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In my ongoing quest to learn my proposed trade of web development, I make daily travels through the web-dev blogosphere, reading as many useful articles as time permits. Today, I was directed to this website which was new to me, Friendly Bit. This is a website about Web Development, and under the tutor section, I came across this article:
Beginners guide to CSS and Standards.
A few people have been talking to me about the difficulties of moving away from tables, and putting all their styles into a style sheet, recently. I think this article is an excellent place to start, as it guides you through the process of building a simple css stylesheet and basic html template, to create your first standards based website.
I wholeheartedly recommend all prospective webmasters to go and read it, as you might just as well learn how to do it properly from the start, instead of having to unlearn bad habits later.
And even if you have learned a few bad habits, (nested tables and spacer gifs, anyone? 
), you can always reform yourself, can’t you?
(After all, I did! 
).
WasP stands for the Web Standards Project.
They are now launching a WasP Task Force, and want to introduce a more open, inclusive WasP, so that you and I can get more involved. How?
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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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“The Free Software Foundation (FSF), established in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users’ rights to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free software, particularly the GNU operating system, used widely in its GNU/Linux variant.”
They also run the Free Software Directory, containing over 4000 free, software packages, many for use on Linux systems, although quite a few applications have a Windows version too - see below for a couple of examples.
(Free in this context is free as in beer or speech, with no licences or subscriptions to pay, and all with a completely clear conscience too! )
Interested in giving any of this a try? Continue reading »
