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Issue # 200 (07-07-2003)

Welcome Back To the Gazette

After a long leave (nearly 16 months), we're back. As you may have heard by now, Jim Wilson: the originator of The Gazette and founder of Jimworld, passed away in early May, 2003, following an 18 month battle with heart disease. We publish this issue of the gazette in his memory, and with his blessings. (More About Jim Wilson)

tag in a table row, but that does have a to start a new one... MSIE "gets" what you meant, but Netscape doesn't. So, your page looks grea to 90% of the world, but the other 10% get a blank page. While it can be argued that this is the result of simply bad coding and not testing, were the same web page coded to the XHTML standard (and validated using an online validator), this wouldn't happen. In fact, if you're xhtml compliant, you can almost be 100% assured that your page will render in any browser, because your HTML code will be, based on the nature of XHTML, perfect.

I highly recommend that you get on the ball,and start converting. Here are the basics: Those are the basics to get you on your way. Note that all browsers, even the old Netscape 3 renders XHTML pages the same way it does HTML pages, so you don't have to worry about compatibility. In a nutshell, XHTML is nothing more than super-strict HTML code, which we should all be striving for anyway. This standard makes sense to follow, so start reading up on it, and get to work.

For more information:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/
http://www.xml.com/pub/rg/XHTML
http://www.bradsoft.com/topstyle/
This is a great XHTML editor with a nifty utility that converts your HTML into XHTML in one step!
Coders Corner
Have you started coding your Web pages in XHTML yet? It will become the standard markup language in the very near future. Aside from being a standard, it's just a better way to code your web pages. Period. XHTML is essentially HTML (well, HTML 4.0, actually) with rules. One of the things that drive all of us crazy when designing cross-browser compatible websites is that depending on how "good" or "bad" your HTML is, each browser will render your pages differently. Consider table with a missing


Read the Coders Corner section from the Last Issue or in the Following Issue


JimWorld Member comments and feedback ...

Posted On: 04/19/2006 04:35
Posted By: alfie1848
Thank you for your review, I will benefit from your suggestions. I have one
question though. You said "In the source, you really need a meta description
for each page just as you do with any web site." How do I do this with blogger?

Posted On: 04/19/2006 04:43
Posted By: alfie1848
Thank you for your review, I will benefit from your suggestions. I have one
question though. You said "In the source, you really need a meta description
for each page just as you do with any web site." How do I do this with blogger?

Posted On: 04/19/2006 04:57
Posted By: alfie1848
Thank you for your review, I will benefit from your suggestions. I have one
question though. You said "In the source, you really need a meta description
for each page just as you do with any web site." How do I do this with blogger?

Posted On: 04/19/2006 04:10
Posted By: alfie1848
Thank you for your review, I will benefit from your suggestions. I have one
question though. You said "In the source, you really need a meta description
for each page just as you do with any web site." How do I do this with blogger?

Posted On: 01/04/2008 08:04
Posted By: boltonuv
This "Scumbag of the Week" article is irresponsible. I had not trouble at all in receiving the following response from SpamArrest:

"Hi James,

Thank you for your email.

James, what you see there is absolutely wrong and is done to misguide our users and our new customers from Spam Arrest. We have over 1.5 million customers with us including you. You have been with us for a very long time, James. You can check with any of your contacts whether they have received any junk emails from us. We never do such a thing and its completely against our ethics! We hate spam as much as you do and so, along with stopping it, we make sure that none of our customer's emails are noted as spam. We warn our customers from sending bulk emails about the fact that their contacts might misunderstand their bulk emails as spam and will turn against them and Spam Arrest. A company following only such healthy practices can never do such a thing like spamming. What we value the most is our customer's trust and we will make all efforts to retain that in the best way possible. We never admit your personal information to any third party under whatsoever circumstances. You will find a whole lot of misleading things like this in Internet, James. We have friends and foes like anyone else in this planet.

I hope you will understand us the best way possible, James. Please do let me know if you need any further clarifications regarding this.

Best Regards,
Peter
Technical Support Specialist
Spam Arrest"

In the 3 years that I have used SpamArrest, I personally have never received one complaint from anyone that has been 'spammed' from any theoretical 'spam list' that SpamArrest may have created. I think that their statement above makes it clear that they would not do this.

I behooves you to publish a retraction.

Jim Bolton

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