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Separate content from style. That's really what it's all about. Semantic markup is good as well, use <em> and <strong> to emphasise things instead of <i> and <b>, that sort of thing. There are loads of websites. Try the Web Accessability Innitiative, run by the W3C who make the HTML standards. The webdesign magazine A List Apart has a a number of articles on accessability. And just Google around.

Google has started a new place for open-source software called Google Code for Google-related software. As I understand it, Google Code will hold open source projects started by Google employees (as you may know Google employees get a big chunk of work-time to pursue projects of their own). The code is hosted at SourceForge.

I don't think Google will make an OS, ever. Everything they are doing (well, except the desktop search), is moving things away from platform-dependandcy. You get a feature filled mail application, platform independant. Search engine, platform independant. News, platform independant. I think Google are the beginning on a big move away from desktop applications to web-driven applications. And web apps are what Google are good at, I don't see any reason at all for them to go into the OS market.

I try to always keep my markup clean. And I make sure that all content looks good when you switch off a stylesheet. That's really all I do. You can check my site. See what it looks like, then click on "No styles" in the styleswitcher menu. If I got a blind visitor they should be able to navigate it quite well I think. The only thing I think I still have to check is that all acronyms and abbrevations are tagged correctly (acronym when you spell it out, like CSS and abbr when you read it as if it were a normal word, like NATO). Anyway, what I try to do is keep content (HTML) and presentation (CSS) separated as much as I can to keep it accessible. I don't think that there has to be a tradeoff between design and accessability. Sure, you can't use tables to lay-out your site, but that shouldn't really be a problem, you can use CSS instead. To see some examples of great use to style web pages with just CSS and no tables, go to the CSS Zen Garden. My styleswitcher works quite a bit like the CSS Zen Garden, in the way that when you switch styles, the HTML doesn't change, only the CSS. Unfortunately my CSS and graphical skills aren't quite as good as those who have submitted work to the CSS Zen Garden.

The tutorial was obviously about HTML 3.2, and in HTML 3.2 there is no span element, and so usage of the font tag wouldn't be bad at all. But let's just for a minute pretend the span tag existed in HTML 3.2, why would using the piece of code you posted be any better than this? <font color="red">Hello, this is a red text</font>

That's what I meant, you're not using IE as an editor, because it isn't an editor. You're using Notepad to edit. And you're using IE (and hopefully at least Firefox/Mozilla as well) to check that your markup + css looks good.

So... if I've understood it you're going to make your own OS, from scratch? You do know that there are loads of other tiny Linux distributions, besides Knoppix, right? Here is one list But if you really want to do it, good luck.

I understand how to register. After you register you're just a "normal" member, being a normal member is free. But to download Visual studio you need to be a premium member (according to you), and being a premium member isn't free.So how does it work?

How is this free?

If you are just learning server-side scripting and such things, just stick to PHP. if you get the opportunity and feel like learning JSP and Servlets, go for it, but to get the full potential out of JSP and servlets you really should learn Java (Java is not JavaScript). Like has been pointed out, they both have their strengths and weaknesses. About OO: PHP 5 has incresed OO capabilities.

MovableType is pretty neat in the way it builds static pages from your database. So when you post a new entry it builds a static index.html file, which doesn't need to get loads of things from your database.

So, when a visitor clicks on one of the menu thinggies you want the new page to load only in the iframe, right? What you need to do it give the iframe a name, just like with "normal" frames. Like <iframe name="framename" etc. etc.>And then give the links a target like so: <a href="page.html" javascript stuff etc. etc. target="framename"> That should hopefully work. But make a backup of what you have before trying it

If you want a blog, I suggest that you use one of the systems available from your cPanel. Or some other already existing system you can upload to your account. Building your own blogging system from scratch can of course be fun if you're into that sort of thing and want to do loads of things with PHP (and perhaps MySQL).

The problem is of course that IE isn't an editor. It's a browser with no editing capabilities.

