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Second Edition: November 2008
- p.399 blogrolling.com has suspended their blog roll editing service temporarily. You can find updates on the situation on the status page.
- p.345-348
Blogger's "Advanced Setup" options are no longer available via a a link from the "name your blog" step. To publish to your site via FTP using Blogger, you now need to go through all the steps of creating your blog, then click "Advanced Setup Options" on the screen that says "Your Blog Has Been Created!", then choose "Set Up a Custom Domain".
This will direct you to the "Settings->Publishing" options page. In order to enable FTP publishing you need to first set the Template of your blog to the "Classic" template. Click on Template->Edit HTML and click the "Revert to Classic Template" button. Then go back to Settings->Publishing, and click "FTP" in the "Switch to:" list at the top of the page. Now you can follow along with the instructions in the book for entering your FTP details.
- p.296-297
The code samples here do not include the
class="contact"attribute we've been using to style the form throughout the chapter, so the form will appear unstyled. Just addclass="contact"to the opening<form>tag to get your styles back. - p.409 3rd paragraph
The link to the W3C's XHTML 1.0 recommendation should be http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ (the book is missing the "g" in ".org").
- p.359 1st paragraph
The first sentence should read: "..and just prior to the end of the bodycontent..."
- p.380 last paragraph
The third sentence should read "...highly probable given the number of services..."
- p. 260 1st & 2nd code listing
The second label element starting tag should be:
Also some of the closing label tags are missing their slashes. They should be<label for="newsletter"></label>. - p.138 code block
The
background-colorof the#navigationelement should be#7da5d8

