January 2009
Symbols Occasionally, you may need to include the greater-than (>) or less-than (<) symbols in the text of your web pages. The problem is that these symbols are also used to denote tags in... Read More
Commenting Your HTML Back in the garage, you’re doing a little work on your project car and, as you prepare to replace the existing tires with a new set, you notice that your hubcaps... Read More
The Most Basic Web Page in the World Actually, that heading’s a bit of a misnomer: we’ve already shown you the most basic page — the one without any content. However, to start to... Read More
The Doctype <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> This is known as... Read More
Chapter 2. Your First Web Pages A wise man once said that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. In this chapter, you’ll take that first metaphorical step on your journey... Read More
If you are using a slightly older Mac, you may also have a copy of Internet Explorer installed. Our advice for Internet Explorer for Mac? Send it to Trash. The Mac version of IE was abandoned by... Read More
Researching information online should be both efficient and accurate, and browser tools are perfectly poised to assist the process. Phil takes a look at the latest offering in this space, WebNotes,... Read More
Build Your Own Web Site The Right Way Using HTML & CSS, is widely regarded as the definitive beginner’s guide to building web sites. After hundreds of reviews and suggestions from the first... Read More
Toying with the idea of building your first web site? Or are you tired of being asked to build sites for family and friends? With this excerpt from SitePoint's latest book, even complete beginners... Read More
Hitwise reported yesterday that Twitter had surpassed Digg in terms of traffic. Whether or not that report is accurate (we think not) it raises a fun question: Could Twitter ever replace Digg as a... Read More
Starting with Firefox, Mozilla is planning to integrate usability testing directly into each of their projects via extensions built on their currently-in-concept stage testing platform called Test... Read More
Ruby has enjoyed a ton of hype over the last few years, in part due to the Rails web app framework. But is the language's popularity waning? New stats suggest that it is perhaps at least starting... Read More
Following Andrews's look at good hyperlink text last week, Steve wrote in to ask about the other side of the hyperlink equation: URLs. So what is it exactly that makes a good URL? Kevin sets out to... Read More
Microsoft is a software company, so why are they trying so hard to compete with Google in search and web advertising? That's not the right tactic, and perhaps the best acquisition target for them is... Read More
