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GRAVATARS, Globally Recognized Avatars,are nothing more than an image linked to your email address. You may use multiple email addresses and even have multiple images for each email address in a clever rating system like the movies G, PG, R or X.When you sign up for your Gravatar [LINK^], your email is run through the standard M5 hash utility and encrypted. This long string of letters and numerals then becomes the reference to find your image on the Gravatar servers. The80px x 80px image is simply...

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UPDATE: the CSS menu example has been tweaked for better performance in IE 7...Building a cross-browser friendly web page is still as challenging as it wasright afterthe millenniumrelease of IE6 in 2001 andwhile Microsoft FrontPagewas still in its heyday creating web pages withoutDocument Type Definitions (DTD).So here is a quick tutorialand checklist on how to create a web page that will be standards compliant for at least the next few years:(1) Use a strict DocType and compliant HTML and CSS....

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In corporate environments the email newsletter is still going strong and should be considered as another arrow in your marketing quiver alongside of your Blogs, RSS feeds and Twitter micro-blog.However, creating an email template that will work across an array of email clients that include AOL Webmail, Apple Mail, .Mac, Entourage, Gmail, Lotus Notes, Outlook 2007, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Hotmail, Thunderbird, Eudora (Penelope) and Yahoo (Classic and New), wasespecially challenging...

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We like to respond quickly to requests and one came in after last week's blog post regarding our HTML 4.01 Entity Generator Tool.

The request was for a PDF that could be opened and referenced in a pinch.
The result was the XHTML Guide in PDF format.

Screen Shot of part of the document is below:

When manually creating RSS feeds or other XML documents I usually have to refer to a chart of some sort to convert the ASCII or Entity Name into an Entity Number.  What I needed was a faster way to paste in the text or symbols to be converted and to both render and test the converted entity.  I also wanted to have the option of seeing the output in either Decimal or Hexadecimal format.

The solution was the HTML 4.01 Entity converter

The converter is fast and easy to use and also contains visual charts including ASCII Entities with new Entity Names, ISO 8859-1 Symbol Entities, ISO 8859-1 Character Entities and a few other Entities supported by HTML (thin space, em space, and so on).
A verification box asures the user that the converted text will indeed render correctly in the browser.

January 12, 2009 in Washington, DC, experts from more than 30 US and international cyber security organizations jointly released the consensus list of the 25 most dangerous programming errors that lead to security bugs and that enable cyber espionage and cyber crime. Shockingly, most of these errors are not well understood by programmers; their avoidance is not widely taught by computer science programs; and their presence is frequently not tested by organizations developing software for sale.The...

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