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Nice tutorial Jim. If you wanted to get just a little bit fancier, you could add this to a.info hover span: opacity:0.95;filter:alpha(opacity=95);Of course, it doesn't validate because of the MS filter though and you'd have to have the opacity quite high to make the text readable against the background.

No, Amezis is right - keyword stuffing is not something that is recommended. Go to any online automatic meta tag generators and they won't let you enter that many. Penalties for keyword stuffing may not be as severe as they once were because nearly all SEs except Yahoo pay very little regard to meta tags anymore. Keeping that in mind, even if it doesn't penalise you, you're pretty much wasting your time putting all those words in due to the lack of importance attached to them. As for why the site ranks well for say 'naruto' - it could be that there is very little competition for the keywords featured on that site.

For HTML 4 doctypes, it's actually invalid to have the trailing /.As far as rushing towards XHTML, some would argue that using an HTML 4.0 strict doctype is probably better than using one with XHTML 1.0 and serving your pages as content type text/html rather than the intended application/xhtml+xml.

Tables are fine for displaying tabular data, but unfortunately, a lot of the attributes provided in the example have been deprecated since HTML 4.

Lozbo, that's only if you're using XHTML doctypes.

You recommend using CSS (good) first and then recommend using a javascript menu like Milonic (bad). Search engines spiders don't like those complex javascript-generated menus because the links aren't actually there in the source of the page for them to be able to follow. So yes, use CSS, but if you're going to use it, use it properly and build your dropdowns with CSS as well.

If I buy car insurance I want to know that the company I go with are going to provide good service and pay up if I need them to. Your site just doesn't say that - it's cheap & tacky & reeks of dodgy.0/10

Don't construe your lack of understanding for me not reading properly. What I meant is that all browsers since versions 4 of IE & Netscape (so, in other words, years ago) have been able to understand shorthand CSS. Your claim that it 'sometimes' works is wrong - I use it all the time and my sites check out fine in Firefox, IE5-7 (including IE5/Mac*), Mozilla, Netscape, Opera, Safari, Konqueror and Camino. If you find it not working for you 100% of the time, you're doing something wrong. Oh and smartbei, using inline styles is as bad as using font tags - CSS is intended to separate presentation from content, and by using inline style, you're just doing the opposite. * The only browser I've come across that requires the long hand version of CSS is IE5/Mac when specifying left and right margins.

You'd be better off writing the SQL statements required to do the functions you want and then integrate it into a form.

What do you mean it 'sometimes' works? It works fine for all browsers later than v4.

That's not true actually - there's plenty of sites out there that work in modern browsers that still use font tags.

Quicker and easier, shorthand CSS: input.text1 { background-color:transparent; border: 2px dashed #FFF; border-width: 0 0 2px 0;}

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Same could be said of books too - they might include examples that you find aren't relevant to your situation. Each person is different but I find the easiest way to learn is to have a certain project in mind and then go out to find out how to do it. I've learnt just about everything know about web related stuff online and have only ever bought one book which was about javascript (and which I probably know the least about).

You still need to know how the word is spelled properly in the first place before you can interpret a jumbled-up word.

I would've thought the obvious option which you've left off your poll is that you need to post here to keep your hosting.

Normal HTML works just fine in Firefox and every other browser.

The only problem I had was configuring Apache to accept different local sites. Once I'd figured that out it was no problem. And really the reason you'd be using Apache is to understand more about how to configure it (otherwise you'd just install PHP and run it under IIS), so I wouldn't ditch XAMPP in favour of another install for that reason.

Jim, I've just done the same thing as you in the last couple of days. There's a thread over at CSSCreator that discusses just what you're asking.

If you need it that badly, maybe you should pay someone to do it for you.

You want to be careful using an XHTML 1.1 doctype. This thread explains why.

Yeah, Jim's example's right even though his narrow column is on the opposite side to yours. Whichever column comes first in the source is the one that needs to be floated. So in your case snlildude87, it needs to be your wide column.

You need to float #content left and give it an appropriate width. Then, remove the absolute positioning from #linkList and give it a margin-left wider than the width of #content.Ideally both those two columns should go inside their own wrapper div which should have overflow:hidden applied to it so that Firefox expands to contain the floats (IE does this incorrectly by default).

It's alt + access key actually and it's perfectly acceptable that someone should have to press two keys for site navigation, I mean, that's the way 99% of all program functions work when not using the mouse. About the only programs I can think of where pressing a single key produces a result is graphics programs when selecting different tools, so for most people, pressing a single key and suddenly being take to a different page would actually be unnatural and unexpected behaviour.

Remove all the inline styling and add it to an external stylesheet. You don't need to use any absolute positioning for your layout. 1. Put your header first.2. Create a <div> for your left column, give it a width and float it left. 3. For your main column give it a left-margin wider than the width of your left column.That's all you have to do.