Completely Free Ways to Check if Your Website’s HTML Web Pages are Compliant & Valid With W3 Standards
Apr 9, 2009 Code & Scripts, IT Tips, Online Tools, Open Source, Quick Tips, Website Design
The 2 best ways of validating your websites HTML or XHTML are to use the Validator at W3C.org or a Firefox addon[plugin] such as my favorite, Html Validator 0.8.5.2 by Marc Gueury.
If you opt for using the Validator at W3C.org, you will visit their website and type in the URL of the webpage that you want validated. There are many options that you have at your disposal when your run the check. You can view the source code of the webpage and the Validator provides you with line number and what line number the errors, if any, occur.
With the FireFox addons you simply view source of the webpage you are currently on and at the bottom of the screen you will either see the HTML markup is valid or that there are errors in the code. If errors to occur, suggestion on how to fix them will be displayed in the lower right hand corner box. I personally prefer this plugin to visiting the Validator at W3C.org simply because its quicker and easier.
Tags: Code & Scripts, IT Tips, Online Tools, Open Source, Quick Tips, Website Design
Gmail Gives You Exactly 5 Seconds to Get Your Foot Out of Your Mouth by Adding a Cancel Button
Apr 3, 2009 Google, IT Tips, Online Tools, Web Services, WebMail
The boys over at Google Labs have just hit another right out of the park with this Gmail feature. The new UNDO SEND feature of your Gmail account gives you the option of canceling a sent email for 5 seconds after you click ’send’.
Q – What’s so great about that?
A – Are you high? Are you on something? This is an awesome feature. Have you ever sent out a business email to your boss or to a perspective client only to realize after you sent it that you forgot to attach an important file or worse yet you forgot to run spell check? How stupid did you look? This handy little Gmail feature is your stupidity shield for sent emails.
Tags: Google, IT Tips, Online Tools, Web Services, WebMail
How to make the Copyright symbol and many others on Desktops and laptops
Nov 25, 2008 IT Tips, Quick Tips
OK…So you want to make the copyright symbol(©), or maybe you want to make the Japanese Yen Symbol(¥), or perhaps the TradeMark logo(™). What ever symbol you want to make can be found by going to the START MENU –> RUN –> then type in ‘charmap’ (without the single quotes) –> then simply click on whatever symbol you would like to use.
CharMap picture on Mr. Bup.com
If you notice on the lower right hand corner of the image there is an alt + 0169. That means you hold down the alt key while you press 0169. When you release the alt key, the copyright symbol will appear. This works in almost any windows based software.
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