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"For people who make websites" - A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
HTML Validator is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of errors of a HTML page is seen in the form of an icon in the status bar when browsing. The details of the errors are seen when looking the HTML source of the page.
The extension is based on Tidy and OpenSP. Both algorithms were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. Both algorithms are embedded inside Mozilla/Firefox and makes the validation locally on your machine, without sending HTML to a third party server.
The extension is based on Tidy and OpenSP. Both algorithms were originally developed by the Web Consortium W3C. Both algorithms are embedded inside Mozilla/Firefox and makes the validation locally on your machine, without sending HTML to a third party server.
This project aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that can be freely used.
Starting at the beginning, this reference explains everything you need to know about using core JavaScript. It assumes you have the following basic background: a general understanding of the Internet and the World Wide Web and a good working knowledge of HTML. An excellent resource.
Edit your images on the fly online with Splashup, a web-based image editor that integrates with Flickr, Facebook, and Picasa. Splashup offers up a surprising array of image editing tools, far beyond the usual crop of resize and contrast-- you can also edit multiple images, play with filters and layers, use a variety of brushes, and more. Splashup is one of the best image editors in a long line of image editors; i.e., Picnik, Pixoh, and Resizr, to name just a few.[Lifehacker Annotation]
This website will let you:
- Create an XML sitemap format that can be submitted to Google to help them crawl your website better.
- Create a Text sitemap to submit to Yahoo.
- Create a ROR sitemap, which is an independant XML format for any search engine.
- Generate an HTML site map to allow human visitors to easily navigate on your site.
Clearspring's free Launchpad widget builder lets you easily turn your website's content into a widget which site visitors can use to place your content on all the major social media sites (MySpace, FaceBook, Google, hi5, Live, Yahoo, Wordpress, Blogger, etc.). The service also provides tracking and analysis.
This site features online text and html changing, modifying, converting tools designed to save you time making web pages or preparing text for web publication. If you've ever needed to capitalize sentences or convert line breaks to <p> or <br /> then this site can save you needless manual labor. There are other useful tools as well, like the one to uncompress html to make it readable and the ones to uppercase or lowercase text. Basically, the most common tasks that someone who works in an office or does freelance web development might encounter. Most of the tools have been created using javascript so you should be able to change large amounts of text as the processing is done on your computer instead of being limited by a server script.
You've downloaded and configured your Apache server and are ready to move on to the next project. Can it really be left to fend for itself in a darkened room?
Yes. To some degree, anyway. On the other hand, completely ignoring your Apache installation would be foolhardy.
Yes. To some degree, anyway. On the other hand, completely ignoring your Apache installation would be foolhardy.
The Wikipedia entry for Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
The Wikipedia entry for DomainKeys.
Useful Resources
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- A List Apart
- HTML Validator Firefox Plugin
- Open Clip Art Library
- Core JavaScript Guide: Version 1.5
- Splashup
- XML Sitemaps Generator
- Clearspring Launchpad
- Text Fixer
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- Make sure index.php is considered a default index page. If it isn't, add a .htaccess file (or edit the existing file) in the root (e.g., htdocs) directory with the following line:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html
or just modify the DirectoryIndex line in the httpd.conf file - Make sure that visitors to your site can't view directory contents. If your webhost uses cPanel choose the Index Manager option. If you have secure shell access to your server, in the httpd.conf file comment out the line Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews Includes
- Non-www domains should be redirected (via 301 redirect) to your www domain to avoid search engine indexing issues.
- Password protect any sensitive (e.g., administrator) directories.
- Make sure you are using an appropriate (and useful) 404 (page not found) page.
- Make sure you know all relevant paths (sendmail, PHP, PHP.ini, Perl, MySQL, access logs, http.conf, bash, cron).
- Beware of ballooning mqueue. If you are sending out lots of email (via newsletters, for example), bad recipient addresses will cause your mail server to resend messages multiple times, each time adding files to the mqueue folder (on my system, /var/spool/mqueue/). If you don't occasionally delete the files in this folder your disk usage can balloon and may eventually surpass your webhost disk space limit.
- Make sure you have a SPF record.
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