I like it. About the width and the font-size, I think a slightly larger font would be more important than widening the main content surface. Although if you make the font bigger perhaps you'll have to make it wider to make it look good. About being valid, it's not. I just validated it, and there were 63 errors. Most seem to be from the fact that you aren't closing the <br> tags. A quick search and replace of <br> to <br /> should do it. Dito for <img> tags. The amount of errors in the validator can be deceiving though, fixing one tag can fix loads of errors in one go...

Actually, since the tutorial was about the very old HTML 3.2, you don't have to close the <p> tag. In fact, in HTML 3.2 you can get away with almost anything, for example, this is a valid HTML 3.2 document <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"><TITLE>valid html</TITLE><body><p>wow, a valid HTML document!I don't even need the html, head and body tags! So I'm just using the opening body tag, but not closing it. It doesn't matter, this validates anyway.<ul><li>testing<li>testing some more</ul>

The other values for display depend on what element they are defined. For example display: list-item is only available to lists. W3Schools has a list of valid values. If you want to learn more about CSS, I recommend reading through the W3Schools CSS tutorial. Which should be faster than downloading some software and going through its helpfiles.

There's a thread about it here in the vent. Might be a better place to discuss it, as there is already quite a lot of content there.

Yeah, I think so too. Otherwise there wouldn't be so incredibly many infomercials. It's sadly enough the same with spam. A while ago there was a spammer somewhere in the US who was arrested, he spent perhaps $50,000 every month mainly on bandwidth, but that was okay for him, because he easily made the money back and up to $100,000 more. The same with snailmail spam, companies send people to stuff mailboxes with catalogues and such and although the printing etc costs them money, they make money from it.

In the Netherlands you can make one copy of movies and music for personal use. But that's it. This means that things like downloading a movie from BitTorrent isn't legal since you are uploading content as well, and that's illegal.I'm guessing uploading while downloading (when using P2P apps) will be dealt with in France sometime soon.

Hmm. Looks like I can't edit my post, I wanted to preview, not post."but who are you to condemn them?" should read "but who are you to say what is christianity and what is not?".

Well... The pope's actions do represent all of Catholic Christianity. That's what the pope does. Your definition of "true christianity" seem to be what you personally think is the right interpretation of the bible. Surely everyone should be able to interpret the bible in their own way, and if they make somthing ugly of it then so be it, but who are you to condemn them?

When I started using BitTorrent I started out with the standard client. I'm not sure which version it was back then, but I remember that I didn't like the standard client very much. So I tried several different client with various amounts of success.I stumbled across BT++, which worked nicely for a while, but then suddenly it stopped working, loading the torrent but not downloading anything. So then my search for a new client began again, the first one I tried was ABC, which worked nicely and I've stuck to it ever since.

Well... I think you should add some style to the page, you need some layout, some thought about the colour scheme. There's no structure there, there is navigation and "content" all over the page. I'm sorry, but I don't think you page is ready.

Okay, so the winners were announced a day or two ago and I thought I'd make a little post about it. The Independent Games Festival is a yearly event where games from independent developers (and publishers) are entered into a competition. I think it's quite neat because you get a chance to see games you wouldn't see otherwise, and many of them are better than many mainstream games. Seamus McNally Award Gish and Wik and the Fable of Souls Innovation in Game Design Gish and Wik and the Fable of Souls Innovation in Audio Steer Madness and Global Defense Network Innovation in Visual Art Alien Hominid and Wik and the Fable of Souls Technical Excellence Alien Hominid and RocketBowl Audience Award Alien Hominid and N I've played the demos for Gish, N and Wik & the fable of souls, I haven't gotten around to trying the other ones. Gish seemed nice enough as a 2D side-scrolling platform, you play a ball of tar out to save his girlfriend. Both looked an played nice. N mainly looked very nice, very sleek. It's definitely worth going to their website and downloading it. Wik & the fable of souls may have won several awards, but I found it got pretty dull rather fast, but perhaps someone else might enjoy it. Links to the winners: Alien Hominid Gish Global Defense Network N RocketBowl Steer Madness Wik & the fable of souls The IGF website has a list of all competition entrants, it's worth a look.