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Yay I finally managed to create a full standards compliant website in html 4.01 with no tables and no frames, woo hooo.
I am so pleased been working on this for ages, so here it is
performingzone.starlightstudiographics.co.uk/…
It is not fully completed yet, but it is so easy to use and I have also used php includes too. 
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This always poses a problem to the newcomer to website structure, and just this morning I received the following excellent explanation of absolute and relative links in one of my newsletters, and felt it deserved to be published in full as a handy reference to bookmark:
The information comes from the Elated Extra Newsletter
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I’ve just read your post on using css & xhtml, Jewel. Great reading & some great links too. Yesterday I began seriously reading about php & using it with html. I am very interested in learning php. Glad you are keeping us up on all of this & leading the way. You have really grasped all this techno stuff so well. Thank you because it makes it so much easier for me to get into new things if I have somewhere to go & find out things— hassle free. 
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If you are going to make a website, you need to think about how you are going to structure it or, put simply: what are you going to use to write your pages?
Current best practice is to separate style from content. In a nutshell, this means separating how it looks (style) from what it does - showcases your graphics, sells your products, etc - (content.) Basically, you should use CSS to set out the layout, colours, fonts and so on, (the style); and XHTML markup for your site content. Continue reading »
I have added a new category to the JWG Links and Resources directory today, Open Source. This category contains links to software such as blogs, cms, and forums that you can install on your website.
(JWG uses theWordPress blogging software for the main site).
Open Source means the software is released free under the GNU General Public Licence, and that you are also free to make any modifications to the software that you wish. The catch? Well, there isnt one really. Many developers work on these projects in their own time, and feel they want to give their expertise freely to the community. Obviously if you are particularly taken with a piece of software, and want to show your appreciation, developers will generally welcome donations, or maybe a purchase from their Amazon Wish Lists, but this is purely voluntary. Continue reading »
