML like XHTML” and “How to decide on XHTML or HTML”. For the latter article I tried to take an impartial side to the debate, but that’s only so possible as XHTML has some major flaws that have to be [...]
Jan
29
AJAX source
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I’ve decided that with my new interest in this site and web standards I’d write an article based on web standards for the beginner. A simplified version of the xhtml vs. html argument , doc types, and writing valid code. Which should become available in the coming weeks.
The topic has required a lot [...]
Jan
26
AJAX because I Can!
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I’m at a record pace this week, with two whole posts. The reason of this post is I added some superflous technology to the site and wanted to share with you. I’ve been reading up on AJAX lately and implemented it in my site. If you don’t know what AJAX is, you will notice [...]
Jan
24
New Website Design
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New design now, standards compliant, much smaller in filesize, and looks better in my opinion. It’s based completely on css2 for layout, which is good because table layout is hideous. In this post I’ve included a step by step walkthrough of the process I used to create santashotline.com’s page layout. It was the second design [...]