Yesterday I used the recommendations in this articleto re-configure Dreamweaver.
I was chasing a different problem when I found this article. It is a great article
for Dreamweaver users who desire an easier way to create valid xhtml 1.0 compliant
web pages. I believe specific browser issues can be minimized by making all
pages at least html 4.01 compliant but that is easier said than done. I set
off on this escapade when I tried to fix the templates for this site to be 4.01
compliant. The problems were primarily self-inflicted. Some of the postings
I had cut and pasted from different applications were giving me problems. I
am not sure why I ended up at the alistapart site except that I was trying to
figure out the differences between “strong”and “bold”, “EM”
and “italic”, and the correct use of special characters.
Dr. Robert Schuller. “What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]
The intrigue behind the drone strike. Yemeni official says US lacks discretion as antiterror partner. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories]
For those who want the intrigue about the attack and the public comments to be explained, this is the article to read. Actually I think the odds of the US invading Yemeni are greater than odds the US will invade Iraq. Yemeni looks and acts more like Afghanistan before September 11th than Iraq.
How I manage Email viruses, SPAM, and Email overload
It is real easy to fill up your inbox. It is hard to filter through the junk. I use three products to manage my email, mailwasher, Yahoo mail, and Outlook. Just by subscribing to the SBS2K mailing list I am getting over 100 pieces of mail a day. Here is how I clean it up and keep my email storage growth to a minimum.
- I send all my inbound mail to my Yahoo mail account.
- I use mailwasher to scan and categorize the mail. I periodically delete the SPAM, porn, and viruses.
- I go into Yahoo mail to read the remaining mail and delete everything I do not plan on keeping.
- I retrieve the remaining mail from Yahoo into Outlook. NAV checks for viruses and Spamnet files any remaining spam. I file the remaining emails in the appropiate subject folder before making a reply. Outlook will automatically file replies in the folder of the original mail if you do it this way.
Valid Approaches To Content Management. IN A WORLD…where legacy content and gargantuan management systems routinely churn out inaccessible, invalid HTML…the liveSTORYBOARD CMS is a taking… [Buzz]
I enjoy reading Buzz. Today they talked about one of my favorite web subjects, content management. The livestoryboard product is interesting in the same sense that Radio Userland is interesting. Both products try to make dynamic content management easier. Radio Userland has great RSS integration but is focused on a single author. Livestoryboard is targeted at businesses with multiple authors. I have not investigated it thoroughly but it appears to generate quality web pages using XHTML, CSS, and XML. I like standards like XHTML because the web pages only break in old browsers. Both products are succeeding at driving the cost of content management down to reasonable levels.
Robert Frost. “The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.” [Quotes of the Day]
I have been helping out with the 5th and 6th grade celebration at church.
I am not sure how it came up but we could not name the seven deadly sins
so I looked it up on the Internet. I found a very nice website that explains
the seven deadly sins and their history, http://deadlysins.com.
According to the deadlysins.com website the seven deadly
sins are:
- Pride
- Envy
- Anger
- Sloth
- Greed
- Gluttony
- Lust
The four Cardinal virtues are:
- Prudence
- Temperance
- Courage
- Justice
The three Theological virtues are:
- Faith
- Hope
- Charity
They had an interesting group of virtues was called the Contrary Virtues:
- humility against pride
- kindness against envy
- abstinence against gluttony
- chastity against lust
- patience against anger
- liberality against greed
- diligence against sloth
DHTML Done Right. Dynamic HTML, web standards and accessibility need not be mutually exclusive, as Dave Lindquist demonstrates with these cool DHTML menus…. [Buzz]
Dave has put together two navigation menus, dropdown and expandable, that are XHTML compliant and simple. I have a couple usability issues but they are nice.
Dreamweaver Extreme: Five Steps to More Professional Pages with Dreamweaver MX by Drew McLellan; re: Dreamweaver, Dreamweaver UltraDev. [Macromedia – Designer Developer Center]
Here is the suggestions. XHTML is a little hard but doable if you read the manuals.
Step 1: Export your JavaScript and CSS to external files
Step 2: Export your site without template mark-up
Step 3: Future-proof your site with XHTML
Step 4: Tidy up your code with the Apply Source Formatting command
Step 5: Validate your page to find basic errors
Will Durant. “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” [Quotes of the Day]